Having recently upgraded across the board to Windows 8.1 on both the desktop and laptop in addition to moving to a Lumia 1520 as my mobile device I'm wondering if Windows Media Player is the preferred video player for checking my finished renders. I've run into some quirks with WMP with videos appearing with corrupted footage artifacts one day, then the next day appearing perfectly fine.

I loath Quicktime and have debated whether to install VLC as I'm wanting to keep my machines as pristine as possible from a maintenance standpoint (no third party codec packages like K-lite, etc).

Any thoughts?