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Monday, August 8, 2011

Top 3 FREE Windows Media Player Alternatives

1.VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable. It does not need any codec packs.

Latest Version: 1.1.5

2.Winamp

Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format media player.Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats. Winamp supports many types of streaming media such as Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.You can extend Winamp’s functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.

Latest Version: 5.6

3.KMPlayer

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 user’s system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.

Latest Version: 3.0.0.1439

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