Quote Originally Posted by Sazzy View Post
I personally disabled the usage of internal codecs in mpc. It's my video player of preference and I was pretty excited to see them start with internal codecs like VLC. But in the end, they're just not as good (or outdated? i don't know) as the ones you just manually install. In that case, you just end up using the same codecs as WMP. Though I must admit I'm quite fond of their subtitle rendering, keeping in mind the total screen rather than just the size of the video. (Though I do understand an external codec wouldn't be able to accomplish this)
I second that. In the end FFMpeg seems like the best option (I AM NOT SAYING IT IS THE BEST, don't want to start the Codecs war here )
Then the player you like the most acts as a Frontend.
I use Fusion media player because is extremely lightweight and stable.