Talk:List of media players

Initiative?
Maybe I'm just being thick today, but what does "initiative" mean here? AlistairMcMillan 09:10, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The vendors that did it first. The current classification is quite lame. Reclassify if you can think of a better one. For example:
 * A bloated music player that can play video, browse WWW, etc, e.g. WinAMP
 * A minimalist music player, e.g. foobar2000
 * A DVD/VCD player that often doesn't deal with music, e.g. WinDVD, PowerDVD
 * A bloated video player that can browse WWW, build media library, made fancy visual effect, etc, e.g. Window Media Player, RealPlayer
 * A minimalist video player, e.g. Media Player Classic

Minimalist doesn't mean it lacks of features. In fact, they are often more powerful. Alright, these are my biased point of view. --Minghong 20:10, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A proper categorization would be audio and video players, everything else is much too arbitrary. I will rework the article to follow this scheme soon. DonDiego 09:52, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)


 * Probably. But I think it has to at least differentiate between pure video player (e.g. WinDVD), pure audio player (e.g. iTunes) and media player (e.g. Windows Media Player). --Minghong 13:04, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Redundant with lists of video and audio players
The organization of this list is REALLY weird: I think this list should be AfDed, but am open to someone trying to justify it...--Karnesky 03:07, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Mainstream and Minimalist are redundant to other sections & biased
 * There is little (if anything) that is not in either List of video players or List of audio players or both.
 * Hi. Can you do me a favour and check if there really is nothing that isn't the two other lists? Let's replace this list with a disambiguation page.  One thing I observe in life is that video players can also handle audio formats -- maybe remove the video players in the audio players list, what do you think? --Perfecto  04:41, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a reasonable solution. Here's what's unique to this list:
 * BlazeDVD
 * ==Video game console==
 * Xbox Media Center for Microsoft Xbox
 * DCDivX for Sega Dreamcast
 * Playstation 3
 * ==Set-top boxes==
 * Viiv from Intel
 * ==Historical==
 * ActiveMovie
 * Media Player
 * --Karnesky 05:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * --Karnesky 05:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

"Hypermedia"?
The first time I've heard the term, and it doesn't correspond to the article hypermedia as this doesn't seem to have much to do with a merge with hypertext. &mdash; Northgrove 01:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Computing
I have removed the WikiProject tag, as this article is either a redirect or deleted. If you oppose, please restore the tag. Thank you, fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 15:57, 30 March 2009 (UTC)