VLC or Coolplayer portable?

VLC is the ultimate media player. There's very little you can throw at it that it won't play. I've been using it for years and everyone else should too. I've never used Coolplayer though, so I'm definitely biased.

I haven't used Coolplayer, except to check it out for Vista bugs.

Personally, VLC sits as my default media player and Screamer as my internet stream player.

I could probably use just one, but why?

I agree with onestoploser. VLC really play anything you want, and I haven't found anything it won't. VLC's basic interface is very simple, but it does support skins, however I remember John saying the skinning system is kinda buggy. CoolPlayer+ on the other hand definitely doesn't play as much of the bat and still doesn't come close with some more codec plugins. However, CoolPlayer+ has an extremely nice interface with the skin NeoRame has done up, and the playlist handling/making it better IMO.

So, the just of it. VLC will play anything you want and should't give you a problem. CoolPlayer+ if it's audio only and you want something sleek and sexy.

They serve different purposes. I use VLC to play videos. But for playing audio on the go, CoolPlayer+ Portable is the better option. Especially since you can set it in shade mode and stay on top and keep your audio player in the titlebar of your screen at all times just like you can with Winamp.

I use VLC to play Audio as well as Video. Although I have coolplayer+ installed I never use it. I don't know the difference in size and speed between those applications but I do know that I rather use VLC as media player. To some extent having both CoolPlayer+ and VLC is like having multiple applications to perform similar tasks.

VLC tends to remove features in newer versions. For example, starting from a few versions back it no longer supports YouTube FLV files (for certain systems only). But I no longer care for that, because my favorite site keepvid.com started saving YouTube's files as MP4 files instead of FLV files anyway.

But then they released v0.8.6i, and turns out it gets crashed when trying to take screenshots (quite a basic need from a player). The official word is to replace the relevant file with that of v0.8.6h's.

I'm just trying to say that you can't trust on new versions to have as many features as older ones. Then again, it's illogical not to upgrade because who wants to stay with old versions.

VLC is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more compatible (with everything), plus it's insanely fast. The normal version has some troubles with certain clips in my experience, though.

I've used both Coolplayer & VLC on my Thumbdrive it ultimately boils down to preferences.

VLC is pretty much the ultimate multimedia player that I've used. You can throw practically any audio or video format at it & 99% of the time, VLC will play it. The only known format that's not supported are the RealMedia files... but rarely anybody (with a decent brain) cares to use those formats.

The downside with VLC is the file size.

Coolplayer is microscopic in comparison with other portable players, but it's functions are limited to audio only.

I prefer VLC over Coolplayer mostly for the media support that I need.

VLC is the swis army knife of media players in my opinion. I previously used Coolplyer for my aaudio as tis got a nice interface, is lightweight and other various nifty things. But then I find it was removing my MP3 tags so stopped using it at all. For large audio collections I recommend Songbird.

i use coolplayer for audio and vlc for video
no real reason, i just like the coolplayer at the top of the screen thing (like winamp)
if media player classic was portable id use that, i dont like having to minimize fullscreen vid to skip through, mpc you just moved the mouse to the bottom of the screen and it would pop up

I never used Coolplayer since it is only for audio files. VLC is good, fast and plays almost every codec human being knows.

(I dont like the latest VLC :

The solution is LINUX only

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Try to render windows to LINUX