QuickTime vs. RealPlayer vs. Windows Media Player ~ Chris Pirillo - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Mar 08
  

  Hannah Lee

  quicktime realplayer windows media player

• 19 Jan 08
  

  Wisely

  media wmv

  • I’d kept Windows Media Player at version 6.4 because of privacy, phoning home, etc., and didn’t use RealPlayer at all, for similar reasons. Then I heard of QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative, free downloads that let you play QuickTime and Real videos - and both come with Media Player Classic, which plays most everything and behaves.

     

    Then I found Crystal Player, also freeware, which plays plays most everything - and what it doesn’t play, Media Player Classic does. The great thing about Crystal Player is that you can adjust brightness/contrast/color on the fly (or pause and adjust). So many videos need adjusting, this is a feature that’s hard to live without.

     

    tg
  • as an animator, Quicktime beats all the others hands down.
     You get ultimate control, while the other players can’t even scrub properly, much less skip frame by frame.
     I cringe when they provide me with reference footage in WMP or real format, it’s totally useless for me.
     my two pesetas

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