Comments on: Display The Installed Codecs On A System

By: Windows: InstalledCodec, que codecs hay instalados en tu equipo - Bitelia

Windows: InstalledCodec, que codecs hay instalados en tu equipo - Bitelia — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:03:35 +0000

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By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:47:18 +0000

They sound like good enough reasons to switch to me…

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:23:00 +0000

David the reason why I primarily switched was because I encountered strange errors with VLC. The only difference that I can see right now is the support of Real Media files out of the box in SMPlayer.

SMPlayer is also using less resources than VLC. A quick check on a 500 Megabyte video revealed that SMPlayer was using 14 Megabytes of RAM and 6 Megabytes of Virtual Memory while VLC was using 40 Megabytes of RAM and 40 Megabytes of Virtual Memory.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:13:48 +0000

I’ll check out SMPlayer…what are its advantages over VLC?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:11:17 +0000

David yes I also prefer players that come with their own codecs but one should make sure to update them regularly.

Switched from VLC to SMPlayer a while ago though and never looked back.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:02:08 +0000

Nice find. So often there are issues with movie playback and editing even. However, I think VLC, with its essentially inbuilt codecs, gets around most of those issues without one having to worry about which codecs pack is installed. Windows Media Player is a different matter, of course, it perpetually calling home like an immature child on a gap year trip with no friends.