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Your SSL certificate checker has issues. Even when checking an SSL-enabled URL, with a valid commonName, it breaks because it's the wrong host.
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Wrong host for SSL certificate. Certificate for "services.corecodec.com", actual host "www.corecodec.com". (Peer certificate commonName does not match host, expected www.corecodec.com, got services.corecodec.com)

There's a reason we don't link to https://www.corecodec.com/ - the SSL cert is appropriate for the URLs we call it under. Disregarding that, pulling a https cert for a different host, then complaining that it's not "valid" is bad practice.

Many sites don't use SSL on their main domain - they often use secure.theirdomain.com, ssl.theirdomain.com, etc. It's still a SSL cert for the domain, what's the problem?

Also, your "address checker" needs some real work too - we get a negative rating because we don't have an address on the site. We have a "Contact Us" link on nearly every page on our sites. From the details, it looks like your address regex could some tweaking - it thinks "Windows Mobile, PocketPC" is an address, but our street address isn't.

I use The Core Media Player, supports plenty of formats and codecs, including several i've never heard of and the most important one for me as an anime torrenter, H 264. Also its snazzy looking and has a different icon for different file formats. One more feature I've missed in most players, the ability to skip back and forward 10 seconds (its in Mplayer, my choice of media player on linux).

I don't know what everyone else has tried, but I find TCMP (http://www.corecoded.com/) to be a worthy successor to Winamp.

I recently changed my gaming PC's OS to Windows XP Pro. I'd previously used Windows 98SE. Why did I, a rabid hater of all things XP (updates, EUL"A"s, wizardry, etc.) give up on 98 for my gaming OS?

DirectX 9 broke 98. I've been telling everyone within earshot that this was the way that MS was going to force the gamers off of 98 - via DirectX. All video files, under any format that I can find, (except real; I don't use it) are broken. They refuse to load. Breakdown of the issue here and here

It isn't a critical problem at this point, but the second "solution" is so obscure that I wonder how anyone managed to find it. (The first involves re-running the directx installer, which will allow the system to play back videos fine until the subsequent reboot.) How likely is an official fix for this issue? That's what I thought. Too bad, though - Win98SE still had a year or two worth of gaming life left in it.

I recently changed my gaming PC's OS to Windows XP Pro. I'd previously used Windows 98SE. Why did I, a rabid hater of all things XP (updates, EUL"A"s, wizardry, etc.) give up on 98 for my gaming OS?

DirectX 9 broke 98. I've been telling everyone within earshot that this was the way that MS was going to force the gamers off of 98 - via DirectX. All video files, under any format that I can find, (except real; I don't use it) are broken. They refuse to load. Breakdown of the issue here and here

It isn't a critical problem at this point, but the second "solution" is so obscure that I wonder how anyone managed to find it. (The first involves re-running the directx installer, which will allow the system to play back videos fine until the subsequent reboot.) How likely is an official fix for this issue? That's what I thought. Too bad, though - Win98SE still had a year or two worth of gaming life left in it.

A good Media player that I like is Core Media Player. But media players are getting to be a dime a dozen. Video Lan Client isn't too bad.