Comments on: QuickTime vs. RealPlayer vs. Windows Media Player

By: Christian Jones

Christian Jones — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:20:00 +0000

What I mean to say is that VLC is great, but the built in media player is usually enough. Definitely note the usually.

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Quicktime actually starts up in one “bounce” in the dock; my personal record for any program. wMP also is very quick off the mark. Some of the freeware ones, such as VLC, however, do take awhile. It might be because of my intel duo core processor on a 2006 or 2007 imac, but VLC does take awhile to startup, and takes a moment pause audio or video.

By: Christian Jones

Christian Jones — Thu, 19 May 2011 01:50:00 +0000

Yes, it is a good thing that Apple at least offers quicktime 7. I use VLC for anything that quicktime 10, perian, and flip4mac do not cover. Which is pretty rare. However, VLC is not the greatest media player. You should use the media players that came with your os.

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:34:00 +0000

QuickTime is quite nice on OS X – not so much on Windows. But, at least Apple provides something for Windows users, as opposed to Microsoft who stopped developing any kind of WMP on OS X. Luckily, open source players have swept in and saved the day for Mac users.

By: Christian Jones

Christian Jones — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:57:00 +0000

Yes, I agree. It was great. Windows 7 media player is pretty good, but quicktime is my favorite. I’m very annoyed with itunes as a media player because it always adds the song to its library. I just want to listen to my song, not form another copy of it in my itunes folder. Plus, quicktime has many add-ons, one of which can even play WAV files.

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:36:00 +0000

I used to love WMP, until it got too big for its britches. I appreciate that Microsoft at least makes the WMP in Windows 7 more usable.

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:35:00 +0000

I used to love WMP, until it got too big for its britches. I appreciate that Microsoft at least makes the WMP in Windows 7 more usable.

By: Christian Jones

Christian Jones — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:31:00 +0000

I have a mac, so I don’t use wMP. I prefer quicktime, but wMP is pretty solid as well(My friend uses it on his computer).

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:58:25 +0000

Definitely VLC & occasionally Jetaudio. Windows MP is just too much to deal with as is QT & Real is dead, imo.

By: AnonGuy

AnonGuy — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:05:48 +0000

QuickTime putting itself in Start-Up is a deal breaker. No, I don’t want to go to MSConfig and take it out. I want it to NOT put itself there. There was a point in time where you basically couldn’t uninstall QuickTime to remove the system tray icon, as well, since it would install itself (on Windows, no less) as a system component (WTF?!). Since those days, I’ve sworn off of it.

That being said, as far as the internet is concerned, I don’t see many QuickTime video Links. Most stuff is in Flash, and WMV. Microsoft uses Silverlight on their Website, and more places are starting to use that as well.

Back in the day I used to see lots of websites using RealPlayer files (*.rm, *.ra), but I hardly ever see those anymore.

I use Windows Media Player. It syncs to my Windows Phone and manages Photos, Music, Videos, can play DVDs, etc. Performance is good, and the application looks very nice. I also use the Microsoft Zune Player, since I have Zune Pass.

I’d probably have iTunes, but it’s way too bloated on Windows, and User Interface Guidelines only matter to apple when an application is ignoring theirs on their own OS.

By: Rix

Rix — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:33:28 +0000

When I’m on my Mac I use Quicktime Pro and on my PC I use VLC.

Never need anything else.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:39:40 +0000

I converted a power point to a .MOV. I noticed when playing the .mov file simultaneously on Quick time and VLC. The VLC player, plays the titles much smoother than quick time, but the colours are ‘richer’ in quick time!! Why?

By: Jillian

Jillian — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:41:24 +0000

I have had no problem with QuickTime putting itself in Startup.
You can always go to start. run >type in msconfig. And at the top of the configuration utility click on the “Start” at the top of the page , then scroll down until you find Quicktime and simply take out the check mark. Then click okay. It will not start up. You can also install Win-Patrol and it will take care of it.

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:27:59 +0000

I would never use Quicktime Realplayer or Windows Media Player. They are all bloated with unnecessary features that slow your computer and startup processes down.

I recommend Media Player Classic. It is a self contained program that is very small and effective.

By: Mark Sanborn

Mark Sanborn — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:27:59 +0000

I would never use Quicktime Realplayer or Windows Media Player. They are all bloated with unnecessary features that slow your computer and startup processes down.

I recommend Media Player Classic. It is a self contained program that is very small and effective.