Everything's
portable! This week saw the release of not one, but two popular Windows media players in portable form. First is
Portable VLC from PortableApps.com.
Based on the excellent open source media player VLC, I can't imagine a better way to watch videos on the go. Second is
Portable Winamp 5.1 Lite with iPod support. The "Lite" means it
includes the bare-bones audio player, eschewing video, media library, "modern" skin support, and so on, but as
the name implies it'll connect to your iPod. Portable VLC is a 7.2MB download while Winamp is a scant 1.2MB.
Tags: free, freeware, ipod, media, mediaplayer, opensource, player, portable, vlc, winamp, windows
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Subscribe to commentsBrentApr 13th 2006 4:24PM
I prefer Media Player Classic over VLC purely because VLC's interface is a nightmare. Oh, and MPC doesn't needed a 'portable' version, it just works portably already.
"Media Player Classic is a compact media player. The application has the same look and feel as the old light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4. Underneath, however, it is a completely different application which has all the options and features one might expect from a modern media player." (from Wikipedia article linked above)
BrentApr 13th 2006 4:25PM
Hmm, it stripped my links... so
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic
and
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
John T. HallerApr 14th 2006 1:32AM
Media Player Classic saves its settings to the local hard drive (within the %USERPROFILE%Application DataMedia Player Class directorty) on each computer you run it on if you carry it on a portable drive, so it isn't completely portable. VLC does this by default as well, but Portable VLC has all settings self-contained.
BrentApr 14th 2006 11:52PM
Under View -> Options -> Player -> Other there's a checkbox: Store Settings to .ini file, which should do the trick.
submachineApr 23rd 2006 4:43PM
BSplayer is better at syncing audio/video then all of them
innersoulSep 27th 2006 2:12PM
Also, VLC brings its own codecs for DIVX, XVID, MOV, RAM, etc.
Media Player Classic depends on other codecs partly....