Low CPUsage Media Players?

[Cream Soda]

Trying to watch some movies while I play ffxi w/o using up all my CPU and lagging me on both ends. Idc about any special features or all of that just want the simplest player that will play my stuff, thanks.

[Charismatic]

media player classic

[Cream Soda]

Thanks

[Aniero]

VLC Media PLayer

[Pikarya]

Semi-lite (my personal favorite though) GOM Player

GOM

[Reality]

if your videocard can do x/h264 decoding and you'd like lower cpu usage while watching HD content (720p/1080p wmv's or mkv's) you could download the DxVA decoder (Google MPCVideoDec.ax), this will offload all the decoding to your videocard assuming it's capable, allowing your CPU to more/less be idle, doing mainly just the audio

[The Stig]

What spec is your machine? I'm surprised it's lagging you up, but then again YMMV as you probably run a high resolution game compared to me. =p

[Cream Soda]

What spec is your machine? I'm surprised it's lagging you up, but then again YMMV as you probably run a high resolution game compared to me. =p

Intel(R)
Pentium(R)4 CPU 2.80GHz
2.79 GHz, 2.00GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Pretty old laptop I got it back in October of '05

[Reality]

Accelerate x.264 1080p movies over the GPU Guide

[Norellicus]

VLC Media PLayer

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