Bump into an old topic.

Do you guys know JRiver Media Center? Weird if you don't since it is one of the most popular Media Player. I am currently using it. It has immense features from playing to organizing media files. You can record TV shows and podcast, rip, burn and label disc, watch and download YouTube videos, export and synch with handheld devices, and much more till I feel it is bloated sometimes. Furthermore, third party plug-ins like G-Force visualizations, DFX Audio Enhancer, or Minilyrics can also be added onto the program.

Although JMC is able to playback various video formats, it seems to tend to be audio player than video player. You can see how Softpedia categorizes this.
Recently Computer Audiophile also published a review of the latest JMC 17.



The "but" is that JMC is a shareware tagged $49,98, fairly expensive a for a multimedia player. Another concern is that JMC has not really supported Windows Vista and 7 trademark features like progress bar and jump list.