For the past day, I've been attempting to find something to replace VLC Player. Usually VLC is fine, and there are certainly much worse players out there, but the fact that it fucks up so bad on mkvs when you try to move forward or backward in the video is really annoying, not to mention it tends to lag on particularly high quality files.
So first I tried Movist. It's pretty great most of the time, with much easier subtitle customization and just customization in general. However, it has a pretty fatal bug for watching anime in mkv these days - it can't handle AAC audio correctly, which is used pretty commonly these days. So I was trying to watch a show and the audio was only in the left channel. Sucks.
So I moved on to MPlayer OSX Extended. I dunno what MPlayer is like on Windows, but this version is pretty great regardless, and I think it's gonna be what I stick with.
So MPlayer it is.
VLC
but hey, i only watch porn i snatched with video downloadhelper with it 5thgrade;
VLC
it works great for movies, tv shows, and porn, so i'm content
I use MPlayer too, but without a GUI (visible controls). Keyboard shortcuts are plenty enough~
and I switch between Media Player Classic and MPlayer when using Windows, depending on if I want the extra customization capability MPlayer has or not
I just usually use WMP when I'm watching dvds and VLC for most other things.
i use wmp for dvds, mpc for downloaded anime, and vlc for anything else
I use Quicktime with Perian (http://perian.org/), which makes it compatible with nearly everything (except for streaming, which VLC is way better at). I'd recommend it if you hate VLC's shitty .mkv buffering, which is exactly why I stopped using VLC.