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KMPlayer does all the same as VLC, but has a better interface, lots of functions, and much more responsible. VLC needs to do something, put some quality into an already technically well-done product.
So I prefer VLC, it launches faster, runs smoot, nice & plenty of controls, easy to use & set-up and no struggle in installing several codecs.
Are you on drugs? How could you recommend this to an average user? The interface was incredibly baffling, not to mention ugly. After struggling to do the simplest tasks, I gave up. Maybe a hard core computer geek would find it useful somehow, but average people should just use something like Winamp.
Finally, VLC did not "handle anything that I threw at it". It crashed repeatedly, as a matter of fact, on files that Winamp plays easily.
- by tosandrew April 9, 2009 5:36 PM PDT
- I use GOM's player, which is very good to me
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