
Thus one of the solutions would be to use VLC media player. The problem with codecs is that there are so many, to figure out which ones to use every time a media player encounters an error and then to manually find and install that certain codec would be tedious. Codecs are pieces of software that compress and decompress videos when they are encoded in certain file formats. The main difference with both of these softwares is in the way they handle codecs. In terms of user interface, community updates, support, both of these free software are much better than WMP.


Media Player Classic (MPC) is a video player program similar to VLC Media Player.īoth of these free media players are available freely on the internet and both far outclass the continually brought in Windows Media Player (WMP) with every new version of the Windows Operating System.
