| 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 | ||
| #9 in Media Player #9 in Video Player #12 in Music Player | Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris, but have since been discontinued. | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 0 0 0 0 | Free | http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/ | Windows |