Free Video Player Software

VLC media player

VLC media player is an open source video player. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (for example MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, and more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC Media Player supports most of the popular video and audio codecs. With VLC Media Player you can play your video and audio files without compatibility problems.

VLC Media Player support the following codecs (depends on the operating system):

• Input; UDP/RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, DVDs, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB (Only Linux), Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/Atom Feeds, and from files stored on your computer.
• Container formats; 3gp[6], ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, Wav, MPEG-2 (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, FLAC
• Video codecs; 3ivx, Cinepak, DivX, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3[7], MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, RealVideo[8] , Sorenson, Theora, VC-1[9], VP5[9], VP6[9], WMV, Xvid
• Subtitles; DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, Matroska, MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text files, Vobsub
• Audio codecs; AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR[6], DTS, DV Audio, FLAC, MACE, Monkey's Audio, MP3, QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio[10], Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA

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GOM Player

GOM Player is a freeware video player. GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you won't have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you can't play a certain video format. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site.

GOM Player also plays broken files; watch video files while you are downloading them. GOM has a registered patent for playing broken AVI files and files that are still being downloaded. So try one of your broken AVI files or one that you are downloading right now.

GOM supports a lot of advanced features for advanced users. You can customize the player by creating your own skin, setting toggle keys, VMR modes, detailed resolution among others. It also provides features such as an overlay mixer, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files, unicode support, key frame based RW/FF and many more.

GOM Player features:

• Play video files of different formats
• No more compatibilty problems caused by missing codecs
• Play broken video files without a problem
• Choose a skin

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