If you are tired of using your old media player and you want to try something new, you must try SPlayer. This player is very minimalistic in its approach: low resource consumption, no ads, small size, portability, discrete interface, free of charge. I’ve been trying it out and played a few videos and movies with it and i like a lot. I might actually consider to switch from my heavily used GOM Player.
How does it stack up against VLC?
Tried the “portable” (no-install, unzip-and-run) version. It hijacked all of my media associations (all file types were “SPlayer File” without the extension), and added an option (in Chinese!) to my thumbdrive’s autoplay list (which I can’t take out!)…all WITHOUT ASKING! Not good, it came off my system and won’t be used again.
I’ll be sticking with VLC this time. I mean, it works as it’s supposed to so there is no need to change it… yet.
This is by far the best media player I have ever tried. And I tried them all. I have stuck by MPC(CCCP) and VLC for many years now since they work. However, once the 1080p encodes start popping up, MPC and VLC simply couldn’t handle them. Ok. There’s always the CoreAVC to speed up those 1080p encodes but MPC+CoreAVC couldn’t even compete on how SPlayer runs 1080p like it’s nothing.
I should have discovered SPlayer a lot earlier.