Best/Your Favorite Media Player for Windows for Vegas Renders?

Soniclight-2.0 wrote on 3/6/2023, 8:15 PM

Windows 10, Vegas Pro 19

I just finished building my new Ryzen 9 16 cores, RTX 3060 12 Gb GPU system that packs a punch compared to what I used to have, and while I've been using VLC since the dawn of time (above screen pic showing a music video of one of my compositions using a Windows Media Player skin), it's getting dated.

Also, no thumbnails for vids - just the VLC traffic cones -- and I don't want to go through the convoluted process to fix that by downloading some codec app.

Some brands, mostly free that I've seen are Pot, KM, GOM and a slew of others, but I want something that is robust (that pros like most of you use). I don't mind paying a nominal price for one.* I tried KMPlayer, but it's supar to VLC and again, no video thumbnails in Explorer.

(* Note: I cannot afford any Adobe products, so anything in their suite is out of my wallet range.)

I don't foresee rendering in 4K, but some of my stock footage is in 4K that I tend to preview in their Windows folders before adding them into Vegas media bins.

The subject line is pretty self-explanatory, so...
Let me know what you like and use.

Thanks.

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Rednroll wrote on 3/8/2023, 7:43 AM

For most things I use VLC since it's been the most reliable media player which plays everything I've thrown at it. However, if you're looking for a great media player app, I also use Media Monkey. I haven't used it much for video media, so don't have alot of experience with it there. It's more of a power user app for organizing and tagging large media libraries. It is skinable and supports scripting with a pretty large community contributing to providing scripts. It's been supported on the development for quite a while and still is with the developers answering a lot of questions on their forums.

They have a free version which offers most features including scripting support, where the $30 paid version then adds library media syncing (wired and wireless) to mobile devices (ie Android, Apple Devices, Storage media). They also have an Android App version.

Very similar to Vegas it originally started as an Audio only app, but pretty much has that perfected at this point where their v5.0+ releases has focused mainly on Video media support and has been for at least the past 4 years.

https://www.mediamonkey.com/