I’ve been using Videolan as my primary media player for videos for a while now.  It even plays flash video that you download.

BENEFITS:

• Unlike the default media player in Windows, it has all the codecs you need and it is free.  I can’t believe Microsoft really thought we would pay for an untold number of codecs just to watch on videos, which should be in universal players and formats.

CRITIQUE:

• When I go from video to video that has a different default size, why won’t it stick with the same size window I manually created?  that’s rather frustrating.
• It does not notify you when there is a new update available.  You have to seek it.