Windows Media Player

The media player provided pre-installed with all modern Windows versions (7 and higher): Windows Media Player 12 plays more music and video than ever, including Flip Video and unprotected songs from your iTunes library! Organize your...

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The Best 13 Windows Media Player Alternatives

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VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Chrome OS Mac Windows S

Portable Google Drive integration Multiple languages Automatic conversion to multiple formats Lightweight Automatic Tagging Cross platform Media Streaming Automatic subtitles download Built in subtitle search Music Library Support for subtitles Integrated codecs Playlists management
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PotPlayer

Potplayer is a minimalist media player that has an extensive range of configurable options to choose from and lots of functionality. The application supports Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, and countless other media formats.

Free Windows

Customizable Minimalistic Portable Ad free Support for QuickSync acceleration Skinnable Automatic subtitles download Built in subtitle search Support for subtitles Gapless Playback Capture image from video Integrated codecs Support for CUDA acceleration Live Looping Skin Randomization
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MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Xfce AmigaOS MorphOS

Command line interface Integrated codecs
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SMPlayer

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. SMPlayer remembers the settings of all files you play.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Haiku MPlayer mpv

Customizable Portable UI customization Ad free Multiple languages Lightweight Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Built in subtitle search Support for subtitles Integrated codecs
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GOM Media Player

GOM Media Player (Gretech Online Movie Player) is a freeware media player.

Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Skinnable Support for subtitles Integrated codecs
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MPV

mpv is an audio and movie player based on mplayer and mplayer2. it supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD Xfce

Minimalistic Lightweight Drag n drop Lua scripting Command line interface Integrated codecs
195 Like

Audacious

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Drag n drop Skinnable Music Library Last.FM Scrobbler Integrated codecs Automatic Lyrics Finder Crossfading Parametric Equalizer
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SPlayer

SPlayer is a player that supports all popular formats, including DVDRip, HDTV, RMVB, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AC3/DTS, VP3/6/7, Indeo, XVD, OGG / OGM, APE, FLAC, TTA, AAC, MPC, 3GP/AMR, and subtitles.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Integrated codecs
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BSPlayer

BSPlayer is the first software movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec.

Freemium Windows Android Kindle Fire

Lightweight Automatic subtitles download Support for subtitles Integrated codecs
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SE-MediaPlayer

SE-MediaPlayer is a free classic portable media player with build-in media library for audio and video files management and lots of beautiful skins. Also includes codec...

Free Windows

Portable Integrated codecs
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plaYUVer

Open-source video player with the following features: - Support for libavformat and libavcodec; - Support for wide range of raw video formats; - Support for OpenCV...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Raw Photo processing Integrated codecs
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Vso Media Player

Play all your video and audio files with free VSO Media Player.

Free Windows

Multiple languages Drag n drop Support for subtitles Integrated codecs Support for CUDA acceleration
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Fluendo OnePlay DVD Player

Fluendo OnePlay DVD Player is one of the first products that can be bought that allows legal/licensed DVD playback for Unix/Linux users.

Commercial Windows Linux

Multiple languages Support for subtitles Integrated codecs

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The Best 13 Windows Media Player Alternatives

VLC Media Player

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Audacious

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