Best FREE media players without downloading any codecs!

Best FREE media players without downloading any codecs!

Vlc Lan Player

• VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. (For example, files still downloading via BitTorrent or eMule) This is because it is a packet-based player.
• The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user’s operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.
• VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg. This means that DVD Video and MPEG-4 playback as well as support for Ogg and Matroska (MKV) file formats work “out of the box”. However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MPlayer and xine-lib-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC does, however, also support codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.
• VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art.
• VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag. An entire library of tapes (or about 50 D-VHS 2 hours long) can be placed on a single terabyte sized hard drive. However, they must be imported by playing the tapes in real time, and can’t simply be copied as data files.
• Using a FireWire connection from cable boxes to computers; VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
• VLC media player can display the playing video as the desktop wallpaper.
• On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.

http://www.videolan.org/mirror.php?file=vlc/0.8.6e/win32/vlc-0.8.6e-win32.exe

KM PLAYER

This player support range of codecs and also file formats, this is a korean movie and audio player, also it has full VCD/DVD playback functionality.

Features:

Supported Files or Devices:

* HTTP Streaming(AVI etc including none-streaming media)
* Directshow playback (avi, mkv etc)
* Real Engine + Directshow (needs Real Player or Alternative)
* QuickTime Engine + Directshow (needs QuickTime player or Alternative)
* Mplayer Engine Support
* Winamp Input Plugin(decoder) Support
* Compressed Audio Album Support(zip, rar)
* Audio CD(2000, XP only / Win9x-Support by winamp plugin)
* Video CD/SVCD/XCD : CDXA Format (2000, XP only)
* DVD playback
* DTS Wave and AC3 files
* WDM device support like TV or Camera
* CD Image File (BIN/ISO/IMG/NRG) ; NRG needs mplayer.dll
* Shoutcast (Including NSV)
* AAC, OGG parser/decoder
* Shockwave Flash/FLC/FLI
* Ape/MPC/Flac/Module etc
* Various Image files like png, gif etc
* Incomplete/Damaged AVI file (Skip Damaged Frames)
* Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing

Built-in Codec/Filters:

Video Codec:

* MPEG4 (Divx/Xvid : ffmpeg/xvid)
* MPEG1/2 (ffmpeg/libmpeg)
* etc (ffmpeg)

Audio Codec:

* AC3/DTS/LPCM/MPG/MP3/OGG/AAC/WMA
* 2Ch to Multi Channel expansion

External Codec:

* Media Priority to Connect among Directshow, Real, QT, Winamp and Mplayer
* Custom Filter Manager
* System Filter Manger

Plugins:

* Winamp Input Plugins
* Winamp DSP Plugins (Can Stack)
* Winamp Visual Plugins (Can Stack)
* Winamp General Plugins (Media Library etc Support)
* KMP Video Plugins by SDK (Can Stack)
* DScaler Filter Support (Can Stack

http://kmplayer.kde.org/

Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1

Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec.It also supports SVCD/CVD selectable subtitles and lots more. The best part about Media Player Classic is the ability to modify the filters when playing your favorite video files.

What is Media Player Classic - Home Cinema?

It is a Media Player Classic mod designed for homecinema usage and released by Casimir666.

Changes in Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 [2008.03.08] :

- MPC: Added subtitle delay function for the internal subtitle renderer. It can be controlled with the F1 (decrease delay) and F2 (increase delay) buttons. The default delay interval is 500ms, but can be changed in the options. Patch by MatMaul.
- MPC: Automatically block DirectVobSub filter (VSFilter) when the internal subtitle renderer will be used.
- MPC: (SubResync) Save to .srt subtitle fix concerning italics
- MPC: YUV mixing option is now hidden on Vista (because it does not work on Vista).
- MPC: Added CSS classes in WebInterface.
- MPC: Fixed buffer overrun in VobSub code.
- MPC: Show proper error message when trying to use the “Save Image” function together with Overlay Mixer renderer.

Changes in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema 1.1.0.0 :

• New features :
- Custom presenter now support DXVA2, and display hardware acceleration mode in Jitter test information.
- Internal video decoder based on ffmpeg for Flash video (FLV4, VP5,VP6), AMV, Mpeg4, SQV, Theora, VC1, XVID, and DivX
- Internal video decoder H264 with DXVA 1 acceleration (using VMR9 or overlay on XP) and DXVA2 (using EVR on Vista).
- Korean translation
• Changes :
- FAAD library updated to 2.6
- Standalone filter renamed to be prefixed by “MPC - xxx”
- CSS classes added in WebServer (request #1885296)
• Bugs fixed :
- Incorrect colors on video when using YUV mixing and “VMR Color controls”
- PN31 driver installation was not working
- MPC graph manager now use the same filter priority as WMP and graphedit (clsid patch)
- MPC-HC is now recognize as an application by SUMo (http://www.kcsoftwares .com/index.php?sumo)
- Ghost horizontal and vertical lines with Pixel Shader resizer (especially on ATI graphics card)
- Crash in FLV splitter with file containing 0 bytes packets
- Button “Video” in format property page didn’t select images anymore
- So sound in some FLV video with Nellymoser audio track
- Multimedia keys (mute, vol+-, …) was captured by MPC even if option “global media keys” was off
- YUV mixing is now disable with Vista (not supported by Vista VMR9, and cause black screen)

http://www.free-codecs.com/Media_Player_Classic_download.htm