VLC and PowerDVD

Vlc.

VLC media cant really beat it.

VLC and BSplayer

VLC media player

potplayer, using from beginning .wonderful performance and features.

PLEX + Roku 4K

VideoLAN Client aka VLC is the best one!! What do you think??

You have no idea how many media players I've tried.

From mPlayer, to MPC and all the ones based on them, like smPlayer, KmPlayer, MPC-HC, MPC-BE, and all kinds. Every one of them have their upsides and downsides. After years of testing out different players, I have to say VLC is somehow always on top. It can start playing unfinished files instantly (virtually no buffering) whereas many other either cannot, have a long delay, or crash when you try to seek or fast forward. It also can be used to scrobble on places like trakt.tv which can help you keep track of everything you watch, and which can be plugged into third party tools to generate suggestions based on watch history. You can also plug your netflix and whatever else in. It will keep track of it all for you.

I really wanted something other than VLC, and there are some really decent competitors. And I can't say I'm using VLC as default, but I'll be honest, I'm really starting to think about going back to using it as default, because I pretty much never ever have problems with it.

Honestly through thr many years of using a PC I found Media Player Classic with the K-Lite Codec Mega Pack to be by far the best player for windows. On Android I'd have to say MPlayer Pro is easily the best video player.