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Well, you could upgrade to the beta of Media Player 11 and see if it's any better. I've also heard a lot of people like Media Player Classic, it looks and feels like the Windows 9x media player before it got all fancy.

Of course, if you're not getting pictures on half of the stuff you play, it's more likely a lack of codecs, and not the player causing the issues. Betanews.com typically has some good codec packs for download, might be worth a trip there.

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I'd recomment getting the VLC media player from http://www.videolan.org/. It should be able to play any video you throw at it, without the need for external codecs. Its interface isn't as polished as some players, but it works very well at playing troublesome videos. I use VLC for most of my video, and foobar2k for most of my music, and I don't miss windows media player at all.

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I can't say I recommend VCL just because of it's interface.

What I do is this:

I use Winamp for my audio and it plays 100% of the stuff I try to play.

I use Media Player Classic for my videos and it works on 99.99% of the stuff I try to play. It has internal support for codecs and containers (e.g. MKV, OGM) so no external codecs are necessary unless you need to upgrade.

For the stuff it doesn't work on (only one thing so far for me: videos in 4000kbps Divx format at 640x480 resolution at 60fps [The high quality Metroid Prime speed runs found at http://speeddemosarchive.com/]), I used VCL and they played fine.

The reason I use MPC over VCL is because of it's interface. Because of the rarity of the files that won't play smoothly in MPC, I stick with it because I don't want to trip over VCL's strange interface all the time.

I never use Windows Media Player. My family and my friends use it on their computers and everytime I try to play sometime it takes forever for it to start up and then there's a "connecting" for awhile before the file even begins to play.

MPC comes up and plays the file in a fraction of the time.

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