Marvin wrote:
>for playing video , what is a good player>>


Windows Media Player and Quicktime would be the worst video players ever.

The best of the free ones are GOM, VLC, and Kantaris. These are all 
multi-functional and come with all the necessary codecs. Pause, then 
right-click the video screen. You'll get more options than you'd ever want 
to use.

Other useful ones are Mediaplayer Classic (a bit simpler) and Irfanview 
(limited)

In my order of preference:

Gom:  http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html

Vlc:  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Kantaris:  http://www.kantaris.org/
"Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it -- AVI, MPEG, 
MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, quicktime, matroska, divx, xvid, H264, MP3, WMA, 
OGG files and more. Kantaris can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player 
also displays some of the most beautiful music visualizations ever seen"

Don Penlington

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