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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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Media Player Classic v6.4.9.1 (20080127)

Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like the good-old Media Player v6.4, but has lots of nice extra features.

Date updated:12/11/2008 Downloads:8,215,340 Filesize:1.98 MB

VLC 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:4,955,334 Filesize:27.15 kB

Real Alternative v2.0.2

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia file without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player.

Date updated:02/20/2010 Downloads:1,375,027 Filesize:6.59 MB

KMPlayer v4.2.2.32

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime..

Date updated:10/17/2019 Downloads:970,603 Filesize:47.19 MB

Winamp Full v5.8 beta 3660

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows.

Date updated:10/19/2018 Downloads:523,573 Filesize:7.82 MB

Open Subtitles MKV Player v4.7

OpenSubtitles Player is a media player capable of playing a range of multimedia content including MKV files, DivX, WMV, AVI, XviD, DVD-Video, MP3, MP4, VOB, 3GP, FLAC, Flash, QuickTime and more. It can easily retrieve subtitles from the Internet.

Date updated:09/07/2011 Downloads:514,307 Filesize:20.52 MB

Media Player Classic Home Cinema (32-bit) v1.9.7

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is based on the original Media Player Classic with several new features.

Date updated:08/02/2020 Downloads:416,262 Filesize:27.28 kB

QuickTime Alternative (QT7 based) v3.2.2

QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player

Date updated:04/17/2010 Downloads:412,586 Filesize:18.35 MB

Foobar 2000 v1.5.5

Foobar is an advanced audio player for audiophiles

Date updated:08/25/2020 Downloads:366,126 Filesize:27.97 kB

Corel WinDVD 2010 v10.0.5.544

WinDVD is a powerful software DVD decoder/player with very good picture and audio quality.

Date updated:10/14/2010 Downloads:287,212 Filesize:155.56 MB
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