Where can I find a very good "universal" media player?

Question

A media player that plays .mkv .mpg .avi dvds vcds etc....the kind that it can almost play any media files w/ diff codecs and not a very choosy player...

Answer 1

VLC Media Player.



Plays ALL videos, no codecs needed and it's free!

Answer 2

download Windows Media Player 11

Answer 3

dude try Storm Codec......

Storm Codec, as an addon & enhance of Windows Media Player, provides a solution to most popular media files, streams and VCD...

As an addon & enhance of Windows Media Player, Storm Codec provides a solution to most popular media files, streams and VCD/DVD, it can play RealMedia, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (DivX, XviD, 3ivx, MP4, FFGS, H264...), AC3/DTS/LPCM, VP3/VP6, HDTV, Theora, TTL2, APE, FLAC, AAC, Subtitles, OGG/OGM, Matroska, MPC, Voxware, FLC, 3GP/AMR... without any other Media Player (But latest Windows Media Player it recommended).



Here are some key features of "Storm Codec":



· RealPlayer 10.5 decodings cores & ActiveX 6.0.12.1698

· RealMedia Splitter 1.0.1.1

· QuickTime 7.13 decodings cores

& ActiveX (contains AMR/3GP & H264 in the MOV support)

· Flash Player 9 r16

· Kopei's XviD Codec 1.10 (Build 20.05123 million)

· ffdshow MPEG-4 Codec 20.060526 million (contains realaac, liba52, libdts, libtremor and so on)

· On2 VP7 Codec 7.0.10.0

· On2 VP6 Codec 6.4.2.0

· Ligos Indeo Codec 3.2 - 5.2

· GV Codec 1.2

· CyberLink Video/SP Filter (ATI) 6.0.0.1625

· NVidia PureVideo Decoder 1.02-223

· RatDVD Decoder 0.78.1444

· OGG Splitter 1.0.0.0

· AAC Parser 1.1

· CoreFLAC Audio Decoder & Source DirectShow Filter 0.4.0.46

· DS Monkey's Audio Filter 1.0 + APE Audio Lib 3.99u4

· SHN to WAV Filter 20.051008 million

· TTA DirectShow Splitter 1.0.0.203

· RadLight MPC DirectShow Filter 1.0.0.3

· OGG Vorbis MSACM Codec

· Voxware Metasound & Metavoice ACM Codec

· Haali's Splitter 20.060707 million

· PMP Splitter 1.0.0.8

· VSFilter (Direct VobSub) 2.37

· Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0

· G.Spot 2.60 B00





Requirements:



· P II / Celeron / K6-2 400MHz

· 128M RAM

· 80M Free HD Space

· A Display Card (AGP or PCIE) with at least 4M Video RAM

· AC97 or HD-Audio compatible soundcard

· DirectX 8 or higher (DirectX 9 is highly recommend)

· Screen at least at 640×480×16Bit

Download link:

http://download1us.softpedia.com/dl/538d5d51e24deb5a6bdbc32f73172a39/47a9a656/100020053/software/multimedia/video/StormCodec7.exe

Answer 4

VLC media player.



http://www.videolan.org/

Answer 5

http://www.filehippo.com/download_gom_player/

I am using this program for media files when other programs can not open them. It is almost universal and free. You will enjoy it, I am sure.

Answer 6

VLC's not bad, but I prefer Miro

Answer 7

try Gom player. Its pretty good player and doesnt use my resource. http://www.gomplayer.com/download.html

Answer 8

try blaze or x player