I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
It runs on everything I care about (and quite a few things I don't).
It offers a great deal of configuration, but doesn't need any manual changes to the config in most cases (that is, it usually Just Works, but you can usually fix it easily when it doesn't).
It does videos too, so I don't need extra software for the rare cases I'm watching local media on my computer.
Unlike most other media players, almost everything is optional at compile time, which is bit for me since I use Gentoo as my main OS.
I generally use VLC (videolan.org/vlc/). In short:
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