Best Free Media Player
The world of multi-media is changing rapidly. When our Grandparents used to go to the Nickelodeon, our parents grew up with TV, and today’s generation will watch a moving picture on almost any device. Until a few years ago, a free media player would be difficult to find, and complicated to use. The complication would be to find a so called ‘Codec’ (short for coder/decoder) that would allow you to play the movie in its present format. And formats we have plenty.

The best free media player so would have to be one, that could easily be used by anyone, play most of the formats out of the box, and of course play CD/DVD also, thus enabling you to do without a separate standalone DVD-Player, and allowing you to watch your films from your DVD-Drive that comes with your PC directly on your computer screen.


Media Player Classic

Although not our personal favourite, it is a must on every PC. The optics will remind you of an old version of the Windows Media Player. The codecs list is long, and the good thing about it is, you don’t have to memorize it. This free media player plays almost everything apart from mouldy toast. Who is interested in technical details, will find them here ► and here ► .

One thing is sure worth mentioning: the Media Player Classic know, how to play .ratDVD. “ratDVD” is a very obnoxious compression format, that really does nothing more than expanding to low quality movie formats. The transformation process takes literally hours even on a fast machine, the result is deplorable if you consider the size, and Media Player Classic saves you all that time.

You might want to consider installing some additional packages just to be on the safe side.

 

Siehe
Download
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205650
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Windows, Linux
English, Deutsch



VLC media player

  • If you want to play a movie or listen to an audio file
  • if you want it simple, easy and clean
  • if you just want it to work

than the best free media player around is the VLC media player. Download, install, enjoy. For those of us, who cruise international waters and the five DVD regions, VLC media player knows, how to play 5 different dvd region codes.

Without doubt, this free media player is our favourite.


Homepage
Download
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
System
Language
Windows, Linux
English, Deutsch

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Best Free Media Player
Last Updated ( Dienstag, 31 März 2009 )