Bloated Pig Interfaces... (Score 4)

I personally use windows media player because it's small, un-obtrusive, and more flexible than the others. Apple's quicktime 4 player is a great example of bad design, and real-player is quite simply a bloated, ugly, advertisement ridden, difficult to use pig. Of course, Windows Media player can (and does) support Quicktime, MP3, etc... (but not RealNetworks, at least on my setup). It doesn't really matter what player people are using, as long as the player supports different media drivers. I think it is useful to avoid players that aren't extensible (only support 1 format). If people only use easily extensible players, the most successful streaming format will hopefully be the best one. I am also somewhat biased agains Real Networks - their codecs look and sound awful, their player is ugly and obtrusive. What less could you want?