Comparison of media players
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The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs.
For the purpose of this comparison, "video players" are defined as any media player which can play video
, even if it can also play audio files.
s the players understand, for receiving streaming media
content. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.
formats the players understand.
s the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.
Playback of Super Audio CD
is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists.
All media players capable of audio CD
playback will also play the Redbook
core of any HDCD
disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.
For the purpose of this comparison, "video players" are defined as any media player which can play video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, even if it can also play audio files.
General
| Name | Author | First public release date | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework Multimedia framework A multimedia framework is a software framework that handles media on a computer and through a network. A good multimedia framework offers an intuitive API and a modular architecture to easily add support for new audio, video and container formats and transmission protocols... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
ALLCinema ltd | 1998 | 4.5 (02 November 2008) | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
Delphi Object Pascal Object Pascal refers to a branch of object-oriented derivatives of Pascal, mostly known as the primary programming language of Embarcadero Delphi.-Early history at Apple:... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
Aaron Bockover | Aug 2005 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
mirailabs | 2003 | Trialware, USD$22.00 | / license violating | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
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| Creative MediaSource | Creative Technology Creative Technology Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singapore-based global company headquartered in Jurong East, Singapore. The principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries consist of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitized sound and video boards, computers and related multimedia, and personal... |
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| CorePlayer CoreAVC CoreAVC is a proprietary codec for decoding the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video format.The decoder is currently one of the fastest software decoders, but is slower than hardware-based ones. CoreAVC supports all H.264 Profiles except for 4:2:2 and 4:4:4.CoreAVC now supports two forms of GPU hardware... |
CoreCodec Inc. | 2006 | USD$19.95 | ||||
| CrystalPlayer CrystalPlayer CrystalPlayer originally made by Kim Bondarenko and acquired by Crystal Reality LLC is a compact media player for Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista.... |
Crystal Reality LLC | Oct 2002 | USD$29.95 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... team |
2002 | 0.999 | Delphi Object Pascal Object Pascal refers to a branch of object-oriented derivatives of Pascal, mostly known as the primary programming language of Embarcadero Delphi.-Early history at Apple:... , C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| FFplay | FFmpeg project | 06 Jun 2003Log of ffplay.c | (partially GPL) | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
C99 C99 C99 is a modern dialect of the C programming language. It extends the previous version with new linguistic and library features, and helps implementations make better use of available computer hardware and compiler technology.-History:... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
Gretech Corporation | 07 Jan 2003 | / license violating | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
Apple Inc. | 09 Jan 2001 | QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| jetAudio (Basic) JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
Cowon Systems Cowon Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company. Established in 1995, the company's initial focus was software development. In 2000, with the introduction of the CW100, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player industry.... |
1997 | 8.0.16 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| jetAudio (Plus) JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
Cowon Systems Cowon Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company. Established in 1995, the company's initial focus was software development. In 2000, with the introduction of the CW100, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player industry.... |
1997 | 8.0.16 | USD$29.00 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Kaffeine Kaffeine Kaffeine is a media player for Unix-like operating systems running KDE.By default it uses xine-lib media framework but also supports GStreamer. It also supports the use of MPlayer project's binary codecs for proprietary formats... |
KDE KDE KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems... |
2003 | xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
YoungHuee Kang | 01 Oct 2002 | / license violating | Object Pascal Object Pascal Object Pascal refers to a branch of object-oriented derivatives of Pascal, mostly known as the primary programming language of Embarcadero Delphi.-Early history at Apple:... |
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| Konqueror Media Player | Koos Vriezen, Joonas Koivunen | Jan 2003 | 0.11.2 (2010-03-04) | MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
J. River, Inc. | Jul 2003 | USD$49.98 | original | C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... , SSE/MMX Assembly |
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| Media Go Media Go Media Go is a video and audio player developed by Sony Creative Software, announced at E3 2009 for Microsoft Windows. Media Go manages content on Sony family products such as Sony Ericsson cellular telephones and the PlayStation Portable; it can also playback multimedia content, serving a function... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
Gabest | 29 May 2003 | DirectShow DirectShow DirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Casimir666 | 29 Mar 2006 | DirectShow DirectShow DirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
Team MediaPortal | 2004 | DirectShow DirectShow DirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology... |
C#, C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
Árpád Gereöffy | Sep 2000 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... + original |
C99 C99 C99 is a modern dialect of the C programming language. It extends the previous version with new linguistic and library features, and helps implementations make better use of available computer hardware and compiler technology.-History:... |
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| Mplayerxp | Guru Kas aka Nickols_K | 2002 | 0.7.1/06.01.2009 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... + original |
C99 C99 C99 is a modern dialect of the C programming language. It extends the previous version with new linguistic and library features, and helps implementations make better use of available computer hardware and compiler technology.-History:... |
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| Ogle Ogle DVD Player Ogle is a DVD player for GNU/Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It is released as free software under the GNU GPL license. It was originally developed in 1999 by a few students at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola in Göteborg, Sweden, and maintained until late 2003... |
Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology , is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that focuses on research and education in technology, natural science and architecture.-History:... |
1999 | C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| Plex | Plex, Inc. | 2008 | 9.3.4 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
C++ C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| PowerDVD Standard PowerDVD CyberLink PowerDVD is a media player for Microsoft Windows. Several editions of the software are sold including "Ultra", "Deluxe" and "Standard". All editions support the viewing of DVD and the Ultra edition supports Blu-ray playback, including the playback of Blu-ray 3D content.The product is... |
CyberLink CyberLink CyberLink is a digital entertainment and multimedia products software corporation. CyberLink's 2008 revenue was $140 million with market capitalization of $420 million. Cyberlink's headquarters are based in Taipei, Taiwan with worldwide offices in Fremont, USA; Tokyo, Japan; and the Netherlands... |
1996 | USD$49.95 | ||||
| PowerDVD Deluxe PowerDVD CyberLink PowerDVD is a media player for Microsoft Windows. Several editions of the software are sold including "Ultra", "Deluxe" and "Standard". All editions support the viewing of DVD and the Ultra edition supports Blu-ray playback, including the playback of Blu-ray 3D content.The product is... |
CyberLink CyberLink CyberLink is a digital entertainment and multimedia products software corporation. CyberLink's 2008 revenue was $140 million with market capitalization of $420 million. Cyberlink's headquarters are based in Taipei, Taiwan with worldwide offices in Fremont, USA; Tokyo, Japan; and the Netherlands... |
1996 | USD$69.95 | ||||
| PowerDVD Ultra PowerDVD CyberLink PowerDVD is a media player for Microsoft Windows. Several editions of the software are sold including "Ultra", "Deluxe" and "Standard". All editions support the viewing of DVD and the Ultra edition supports Blu-ray playback, including the playback of Blu-ray 3D content.The product is... |
CyberLink CyberLink CyberLink is a digital entertainment and multimedia products software corporation. CyberLink's 2008 revenue was $140 million with market capitalization of $420 million. Cyberlink's headquarters are based in Taipei, Taiwan with worldwide offices in Fremont, USA; Tokyo, Japan; and the Netherlands... |
1996 | USD$99.95 | ||||
| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... Basic |
Apple Inc. | 02 Dec 1991 | original | Cocoa (on Mac OS X) | |||
| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... Pro |
Apple Inc. | 02 Dec 1991 | USD$29.95 | original | Cocoa (on Mac OS X) | ||
| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... Basic |
RealNetworks RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... Plus |
RealNetworks RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download... |
1995 | USD$19.99 | ||||
| SMPlayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SMPlayer is free software.-Windows:... |
RVM | 11 Dec 2006 | 0.6.9 (2010-02-22) | MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
Tom Lord | 08 Feb 2006 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... , XULRunner XULRunner XULRunner is a runtime environment developed by the Mozilla Foundation to provide a common back-end for XUL-based applications. It replaced the Gecko Runtime Environment, a stalled project with a similar purpose.... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Splash Lite Splash Lite Mirillis Splash Lite is a free media player developed for Microsoft Windows operating system.Is a free alternative for commercial Splash PRO player developed by the same company.Splash Lite provides HD technologies in modern and simple user interface.... |
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| The Core Media Player Basic | CoreCodec Inc. | Jun 2006 named "TCMP" | |||||
| The Core Media Player Plus | CoreCodec Inc. | Jun 2006 named "TCMP" | USD$9.95 | ||||
| The Core Pocket Media Player The Core Pocket Media Player The Core Pocket Media Player is a software media player which operates on portable devices and Windows-based PCs. It is discontinued, but still available from the official mirror site. Supported operating systems include Palm OS, Symbian OS, and Microsoft Windows, CE, and Mobile. It is also... |
Gabor Kovacs | Jul 2004 named "BetaPlayer" | 4.11 (2007-04-07) | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... + original |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Totem Movie Player | Totem Team | Jul 2002 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
VideoLAN VideoLAN VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network . It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client and VideoLAN Server , but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result... |
Feb 2000 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... + original |
C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... , C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... Lite/Full/Bundle |
Nullsoft Nullsoft Nullsoft, Inc. is a software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by Justin Frankel. Its most known products include the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. In recent years, their open source installer system, NSIS, has also risen in popularity as a widely used... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... Pro |
Nullsoft Nullsoft Nullsoft, Inc. is a software house founded in Sedona, Arizona in 1997 by Justin Frankel. Its most known products include the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. In recent years, their open source installer system, NSIS, has also risen in popularity as a widely used... |
Jun 1997 | USD$19.95 | ||||
| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Nov 1992 | DirectShow DirectShow DirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... (COM) |
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| WinDVD Gold WinDVD WinDVD is a commercial video player and music player software for Microsoft Windows. It enables the viewing of DVD-Video movies on the user's PC. DVD-Video backups stored on hard disk can also be played... |
Corel Corel Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems... |
1998 | USD$39.95 | ||||
| WinDVD Platinum WinDVD WinDVD is a commercial video player and music player software for Microsoft Windows. It enables the viewing of DVD-Video movies on the user's PC. DVD-Video backups stored on hard disk can also be played... |
Corel Corel Corel Corporation from the abbreviation is a computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, that specializes in graphics processing, similar to Adobe Systems... |
1998 | USD$59.95 | ||||
| XBMC Media Center | Team-XBMC | Oct 2003 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
xine Team | 15 Aug 2000 | FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... + original |
C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| TotalMedia Theatre | ArcSoft ArcSoft ArcSoft, Inc. is a computer software development company that makes multimedia technologies and applications across desktop and embedded platforms. ArcSoft works primarily with original equipment manufacturers and offers digital imaging and video solutions... |
15 Nov 2009 | USD$99.99 | original | C++ | ||
| Name | Author | First public release date | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework Multimedia framework A multimedia framework is a software framework that handles media on a computer and through a network. A good multimedia framework offers an intuitive API and a modular architecture to easily add support for new audio, video and container formats and transmission protocols... |
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This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player, each one for a given operating system.| Video player | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Windows CE/Mobile | Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
iOS IOS iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... |
BeOS BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing... , Haiku Haiku (operating system) Haiku is a free and open source operating system compatible with BeOS. Its development began in 2001, and the operating system became self-hosting in 2008, with the first alpha release in September 2009, the second in May 2010 and the third in June 2011.... , ZETA |
OS/2 OS/2 OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal... |
PSP PlayStation Portable The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| CrystalPlayer CrystalPlayer CrystalPlayer originally made by Kim Bondarenko and acquired by Crystal Reality LLC is a compact media player for Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista.... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| Kaffeine Kaffeine Kaffeine is a media player for Unix-like operating systems running KDE.By default it uses xine-lib media framework but also supports GStreamer. It also supports the use of MPlayer project's binary codecs for proprietary formats... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Go Media Go Media Go is a video and audio player developed by Sony Creative Software, announced at E3 2009 for Microsoft Windows. Media Go manages content on Sony family products such as Sony Ericsson cellular telephones and the PlayStation Portable; it can also playback multimedia content, serving a function... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| Ogle Ogle DVD Player Ogle is a DVD player for GNU/Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It is released as free software under the GNU GPL license. It was originally developed in 1999 by a few students at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola in Göteborg, Sweden, and maintained until late 2003... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| SMPlayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SMPlayer is free software.-Windows:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Windows CE/Mobile | Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
iPhone IPhone The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related... |
BeOS BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing... , Haiku Haiku (operating system) Haiku is a free and open source operating system compatible with BeOS. Its development began in 2001, and the operating system became self-hosting in 2008, with the first alpha release in September 2009, the second in May 2010 and the third in June 2011.... , ZETA |
OS/2 OS/2 OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal... |
PSP PlayStation Portable The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004... |
Features
| Video player | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless Gapless playback Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. Gapless playback is common with compact discs, gramophone records, or tapes, but is not always available with other formats that employ compressed... audio decoding |
Visualizer Music visualization Music visualization, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music... |
Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
The user interface is a pluggable Mono Mono (software) Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.... Assembly |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| Kaffeine Kaffeine Kaffeine is a media player for Unix-like operating systems running KDE.By default it uses xine-lib media framework but also supports GStreamer. It also supports the use of MPlayer project's binary codecs for proprietary formats... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Go Media Go Media Go is a video and audio player developed by Sony Creative Software, announced at E3 2009 for Microsoft Windows. Media Go manages content on Sony family products such as Sony Ericsson cellular telephones and the PlayStation Portable; it can also playback multimedia content, serving a function... |
SensMe SensMe SensMe is a proprietary music mood and tempo detection system created by Sony Corporation, and employed in numerous Sony branded products, most notably the Walkman MP3/MP4 players , Media Go, PlayStation Portable, and Sony Ericsson phone series, .-Technical specifications:SensMe works by mapping... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| PowerDVD PowerDVD CyberLink PowerDVD is a media player for Microsoft Windows. Several editions of the software are sold including "Ultra", "Deluxe" and "Standard". All editions support the viewing of DVD and the Ultra edition supports Blu-ray playback, including the playback of Blu-ray 3D content.The product is... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Available with QuickTime Streaming Server. | Only the media creator can create skins. | |||||
| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| SMPlayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SMPlayer is free software.-Windows:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
Apple Remote ability, and dbus add-on for Linux | ||||||
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
Via media library in "modern" skin | ||||||
| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| XBMC | XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) has a built-in UPnP AV MediaServer, FTP-server (based on FileZilla FileZilla FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS . As of 18 April 2011, FileZilla Client was the 7th most popular download of all time from... ), and a web server Web server Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet.... (however the web-server is mainly designed for remote control and not for streaming, but it can be used for streaming with some small modifications any user can make) |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video playback | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless Gapless playback Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. Gapless playback is common with compact discs, gramophone records, or tapes, but is not always available with other formats that employ compressed... audio decoding |
Visualizer Music visualization Music visualization, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music... |
Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) |
Extended features
| Video player | Color controls | Time stretching Audio timescale-pitch modification Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.Pitch scaling or pitch shifting is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed... |
Pitch shifting | A-B repeat | Audio resync | Subtitle resync | Chapter (dvd, mkv, mp4, ogm) | Bookmark (dvd, video, audio) | Auto resume (dvd, video, audio) | Shutdown on play complete |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| Kaffeine Kaffeine Kaffeine is a media player for Unix-like operating systems running KDE.By default it uses xine-lib media framework but also supports GStreamer. It also supports the use of MPlayer project's binary codecs for proprietary formats... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
Bookmarks are limited to 20 files and are stored with absolute paths, which renders them inaccessible when files are moved | |||||||||
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Go Media Go Media Go is a video and audio player developed by Sony Creative Software, announced at E3 2009 for Microsoft Windows. Media Go manages content on Sony family products such as Sony Ericsson cellular telephones and the PlayStation Portable; it can also playback multimedia content, serving a function... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
Pitch-shifting and AB-Repeat are not included in Mplayer's interactive keyboard controls, but can be set up via command line parameters. Mplayer manual | |||||||||
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| PowerDVD PowerDVD CyberLink PowerDVD is a media player for Microsoft Windows. Several editions of the software are sold including "Ultra", "Deluxe" and "Standard". All editions support the viewing of DVD and the Ultra edition supports Blu-ray playback, including the playback of Blu-ray 3D content.The product is... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ - A-B repeat using Play Selection Only command | |||||||||
| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| SMPlayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SMPlayer is free software.-Windows:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| WinDVD WinDVD WinDVD is a commercial video player and music player software for Microsoft Windows. It enables the viewing of DVD-Video movies on the user's PC. DVD-Video backups stored on hard disk can also be played... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | Color controls | Time stretching Audio timescale-pitch modification Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.Pitch scaling or pitch shifting is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed... |
Pitch shifting | A-B repeat | Audio resync | Subtitle resync | Chapter (dvd, mkv, mp4, ogm) | Bookmark (dvd, video, audio) | Auto resume (dvd, video, audio) | Shutdown on play complete |
Video format ability
Information about what video formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.| Video player | MPEG-1 MPEG-1 MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting possible.Today, MPEG-1 has become... |
MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
MPEG-4 ASP MPEG-4 Part 2 MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual is a video compression technology developed by MPEG. It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards. It is a discrete cosine transform compression standard, similar to previous standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2... (MPEG-4 Part 2) |
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) | WMV Windows Media Video 'Windows Media Video is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater... |
RealVideo RealVideo RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks – the specific format changes with the version. It was first released in 1997 and is at version 10. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile... |
Theora Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.... |
Flash | Dirac Dirac (codec) Dirac is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and system developed by BBC Research at the BBC. Schrödinger and dirac-research are open and royalty-free software implementations of Dirac... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| SMPlayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SMPlayer is free software.-Windows:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| XBMC | XBMC running on Linux, Mac and Windows plays MPEG-4 ASP and H.264 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC is a standard for video compression, and is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video... . Because of the relatively 'slow' Intel Pentium III 733 MHz processor inside the Xbox Xbox The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console... , the Xbox version of XBMC is limited to decoding 480x576 resolution H.264 video encoded without CABAC and deblocking, or 352x288 resolution MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video encoded with CABAC and deblocking. As the FFmpeg FFmpeg FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line... -based codec Codec A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" or, more commonly, "coder-decoder"... is optimized further, XBMC on Xbox might be able to decode MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) at 720x480 resolution on the Xbox Xbox The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console... hardware, but probably no higher than that. |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | MPEG-1 MPEG-1 MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting possible.Today, MPEG-1 has become... |
MPEG-2 MPEG-2 MPEG-2 is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available storage media and transmission... |
MPEG-4 ASP MPEG-4 Part 2 MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual is a video compression technology developed by MPEG. It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards. It is a discrete cosine transform compression standard, similar to previous standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2... (MPEG-4 Part 2) |
MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) | WMV Windows Media Video 'Windows Media Video is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater... |
RealVideo RealVideo RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks – the specific format changes with the version. It was first released in 1997 and is at version 10. RealVideo is supported on many platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and several mobile... |
Theora Theora Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.... |
Flash | Dirac Dirac (codec) Dirac is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and system developed by BBC Research at the BBC. Schrödinger and dirac-research are open and royalty-free software implementations of Dirac... |
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Audio format ability
Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.| Video player | Lossy compression | Lossless compression | ||||||||||
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| MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... |
WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... |
RealAudio RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
Musepack Musepack Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160–180 kbit/s... |
AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... |
AC3 | APE Monkey's Audio Monkey's Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless format, Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack.... |
FLAC FLAC FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost... |
ALAC Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or ALE (Apple Lossless Encoder) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially being proprietary for many years, in late 2011 Apple open sourced... |
SHN Shorten Shorten is a file format used for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files . Shorten is no longer developed and more recent lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio , TTA, and WavPack have become more... |
WV WavPack WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant.-Features:WavPack compression can compress 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit fixed-point, and 32-bit floating point audio files in the .WAV file format. It also supports surround sound streams and high frequency... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| SMPlayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is a multiplatform multimedia player front-end for MPlayer. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SMPlayer is free software.-Windows:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... |
WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... |
RealAudio RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
Musepack Musepack Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160–180 kbit/s... |
AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... |
AC3 | APE Monkey's Audio Monkey's Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless format, Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack.... |
FLAC FLAC FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost... |
ALAC Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or ALE (Apple Lossless Encoder) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially being proprietary for many years, in late 2011 Apple open sourced... |
SHN Shorten Shorten is a file format used for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files . Shorten is no longer developed and more recent lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio , TTA, and WavPack have become more... |
WV WavPack WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant.-Features:WavPack compression can compress 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit fixed-point, and 32-bit floating point audio files in the .WAV file format. It also supports surround sound streams and high frequency... |
Container format ability
Information about what container formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.| Video player | AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... |
OGM | Matroska Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... |
MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... |
OGM | Matroska Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... |
MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images... |
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Scalable, composite and emulation format abilities
| Video player | Flash Adobe Flash Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast... |
RealPix | QuickTime Video Effects in mov | HTML+TIME(+VML) | Silverlight | smil/smi Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... |
SVG | MIDI(smf) | MIDI(kar) | MIDI(xmf) | MIDI(rmi) | MIDI(xmi) | NSF NES Sound Format NSF is the DOS 8.3 filename Filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM by the inventor Kevin Horton. This format was originally designed for playback in a custom hardware device named HardNES by the inventor... |
SPC SPC700 sound format An SPC700 sound file is a video game music file consisting of scores and music data from RAM used by the SPC700 sound chip on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom... |
PSF Portable Sound Format The Portable Sound Format is a sound file format ripped directly from video games from a variety of game consoles. The format was originally used for Sony PlayStation video games, but has since been adapted to support other systems.... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | Flash Adobe Flash Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast... |
RealPix | QuickTime Video Effects in mov | HTML+TIME(+VML) | Silverlight | smil/smi Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... |
SVG | MIDI(smf) | MIDI(kar) | MIDI(xmf) | MIDI(rmi) | MIDI(xmi) | NSF NES Sound Format NSF is the DOS 8.3 filename Filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM by the inventor Kevin Horton. This format was originally designed for playback in a custom hardware device named HardNES by the inventor... |
SPC SPC700 sound format An SPC700 sound file is a video game music file consisting of scores and music data from RAM used by the SPC700 sound chip on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom... |
PSF Portable Sound Format The Portable Sound Format is a sound file format ripped directly from video games from a variety of game consoles. The format was originally used for Sony PlayStation video games, but has since been adapted to support other systems.... |
Protocol abilities
Information about which internet protocolInternet Protocol
The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
s the players understand, for receiving streaming media
Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
content. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.
General protocols
| Video player | HTTP | HTTPS Https Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server... |
FTP | RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol The Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points... (RTSPU, RTSPT) |
MMS Microsoft Media Services Microsoft Media Server is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services . MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP... (MMSU, MMST) |
RTMP Real Time Messaging Protocol Real Time Messaging Protocol was initially a proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server... |
Netstream (mpst://) | Podcasting Podcasting A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication... |
PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007... |
RDT | TCP Transmission Control Protocol The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP... |
UDP User Datagram Protocol The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, in this case referred to as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring... |
SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol In computer networking, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol is a Transport Layer protocol, serving in a similar role to the popular protocols Transmission Control Protocol and User Datagram Protocol... |
Gopher | SFTP SSH file transfer protocol In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream... |
NFS | SMB/CIFS Server Message Block In computer networking, Server Message Block , also known as Common Internet File System operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. It also provides an... |
PNA (pnm://, pna://) | RTP Real-time Transport Protocol The Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used extensively in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications, television services and... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Video player | HTTP | HTTPS Https Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server... |
FTP | RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol The Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points... (RTSPU, RTSPT) |
MMS Microsoft Media Services Microsoft Media Server is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services . MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP... (MMSU, MMST) |
RTMP Real Time Messaging Protocol Real Time Messaging Protocol was initially a proprietary protocol developed by Macromedia for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server... |
Netstream (mpst://) | Podcasting Podcasting A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication... |
PeerCast PeerCast PeerCast is an open source streaming media multicast tool. PeerCast uses peer-to-peer technology to minimize the necessary upload bandwidth for the original multicaster.The website of PeerCast appears to be abandoned since December 2007... |
RDT | TCP Transmission Control Protocol The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP... |
UDP User Datagram Protocol The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, in this case referred to as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring... |
SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol In computer networking, the Stream Control Transmission Protocol is a Transport Layer protocol, serving in a similar role to the popular protocols Transmission Control Protocol and User Datagram Protocol... |
Gopher | SFTP SSH file transfer protocol In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream... |
NFS | SMB/CIFS Server Message Block In computer networking, Server Message Block , also known as Common Internet File System operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. It also provides an... |
PNA (pnm://, pna://) | RTP Real-time Transport Protocol The Real-time Transport Protocol defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used extensively in communication and entertainment systems that involve streaming media, such as telephony, video teleconference applications, television services and... |
Other
| Video player | DAAP Digital Audio Access Protocol The Digital Audio Access Protocol is the proprietary protocol introduced by Apple in its iTunes software to share media across a local network.... |
DMAP | DPAP | EsounD protocol | PulseAudio Simple protocol | PulseAudio Native protocol | DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance The Digital Living Network Alliance is a non-profit collaborative trade organization established by Sony in June 2003, and has more than 250 member companies in the mobile, consumer electronics, PC, and service provider industries... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Banshee Banshee (music player) Banshee is an open-source media player, called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players,... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Video player | DAAP Digital Audio Access Protocol The Digital Audio Access Protocol is the proprietary protocol introduced by Apple in its iTunes software to share media across a local network.... |
DMAP | DPAP | EsounD protocol | PulseAudio Simple protocol | PulseAudio Native protocol | DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance The Digital Living Network Alliance is a non-profit collaborative trade organization established by Sony in June 2003, and has more than 250 member companies in the mobile, consumer electronics, PC, and service provider industries... |
Playlist format ability
Information about which playlistPlaylist
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.-In radio:...
formats the players understand.
| Video player | asx/wax/wvx Advanced Stream Redirector The Advanced Stream Redirector format is a type of XML metafile designed to store a list of Windows Media files to play during a multimedia presentation.... |
m3u/m3u8 M3U M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is supported by many applications.An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. Each line carries one specification... |
pls PLS (file format) PLS is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a more expressive format than basic M3U, as it can store information on the song title and length... |
xspf XSPF XML Shareable Playlist Format , pronounced spiff, is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation.... |
ram/rmm | sdp | rpl | xpl | bdmv | mpcpl | wmx |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | asx/wax/wvx Advanced Stream Redirector The Advanced Stream Redirector format is a type of XML metafile designed to store a list of Windows Media files to play during a multimedia presentation.... |
m3u8 M3U M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is supported by many applications.An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. Each line carries one specification... |
pls PLS (file format) PLS is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a more expressive format than basic M3U, as it can store information on the song title and length... |
xspf XSPF XML Shareable Playlist Format , pronounced spiff, is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation.... |
ram/rmm | sdp | rpl | xpl | bdmv | mpcpl | wmx |
Subtitle ability
Information about what subtitle formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.| Video player | Bitmap Raster graphics In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium... |
Text Plain text In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text.... |
Bitmap Raster graphics In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium... |
Text Plain text In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text.... |
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| VobSub (.idx+.sub) | SubStation Alpha SubStation Alpha SubStation Alpha , abbreviated SSA, is a subtitle file format created by CS Low that allows for more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats. This format can be rendered with VSFilter in conjunction with a DirectShow-aware video player , or MPlayer with the SSA/ASS library... (.ssa+.ass) |
SubRip SubRip SubRip is a software program for Windows which "rips" subtitles and their timings from video. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL... (.srt) |
SAMI SAMI SAMI is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in 1998. The structured markup language is designed to simplify creating captions for media playback on a PC, i.e. not for broadcast purposes.... (.smi) |
RealText Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... (.rt) |
MicroDVD MicroDVD MicroDVD is a subtitle file format for digital video. Its name is derived from a media player application designed to play DVD videos along with subtitles, originally developed by Tiamat Software. The application was first released in 2000 but development ended in 2001... (.sub) |
SubViewer SubViewer SubViewer is a utility for adding and synchronizing subtitles to video content. It was created by David Dolinski in 1999, and offered for download on his personal website, . A friend of David Dolinski created, at the same time, software to extract subtitles from DVD named SubRip.SubViewer became... (.sub) |
Text file Text file A text file is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists within a computer file system... This player can open files with the extension .txt, but those could contain any script language. So there is no guarantee it will play it. (.txt) |
PowerDivx (.psb) | Universal Subtitle Format Universal Subtitle Format Universal Subtitle Format is a CoreCodec project to create a clean, documented, powerful and easy to use subtitle file format. It is based on XML for some of the following reasons: flexibility, unicode support, a hierarchical system, and ease of administration.USF subtitles are usually used in... (.usf) |
Structured Subtitle Format (.ssf) | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles) | DVB subtitles | DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... subtitles |
PGS (.sup) | Closed captioning Closed captioning Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
This player understands some of the formatting data from SSA/ASS (at most coloring but no positioning, animation, typesetting etc.), but some players could understand the rest of it by using VSFilter VSFilter DirectVobSub formerly known as VSFilter is a software add-on for Microsoft Windows that is able to read external subtitle files and superimposes them on a playing video file.... as external subtitle filter instead of the built-in one. |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
For Windows, one can add the ability to use many subtitle formats by installing VSFilter VSFilter DirectVobSub formerly known as VSFilter is a software add-on for Microsoft Windows that is able to read external subtitle files and superimposes them on a playing video file.... or ffdshow Ffdshow ffdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP and AVC formats, but it supports numerous other video and audio formats as well... . |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| XBMC | XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) uses the subtitle library / source code from MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... so when/if MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... can display these subtitles then XBMC will soon be able to display them too. |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | VobSub (.idx+.sub) | SubStation Alpha SubStation Alpha SubStation Alpha , abbreviated SSA, is a subtitle file format created by CS Low that allows for more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats. This format can be rendered with VSFilter in conjunction with a DirectShow-aware video player , or MPlayer with the SSA/ASS library... (.ssa+.ass) |
SubRip SubRip SubRip is a software program for Windows which "rips" subtitles and their timings from video. It is free software, released under the GNU GPL... (.srt) |
Sami (.smi) | RealText Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... (.rt) |
MicroDVD MicroDVD MicroDVD is a subtitle file format for digital video. Its name is derived from a media player application designed to play DVD videos along with subtitles, originally developed by Tiamat Software. The application was first released in 2000 but development ended in 2001... (.sub) |
SubViewer SubViewer SubViewer is a utility for adding and synchronizing subtitles to video content. It was created by David Dolinski in 1999, and offered for download on his personal website, . A friend of David Dolinski created, at the same time, software to extract subtitles from DVD named SubRip.SubViewer became... (.sub) |
TXT Text file A text file is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists within a computer file system... (.txt) |
PowerDivx (.psb) | Universal Subtitle Format Universal Subtitle Format Universal Subtitle Format is a CoreCodec project to create a clean, documented, powerful and easy to use subtitle file format. It is based on XML for some of the following reasons: flexibility, unicode support, a hierarchical system, and ease of administration.USF subtitles are usually used in... (.usf) |
Structured Subtitle Format (.ssf) | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles) | DVB subtitles | DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... subtitles |
PGS (.sup) | Closed captioning Closed captioning Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it... |
Metadata ability
Information about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players understand. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.| Video player | ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v1 |
ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v2 |
APEv2 tag APEv2 tag An APE tag is a tag used to add metadata, such as the title, artist, or track number, to digital audio files.- APEv1 :The APEv1 tag was designed for the Monkey's Audio format.... |
Vorbis comment Vorbis comment A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, Theora and Speex file formats. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file to be added to the file itself. However, as the official Ogg Vorbis documentation notes:- Format... |
AMF Action Message Format Action Message Format is a binary format used to serialize objects graphs such ActionScript objects and XML, or send messages between an Adobe Flash client and a remote service, usually a Flash Media Server or third party alternatives.... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... metadata |
MOV metadata | Cue sheet | CD-Text CD-Text CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information on a standards-compliant audio CD... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
Supports via plugin available in COWON Forums | ||||||||
| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
MPlayer can read .cue files with cue:// type URL, but has problems, see Talk:Cue sheet (computing)#mplayer have more faults | ||||||||
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
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| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible. | ||||||||
| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
Displays basic ID3v1 / ID3v2 / Ogg Vorbis tags | ||||||||
| Video player | ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v1 |
ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v2 |
APEv2 tag APEv2 tag An APE tag is a tag used to add metadata, such as the title, artist, or track number, to digital audio files.- APEv1 :The APEv1 tag was designed for the Monkey's Audio format.... |
Vorbis comment Vorbis comment A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, Theora and Speex file formats. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file to be added to the file itself. However, as the official Ogg Vorbis documentation notes:- Format... |
AMF Action Message Format Action Message Format is a binary format used to serialize objects graphs such ActionScript objects and XML, or send messages between an Adobe Flash client and a remote service, usually a Flash Media Server or third party alternatives.... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... metadata |
MOV metadata | Cue sheet | CD-Text CD-Text CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information on a standards-compliant audio CD... |
Optical media ability
Information about what kinds of optical discOptical disc
In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data in the form of pits and lands on a special material on one of its flat surfaces...
s the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.
Playback of Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD is a high-resolution, read-only optical disc for audio storage. Sony and Philips Electronics jointly developed the technology, and publicized it in 1999. It is designated as the Scarlet Book standard. Sony and Philips previously collaborated to define the Compact Disc standard...
is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists.
All media players capable of audio CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
playback will also play the Redbook
Red Book (audio CD standard)
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc...
core of any HDCD
High Definition Compatible Digital
High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a patented encode-decode process, now owned by Microsoft, that improves the audio quality of standard Redbook audio CDs, while retaining backward compatibility with existing Compact disc players....
disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.
| Video player | Audio Digital audio Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components... |
Video Digital video Digital video is a type of digital recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal.The terms camera, video camera, and camcorder are used interchangeably in this article.- History :... |
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| CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
DVD-Audio DVD-Audio DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos.... |
HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a patented encode-decode process, now owned by Microsoft, that improves the audio quality of standard Redbook audio CDs, while retaining backward compatibility with existing Compact disc players.... |
VCD Video CD Before the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, the Video CD became the first format for distributing films on standard 120 mm optical discs. The format is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc... |
SVCD | DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... |
Blu-ray Blu-ray Disc Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs... |
HD DVD HD DVD HD DVD is a discontinued high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video.Supported principally by Toshiba, HD DVD was envisioned to be the successor to the standard DVD format... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
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| Chroma Chroma (software) Chroma is a media player for Mac OS X.Features include playback of DivX/XviD, Quicktime, and other video codecs and support can be added for h264 video and Windows Media Format via third party plug-ins... |
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| DSPlayer DSPlayer 'DSPlayer' is a digital media player application for Microsoft Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player. DSPlayers support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow... |
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| GOM Player Gom player GOM Player is a 32-bit media player for Microsoft Windows, distributed by the Gretech Corporation of South Korea. It is alleged that Gretech distributes GOM Player in violation of copyright law.... |
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| iTunes ITunes iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.... |
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| jetAudio JetAudio jetAudio is a multimedia player software that offers a playback option and multimedia file editor and burning capabilities. There are two different versions: Basic and Plus VX. The Plus VX version has additional bonus packs and unlocked video/audio conversion... |
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| K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player K-Multimedia Player is a media player software for Microsoft Windows which can play a large number of formats including VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime... |
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| Media Center Media Center (software application) Media Center, or formally, "JRiver Media Center" is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.... |
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| Media Player Classic Media Player Classic Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, lightweight Windows Media Player 6.4 but integrates most options and features found in modern media players... |
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| MediaPortal MediaPortal MediaPortal is an open-source media center software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center. It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR/TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV; playing DVDs, videos, and music; viewing... |
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| MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... |
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| Ogle Ogle DVD Player Ogle is a DVD player for GNU/Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It is released as free software under the GNU GPL license. It was originally developed in 1999 by a few students at Chalmers Tekniska Högskola in Göteborg, Sweden, and maintained until late 2003... |
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| QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| Quintessential Player Quintessential Player Quintessential Player is a freeware, multi-format media player developed by Paul Quinn.Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player... |
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| RealPlayer RealPlayer RealPlayer is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.-History:... |
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| Songbird Songbird (software) Songbird is a free and open source software audio player and web browser, with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."... |
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| VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... |
DVD Audio files are playable in VLC 1.1 | Handling still frames and switching between different video formats is problematic. | ||||||
| Winamp Winamp Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.Winamp... |
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| Windows Media Player Windows Media Player Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices... |
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| xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... |
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| Video player | CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
DVD-Audio DVD-Audio DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos.... |
HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a patented encode-decode process, now owned by Microsoft, that improves the audio quality of standard Redbook audio CDs, while retaining backward compatibility with existing Compact disc players.... |
VCD Video CD Before the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, the Video CD became the first format for distributing films on standard 120 mm optical discs. The format is a standard digital format for storing video on a Compact Disc... |
SVCD | DVD DVD A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions.... |
Blu-ray Blu-ray Disc Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs... |
HD DVD HD DVD HD DVD is a discontinued high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video.Supported principally by Toshiba, HD DVD was envisioned to be the successor to the standard DVD format... |
| Audio Digital audio Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components... |
Video Digital video Digital video is a type of digital recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal.The terms camera, video camera, and camcorder are used interchangeably in this article.- History :... |
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See also
- List of codecs
- Open source codecs and containersOpen source codecs and containersThis is a listing of open-source implementations of media formats—usually called codecs. Many of the codecs listed implement media formats that are restricted by patents and are henceforth not open formats. For example, x264 is a widely used open source implementation of the heavily patent...
- Comparison of video codecsComparison of video codecsA video codec is software or a device that provides encoding and decoding which may or may not include the use of video compression and/or decompression for digital video....
- Comparison of audio codecsComparison of audio codecsThe following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio formats and audio compression formats. For listening tests comparing the perceived audio quality of audio formats and codecs, see the article Codec listening test....
- Comparison of container formatsComparison of container formatsThis table compares features of container formats. To see which multimedia players support which container format, look at comparison of media players.-Information:-Audio formats supported:-Video formats supported:-Caption formats supported:...
- Subtitle (captioning)Subtitle (captioning)Subtitles are textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can either be a form of written translation of a dialog in a foreign language, or a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added...
- Comparison of portable media playersComparison of portable media playersThe following comparison of portable media players compares general and technical information for notable digital playback devices.- General :- Technical specifications :- Syncing and transfer :- Wifi Connectivity :- Audio formats :...
- Comparison of video encodersComparison of video encoders-General information:-Features:-Supported Import Codecs:-Supported Export Codecs:-Related lists on other projects:* :m:Open Source Toolset - short sections on Audio editing and Video editing* Software - short lists of Ogg audio and video editors...
Related lists on other projects
- :m:Open Source Toolset - short sections on Audio editing and Video editing
- Software - short lists of Ogg audio and video editors
- Help:Converting video - tools for manipulating audio and video