The Mac comes with Quicktime, and Windows comes with Windows Media Player, but both of those video players are biased towards their own formats. There are other, multi platform video players that are excellent and play a huge number of formats.The best media player is definitely VLC Player. It may not be as feature rich as some others, but it supports an extremely wide variety of formats and plays them effortlessly. Not only that, but it is cross platform on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, so no matter which operating system you have, you can use VLC player. It’s extremely useful if you have a computer connected to the TV and want to playback videos/movies. The Mac version seems a bit more refined than the Windows version, but most Macintosh software have better interfaces in general.
VLC player is a little buggy however, and sometimes video playback randomly freezes or crashes. In most cases, it plays wonderfully and is very stable, but occasionally, it is buggy, and certain videos it will continue to crash while trying to play, and for apparently no reason whatsoever.
Another video player that is very good is DivX player. This doesn’t support as wide a range of formats as VLC player, but it has many more features and also looks a lot better. It plays all the videos that VLC has troubles with, and playback is just as smooth as VLC when it’s working. DivX player also has a lot more features than VLC player, and it makes watching movies even better. It will even darken the rest of your screen while watching a video, although this feature is somewhat useless because you might as well watch the video in full screen. Still, it’s nice to have.
Real player is also a decent video player for Mac OS X. It has a bunch of useful features, although the range of formats it supports it much less than VLC and DivX. It has some interesting options for full screen and also is a very stable video player.
However, in the end, VLC is the winner. It is simple, and does everything you want. It’s ultimate win is the fact that it is very simple and supports a huge range of formats. If Quicktime supported as many or close to as many formats as VLC player, I would definitely pick Quicktime player over VLC, simply because Quicktime player is absolutely flawless and has an even better interface. However, because it doesn’t, VLC is a much better video player, and it will fulfill all your needs to play videos of all sorts of formats.
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