VLC media player


VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
From satellite cards (DVB-S)
Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Last Updated 02 Febuary 2010
The download button on the right is for windows only.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7
Mac
Linux
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Foobar2000
Advanced audio player for the Windows

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Features
Audio formats supported natively: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
More audio formats supported through optional components, official or third-party.
Full unicode support.
Customizable user interface layout (new in version 0.9.5). View screenshots...
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component. Read more...
ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

Last Updated 08 March 2010
Win XP/Vista/2003/7
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GOM Media Player

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in.

No need to install codecs separately!

Codec Finder
GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download open source version of the codec. That way, you won't get stuck with unnecessary codecs on your system.

Play Broken AVI Files (Patented)
AVI files can't be played if the index is broken, or the file isn't completely downloaded. This is because index is located at the end of the file. GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken index or that are still being downloaded.

Powerful Subtitle Support
GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can specify margin, location, size, resolution, font and others. You can also enable shadow, view ASF files with subtitle, karaoke subtitle mode. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there's any mismatch.

Convenient Playlist
GOM Player supports playlist formats such as M3U, PLS, ASX. You can include different media types on a playlist. Also, it also lets you edit playlists for different media types. It's easy to create and edit your own multimedia playlist with GOM Player.

Support Different Media Types
Along with different media format such as AVI, MPG, MPEG and DAT, GOM Player also supports streaming Windows media format (WMV, ASF, ASX). You can also watch DVD-quality videos with 5.1 channel audio output.

Screen Capture
Screen capture allows you to take a screenshot of your video directly from GOM Player. Using the Burst Capture feature, you can take continuous screenshots upto 999 shots

Last Updated 02 December 2009
Win 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista
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jetAudio 8 Basic

JetAudio is integrated multimedia software made up of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats.

You can create your own Internet broadcast by using JetCast, provided with JetAudio, and you can play all major file formats, including WAV, MP3, MP3Pro, OGG, WMA, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MIDI, RM, and video and audio CD tracks.
Supports All Major File Formats
Audio CD burning
Recording
Tag Editing including multiple file tag editing
Multi-channel sound ouput
Crossfade
Skin
Media Center window with Device Manager
Subtitles
Internet CD Database
Convenient album management & Playlist
Utilities
Conversion
Audio CD Ripping
Internet Broadcasting
Various sound effects
Plus many more features!

Last Updated 28 January 2010
Win 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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DivX Play 7

DivX® 7 for Windows is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on your computer, including HD H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology.

You can also play your DivX files (.divx, .avi) on millions of DivX Certified® devices today. Look for DivX Plus™ HD Certified devices later this year that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus files, as well as .mkv (H.264/AAC) videos from the Internet.

Web Player: DivX Web Player lets you play up to HD-quality DivX® video in your web browser. You can also use DivX Web Player to easily embed DivX videos onto your website or blog.

Community Codec: With the DivX Community Codec, you can watch high-quality DivX® and DivX Plus™ (.mkv) videos using your favorite media player or create DivX files with popular third-party software.

Last Updated 02 December 2009
Win XP/Vista
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Apple QuickTime 7.6

QuickTime 7 comes with increased quality in the form of the H.264 video format, the industry-standard codec for 3GPP (mobile multimedia), MPEG-4 HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

H.264 offers high quality video at much smaller file sizes than previously available, and can handle mobile multimedia and high-definition playback.

Upgrade to the Pro version and you can create your own H.264, MPEG-4, 3GPP and 3GPP2 content which, combined with its impressive open source server, offers functionality that's hard to beat.

The interface has changed little in version 7, but there is a new Favourites menu that provides quick access to your favourite movies.

There is also a new feature known as 'instant on' which eliminates the short delay before a stream starts, and it does work. Also, you can now scroll backwards and forwards through a movie.

All the previous media types are supported, including AVI, Mpeg, BMP and Flash 5.

Note: Mac OS X version available to download from the Apple QuickTime website

Last Updated 02 December 2009
Win 2000/XP/Vista

Note
QuickTime Alternative
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files without having to install the official QuickTime Player.
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Spider Player

Spider Player is a small media player with an array of extra features that include a CD ripper and audio format converter (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV), Equalizer with presets, ID3 and WMA metadata editor, Song lyrics editor, Unicode support and more.

The player uses the Bass Audio Library from Un4seen. Other features include CD-Text support, streaming media playback and playlist search. Spider Player comes with a compact 3-part interface that can be arranged to your preference, most features are tugged away in menu lists, so the interface remain uncluttered despite the array of features offered.

Last Updated 10 April 2008
Win 2000/XP/Vista
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KMPlayer

KMPLAYER is a korean movie and audio player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats. It has full VCD/DVD playback functionality.

Features:

Supported Files or Devices:
HTTP Streaming(AVI etc including none-streaming media)
Directshow playback (avi, mkv etc)
Real Engine + Directshow (needs Real Player or Alternative)
QuickTime Engine + Directshow (needs QuickTime player or Alternative)
Mplayer Engine Support
Winamp Input Plugin(decoder) Support
Compressed Audio Album Support(zip, rar)
Audio CD(2000, XP only / Win9x-Support by winamp plugin)
Video CD/SVCD/XCD : CDXA Format (2000, XP only)
DVD playback
DTS Wave and AC3 files
WDM device support like TV or Camera
CD Image File (BIN/ISO/IMG/NRG) ; NRG needs mplayer.dll
Shoutcast (Including NSV)
AAC, OGG parser/decoder
Shockwave Flash/FLC/FLI
Ape/MPC/Flac/Module etc
Various Image files like png, gif etc
Incomplete/Damaged AVI file (Skip Damaged Frames)
Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing

Built-in Codec/Filters:

Video Codec:
MPEG4 (Divx/Xvid : ffmpeg/xvid)
MPEG1/2 (ffmpeg/libmpeg)
etc (ffmpeg)

Audio Codec:
AC3/DTS/LPCM/MPG/MP3/OGG/AAC/WMA
2Ch to Multi Channel expansion

External Codec:
Media Priority to Connect among Directshow, Real, QT, Winamp and Mplayer
Custom Filter Manager
System Filter Manger

Plugins:
Winamp Input Plugins
Winamp DSP Plugins (Can Stack)
Winamp Visual Plugins (Can Stack)
Winamp General Plugins (Media Library etc Support)
KMP Video Plugins by SDK (Can Stack)
DScaler Filter Support (Can Stack

Last Updated 25 September 2009
Win 98/Me/2000/XP
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MediaMonkey

Manage a music library from 100 to 50,000+ audio files and playlists*; whether Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, or Podcasts; whether they’re located on your hard drive, CDs, or a network. Organize, browse, or search music by Genre, Artist, Year, Rating, etc., and never waste your time trying to find mp3s you know you have.

MediaMonkey is the music organizer for the serious collector

Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface.
Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata.
Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down.
Manage all genres of audio: Rock, Classical, Audiobooks, Comedy, Podcasts, etc.
Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume.
Record CDs and convert MP3s, M4A, OGG, FLAC and WMA files etc. into other formats.
Create playlists and let Auto-DJ & Party Mode take care of your party.
Sync iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly.

Last Updated 24 November 2009
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
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Windows Media Player 11 for XP

This Beta version of Windows Media Player gives a taste of how Windows Vista will look as well as giving the appearance of this media player an overhaul.

The player looks much cleaner with a much better use of screen space. Each task tab can also be used to access a menu with more options, much more intuative than the old version. The main menu is now accessed with a right click anywhere in the program frame.
Although this is beta and not a final product, we did not encounter any problems with the player. Unfortunately none of the premium content is available in the UK as yet.

When the Urge music service becomes available it is claimed that there will be two million songs with exclusives from MTV, VH1 and CMT and 130 radio stations. Protected content will not be compatible with iPods. For a list of compatible media players see the Microsoft PlaysForSure website.

The copying of music to devices is also easier with a visual guage to show how much space is available.

The library can now include recorded TV programmes.
Backup options are also improved, collectioned burnt to CD can now span several discs or you can make a data disk for backups.

Requirments:
Windows XP validation is required
Win XP
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Winamp

A popular, fast, flexible high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp support MP3 and MP2 audio with it s native Nitrane high-performance decoder as well as CD-audio, MOD, S3M, IT, XM and even SID audio formats.

Winamp supports more than 10000 interface skins , 300 visualization plug-ins and CDDB for automatic CD audio title listing.

You should pay attention during the install, as WinAmp will install several promotional icons (AOl, eMusic), unless they are unchecked from the list during installation.

Last Updated 14 January 2010
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/vista/7
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Songbird

Songbird can do everything you'd expect a media player to do. Play music from your computer, as well as from the Web in one integrated user experience. If you run a music service, you can leverage Songbird's APIs to create deeply integrated stores and user features.

Play any MP3 on the Web without leaving the page. Songbird can view Web pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or automatically download every day.

Songbird plays your music too. Songbird has all the features you expect in a desktop media player. And Songbird constantly improves. Like Firefox, Songbird's features may be improved with user installed and contributed cross-platform extensions.

Last Updated 27 December 2009
Win XP/Vista/7
Mac (18.9 MB)
Linux (17.7 MB)
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Quintessential Player

Quintessential Media Player is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QMP is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.

Change the look of QMP interface using one of the hundreds of skins available.

Increase possibility by adding hundreds of tools and translations to QMP.

Last Updated 27 Febuary 2009
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista
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BSplayer

BSplayer is an application that plays back all kinds of media files (avi,mpg,asf,wmv,wav,mp3...) and specialises in video and DIVX playback.

Main Features
Display subtitles - Support custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency,... Supported formats: MicroDVD, Subviewer, SubRip
Fully skinnable - Any shape, transparent skins...
Resizable movie window
Multilingual
Drag & drop support
Command line support
Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option
Custom aspect ratios
Playlist support
Resolution changing
Frame capture
AVI files with more than 2 audio streams supported (multilanguage)
Support for OGM files, including more then 2 audio/video tracks, supports embeded subtitles/chapters
External audio file supported
S/PDIF output supported for AC3 files (with Intervideo audio decoder)
INI files
Remote control support - WinLIRC
Bookmarks
Simple equalizer (DirectX 8 required)
Playback rate (1/2x, 1x, 2x) and custom
and lots of other features not listed here, try it out.

Last Updated 28 December 2009
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
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Real Player

The NEW RealPlayer gives you the power to download Internet video instantly

The new RealPlayer gives you the ability to download them all to your personal video playlist. Grab videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click. Watch them whenever you want and wherever you want. You can even burn your greatest hits to DVD*. Find the Web video you want - and Real it in.

RealPlayer lets you download YouTube videos with one mouse click - works on thousands of other video sites, too.
Play virtually any type of audio or video. RealPlayer might be the only media player you'll ever need.

Last Updated 02 December 2009
Win XP/2003/Vista/7
Mac (13.3 MB)
Linux (5.6 MB)