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VLC media player is free, popular, and just awesome. It’ll play just about any audio or video file you throw at it.
I switched to mpv many years ago and not going back. Just couldn’t bear endless glitches and bugs in VLC. BTW some older hardware doesn’t support h.265 Main10 profile decoding which you are most likely to find in modern 4K content. I had an Intel Skylake laptop with such a problem before.
I love dolby atmos, but vlc only offers compressed dolby atmos, and there’s a huge difference vs uncompressed. I’m using KM player right now, because for some reason something happened between my 1060 and my new qn90a, and I can’t get real dolby atmos with media player cassic and the k-lite codecs…
Well, that’s annoying… Suddenly, with OpenGL for Windows selected, video got very choppy for me – even if the file was only 1080p.
Switched to Direct3D11, and ta-DA! Works again.
Must be a driver update / Windows update thing causing problems. SIGH!