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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. ... This article is about media players in general. ... Software redirects here. ... Look up Multimedia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about computer files and file systems in general terms. ... 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, 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. Winamp only runs on Windows but supports Apple iPods and other portables like Creative's Zen while also supporting audio and video playback. 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. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... VLC media player is a free software 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. ...

Software

Main article: Comparison of media players

List of some Media Players. The following comparison of media players compares general and technical information for a number of software 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. Amarok (formerly known as amaroK or AmaroK) is an audio player application for KDE, which is released independantly from the kmultimedia package, and away from the central release cycle of KDE. It is now thought to be the most popular KDE-based audio player because of its extensive feature... BearShare is a peer-to-peer file sharing application originally created by Free Peers, Inc. ... BS.Player made by the Slovenian software company Webteh is a media player for Windows OS, that plays back many kinds of multimedia files (including AVI, MPEG, Ogg, Matroska, ASF, QuickTime, MP4, WAV, mp3. ... 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. ... GOM Player (Gretech Online Movie Player) is a freeware media player for Microsoft Windows. ... KMPlayer (Konqueror Media Player) is both a video player plugin for Konqueror, as well as a standalone video player. ... 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. ... Not to be confused with Monkeys Audio, an unrelated lossless audio codec. ... 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. ... For Napster, LLC (formerly Roxio), and the paid Napster music service, see Napster (pay service). ... PowerDVD (from CyberLink) is a commercial video player and music player for Microsoft Windows. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Windows redirects here. ... 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 formats. ... Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, Portable Media Centers, and on-board computers for certain automobiles. ... Palm OS is an embedded operating system initially developed by U.S. Robotics owned Palm Computing, 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. ... Songbird is a free software media player and web browser developed by The Songbird Team, (previously responsible for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web. ... Not to be confused with KMPlayer. ... VLC media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now 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. ... Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, Portable Media Centers, and on-board computers for certain automobiles. ... The WinDVD interface WinDVD is a commercial DVD player for Microsoft Windows, created by InterVideo. ... ... For the Xboxs successor, see Xbox 360. ... 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 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. ...

Notes:

1. ^ Other Winamp versions are Amiamp (AmigaOS) and Macamp (MacOS).

AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. ... Macast is a Mac OS audio player for MP3 and other formats. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the operating systems for Macintosh computers. ...

See also

• 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

Image File history File links Free_Software_Portal_Logo. ... The following is a list of media players. ... The following is a list of video players. ... The following comparison of media players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. ... The following is a list of codecs. ... This is a listing of open source multimedia codecs and containers. ... Comparison of video codecs - is a process of codecs evaluation of similarities and differences. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio codecs. ... This table compares features of container formats. ... FFmpeg is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder, which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. ... Adobe Media Player (codename Philo) is a desktop media player that offers users to manage and interact with their media content, and allows content publishers to define branding and advertising in and around their content. ... HD Media player is a generic term used for a category of consumer product that combines a hard drive enclosure with hardware and software for playing audio and video through a home entertainment system. ...

External links

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• broadPlayer
• VLC
• Multimedia Player TV over IP
• Multimedia @ sourceforge.net
• Multimedia @ corecodec.org