Big Reboot - Media Players and Codecs

Big Reboot - Media Players and Codecs

Media Players and Codecs

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.

Currently aTunes plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

2. DoubleTwist

3. GOM Player

Gretech Online Movie Player

4. FLV Codec

The FLV codec is used to decode and play movies in Adobe's Flash Video format.

Installing a codec such as PlayFLV (www.playflv.com) will enable you to play FLV movies in Windows Media Player, and FLV codecs are generally included in the codec packs for Windows Media Player Classic and VLC Media Player.

You can, of course, download many YouTube files manually. If the name appears as get_video in the Save As dialogue box, you should change this to something more sensible (big_reboot.flv) before saving the file.

Once you have the FLV file, you can convert it yourself using the free program such as Super (www.erightsoft.com/super.html) which will convert FLV files to a number of formats.

Converting the file twice will reduce the quality of the movie.

5. iTunes

6. K-Lite Codec Pack Full 4.4.5

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs: It it always very up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs; It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want; It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs; It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies; and has different packages.

Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

7. Media Player Classic Home Cinema

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a free audio and video player for Windows.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a free audio and video player for Windows.

8. MediaMonkey

9. Musicmatch Jukebox

10. Napster

11. QuickTime

12. RealPlayer

13. Rhapsody

14. Songbird

Songbird is a open source music player.

Songbird is a open source music player.

15. Theora Codec

Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation.

Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation. Like all Xiph.org Foundation multimedia technology it can be used to distribute film and video online and on disc without the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with other formats.

Theora scales from postage stamp to HD resolution, and is considered particularly competitive at low bitrates. It is in the same class as MPEG-4/DiVX, and like the Vorbis audio codec it has lots of room for improvement as encoder technology develops.

Theora is in full public release as of November 3, 2008. The bitstream format for Theora I was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1. All bitstreams encoded since that date will remain compatible with future releases.

16. VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.

Tags: Add-Ins and Plug-Ins, Download Mirror, Media Players and Codecs, Open Source Software

17. Winamp

18. Windows Media Player

19. XBMC Media Center

XBMC is an award-winning cross-platform, free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Apple TV and Xbox.

XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community.