Which player can play all types of files?

Question

I want a player like you know, VLC media player but one which can play all types of files cuz im sick of downloading stuff that I dont know. Once I saw somewhere on the internet about a "codecless" player but then im not sure. Someone please be a sweetheart a tell me about this. If the player is free then thats an icing on the cake!! Please!! :)) I have no idea about this stuff!!

Answer 1

a codeless player sounds dangerous, it is likely to crash and ruin your system, or even have vriuses on it since it is free. when you are downloading files, download them as either WAV or MP3 files. Real Player can play many different types of media files, try that.

Answer 2

I'm quite certain that VLC is the best choice (supports a lot of formats) but if you're havings with that then



Maybe you would like to try GOM Player?

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_Introduction.html



It has the ability to play .Flv (Flash Video) files without installing additonal software.





M3U (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator, MP3 URL) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It was originally implemented in Winamp, although it is now supported by many applications.



An M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations of one or more media files that the mediaplayer should play. Each location is placed on a new line. The locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., "C:\My Music\Heavysets.mp3" or "Heavysets.mp3") or they can be URLs. The file can also include comments, prefaced by the "#" character. In extended M3U, "#" also introduces extended M3U directives.



One common use of the M3U file format is creating a playlist file that contains a single entry pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and can be used for things like downloading from a website or for emailing, or for Internet radio listening.



The file is saved with the "M3U" or "m3u" filename extension.

Answer 3

Another vote for VLC. If I have something that VLC can't play, then I use mplayer (you may have to find a gui for mplayer, though).



The only reason to try other apps is a better (often more complicated & specialized) GUI front-end, such as amarok on linux or winamp on windows or songbird on anything.



There's no such thing as "codec"-less, since "codec" just means the type of file / format (specifically, the "co"mpression / "dec"ompression algorithm for the media format). Unless you're talking about Schrödinger's Streaming format.



Some formats are just so d*mn proprietary that you'll need a custom player. RealPlayer is an example, although there is "RealAlternative" that is a workaround. "flv" is flash video, which vlc should be able to handle. An "m3u" file is just a playlist, a list of other files. It's probably just a matter of associating that file extension with an app that knows what playlists are (such as vlc.... again).

Answer 4

Media Player Classic, along with VLC player (or KM player too) can play most of the files. For Real media (.rm, .rmvb etc) files, u'll need Real Player.

Answer 5

VLC Player

Answer 6

VLC is the best one you can get. It's the Swiss Army knife of media players.



What kind of file can't you play?



P.S. MPEG Streamclip can play .flv files and convert them; plus it's free (http://www.squared5.com). .m3u are music files (protected AAC, I believe). You need iTunes for those since they're DRM'd.

Answer 7

Yeah, I know that kind of player - Kmplayer get it from here



http://tendigitz.co.cc/cse/softwarez/kmplayer-2-9-3-1428/



It playes even MIDI files