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Re: Media Player Classic: does it play everything?
de Anonymous 04/13/2006 10:19
George,
> Someone left the following comment on my site and I was wondering if
> everyone on this forum agrees:
This message seems better served by having its own thread rather than
being buried in the responses to another message. I think that a
spirited debate could arise from your poster's comment
> klite works by what i like to call the brute force method... it's just
> a pack that installs every available codec.
I believe that this is correct.
> i think installing CCCP as recommended by someone above me, is a better
> idea.
Never heard of CCCP, I'll have to take a look at it. (Isn't that the
ensign for the Soviet Union?)
> Just compare the sizes: KLite: 33 mb setup, CCCP: 5 mb download.
> (CCCP doesn't include Real Alt or QT Alt, but you can get that on your
> own).
The K-Lite packs have Real Alt and Quicktime Alt built in so you don't
have to go hunt them down as separate installs. Why use CCCP when
K-Lite offers more functionality, more options to play more files, and
more chances to doubleclick-and-enjoy rather than doubleclick and go
hunting for more codecs?
> CCCP is leaner, meaner, and most importantly, it has so far played back
> EVERY single file that i've downloaded. EVERY. not a single one has
> failed.
Didn't the writer just admit that CCCP didn't have Real Alt or
Quicktime Alt? So how could CCCP play "everything" that the writer has
downloaded?
I'm sure that CCCP is a fine product, but if it doesn't have Real Alt
and QT Alt, then it is not as good as K-Lite.
K-Lite Mega Pack contains just about every codec on the planet, even
some that many of us will never use. But that is the point--> If you
install K-Lite, you don't have to go looking for other codecs anymore
because you already have them, even the obscure and not-often-used
codecs. That is WHY K-Lite drops 33 MB of files and players on your
drive.
If you want a watch to keep time, you can get a small watch. If you
want a watch that is also a calculator, a stopwatch, a professional
cook, plays all audio files, plays all video files, is also a cell
phone, runs Windows Vista, warms your car in the morning and makes
dinner for you at night---it that watch will probably be larger than
the typical timekeeper you found at Target or Wallmart.
Besides, 33 MB is barely noticable to a multi-Gig hard drive.