Video players

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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 among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to users system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users own customization. Even though the KMP is based upon directshow structure, it supports Winamp, Realmedia and Quicktime by the internal logic. Thus, it is possible to specify where to try to connect firstly the media in preferences.

http://www.kmplayer.com/

 

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My personal fav.

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. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

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The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a DirectShow filter pack specifically built for playing anime. It has been assembled by some of the most knowledgeable people in online anime distribution, and one of the primary design goals is to play as much as possible with as little as possible. The CCCP attempts to be as unintrusive on your system as possible.

http://www.cccp-project.net/

 

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GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in. No need to install codecs separately!Try one of your broken AVI files or one of the files that is being downloaded with GOM.GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you wont have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you cant 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.

http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

 

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My personal fav.

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. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The neighbor didn't have windvd. Put this on and it worked quite nicely.

 

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Democracy player

    *  1. Play All Your Videos      Play virtually any video-- Quicktime, WMV, MPEG, AVI, XVID, and more. Browse your collection, make playlists, stay organized.    * 2. Get Internet TV Shows
      Subscribe to any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog. Explore hundreds of free channels with the built-in Channel Guide.

    * 3. Search YouTube

      Download and save videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and other sites.

    * 4. High Definition and Fullscreen

      Your computer screen is a high-def display. Watch free HD videos in gorgeous fullscreen.

    * 5. Torrent Power

      Easily download any BitTorrent file. Fast. Then watch it in the same app. Simple.

http://www.getdemocracy.com/

 

[Davidc]

My personal fav.

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. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

This is real nice. Multi or Uni cast streaming to whatever machine you happen to be at.