I've got the usual Media Player 11.0 and I absolutely hate the thing. It's constantly asking for permission to get on the internet regardless of if I am wanting to view a move/vid or not. My firewall pretty much keeps it shut down but the constant asking is getting to me. So, what suggestions do you have? I also hate Real Player which has the same issues and it try's to take over everything. I won't have Adobe anything except the pdf viewer because it is the same as Real Player- it wants to take over the computer. Any passive media players out there for XP?

 

i got use to media center... i dont see pop ups from it but its basically the same functionality of WMP11

 

VLC media player. It will play just about anything, and while installing it you can set up which media types you want associated with it.

 

VLC and windows media center mostly.

 

Media player classic (not windows media player classic)

 

I have 4 media players on this box (Win2K) - Windows 9, VLC, Musicmatch 7.5, and Media Player Classic with Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative.

 

Media Player Classic for video.

Foobar for my music. <---Best program I have ever used by far.

 

VLC for pretty much everything

 

VLC for the mac and vista