KMPlayer

Simple, tiny, and no-nonsense players are definitely worthwhile apps -- particularly Media Player Classic - Home Cinema which I find is the perfect go-to app on the (very) rare occasion that KMP has playback issues -- but KMP deserves way more credit than it's gotten. At least it's finally been getting lots of likes here on aTo in recent times, but its interface is WAAAAAAAAY more functional, intuitive and user-friendly than all the over-hyped apps like VLC and MPC. The Winamp-style playlist editor alone makes it the superior app as it blows just about every other media player's playlist management abilities out of the water.

And yes, while the KMP Options dialog has a staggering amount of configurable settings of which many are highly technical and beyond the average user, they can safely be ignored since the player works out-of-the-box with a level of reliability that rivals any other player out there -- MPC-HC and VLC included. However, on the note of KMP's Options dialog, I do have to note one negative: it's poorly organized. Advanced/power users who love to tweak and tinker with software will likely be initially frustrated when starting out with configuring KMP until they get used to the quirky tree layout of settings. To be fair, the app does have hundreds of configurable settings that control nearly every aspect of media playback on a level that even a seasoned software developer would have a heck of a time trying to organize, so I feel for KMP's devs, but the problem is that Options dialog has been kind of a mess going back many versions (for years now) and the issue has yet to be addressed. Again, this has little to no impact on users who just want their player to play whatever they throw it with no hassles and have no interest in digging around in the guts of the app.

[Edited by musichemyst, June 27]

Minuses: 1) does NOT remember the pause time of watching videographic files at the previous launch, as in VLC, CherryPlayer, PowerDVD;

2. NO a miniature window - preview on the timeline;

3. inconvenient control system (using keys only) to speed up or slow down the playback speed of a (videographic or audiographic) file. +Error - when playing a large file (or wide resolution - 4K), speeding up the speed leads to the OPPOSITE effect, the videography slows down;

4. does NOT show the remaining time on the timeline;

5. Error window displays in the category «Settings» - the window opens to 50% of 100% (it is impossible to open more or expand it), which is why parts of the settings are invisible and it is impossible to «tick» the functions of interest.

Pluses: 1) opens WMV and TS files that cannot be played by PowerDVD players and the new Windows Media Player (there is an image, there is no sound);

2. easy to open, no braking, no delay, no unnecessary CPU load;

3. there is technology for viewing or listening to a corrupted (videographic or audiographic) file, like the «OLD man» - classic Windows Media Player from MicroSoft.