> (I ignore Windows Media Player on purpose...) > If you install the popular K-Lite Codec Pack, Windows Media Player can play basically > any kind of video and audio. So why do people dislike WMP so much? I'm not > knowledgeable in media players.
You already have the answer. MPC-HC and VLC expecially can play *everything* without any additional codec. They use pre-compiled libraries for decoding. WMP (I don't know new versions, I never upgraded the default installed on my WIN7) requires external codecs and is not so light-weight and efficient like the free open source media players I mentioned (there are a lot more)
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