MPlayer
MPlayer is a cross-platform media player released under the GPL license.
Plays most supported MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, MKV, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files by some native codecs, XAnim, and Win32 DLL's. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx and DivX/Xvid 3/4/5.
It also comes with the option for subtitles, supporting 14 different formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, VobSub, CC, OGM, PJS and MPsub).
Along with the MPlayer download package, you can find the MEncoder application, an essential tool for the video or audio encoding process. It also comes by default with a GUI made in GTK+ called gmplayer, although there are also some other GUI's such as SMPlayer, which is made in Qt.
The player can work on most platforms, including Linux, Unix derivatives, Mac OS X, Syllable, MorphOS, AmigaOS and also on Windows. There are also derivatives of DOS and FreeDOS and on the Wii game console (v. Mplayer CE).
List of most important codecs
- Video MPEG1 (VCD) and MPEG2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB)
- MPEG4, DivX, OpenDivX (DivX4), DivX 5.02, XviD, and other MPEG4 variants
- Windows Media Video v7 (WMV1), v8 (WMV2) and v9 (WMV3) used in files.wmv
- RealVideo 1.0, 2.0 (G2), 3.0 (RP8), 4.0 (RP9)
- Sorenson v1/v3 (SVQ1/SVQ3), Cinepak, RPZA and other common QuickTime codecs
- 3ivx decoder
- Cinepak and Intel Codemic Indeo (3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.0)
- VIVO 1.0, 2.0, I263 and other h263(+) variants
- MJPEG, AVID, VCR2, ASV2 and other hardware formats
- FLI/FLC
- Native Decoder for HuffYUV
- Several simple and old formats of the type RLE-like
- MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio (native code, with MMX/SSE/3DNow optimization!)
- AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or S/PDIF)
- WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2 (native codec)
- WMA 9 (WMAv3), Audio Voxware, ACELP.net etc. (using x86 DLLs)
- RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3, DNET (using RP's plugins)
- QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT's DLLs)
- Ogg Vorbis audio codec (native free)
- VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren)
- Alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple and ancient audio formats.
- Flash Video (FLV)