Decent media player for XP

**Guiseppe** · 14-07-15, 09:04 PM

Yeh I know XP. It is on an old laptop.

What I want is a decent media player that will play .flv, .mpg files and maybe later ones, say, .mp4.

Suggestions please.

**ol' boy** · 14-07-15, 09:24 PM

VLC?

I wonder if Kodi will run on XP?

**jwoegerbauer** · 14-07-15, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by oceanboy

VLC?

I wonder if Kodi will run on XP?

Taken from here:

Re: Kodi or XBMC which works for Win. XP ?
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2015, 05:29:11 PM »
Frodo is the last version compatible with xp.

**coalminer** · 14-07-15, 11:04 PM

AVS Media Player
plays the lot

**Guiseppe** · 15-07-15, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by coalminer

AVS Media Player
plays the lot

I must admit I overlooked frodo!

**lsemmens** · 15-07-15, 08:44 PM

I use VLC on and XP machine and it takes everything I throw at it. (It is a media server for my wife's TV)

**koshari** · 15-07-15, 10:10 PM

Vlc is definately the great allrounder. For another idea out of the box depending on your hardware. Linux and kodi 14.2 dual boot or if you dont need to use xp for anything blow the xp install away.

**koshari** · 15-07-15, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by coalminer

AVS Media Player
plays the lot

Would hope so for 80 bucks

**coalminer** · 15-07-15, 11:00 PM

who said i paid for it

**tristen** · 16-07-15, 01:25 PM

I have been using VLC for years and it continues to work flawlessly on all versions of Windows, i.e. Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 and also on Mac OS X.

I highly recommend it.

**Guiseppe** · 16-07-15, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by koshari

Vlc is definately the great allrounder. For another idea out of the box depending on your hardware. Linux and kodi 14.2 dual boot or if you dont need to use xp for anything blow the xp install away.

Have never had any joy with VLC on my Linux system so am a bit jaundiced. I am loathe to tamper with the XP set-up so frodo seems the way to go.

**mickstv** · 16-07-15, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by Guiseppe

Have never had any joy with VLC on my Linux system so am a bit jaundiced.

I've been running Ubuntu, Mint and OpenSuse for a few years now and have never had any problems running VLC, works perfectly.

What Linux OS are you running ?

**koshari** · 16-07-15, 08:19 PM

This mirrors my experiance. VLC ON dapper drake ubuntu through to mint 17. As mick states what ver of linux did you try. ymmv depending on hardware. Tying live isos first is the key to linux newbies.

**Guiseppe** · 17-07-15, 12:30 PM

I am only interested in the laptop so it would seem that frodo would be the first choice as I have gotham running on another system - debian - and am very pleased with it.

Originally Posted by koshari

Tying live isos first is the key to linux newbies.

I have been a LiveCD junky for years. Crunchbang - no longer supported - I liked but my absolute favourite is Puppy.