AfterDawn | News | Guides | Software downloads | Tech Support | Forums | HIGH.FI
AfterDawn

Media players

Media players are tools that can play, well, media. To put it simple, media players usually either focus on doing one thing very well -- dedicated MP3 players, for example -- or focus on being "media players that play pretty much everything". From this section, you can download both types, albeit "players that play music _and_ video" are nowadays the most popular ones.

It should be noted that, specifically with video players, the player itself rarely does the actual "playing" (i.e. decompressing) of the video, but instead, acts as a graphical user interface and lets a dedicated piece of software, called codec, to do the heavy lifting. Thus, typically there are no video output quality differences between different video players, as the quality itself depends on codec in use, not the player. As a notable exception to this rule, we must mention VLC that comes bundled with most common codecs and therefor relies on its "own" codecs rather than those installed to your PC.

Page 10/41: 1 ... 89101112 ... 41

SMPlayer (Portable) v20.6.0

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

Date updated:06/21/2020 Downloads:5,737 Filesize:27.56 kB
(No votes)

Elmedia Player (Formerly SWF & FLV Player for Mac OS X) v5.1.496

SWF & FLV Player is a free and smart Flash movie player.

Date updated:02/24/2015 Downloads:5,593 Filesize:29.71 MB
(No votes)

Songbird for Mac OS X (ppc) v0.6.1

Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and feathers (skins). Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®..

Date updated:06/25/2008 Downloads:5,510 Filesize:35.44 MB
(No votes)

Musepack Plugin for Winamp

Musepack Input plugin for Winamp. You need this plug-in if you want to play these muc

Date updated:04/22/2003 Downloads:5,479 Filesize:101.12 kB
(No votes)

BIK Player v1.0

BIK Player is a freeware video playing tool that you can use to play Bink game video files (*.bik).

Date updated:08/12/2012 Downloads:5,342 Filesize:6.42 MB
(No votes)

Universal Viewer Free v5.7.3.0

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats.

Date updated:11/25/2013 Downloads:5,321 Filesize:1.86 MB
(No votes)

RealPlayer for Linux v11.0

Real Player is the all-in-one digital media player that lets you play pretty much everything.

Date updated:08/01/2008 Downloads:5,080 Filesize:7.15 MB
(No votes)

Billy

Billy is an MP3 player that focuses on playing entire directories of files.

Date updated:05/16/2013 Downloads:4,944 Filesize:535.91 kB
(No votes)

Sonique v1.96

Very nice audio player that can handle most of popular audio formats.

Date updated:04/25/2002 Downloads:4,844 Filesize:2.63 MB
(No votes)

FLVPlayer4Free v3.2.0.0

FlvPlayer4Free is a greatly improved solution that allows even the most demanding users to easily play their favourite FLV files in the hard disk or from internet.

Date updated:09/27/2008 Downloads:4,779 Filesize:2.36 MB
(No votes)
Page 10/41: 1 ... 89101112 ... 41