Thanks.
Mediabox uses mplayer as it's core as I think I understand. So I think what you are saying is Media Player for some videos and Mediabox for others. Sort of trial and error to get the right mix and match.

What puzzles me somewhat is that one member said they used Canola 2 for some videos and got jumpy video and using Media Player gave better results. But doesn't Canola use Media Player as its core? So why any difference?

So silly me thought this was going to be easy!!!!!!

Maybe in future releases the Mediabox stability and MP4 issues will be addressed.

And to think, all I wanted to do is download the consensus best player, a Newbie hope on my part.

These posts have been very illuminating, hopefully it will eventually lead to me actually installing something and "ta ta", USE IT!!