2009-02-13, 22:35 | Link #1 |
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Video Player for anime?
hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for what is a good video player to watch the anime that is fansubbed? I use VLC since it has good codecs. anyone has another suggestion, i am sort of interested in using another if it is a good one! thx!
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2009-02-13, 22:46 | Link #2 |
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I use Media Player Classic (MPC), which comes with the CCCP codec pack. By the way, there's a lot more on those players in this section:
http://forums.animesuki.com/forumdisplay.php?f=23
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2009-02-16, 15:20 | Link #7 |
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For my personal viewing, I prefer MPC-HC along with ffdshow, AC3Filter, CoreAVC, Haali, and VSFilter, all of which I install myself. That's because I tend to keep bleeding-edge on the former two and the latter one (from the standalone MPC-HC decoder/splitter package). When I want to play with sound filtering, I use Winamp plus the VST filter bridge plugin for Winamp which allows me to use VST filters commonly used in professional sound editing software suites. For an exhibition, I tend to use ZoomPlayer. Everything else, as I stated before, I install myself. I do not use packs. Unix in general: I prefer anything which uses Xine-lib--Kaffeine in particular--but the problem with that is that as of a while ago, H.264 wasn't fully working, plus styled subtitles don't work. Since it's been a while since I've last tried it, I'd expect the former to have changed. I'm hoping that at some point, the Xine authors will do the same thing the VideoLAN devs did, only do it better. For all I know, that might have happened, but I'm a bit behind the times. Basically, I use a different player based on the environment I'm in, both computing and real-world. --Ian. |
2009-02-27, 20:53 | Link #10 |
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VLC is not good, because it does not handle soft-subs well, which is increasingly becoming popular and it's not very stable when playing MKV files (which happen occasionally when seeking though the video.)
For Windows, just use CCCP and Media Player Classic Cinema since it should handle it without problems. For me, on Mac OS X Leopard, I use Quicktime Pro + Perian and MPlayerOSX Extended (which is highly recommended). I use Quicktime since the interface is simple and I can convert my subtitled anime to iPod, iPhone and even Playstation 3 (If you have Pro registered). MPlayerOSX Extended, however is my recommended player for the Mac over VLC since it supports most media formats, supports soft title subs with full effects and also have smaller footprint compared to VLC (VLC for Mac OS X is over 50MB which is ridiculous).
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2009-03-01, 10:14 | Link #12 |
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Like Ian, I preferred the kaffeine/xine solution on Linux until its lack of support for ASS subtitles took it out of the running. (There's a bug posting from as recently as last month complaining about this.)
Nowadays I recommend smplayer for both Windows and Linux, especially for people who are still using VLC. smplayer uses (surprise!) the mplayer engine and keeps fairly current with its development. On Windows, you can run this installer; Linux users can install from their repositories, though you might want to read this discussion first. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a build of smplayer for OS X, though if I used a Mac I'd probably give anime_layer's build of mplayer a try.
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--Ian. P.S. Are we talking about "The KMPlayer", the Korean media player? |
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2009-03-04, 21:59 | Link #15 | |
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That said, when on Windows I still use Media Player Classic with the CCCP, and on Linux, where Mplayer does not have such problems, I use that, simply for UI reasons. |
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2009-03-05, 00:35 | Link #17 | |
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O_O! Back to MPC I guess.. or maybe I'll gives VLC another chance.
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2009-03-06, 21:38 | Link #20 |
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actually VLC is not that great at playing anime, theres been issues of rendering images and codecs. Best player is what comes with cccp, basically zoom is the best player, the rendering is smooth. I mean i use vlc to play live action stuff but for anime I go Zoom or MPC
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