My favorite, or least one of the top 3, media players would have to be VLC Media Player. I don't know about you but I'm a big fan of video clips - they are great for a quick when you have a few minutes to spare to browse YouTube, or when a friend sends you some crazy beer commercial from Sweden. The biggest problem is #1 your friend has sent you some crazy video format with a uncommon video codec (the thing that compresses the video, like MPEG, AVI, DivX, MOV, xVID, etc. and without having the right one makes playback of the video completely impossible), or #2 when someone doesn't seem to realize the difference between kilobytes, megabytes and gigabytes when sending videos as attachments.
While #2 is harder to fix, I've found most videos can be played by using VLC, nearly every video I try can be played on it -- if it still doesn't play installing the DivX codec usually seems to allow a few more to work. So while it might not play 100% of video's you get, it will play the good majority and with low system impact so you're machine doesn't freeze up while you're doing it.
VLC Media Player is free so I'd recommend you give it a go next time your college buddy sends you the Budweiser Frogs commercial for the 100th time!
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