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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.

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Windows Media Player v11.0.5721.5145

Windows Media Player is the official multimedia player from Microsoft. Player provides all the features of a modern media player.

Date updated:03/26/2007 Downloads:127,304 Filesize:24.56 MB

WinAMP for Linux

WinAMP, the audio player for Windows, has been finally converted to Linux!

Date updated:10/10/2001 Downloads:103,632 Filesize:1.49 MB

VLC (64-bit) v3.0.10

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...

Date updated:06/16/2020 Downloads:89,565 Filesize:27.15 kB

Daum PotPlayer v200730

PotPlayer is a freeware Multimedia player. Supports almost every available video formats out there. PotPlayer contains internal codecs and there is no need to install codecs manually.

Date updated:07/30/2020 Downloads:87,046 Filesize:27.71 kB

Zoom Player MAX v14.5

Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform.

Date updated:05/29/2019 Downloads:84,605 Filesize:31.54 MB

Dziobas Rar Player Portable v0.009.52

Play divx/xvid movies from rar files.

Date updated:11/29/2010 Downloads:79,843 Filesize:5.43 MB

The Core Pocket Media Player

The Core Pocket Media Player is a media player for Windows CE/Windows Mobile devices, using ARM processors.

Date updated:03/11/2006 Downloads:72,572 Filesize:1.29 MB

VLC (Portable) v3.0.10

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...

Date updated:06/16/2020 Downloads:70,210
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Ace Media Player Lite (DivX Player) v2.8.409

Ace DivX Player is a handy Windows Media Player replacement program, it focus on play and manager your local media files: avi, divx, mpg(mpeg), mpv, mpa, mp3, asf, cda, dat, etc.

Date updated:11/30/2012 Downloads:69,761 Filesize:3.30 MB
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MPCSTAR v5.4

MPCSTAR is a package of video player and many codecs.

Date updated:11/09/2011 Downloads:66,508 Filesize:20.76 MB
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