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Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. Most software media players support an array of media formats, including both audio and video files. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... This article is about media players in general. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Computer program. ... ... A computer file is a collection of information that is stored in a computer system and can be identified by its full path name. ... Digital audio comprises audio signals stored in a digital format. ... Digital video is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital, rather than analog, representation of the video signal. ...

Some media players focus only on audio or video and are known as audio players and video players respectively. The producers of these players usually focus on providing a better user experience as they are specifically tailored toward the media type. An audio player is a kind of media player for playing back digital audio, including optical discs such as CDs, SACDs, DVD-Audio, HDCD, and audio files. ... A video player is a kind of media player for playing back digital video data from media such as optical discs (for example, DVD, VCD), as well as from files of appropriate formats such as MPEG, AVI, RealVideo, and QuickTime. ...

Microsoft Windows comes with pre-loaded Windows Media Player. The latest is Windows Media Player 11, which is bundled with Windows Vista, and available as a download for Windows XP SP2. Mac OS X comes pre-loaded with Quicktime Player for playing Quicktime movies and iTunes for playing a variety of media formats. Linux distributions come pre-loaded with various media players including VLC, MPlayer, xine, and Totem. Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with VideoLAN. (Discuss) VLC media player is a free (GPL) media player by the VideoLAN project. ... This article is about the open source media player. ... xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name Maxine without Ma[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. ... Totem Movie Player is a media player (audio and video) for the GNOME personal computer desktop environment which runs on Linux, Solaris, BSD and other UNIX and UNIX-like systems. ...

Terminology

Although the term usually refers to computer software, the term is also used for the media playback devices used in digital signage. The term may also be used to describe analog electrical or mechanical media playing equipment such as a phonograph or player piano. Digital Signage in the Warner Village Cinemas in Taipei Digital signage is a form of out-of-home advertising in which content and messages displayed on an electronic screen, or digital sign, can be changed without modification to the physical sign, typically with the goal of delivering targeted messages to... An analog or analogue signal is an allergy continuous in both time and amplitude. ... Many different consumer electronic devices can store data. ... Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ...

Software

Main article: Comparison of media players

List of some Media Players. The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of media player programs. ...

Many media players use libraries. The library is designed to help you organize, or catalog, your music into categories such as genre, year, rating or other. Good examples of media players that include media libraries are Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, RealPlayer, and Amarok. It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern: No evidence of notability If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. ... BearShare is a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... cmus in the Tree view cmus in the List view cmus in the File Browser view cmus in the Filter view cmus in the Queue view cmus in the Playlist view cmus (C* Music Player) is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems. ... foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... iMesh is a file sharing and online social network. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ... Media Center, or formally, J. River Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a Windows based machine. ... MediaMonkey (no connection with Monkeys Audio, the lossless audio codec), made by Ventis Media Inc, is an audio player that also functions as a media library. ... Media Player Classic (MPC) is a compact free software media player for Microsoft Windows. ... This article is about the open source media player. ... Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, made by Yahoo! Musicmatch, Inc, is an audio player that manages a digital audio library. ... Second version (revised 2001) of Napster logo: Cat wearing headphones. ... PowerDVD is a media player software product available from CyberLink. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... RealPlayer, briefly known also as RealOne Player, is a cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo codecs. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... Symbian OS is a proprietary operating system, designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with VideoLAN. (Discuss) VLC media player is a free (GPL) media player by the VideoLAN project. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ... The WinDVD interface WinDVD is a commercial DVD player for Microsoft Windows, created by InterVideo. ... ... The Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. ... xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name Maxine without Ma[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. ... XMMSs default appearance The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. ... XMPlay is a freeware audio player for Windows, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX playlists. ... Yahoo! Music Jukebox is a free music player released by Yahoo! in 2005. ... Zinf Zinf is a free audio player, released under the GNU General Public License. ... Zoom Player is a computer program that plays video and sound files on Windows-based personal computers. ...

See also

Free software Portal

• List of media players
• List of other software video players
• Comparison of media players
• List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs
  • Open source codecs and containers
  • Comparison of video codecs
  • Comparison of audio codecs
• Comparison of (audio/video) container formats
  • FFmpeg, cross-platform, open source, audio and video codecs suit/library
• Adobe Media Player
• HD media player

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External links

• Multimedia Player TV over IP
• Multimedia @ sourceforge.net
• Multimedia @ corecodec.org
• Audio File Types
• Video File Types