Thank you for the correction. I referred to my other system with Windows 8.1 as regard Media Player as a whole. The title of the thread escaped my mind.
MediaMonkey Gold does everything, syncs iPods/Android/phones to playlists, etc, re-encodes videos/music, large libraries without crashing, etc.
Yeah Pot player is awesome. You can also play videos in border-less mode like macs do. To do this simple right click anywhere in the player goto skins and select Auto-hide skin during playback. To get the menu or header bars simply mouse hover top or bottom. Looks very cool. Ive used it for about a year now and I think its better than VLC. It plays everything I've thrown at it.
Klite codec pack standard, which includes MPC. Is worth to install VLC too, because its ability to play ruined and badly recoded files. But MPC [HC] is way more pleasant to use.