Talk:List of media players

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[edit] 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)

[edit] Redundant with lists of video and audio players

The organization of this list is REALLY weird:

  • 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.

I think this list should be AfDed, but am open to someone trying to justify it...--Karnesky 03:07, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

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==
==Set-top boxes==
==Historical==
--Karnesky 05:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "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. — Northgrove 01:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)