# mpeg player recommendations

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 24, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473 "2002-11-24T11:46:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Joe\_Mahma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Joe\_Mahma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Mahma)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473/1 "2002-11-24T11:46:45Z")

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By hitting “post reply” rather than “new thread”, I originally tacked this request onto the end of an unrelated thread (yeah, I know, not too bright). Can anybody recommend a good, preferably free MPEG player? I have Winplayer 7, and it has never worked right.

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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473/2 "2002-11-24T12:55:07Z")

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I use gdivx. plays all those annoying divx movies windows media player refuses to play even with the correct codecs.

goto [download.com](http://download.com) and search for gdivx

[www.divx.com](http://www.divx.com) for the divx codec jsut in case you need it.

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**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473/3 "2002-11-24T13:10:02Z")

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grab windows media now, its up to 9.0

and as the above mentions divx makes a pretty nice player as well.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Mahma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Joe\_Mahma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Mahma)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473/4 "2002-11-24T13:41:11Z")

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Thank you both - I’ll give both players a try.

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**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473/5 "2002-11-24T16:18:05Z")

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I’d have to strongly advise against Windows Media Player 9!!!

-[It can’t be easily uninstalled.](http://www.winxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=52&search=media%20player%209)

-[Check out the end user license agreement:](http://www.winxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=34&search=eula)

“You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management (‘Secure Content’), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update.”

[Sol Rosenberg]

It makes me very scary!

[/Sol Rosenberg]

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**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mpeg-player-recommendations/138473/6 "2002-11-24T16:20:46Z")

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Hrm… Those links are talking about the beta version of WMP 9. I have no idea what the full version is like.

Sorry if I gave you misinformation.