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[jaebea]

When it comes to codecs, I like to use codec packs, as they tend to cover all the bases.

Uninstall any codecs you might have, and get the Kazaa Lite Codec pack.

When you install, do a custom install and don't install the BSPlayer (it's a media player). My preferred media player is Media Player Classic (worth googling) as it has the clean interface of the older Windows Media Player, but has been updated to handle a lot of new formats and added a few more powerful features.

http://www.kazaalite.tk

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm

Used to be a site called bytemonsoon but they got shutdown after a few weeks. They still have a forum with some torrents though, so see if you find anything you like.

http://www.bytemonsoon.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

As for notebook storage expansion, if you have a Firewire (IEEE1394) port on your laptop, then getting an external hard drive is a good idea. Ditto with USB2. You can probably get PCMCIA cards to add Firewire or USB2 if you don't have these already. Standard USB1 will be too slow for anything worthwhile. USB2 or Firewire only.

jae.

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[jaebea]

KK, I've tried a lot of different media players and I don't think BSPlayer really stands out to be honest.

However, I can happily accept the fact that choice of media player can be as personal a choice as the never ending boxers vs briefs argument.

The only two media players that I've liked (maybe two and a half if you want to be picky) are Sasami2k (a brilliant little Korean job that does wonders but has total stability issues) and Windows Media Player 6.4 (and it's elder and more refined sibling, Media Player Classic).

BSPlayer's key fault is it's inability to be removed should you want to change players down the track. Perhaps it's an issue with the Kazaa Lite Codec pack, but upon removal of the codec pack (to remove BSPlayer), windows still maintained associations and shell extensions to BSPlayer, which therefore required me to manually allocate them to my preferred media player.

I subsequently saved myself the trouble by installing MPC which removed all the shell extensions and associations, pointing them to the right client.

Silly me.

jae.