Video player that works in Win 7 Home?

[beanzontoast]

For some reason, my favourite mp4 player VLC just refuses to run on my Win 7 laptop - it reports that it has crashed every time. I've uninstalled / reinstalled... no go. Had to do a system restore after the last experiment so I'm against spending time on further investigation. (Wierdly, it runs ok on my Win 7 base unit. Maybe a different version of VLC? Anyway, not going to mess about with it any more.)

I've used VLC for so long, I'm not sure what multi-format alternatives are out there in freeware land nowadays. Any suggestions please for a non-bloated player that will play mp4 and a wide range of the usual other formats?

 

[HLaB]

I'm using the stock windows media player on my Win 7 laptop no problem and I also have the free version of Real player which does more formats and will download a codec automatically if it can't recognise a file.

 

[S_t_e_v_e]

I use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema... that comes in a codec pack that is regularly updated...

http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_standard.htm

Give it a try, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

 

[beanzontoast]

Cheers for those ideas - I'll give them both a bash.