Comparison of video player software
The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs.
For the purpose of this comparison, "video players" are defined as any media player which can play video, even if it can also play audio files.
General
Name | Author | First public release | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework | Written in | ||||||||||||
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ALLPlayer | ALLPlayer Group Ltd. Partnership | 1998 | 8.9.2 (April 4, 2022[±] | )Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg + original + DirectShow | Object Pascal (Delphi) | ||||||||||||
Apprentice Video | Pavel Koshevoy | 2011 | r407 and later | Free | MIT | FFmpeg | C++ (Qt) | ||||||||||||
Banshee | Aaron Bockover | Aug 2005 | 2.6.2 (February 18, 2014[1]) [±] | Free | MIT | GStreamer | C# | ||||||||||||
Creative MediaSource | Creative Technology | 2002 | 5.10.38 (December 22, 2006[±] | )Requires Creative product | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
CorePlayer | CoreCodec Inc. | 2006 | 3.0.1.0 (September 9, 2011[2]) [±] | US$19.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
CrystalPlayer | Crystal Reality LLC | Oct 2002 | Template:Latest stable software release/Crystal Player | US$29.95 | Proprietary | FFmpeg | ? | ||||||||||||
DSPlayer | DSPlayer team | 2002 | 0.999 | Free | Proprietary | Object Pascal (Delphi), C++ | |||||||||||||
FFplay | FFmpeg project | 06 Jun 2003 | Template:Latest stable software release/FFmpeg | Free | LGPL, part GPL | FFmpeg | C | ||||||||||||
GOM Player | Gretech Corporation | 07 Jan 2003 |
2.3.71.5335 (November 19, 2021[3])
1.5.1 (February 26, 2020[4])
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Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | ? | ||||||||||||
iTunes | Apple Inc. | 09 Jan 2001 | Free | Proprietary | QuickTime | ? | |||||||||||||
jetAudio (Basic) | Cowon Systems | 1997 | 8.1.3 October 16, 2014 | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||
jetAudio (Plus) | Cowon Systems | 1997 | 8.1.3 October 16, 2014 | US$29.00 | Proprietary | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||
JRiver Media Center | JRiver, Inc. | Jul 2003 | 28.0.63 (September 10, 2021[±] | )US$49.98 | Proprietary | original | C++, SSE/MMX assembly | ||||||||||||
K-Multimedia Player | YoungHuee Kang | 01 Oct 2002 | 4.2.2.588 (3 December 2021[6]) [±] | Free | Proprietary | ? | Object Pascal | ||||||||||||
Mac Blu-ray Player | Macgo Inc. | 2011 | 2.11.1 December 26, 2014 | US$59.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
Media Go | Sony Creative Software Inc. | 2009 | 2.2 August 1, 2012 | Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
Media Player Classic | Gabest | 29 May 2003 | 6.4.9.1 Revision 107 (February 14, 2010[±] | )Free | GPL | DirectShow | C++ | ||||||||||||
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Casimir666 | 29 Mar 2006 | 2.0.0 (January 11, 2023[±] | )Free | GPL | DirectShow | C++ | ||||||||||||
MediaPortal | Team MediaPortal | 2004 | 2.4 (December 30, 2021[±] | )Free | GPL | DirectShow | C#, C++ | ||||||||||||
MPlayer | Árpád Gereöffy | Sep 2000 | Template:Latest stable software release/MPlayer | Free | GPL | FFmpeg + original | C | ||||||||||||
Mplayerxp | Guru Kas aka Nickols_K | 2002 | 0.7.1/06.01.2009 | Free | GPL | FFmpeg + original | C | ||||||||||||
Ogle | Chalmers University of Technology | 1999 | 0.9.2 (November 6, 2003[±] | )Free | GPL | ? | C | ||||||||||||
Plex | Plex, Inc. | 2008 | 0.9.11.7 (server)December 23, 2014 | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||
PowerDVD Standard | CyberLink | 1996 | PowerDVD 23 (2024-03-07) [±] | US$59.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
PowerDVD Pro | CyberLink | 1996 | PowerDVD 23 (2024-03-07) [±] | US$79.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
PowerDVD Ultra | CyberLink | 1996 | PowerDVD 23 (2024-03-07) [±] | US$99.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
QuickTime Basic | Apple Inc. | 02 Dec 1991 | 7.7.9 (January 7, 2016[±][7][8] | )Free | Proprietary | original | Cocoa (on OS X) | ||||||||||||
QuickTime Pro | Apple Inc. | 02 Dec 1991 | 7.7.9 (January 7, 2016[±][7][8] | )US$29.95 | Proprietary | original | Cocoa (on OS X) | ||||||||||||
Quintessential Player | Paul Quinn | 1997 | 5.0.121 (February 18, 2009[±] | )Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
RealPlayer Basic | RealNetworks | 1995 | Windows: 22.0.6.305 (April 5, 2024[±]
OS X: 12.0.1.1750 (September 7, 2012[9]) [±] Windows Mobile: 1.1 (July 30, 2009[10]) [±] Android: 1.52 (June 21, 2022[±] ) |
) Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
RealPlayer Plus | RealNetworks | 1995 | Windows: 22.0.6.305 (April 5, 2024[±]
OS X: 12.0.1.1750 (September 7, 2012[11]) [±] Windows Mobile: 1.1 (July 30, 2009[12]) [±] Android: 1.52 (June 21, 2022[±] ) |
) US$49.99[13] | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
SMPlayer | Ricardo Villalba | 11 Dec 2006 | 14.3.0 (March 30, 2014) | Free | GPL | MPlayer | C++ (Qt) | ||||||||||||
Songbird | Tom Lord | 08 Feb 2006 | 2.2.0, Build 2453 (February 4, 2013[±] | )Free | GPL | GStreamer, XULRunner | C++ | ||||||||||||
Splash Lite | Mirillis | 14 Sep 2009 | Template:Latest stable software release/Splash Lite | Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
The Core Pocket Media Player | Gabor Kovacs | 2004 Jul as "BetaPlayer" | 0.71 (November 23, 2005[±] | )Free | GPL | FFmpeg + original | C++ | ||||||||||||
TotalMedia Theatre | ArcSoft | 15 Nov 2009 | 5.2.1.119 January 11, 2012 | US$99.99 | Proprietary | original | C++ | ||||||||||||
Totem Movie Player | Totem Team | Jul 2002 | 45.0[14] (20 September 2023 ) [±] | Free | GPL + exception[15] | GStreamer | C | ||||||||||||
Videostream | Videostream Team | Feb 2014 | 2.1.3.15 | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | Javascript, C++ | ||||||||||||
VLC | VideoLAN | Feb 2000 |
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Free | GPL, LGPL | FFmpeg + original | C, C++ | ||||||||||||
Winamp Lite, Full, Bundle | Nullsoft | Jun 1997 | 5.9.2 Build 10042[23] (April 26, 2023 ) [±]
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Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
Winamp Pro | Nullsoft | Jun 1997 | 5.9.2 Build 10042[24] (April 26, 2023 ) [±]
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US$19.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
Windows Media Player | Microsoft | Nov 1992 | 12.0.22621.457 (September 20, 2022[±] | )Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | C++ (COM) | ||||||||||||
WinDVD Gold | Corel | 1998 | WinDVD Pro 12 Service Pack 8 (April 28, 2021[25][26]) [±] | US$39.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
WinDVD Platinum | Corel | 1998 | WinDVD Pro 12 Service Pack 8 (April 28, 2021[27][28]) [±] | US$59.95 | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Team-Kodi (formerly Team-XBMC) | Oct 2003 | 19.3 (codename: "Matrix") (October 25, 2021[29]) [±] | Free | GPL | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||
xine | xine Team | 15 Aug 2000 | 0.99.14 (January 7, 2023[±] | )Free | GPL | FFmpeg + original | C | ||||||||||||
Name | Author | First public release | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework | Written in |
Operating system compatibility
This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player, each one for a given operating system.
Video player | Windows | Windows CE, Mobile | Windows Phone | Mac OS X | iOS | Android | Linux | BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like | DOS | BeOS, Haiku, ZETA | OS/2 |
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ALLPlayer | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Apprentice Video | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Banshee | Alpha version | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
CrystalPlayer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
DSPlayer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
FFplay | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
iTunes | Yes | No | No | Included | Included | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Go | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Player Classic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
MediaPortal | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
MPlayer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mplayerxp | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Ogle | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Plex | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
QuickTime | Yes | No | No | Included | Included | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Quintessential Player | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
SMPlayer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Songbird | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Official support dropped | No | Official support dropped | No | No | No | No |
TotalMedia Theatre | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Totem Movie Player | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Videostream | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | No | No | Beta version | No | Yes | Last version is Winamp 3 | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Windows Media Player | Included | Included | Included | Dropped (WMP9) | No | No | No | No | Dropped (WMP6.3) | No | No | No | No |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Original Xbox only | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
xine | unmaintained | No | No | WIP for 1.2 series | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Video player | Windows | Windows CE, Mobile | Windows Phone | Mac OS X | iOS | Android | Linux | BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like | DOS | BeOS, Haiku, ZETA | OS/2 |
Features
Video player | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless audio decoding | Visualizer | Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) |
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ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apprentice Video | No | No | No | Yes | No | only on OSX | No |
Banshee | Yes | Partial[featurenotes 1] | Yes | Yes | In Development | Yes | Yes |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
DSPlayer | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
FFplay | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | No | No |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
iTunes | Yes | Partial[30] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
jetAudio | Partial[30] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[featurenotes 2] | Yes | Yes | No |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Media Go | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | SensMe |
Media Player Classic | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Mplayerxp | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Plex | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
PowerDVD | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | No |
QuickTime | Partial[featurenotes 3] | Partial[featurenotes 4] | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Quintessential Player | Partial[30] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes |
SMPlayer | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | No |
Songbird | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes[featurenotes 5] | Yes |
Totem Movie Player | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
VLC | Yes | Yes | yes, not Mac | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Winamp | Partial[30] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[30] | Yes[featurenotes 6] |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes[featurenotes 7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Video player | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless audio decoding | Visualizer | Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) |
Extended features
Video player | Color controls | Time stretching | Pitch shifting | A-B repeat | Audio resync | Subtitle resync | Chapter (DVD, mkv, mp4, ogm) | Bookmark (DVD, video, audio) | Auto resume (DVD, video, audio) | Shutdown on play complete |
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ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apprentice Video | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Banshee | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
FFplay | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iTunes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
jetAudio | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some[featurenotes 8] | Yes | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Go | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Player Classic | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 9] | Yes[featurenotes 9] | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 9] | Yes[featurenotes 9] | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes |
Plex | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PowerDVD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
QuickTime | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 10] | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No |
Quintessential Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
SMPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 11] | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
Songbird | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (from 2.2) | Yes |
Winamp | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | DVD only | No | Partial[30] | Partial[30] |
WinDVD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Audio plugin | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Video player | Color controls | Time stretching | Pitch shifting | A-B repeat | Audio resync | Subtitle resync | Chapter (DVD, mkv, mp4, ogm) | Bookmark (DVD, video, audio) | Auto resume (DVD, video, audio) | Shutdown on play complete |
- ^ The user interface is a pluggable Mono Assembly
- ^ "gapless mp3 playback - The KMPlayer's Forums". Kmplayer.com. Retrieved 2009-12-16.
- ^ Available with QuickTime Streaming Server.
- ^ Only the media creator can create skins.
- ^ Apple Remote ability, and dbus add-on for Linux
- ^ Via media library in "modern" skin
- ^ Kodi/XBMC has a built-in UPnP AV MediaServer, FTP-server (based on FileZilla), and a web server (however the web-server is mainly designed for remote control and not for streaming, but it can be used for streaming with some small modifications any user can make)
- ^ Bookmarks are limited to 20 files and are stored with absolute paths, which renders them inaccessible when files are moved
- ^ a b c d Pitch-shifting and AB-Repeat are not included in Mplayer's interactive keyboard controls, but can be set up via command line parameters. Mplayer manual
- ^ www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ - A-B repeat using Play Selection Only command
- ^ As of SVN 3349
Video format ability
Information about what video formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 Part 2 (ASP) | MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 (AVC) | WMV | RealVideo | Theora | Flash | Dirac | VP8 | VP9 | HEVC (H.265) |
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ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Banshee | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | ? | ? |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
DSPlayer | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[31] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | ? |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[31] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | ? |
iTunes | Yes | Partial[v 4] | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 5] | No | Partial[v 6] | Partial[v 7] | No | Partial[v 7] | ? | ? |
jetAudio | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[31] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
Plex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
QuickTime | Yes | Partial[v 4] | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 5] | No | Partial[v 6] | Partial[v 7] | No | Partial[v 7] | ? | ? |
Quintessential Player | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 8] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | ? |
SMPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Songbird | No | No | Partial[v 9] | Partial[v 9] | Partial[v 10] | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? |
TotalMedia Theatre | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | Yes[v 1] | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[31] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes[v 2] | Yes[v 11] | Yes[v 11] | Yes | Partial[31] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 12] | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 Part 2 (ASP) | MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 (AVC) | WMV | RealVideo | Theora | Flash | Dirac | VP8 | VP9 | HEVC (H.265) |
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Available via Gstreamer plugin.
- ^ a b c d e This format is supported out-of-the-box in Windows 7 and later. In Windows Vista and earlier, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- ^ a b The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for Quicktime.
- ^ a b The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime.
- ^ a b 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis, FLAC (Doesn't work with FLAC containers), Speex, and Theora.
- ^ a b c d On Macs, 3rd party plugins are available. The Perian QuickTime components for Mac OS X 10.4.7+ allow any QuickTime application to play a wide variety of formats.
- ^ Plugin available.
- ^ a b This format is supported out-of-the-box on Mac OS X. On Windows, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of QuickTime filters. There is a distribution known as QuickTime Alternative which bundles the needed QuickTime components without the need to install the corresponding player.
- ^ This format is supported when running the program in Microsoft Windows, but is not supported on Mac OS X.
- ^ a b This format is supported out-of-the-box in Windows Media Player 12 and later (which requires Windows 7 or later). In Windows Media Player 11 and earlier, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- ^ The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters, or in the case of Windows Media Player 12 and above, there is also the option of using Microsoft Media Foundation components, which have the added bonus of adding WebM support through the HTML5 <video> element to Internet Explorer 9 or later.
Audio format ability
Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | Lossy compression | Lossless compression | |||||||||||
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MP3 | WMA | RealAudio | Vorbis | Musepack | AAC | AC-3 | Opus | APE | FLAC | ALAC | SHN | WV | |
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Banshee | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | ? | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
DSPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
iTunes | Yes | yes, no DRM | No | Partial[33] | No | Yes | No | ? | No | Partial[33] | Yes | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[34] | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[34] | Yes | Yes | ? | Partial[34] | Yes | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[34] | Yes | Yes | ? | Partial[34] | Yes | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Plex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
QuickTime | Yes | Partial[35] | No | Partial[33] | No | Yes | Partial[30] | ? | No | Partial[33] | Yes | No | No |
Quintessential Player | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | Partial[30] | Partial[30] | No | No | Partial[30] |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[30] | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
SMPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Songbird | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
TotalMedia Theatre | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No |
Totem Movie Player | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Partial[34] | Yes | Partial[36] | Yes | Partial[36] | ? | Partial[36] | Yes | Partial[36] | Partial[36] | Partial[36] |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | ? | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Video player | MP3 | WMA | RealAudio | Vorbis | Musepack | AAC | AC-3 | Opus | APE | FLAC | ALAC | SHN | WV |
Container format ability
Information about what container formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | AVI | ASF | QuickTime | Ogg | OGM | Matroska | MP4 | NUT | FLV | WebM |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
DSPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Vorbis only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
iTunes | No | Win: yes Mac: file is parsable |
Yes | Partial[33] | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
jetAudio | Yes | Yes | Partial[37] | Vorbis only | Yes | Yes | Partial[34] | ? | ? | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Media Player Classic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Vorbis only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Plex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
QuickTime | Yes | Partial[35] | Yes | Partial[33] | No | Yes[38] | Yes | ? | Yes[38] | Yes[38] |
Quintessential Player | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[30] | Partial[30] | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Songbird | Yes | No | Yes[37] | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
TotalMedia Theatre | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | ? | Yes[32] | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Partial[37] | Vorbis only | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | WMP12 Yes[37] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | Partial[34] | WMP12 Yes[34] | ? | Yes | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Video player | AVI | ASF | QuickTime | Ogg | OGM | Matroska | MP4 | NUT | FLV | WebM |
Streaming support
Information about which internet protocols the players understand, for receiving streaming media content.
Video player | HTTP | HTTPS | HLS | DASH | HDS | Smooth | FTP | RTSP RTSPU/RTSPT |
MMS MMSU/MMST |
RTMP | Podcast | RDT | RTP | DAAP | DLNA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Amarok | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes | No | Partial | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Banshee | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
CorePlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
DSPlayer | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ||
FFplay | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
GOM Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
jetAudio | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Mplayerxp | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? |
Quod Libet | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
QuickTime | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quintessential Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Songbird | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | ? | ? | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | Yes[32] | No | ? | Yes[32] | Yes | Yes |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Dropped (WMP10) |
? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
XMMS | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | HTTP | HTTPS | HLS | DASH | HDS | Smooth | FTP | RTSP | MMS | RTMP | Podcast | RDT | RTP | DAAP | DLNA |
Playlist format ability
Information about which playlist formats the players understand.
Video player | asx/wax/wvx | m3u/m3u8 | pls | xspf | ram/rmm | sdp | rpl | xpl | bdmv | wmx |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
CorePlayer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
DSPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
FFplay | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
GOM Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
jetAudio | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
QuickTime | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quintessential Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Songbird | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
xine | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | asx/wax/wvx | m3u/m3u8 | pls | xspf | ram/rmm | sdp | rpl | xpl | bdmv | wmx |
Subtitle ability
Information about what subtitle formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | Bitmap | Text | Bitmap | Text | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VobSub (.idx+.sub) | SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass) | SubRip (.srt) | SAMI (.smi) | RealText (.rt) | MicroDVD (.sub) | SubViewer (.sub) | Text file[stnotes 1] (.txt) | Universal Subtitle Format (.usf) | WebVTT (.srt+.vtt) | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles) | DVB subtitles | DVD subtitles | Closed captioning | |
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
CorePlayer | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
FFplay | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
GOM Player | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes[34] | ? | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[31] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes[34] | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
QuickTime | No | Yes[38] | Yes[38] | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
Quintessential Player | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes[30] | No | Yes[30] | Yes | Yes | Yes[30] | ? | Yes[30] | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
TotalMedia Theatre | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | No | Yes[stnotes 4] | No | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | No | Yes[stnotes 4] | No | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | Yes[34] | ? | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine[stnotes 5] | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | VobSub (.idx+.sub) | SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass) | SubRip (.srt) | Sami (.smi) | RealText (.rt) | MicroDVD (.sub) | SubViewer (.sub) | TXT (.txt) | Universal Subtitle Format (.usf) | WebVTT (.srt+.vtt) | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles) | DVB subtitles | DVD subtitles | Closed captioning |
- ^ This player can open files with the extension .txt, but those could contain any script language. So there is no guarantee it will play it.
- ^ a b c Subtitles stored separately from the media file are not supported.
- ^ a b c d This player understands some of the formatting data from SSA/ASS (at most coloring but no positioning, animation, typesetting etc.), but some players could understand the rest of it by using DirectVobSub as external subtitle filter instead of the built-in one.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o For Windows, the ability to use many subtitle formats can be added by installing DirectVobSub or ffdshow.
- ^ "FAQ | Kaffeine - KDE Media Player". Kaffeine FAQ. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
Metadata ability
Information about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players understand. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.
Video player | ID3v1 | ID3v2 | APEv2 tag | Vorbis comment | AMF | ASF metadata | MOV metadata | Cue sheet | CD-Text |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | No | No |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Cog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
CorePlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
DSPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | No | No |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
GOM Player | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
jetAudio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Partial[metadatanotes 1] | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic | Yes | No | ? | Partial | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 2] | ? |
Mplayerxp | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No |
QuickTime | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quintessential Player | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | |
Songbird | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
Totem Movie Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 3] | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Partial[30] | Yes |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 4] | ? | Partial[30] | ? | Yes | ? | No | Partial[30] |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial |
xine | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 5] | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | ID3v1 | ID3v2 | APEv2 tag | Vorbis comment | AMF | ASF metadata | MOV metadata | Cue sheet | CD-Text |
- ^ Supports via plugin available in COWON Forums
- ^ MPlayer can read .cue files with cue:// type URL, but has problems, see Talk:Cue sheet (computing)#mplayer have more faults
- ^ Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible.
- ^ ID3 V2.4 not supported (even on Windows Media Player 12).
Optical media ability
Information about what kinds of optical discs the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities. Playback of Super Audio CD is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists. All media players capable of audio CD playback will also play the Redbook core of any HDCD disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.
Audio | Video | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Video player | CD | DVD-Audio | HDCD | SACD (Super Audio CD) | VCD | SVCD | DVD | Blu-ray Disc | HD DVD |
ALLPlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
CorePlayer | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | ? |
DSPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
FFplay | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
GOM Player | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
iTunes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Media Player Classic | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[optical 1] | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Mplayerxp | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Ogle | No | No | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No | ? |
PowerDVD | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No longer supported |
QuickTime | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Quintessential Player | Yes | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
RealPlayer | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Songbird | No[optical 2] | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
TotalMedia Theatre | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No longer supported |
Totem Movie Player | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
VLC | Yes | Yes[optical 3] | No | ? | Yes | Partial[optical 4] | Yes | Commercial BDs unsupported[39] | Yes[optical 5] |
Winamp | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | No | No | ? | Partial[optical 6] | Partial[optical 6] | Yes | Commercial BDs unsupported | ? |
xine | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Video player | CD | DVD-Audio | HDCD | SACD (Super Audio CD) | VCD | SVCD | DVD | Blu-ray Disc | HD DVD |
- ^ See this thread on team-mediaportal.com
- ^ See this thread on Getsatisfaction.com
- ^ DVD Audio files are playable in VLC 1.1
- ^ Handling still frames and switching between different video formats is problematic.
- ^ HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) from version 3.0.0
- ^ a b VCD menu nd SVCD menus are not supported nor displayed. Cite error: The named reference "VCD_XBMC" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
See also
- List of codecs
- Open source codecs and containers
- Comparison of video codecs
- Comparison of audio coding formats
- Comparison of container formats
- Subtitle (captioning)
- Comparison of portable media players
- Comparison of video encoders
- Comparison of PVR software packages
References
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- ^ "CoreAVC Changelog". www.corecodec.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
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- ^ "KMPlayer Multimedia Player". Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ^ a b "About the security content of QuickTime 7.7.9".
- ^ a b "Apple - Support - QuickTime - Downloads".
- ^ http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/09072012_player/en/
- ^ "RealPlayer 1.1". Ewandoo. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/09072012_player/en/
- ^ "RealPlayer 1.1". Ewandoo. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ http://www.real.com/realplayer/player-plus
- ^ "Introducing GNOME 45". 20 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ "COPYING file mentioning exception added 8th Feb 2005". Totem. 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- ^ "3.0.20". 30 October 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ "3.5.4". 6 July 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ "VLC - Chrome Web Store". 23 December 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- ^ "Official Download of VLC media player for Windows Store - VideoLAN". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ^ "Get VLC - Microsoft Store". www.microsoft.com. VideoLAN. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ^ "Official Download of VLC media player for Windows Phone - VideoLAN". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ^ "Winamp : Supported versions : Latest supported version". Winamp Forums. December 22, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ "Winamp : Supported versions : Latest supported version". Winamp Forums. December 22, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ Corel WinDVD Home
- ^ Corel WinDVD Pro Updates
- ^ Corel WinDVD Home
- ^ Corel WinDVD Pro Updates
- ^ "Kodi "Matrix" 19.3 Release". Retrieved 17 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Plugin available.
- ^ a b c d e f The playing compatibility depends on the availability of RealMedia filters. There is a distribution known as Real Alternative which bundles the needed RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponding player.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Available via Gstreamer plugin.
- ^ a b c d e f 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis, FLAC (Doesn't work with FLAC containers), Speex, and Theora.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- ^ a b The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime.
- ^ a b c d e f Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation
- ^ a b c d The playing compatibility depends on the availability of QuickTime filters. There is a distribution known as QuickTime Alternative which bundles the needed QuickTime components without the need to install the corresponding player.
- ^ a b c d e The open source Perian plug-in adds the ability to use many video formats and codecs to QuickTime. It also adds the ability to use SubRip and SubStation Alpha subtitles.
- ^ anandtech - VLC 'Hack' for Encrypted Blu-ray Playback Capability
Related lists on other projects
- m:Open Source Toolset - short sections on Audio editing and Video editing
- Software - short lists of Ogg audio and video editors
- Help:Converting video - tools for manipulating audio and video