I use DivX Player when I can, and Media Player when I can't.
Also, Michele, if you are using the ffdshow codec that came with AMVApp 2.1 (20050117), AMVs that call the ffdshow VFW configuration will crash Media Players 9 and 10. (You can tell when WMP calls ffdshow by the "FF" icons showing up at the right of your toolbar next to the clock.)
There are new builds of ffdshow available on their website (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php) that have fixed the problem with crashing the Media Player. The only thing that seems to happen, though, is reinstalling the ffdshow VirtualDub plugin with VirtualDubMod doesn't seem to work.
So, you can install the above if you don't use the ffdshow program to encode / decode with, otherwise stick with the current version and use DivX Player or Media Player Classic.





