Right now it is J.River Media Center 12. It is commercial application and it does require DirectShow codecs. But it works best thus far. Both GOMPlayer and Media Player Classic don't play sound in some FLVs (perhaps because it is 22 kHz mono) for some reason: no complaints about codecs but no sound on the headphones either. Both crash on some MOV files (I do use Pro version of the latest QuickTime because my video editing and 3D application require it for proper import/export). MPC cannot size window properly on SWFs. Main window aspect is wrong in GOMPlayer and MPC on some DVDs so menu is screwed. None of these issues with JRMC. I hate its slow startup though, especially when I need to quickly preview some video file.

I tried VLC briefly but did not keep it. Don't remember exactly what it lacked. Probably did not play FLV or SWF.

I mostly have MP4, AVI, MPEG,MPG,MOV files that all work fine on my laptop when using GOM. I like GOm becasue of its time jump feature and all the other convienet keyboard features. And couple GOM w/ fraps i can capture images and video so i like it

i use vlc, never had a problem with it.

downloading and trying gomplayer right now... screenshots look nice, ill keep it if it performs quicker than vlc

wow this program is really nice.! only got a quick chance to play around with it, but im keeping it my default video player

good find ghazgull

The only thing I noticed is that the playback on GOM for some reason is not as smooth as on WMP 11. On my desktop GOM works great and I have no complaints, however my laptop doesn't seem to like it. I thought it might be one of the settings, but I tried everything and it still seems to be just a little bit choppy... :/

Some movies have a choppy playback, but other are just fine. Id say about 5% of all movies I play are a little choppy, but those are such small numbers i really dont even notice it.

I find MPeg/mpg to be most choopyy.

However most files I watch are AVI or MP4 so playback is fine.

Well, why do they play fine on WMP 11 yet a little choppy on GOM? Looks at times as if you can see the frames moving one by one. heh. Must be some option here that is turned on, or the wrong codec...

I have WM9 endocer, divx, mepg2setup (dvd codec) coreaasetup (mp4 codec) and its all hunky dorey here

GOMPlayer uses some internal (actually not so much internal but installed with the program) decoders/splitters/etc. That may result into some funky DirectShow decoder chain. You may have to tweak the codec priority and which "external" (that is external realtive to GOMPlayer) codecs to use. Should be somewhere in GOMPlayer settings. A good MPEG2 decoder usually uses hardware (video card) assistance to smooth the picture.

to get gom player using all extensins do this

start- all prgms-gom player- gom wizard. This is the 'settings' options for GOM- tik through until you get to 'associated extensions' and you will see 6 boxes, 3 of which are 'unticked'. Simply tick all 6 boxes and hit 'next' and this will save your settings. Now that uve done this uve added several extensions to GOM's detection list

I like GOM becasue it has hot buttons (i know others do, but i like Gom's)

Enter=fullscreen
Ctrl+Enter= stretch image
right arrow key- FF 10 sec
left arrow key= RW 10 sec
Up and DOwn arrows= volume

You can change the way it does 'time jump' (FF/RW) by clicking on the GOM image on top left of player- go to 'prefs' 'playback' go to 'time jump' and chnage it if u want. (i do time jump of 5 sec)

Hope it helps
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I do have other codec installed for GOM. If you dont have it GOM you prompt you to DL it and install it.

I prefer Windows media player classic (6.4???) with k-lite codec pak. Very simple, can open multiple videos at once, and works great.

I use vlc mostly, however I don't like the toolbars. Is there a hide option? May try gom as it sounds versatile as well.

well after using gom for a few days, i can safely say its a great video player... uses up a tiny bit less resources, but for higher quality video it isnt as good as vlc.
for your average downloaded avi file, it'll perform great tho...

so im keeping both depending on what im watching

really i couldn't stand VLC UI. It just wasnt appealing.