| Software | Choices | Pros | Cons | Publisher's description | #1 choices | Must-Haves | People | Rating | License | HomePage | OS |
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| #7 in Video Player | MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies. | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 0 0 0 0 | Free | http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html | Windows Mac Linux | ||
| #1 in ogv player #1 in Video Player #7 in Music Player #11 in Media Player | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks. | 9 | 1 | 9 | 0 0 0 0 1 | Free | http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ | Windows Mac Linux | ||
+VLC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 0 0 0 0 |