- ALLPlayer Win
Plays a wide variety of video formats; includes a video converter and YouTube downloader.
- Banshee Mac, Linux
Multimedia player and manager which also facilitates syncing with handheld devices.
- GOM Player Win
"GOM Player is a video/audio player with additional multimedia functions. ... GOM uses low CPU utilization while giving you the best possible image and subtitle quality and plays incomplete files without buffering."
- iTunes Mac, Win
Media player and library from Apple, with built-in links to Apple's iTunes Store.
- J. River Media Center $$; Win
Plays and organizes audio and video files; can format video for play on a large screen. Company also offers a free jukebox (audio only) version.
- Kaffeine Linux
Media player for KDE.
- Miro multiplatform plus iPad
Excellent open-sources music and video player, downloader, converter, and organizer.
- Movist Mac
Free movie player for Mac OS X.
- Real Player multi-platform
Adware which plays a variety of audio and video files.
- Real Alternative Win
Free player which can handle RealAudio and RealVideo files.
- VLC Media Player multi-platform
"VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols."
- Windows Media Player Mac, Win
Microsoft's media player.
- XBMV multi-platform
"XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community."
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this page last updated December 21, 2011