Comparison of media players

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The following comparison of media players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs.

In this comparison, audio players are defined as media players which cannot play video files by default.

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Name Creator First public release date Stable version Cost Software license
ALShow ESTsoft 2004 1.62 Free Proprietary
BS.Player Webteh 2000 2.25  (November 13, 2007) Free (AdWare), €29,90 (Pro), €9,90 (Lite) Proprietary
CorePlayer CoreCodec, Inc. 2006 1.1.2 2007-09-10 $19.95 Proprietary
CrystalPlayer Crystal Reality LLC 2002-10 1.98  (2007-05-31) Free (Basic), $29,95 (Pro) Proprietary
Elecard MPEG Player Elecard Ltd. 1999-11 4.0.3 $19.99 Proprietary
GOM Player Gretech Corporation 2003-01-07 2.1.8.3683  (2007-11-03) Free Proprietary
iTunes Apple Inc. 2001-01-09 7.5  (November 5, 2007) Free Proprietary
jetAudio Cowon Systems 1997 7.0.3.3016  (2007-06-08) Free (Basic), $29 (Plus) Proprietary
Kaffeine KDE 2003 0.8.5  (2007-07-28) Free GPL
Kantaris Christofer Persson 2007-07 0.1.8 Free LGPL
FLV player Moyea Ltd 2007-05 1.1 2007-10-25 Free GPL
KPlayer KPlayer Team 2003-01 0.6.3  (2007-07-28) Free GPL
Light Alloy Velikanov Ilya 2001-12-21 4.1 Free (trial), $9.95 Proprietary
MediaFrame Airlock Limited 2004-10 2.0 rc3  (2005-02-13) Free GPL
Media Center J. River 2003-07 12.0.207  (2007-01-29) $40.00 Proprietary
Media Player Classic Gabest 2003-05-29 6.4.9.0  (2006-03-20) Free GPL
MPlayer Árpád Gereöffy 2000-09 1.0rc2  (2007-10-07) Free GPL
Nemesis Player Michaël Cherubini 2007 1.1 Beta Free GPL
NicePlayer Jay Tuley & Robert Chin 2004-06 0.96.1  (2007-11-10) Free GPL / MPL
Ogle Chalmers University of Technology 1999 0.9.2  (2003-11-06) Free GPL
Passion audio player George Boudouris 2002-07 2.4  (2007-03-04) Free Proprietary
PowerDVD CyberLink 1995 7.3.3104a.1  (2007-08-06) $49.95 (Standard), $59.95 (Max), $69.95 (Deluxe) Proprietary
QuickTime Apple Computer 1991-12-02 7.3  (November 5, 2007) Free (Basic), $29.95 (Pro) Proprietary
Quickview pro Wolfgang Hesseler 1994 2.57 $23/$15 Proprietary
Quintessential Player Paul Quinn 1997 4.51  (2004-03-11) Free Proprietary
Radioactive Player Shady Industries 2005 1.0.1 Free Proprietary
RadLight RadLight  ? 4 (2005-11-18) Free (Basic; Pro, AdWare), €29.95 (Pro) Proprietary
RealPlayer RealNetworks 1995 11 (6.0.14.748)  (November 2007) Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus) Proprietary
SimpleCenter Universal Electronics Inc. 2002-2003 4.1  (2007-02) Free Proprietary
Songbird Pioneers of the Inevitable 2006-02-08 0.3.1  (November 7, 2007) Free GPL
The Core Media Player CoreCodec, Inc. 2006-06 named "TCMP" 4.11  (January 20, 2006) Free (Basic), $9.95 (Plus) Proprietary
The Core Pocket Media Player Gabor Kovacs 2004-07 named "BetaPlayer" 4.11 (2007-04-07) Free GPL
The KMPlayer Kang, YoungHuee 2002-12 2.9.3.1214  (2007-01-25) Free Proprietary
TrayPlayer @MAX software 2003-06-21 1.01b (2005-07-07) Free Proprietary
Totem Movie Player Totem Team 2002-07 2.20  (2007-09-19) Free GPL
Vidlizard Softdepia software agency 2003-12 1.25  (2007-05-08) $24.95 Proprietary
VLC media player VideoLAN 2000-02 0.8.6d  (November 30, 2007) Free GPL
ViPlay URUSoft 2002-12-01 2.09 (2004-03-06) Free GPL
Winamp Nullsoft 1997-06 5.5  (October 10, 2007) Free (Bundle,full and lite), $19.95 (Pro) Proprietary
Windows Media Player Microsoft 1992-11 11.0.6000.6344  (8 September 2007) Free, Windows-License needed Proprietary
WinDVD Corel 1998 8.0  (2006) $39.95(Gold), $59.95(Platinum) Proprietary
XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) Team-XBMC 2003-10 2.0.1  (2006-11-12) Free GPL / LGPL
XAnim Mark Podlipec 1999-03-14 2.80.1  (1999-03-21) Free GPL
xine xine Team 2000-08-15 1.1.8  (2007-10-03) Free GPL
Zoom Player Inmatrix 2000-12-31 5.00  (2006-12-28) Free (Basic) $27.95 (Pro) $35.95 (WMV Pro) Proprietary

Name Creator First public release date Stable version Cost Software license
1by1 Martin Pesch 2006-12-13 1.62 (2007-08-29) Free Proprietary
AlbumPlayer Albumon 2003 4.9d €29.90 Proprietary
ALSong ALTools  ? 1.52 Free Proprietary
Amarok Mark Kretschmann 2003-06 1.4.7  (2007-08-12) Free GPL
aTunes Alex Aranda et al. 2006 1.8.0  (2007-11-17) Free GPL
Audacious Audacious Team 2005-10-30 1.4.4:  (2007-12-03) Free GPL
Audion Panic 1999-08-16 3.0.2 (2002) Free Proprietary
Banshee Aaron Bockover 2005-08 0.13.1  (2007-08-19) Free MIT
BOSSA Swami Systems 2006-12 2.0 Free (Basic), $24 (Pro) Proprietary
Beep Media Player Milosz Derezynski 2004-06-24 0.9.7.1  (2005-10-22) Free GPL
Cactus Jukebox Sebastian Kraft 2005-03-02 0.3.8 Free GPL
cmus Timo Hirvonen 2005-01-18 2.2.0  (2007-07-27) Free GPL
Cog Vincent Spader 2006-05-01 0.06  (2007-07-12) Free GPL
Creative MediaSource Creative Technology 2002 5.10.38 Free Proprietary
damp Matt Craven 1999 0.96 (2000-04-09) Free Proprietary
Decibel Audio Player François Ingelrest 2007-05-13 0.06 Free GPL
DeliPlayer Peter Kunath, Florian Vorberger 2000 2.03b (2004-04-04) Free (Basic), $20 (Pro) Proprietary
Exaile Adam Olsen 2006-05-24 0.2.11  (2007-10-16) Free GPL
Express Scribe NCH Software 1997-07-17 4.11 (2007-04) Free Proprietary
foobar2000 Peter Pawlowski 2002-12 0.9.4.5  (2007-10-13) Free Proprietary (core),
BSD (first-party components)
Helium Music Manager 2007 Intermedia Design 2007 2007.0.0.5445 (2007-03-14) $39.00 Proprietary
Jajuk Jajuk Team 2004-03 1.4  (2007-10-14) Free GPL
JuK Scott Wheeler 2003-02 2.3.2  (2006-01-25) Free GPL
KSP Sound Player Kalliope s.c. 2005-12 2006R2  (2006-08-28) Free Proprietary
Listen Mehdi Abaakouk 2006-03-04 0.5 Free GPL
MediaMonkey Ventis Media Inc. 2003-08-25 2.5.5.998  (2007-03-14) Free (Standard), $19.95 (Gold), $29.95 (Lifetime) Proprietary
Mesk Travis Shirk 2006-05-27 0.3.2 Free GPL
MP3Toys Robert Frahm 2004-04 2.2 $14.95 Proprietary
MPXPLAY MPXPLAY 1998 1.53 Free GPL
Music Player Daemon Warren Dukes 2003-05 0.13.0  (2007-05-28) Free GPL
Musicmatch Jukebox Yahoo! 1998-05 10.1  (2005) Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus) Proprietary
musikCube Casey Langen 2005 1.0  (2006-12-03) Free BSD
Muzikbrowzer Pecan Ventures 2003 1.0 $20.00 Proprietary
Napster William Christopher Gorog 2003-10 4.0.4.8 $9.95 and up Proprietary
QuickPlayer Jan Vorel 2006-07 1.00 beta 58  (2007-01-19) Free GPL
Rhapsody RealNetworks 2003 4.0  (2006-10-16) Free Proprietary
Rhythmbox Colin Walters 2004-04 0.10.1  (2007-05-28) Free GPL
SnackAmp Tom Wilkason 2002-01 3.1.2  (2005-07-02) Free GPL
Sonique Media Science 1998-11 1.96 (2002-03) Free Proprietary
Spider Player Vitaly Kravchenko 2007-09 2.02 Free (Basic), $19.95 (Pro) Proprietary
VUPlayer James Chapman 2000 2.42 Free Proprietary
XMMS XMMS Team 1997-11 1.2.11  (2007-11-16) Free GPL
XMPlay Ian Luck 1998-07 3.4.2.2  (2007-07-19) Free Proprietary
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yahoo! 2005 2.2.1.035  (2007-08-09) Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus) Proprietary
Zinf Zinf Team 2002-04 2.2.5  (2004-02-14) Free GPL

Video player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)
ALShow Yes No No No No No No
BS.Player Yes No No No No No No
CrystalPlayer Yes No No No No No No
Elecard MPEG Player Yes No No No No No No
Fusion Media Player Yes No No No No No No
GOM Player Yes No No No No No No
iTunes Windows XP/Vista Only Yes No No No No No
jetAudio Yes No No No No No No
Kantaris Yes No No No No No No
KPlayer No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Kaffeine No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Light Alloy Yes No No No No No No
MediaFrame Yes PPC native[1] Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Media Center Yes No No No No No No
Media Player Classic Yes No No No No No No
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Nemesis Player Yes No No No No No No
NicePlayer No Yes No No No No No
Ogle No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
QuickTime Yes Included No No No No No
Quintessential Player Yes No No No No No No
Quickview pro 9x/ME only No Yes No No No Yes
Radioactive Player Yes No No No No No No
RealPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SimpleCenter Yes No No No No No No
Songbird 2000/XP/Server 2003 only Yes Yes No No No No
Spider Player 2000/XP/Vista only No No No No No No
The KMPlayer Yes No No No No No No
Totem Movie Player No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Vidlizard Yes No No No No No No
VLC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Winamp Yes No Last version is a beta of 2.x No No No No
Windows Media Player Included Dropped (WMP9) No No Dropped (WMP6.3) No No
XBMC Partial[2] No Partial[3] No No No No
xine No WIP for 1.2 series Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Zoom Player Yes No No No No No No
Video player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)

Audio player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)
1by1 Yes No No No No No No
Albumplayer Yes No No No No No No
ALSong Yes No No No No No No
Amarok No[4] Yes (via X11 layer) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
aTunes Yes No[5] Yes No Yes No No
Audacious No Yes(via GTK+ Quartz) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Audion No PPC native[1] No No No No No
Banshee No No Yes ? ? ? No
BOSSA 2000/XP/Vista only No No No No No No
cmus No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Cog No 10.4+ No No No No No
damp No No No No No No Yes
Decibel Audio Player No No Yes No No No No
DeliPlayer Yes No No No No No No
Express Scribe 98 to Vista OS 10.1+ wav, mp3, aiff, dct formats only Yes No No No No
foobar2000 2000/ME/XP/Server 2003 only since v0.9 No No No No No No
JuK No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
KSP Sound Player Yes No No No No No No
Listen No No Yes ? ? ? No
MediaMonkey Yes No No No No No No
Mesk No No Yes ? ? ? No
MP3Toys Yes No No No No No No
MPXPLAY 9x/ME only No No No No No Yes
Music Player Daemon No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Musicmatch Jukebox Yes No No No No No No
musikCube 2000/XP/Server 2003 only No No No No No No
Muzikbrowzer 2000/XP/Server 2003 only No No No No No No
QuickPlayer Yes No No No No No No
Rhapsody Yes No No No No No No
Rhythmbox No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SnackAmp Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Sonique Yes No No No No No No
VUPlayer Yes No No No No No No
XMMS No Yes (via X11 layer) Yes Yes Yes Yes No
XMPlay Yes No No No No No No
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yes No No No No No No
Zinf Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Audio player Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD Unix Solaris Other Unix DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)

Video player Video playback Outbound streaming Skinnable Media Database Gapless Audio Decoding Visualizer Remote Controllable Intelligent Playlists from database (based on criteria)
ALShow Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
BS.Player Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes ?
Elecard MPEG Player Yes No No No No No ? No
GOM Player Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No
iTunes Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
jetAudio Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes ? Yes ? ?
Kaffeine Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No
Kantaris Yes No No No Yes Yes No No
KPlayer Yes No No Yes No No ? ?
Light Alloy Yes No Yes No No No No No
MediaFrame Yes Yes Yes No ? ? ? No
Media Center Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Player Classic Yes No No No No No Yes No
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No
NicePlayer Yes No No No No No Yes No
PowerDVD Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes ? ?
QuickTime Yes Partial[7] Partial[8] No Yes No Yes No
Quintessential Player Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Quickview pro Yes No text-interface No Yes No No No
Radioactive Player Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes ?
RealPlayer Yes No Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes
Songbird Yes[9] No Yes, called Feathers Yes ? ? ? ?
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
Totem Movie Player Yes No No No No Yes No No
Vidlizard Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No
VLC Yes Yes Yes No[10] No Yes Yes No
Winamp Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes[11]
Windows Media Player Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XBMC Yes Yes[12] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
xine Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No
Zoom Player Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes ?
Video player Video playback Outbound streaming Skinnable Media Database Gapless Audio Decoding Visualizer Remote Controllable Intelligent Playlists from database (based on criteria)

Audio player Video playback Outbound streaming Skinnable Media Database Gapless Audio Decoding Visualizer Remote Controllable Intelligent Playlists from database (based on criteria)
1by1 No No No Yes Yes No No ?
AlbumPlayer No No Yes Yes Yes No Partial Yes
ALSong No Yes Yes Yes No No Partial No
Amarok Partial[13] Yes Partial[14] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audacious Partial[15] No Yes No Partial[6] Yes Yes No
Audion No No Yes No ? Yes ? No
Banshee No Yes Partial[16] Yes ? In Development ? Yes
cmus No No No No No No Yes No
Cog No No No No Yes No Yes No
damp No No No No No Yes Yes No
DeliPlayer No No Yes No ? No ? No
Exaile No ? No Yes No No No ?
foobar2000 No Partial[6] Yes[17] Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] Partial[6]
JuK No No No Yes No No Yes[18] ?
KSP Sound Player No No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Listen No No No Yes No Yes ? ?
MediaMonkey Partial[6] Partial[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes
Mesk No No No No No No Yes No
MPXPLAY Only sound output ? text-interface Yes Yes Yes Yes (also LCD-support) ?
Music Player Daemon ? Yes text-interface Yes Yes No Yes No
Musicmatch Jukebox No No Yes Yes ? Yes ? ?
musikCube No No No Yes No Partial[6] ? Yes
Muzikbrowzer No No Partial Yes No No Yes ?
QuickPlayer No No No No ? No ? No
Rhapsody No No No Yes ? No ? ?
Rhythmbox No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SnackAmp No Yes No Yes ? No ? ?
Sonique Partial[6] No Yes No No Yes ? No
VUPlayer No No No No Yes Yes ? No
XMMS Partial[6] Partial[6] Yes No Partial[6] Yes Yes No
XMPlay No Partial[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yahoo! Music Jukebox No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ?
Zinf No No Yes Yes ? No ? ?
Audio player Video playback Outbound streaming Skinnable Media Database Gapless Audio Decoding Visualizer Remote Controllable Intelligent Playlists from database (based on criteria)

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
ALShow No No No Yes No No No No No No
BS.Player Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Elecard MPEG Player ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
GOM Player Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
iTunes No Yes No No No No No No No No
jetAudio ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes
Kaffeine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KPlayer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Light Alloy ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MediaFrame ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Media Center ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Media Player Classic Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial No No No
NicePlayer No No No Yes No No Yes No No Partial
PowerDVD Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes ?
QuickTime Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? No
Quintessential Player ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Quickview pro ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Radioactive Player ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RealPlayer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Songbird ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Totem Movie Player Yes No No No No No Yes No No No
Vidlizard ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
VLC Yes No No No Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ?
Winamp ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Windows Media Player Yes Yes No No ? ? ? ? ? ?
WinDVD Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes ?
XBMC ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
xine Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Zoom Player Yes No No Yes ? Yes Yes Yes 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

Audio player Replay Gain Mass Tagging Time Stretching Pitch Shifting A-B Repeat Bookmark Auto Resume Shutdown on play complete
1by1 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
AlbumPlayer Yes No No No No No Yes No
ALSong ((?)) Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Amarok Partial Yes ? ? ? No Yes Yes
Audacious Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Audion ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Banshee ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
cmus ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Cog ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
damp ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
DeliPlayer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Exaile ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
foobar2000 Yes Yes Partial[6] Partial[6] ? Partial[6] Yes Partial[6]
JuK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
KSP Sound Player ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Listen ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MediaMonkey Yes Yes Partial[6] Partial[6] Partial[6] Partial[6] Partial[6] Yes
Mesk ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MPXPLAY ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Musicmatch Jukebox ? Partial[19] No No ? ? ? ?
musikCube ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Muzikbrowzer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
QuickPlayer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Rhapsody ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Rhythmbox Yes Yes No No No No Yes No
SnackAmp ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sonique No No Yes Yes No No No No
VUPlayer ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
XMMS Partial Yes No No No No Yes No
XMPlay Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ?
Yahoo! Music Jukebox ? Partial[20] No No ? ? ? ?
Zinf ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No
Audio player Replay Gain Mass Tagging Time Stretching Pitch Shifting A-B Repeat Bookmark Auto Resume Shutdown on play complete

Information about which internet protocols the players support, for receiving streaming media content. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Video player HTTP RTSP MMS Podcasting
ALShow Yes No Yes No
Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes
aTunes Yes ? ? Yes
BS.Player Yes No Yes Yes
Elecard MPEG Player Yes Yes No No
GOM Player Yes No Yes No
iTunes Yes Yes No Yes
jetAudio Yes No ? ?
Kantaris Yes Yes Yes ?
KPlayer Yes Yes Yes ?
Light Alloy ? ? ? ?
MediaFrame Yes Yes No ?
Media Center Yes ? ? Yes
Media Player Classic Yes No Yes No
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes ?
NicePlayer Yes Yes ? ?
QuickTime Yes Yes No Yes
Quintessential Player Yes Yes Yes Yes
Radioactive Player No No No No
RealPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes
Songbird Yes ? No ?
The KMPlayer Yes No Yes No
Totem Movie Player Yes Yes Yes No
Vidlizard No No No No
VLC media player Yes Yes Yes Yes
Winamp Yes No Yes Yes
Windows Media Player Yes Yes Yes Yes
XBMC Yes Yes Yes Yes
xine Yes Yes Yes No
XMMS Yes ? ? ?
Zoom Player Yes No Yes Yes
Audio player HTTP RTSP MMS Podcasting
1by1 No No No No
Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audacious Yes Yes[21] No No
Audion Yes No No No
Banshee Yes No No Yes
cmus Yes No No No
Cog No No No No
DeliPlayer Yes No No No
foobar2000 Yes No No Partial[22]
JuK ? ? ? ?
KSP Sound Player Yes ? Yes Yes
Listen Yes Yes No Yes
MediaMonkey Yes No No Yes[23]
Mesk Yes No No No
Musicmatch Jukebox Yes ? ? ?
musikCube Yes No No ?
QuickPlayer No No No No
Rhapsody Yes Yes Yes Yes
Rhythmbox Yes Yes No Partial[24]
SnackAmp Yes No No Yes
Sonique Yes ? ? ?
VUPlayer Yes ? ? ?
XMMS Yes ? ? ?
XMPlay Yes ? Yes Yes
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yes ? ? ?
Zinf Yes Yes No No
Audio player HTTP RTSP MMS Podcasting

Information about what audio codecs, and by extension their native audio file formats, the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality.

Video player Lossy compression Lossless compression
MP3 WMA RealAudio Vorbis Musepack AAC AC3 APE FLAC ALAC SHN WV
ALShow Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
BS.Player Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
Elecard MPEG Player No No No No No Yes No No No No No No
GOM Player Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No
iTunes Yes yes, no DRM No Partial[26] No Yes No No Partial[26] Yes No No
jetAudio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No No
Kantaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
KPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Light Alloy Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
MediaFrame Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No No
Media Center Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Player Classic Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
NicePlayer Yes Partial[27] No Partial[26] Partial[6] Yes Partial[6] No Partial[26] Yes Partial[6] Partial[6]
QuickTime Yes Partial[27] No Partial[26] No Yes Partial[6] No Partial[26] Yes No No
Quickview pro Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Quintessential Player Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Partial[6] Partial[6] No No Partial[6]
Radioactive Player Yes Yes No Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] No No Partial[25]
RealPlayer Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] No Yes No No No No No No
Songbird Yes Yes No Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ?
Spider Player Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial[25] Yes
Totem Movie Player Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28]
Vidlizard Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
VLC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes[29]
Winamp Yes Yes Partial[25] Yes Partial[30] Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30]
Windows Media Player Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
XBMC 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
Zoom Player Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
Audio player MP3 WMA RealAudio Vorbis Musepack AAC AC3 APE FLAC ALAC SHN WV
1by1 Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
AlbumPlayer Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes
Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes Partial No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audacious Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes
Audion Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Banshee Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28]
Cog Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
cmus Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No
DeliPlayer Yes No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No
Exaile Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28]
foobar2000 Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes Yes
JuK Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No
KSP Sound Player Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Listen Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No
MediaMonkey Yes Yes No Yes Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] Partial[6]
Mesk Yes[28] No No Yes[28] No No No No No No No No
MP3Toys Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No
MPXPLAY Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Music Player Daemon Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No ? Yes No No No
Musicmatch Jukebox Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No
musikCube Yes Partial[30] No Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Yes Yes No No Partial[30]
Muzikbrowzer Yes Yes No Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] No No Partial[25]
QuickPlayer Yes Partial[25] No Yes No No[31] No No No[31] No No No
Rhapsody Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No
Rhythmbox Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28]
SnackAmp Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Sonique Yes Yes No Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] No No No No No No
VUPlayer Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes
XMMS Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Yes Yes No Partial[30] Yes No Partial[30] Yes
XMPlay Yes Yes Partial[30] Yes Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30] Partial[30]
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No
Zinf Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No
Audio player MP3 WMA RealAudio Vorbis Musepack AAC AC3 APE FLAC ALAC SHN WV

Information about what video codecs the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality. (Note: Pure audio players are not listed)

Video player MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2) H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (MPEG-4 Part 10) WMV RealVideo Theora Flash
ALShow Yes Yes Yes ? Yes No No No
BS.Player Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Yes
Elecard MPEG Player Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No
GOM Player Yes Partial[25] Yes Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Yes
iTunes Yes Partial[33] Yes Yes Partial[27] No Partial[26] Yes
jetAudio Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Yes
Kantaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
KPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Light Alloy Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] No
MediaFrame Yes No Yes No No No No No
Media Center Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes No Yes
Media Player Classic Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Partial[32]
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
NicePlayer Yes Partial[33] Yes Yes Partial[27] No Partial[26] Yes
QuickTime Yes Partial[33] Yes Yes Partial[27] No Partial[26] Yes
Quintessential Player Yes No No No Yes No No No
Quickview pro Yes Yes Yes ? No No No No
Radioactive Player Yes Yes Partial[25] ? Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Yes
RealPlayer Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Yes Partial[6] Yes
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Totem Movie Player Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] No
VLC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Vidlizard Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] No
Winamp Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] No
Windows Media Player Yes Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Yes
XBMC Yes Yes Yes Limited[34] Yes Yes Yes Yes
xine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zoom Player Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Partial[32]
Video player MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10) WMV RealVideo Theora Flash

Information about what container formats the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality.

Video player AVI ASF QuickTime Ogg OGM Matroska MP4
ALShow Yes Yes Yes Vorbis only Yes Yes Yes
BS.Player Yes Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
Elecard MPEG Player Yes No No No No No Yes
GOM Player Yes Yes Yes Vorbis only Yes Yes Yes
iTunes No[35] Win: yes
Mac: file is parsable		 Yes Partial[26] No No Yes
jetAudio Yes Yes Partial[32] Vorbis only Yes Yes Partial[25]
Kantaris Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Light Alloy Yes Yes Partial[32] Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
MediaFrame No No No Vorbis only No No AAC only
Media Center Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Media Player Classic Yes Yes Yes Vorbis only Yes Yes Yes
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
NicePlayer Yes Partial[27] Yes Partial[26] Partial[36]| style="background:#90ff90; color:black;" class="table-yes" | Yes[37] Yes
QuickTime Yes Partial[27] Yes Partial[26] No Yes[37] Yes
Quickview pro Yes No Yes No No No ?
Quintessential Player Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Radioactive Player Yes Yes No Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] No
RealPlayer Yes Yes Yes Partial[6] Partial[6] No Yes
Songbird Yes No No Yes No No Yes
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Totem Movie Player Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28] Yes[28]
Vidlizard Yes Yes Partial[32] Yes Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
VLC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Winamp Yes Yes Partial[32] Vorbis only Partial[25] Partial[25] Yes
Windows Media Player Yes Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
XBMC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
xine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zoom Player Yes Yes Partial[32] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25] Partial[25]
Audio player AVI ASF QuickTime Ogg OGM Matroska MP4
1by1 No No No No No No No
Amarok Yes Yes Yes Yes Basic Basic Yes
Audacious No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Audion No No No No No No No
cmus No No No Vorbis only No No AAC only
Cog No No No Yes No No No
DeliPlayer No No No Vorbis only No No No
foobar2000 No Yes No Yes No Partial[6] Yes
JuK No No No Vorbis only No No No
KSP Sound Player No No No Vorbis only No No AAC only
Listen No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
MediaMonkey No No No Vorbis only No No No
Mesk No No No Vorbis only No No No
MPXPLAY Yes Yes No Yes ? ? Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox No No No No No No No
musikCube No No No Vorbis only No No No
QuickPlayer No No No ? No No No
Rhapsody No No No No No No No
Rhythmbox No No No Vorbis only No No ?
Sonique No[30] No No Yes No No No
VUPlayer No No No Vorbis only No No No
XMMS No No No Vorbis only No No No
XMPlay No No No Vorbis only No No AAC only
Zinf No No No Vorbis only No No No
Audio player AVI ASF QuickTime Ogg OGM Matroska MP4

Information about what optical discs the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Video player Audio Video
CD DVD-Audio HDCD VCD SVCD DVD HD DVD Blu-ray
ALShow Yes No No ? ? Yes No No
BS.Player Yes No No No No Yes No No
Elecard MPEG Player No No No No No No No No
GOM Player Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
iTunes Yes No No No No No No No
jetAudio Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Kantaris Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
KPlayer Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Light Alloy Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
MediaFrame No No No No No No No No
Media Center Yes No No ? ? Yes No No
Media Player Classic Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
MPlayer Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
NicePlayer No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
QuickTime Yes No No Yes Yes No No No
Quickview pro Yes No No Yes No No No No
Quintessential Player Yes No No No No No No No
Radioactive Player No No No No No No No No
RealPlayer Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Songbird Yes No No No No No No No
The KMPlayer Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Totem Movie Player Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Vidlizard Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
VLC Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Winamp Yes No Yes No No No No No
Windows Media Player Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No
XBMC Yes Yes Partial[38] Yes Yes Yes No No
xine Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Zoom Player Yes No No Yes No Yes No No
Audio player CD DVD-Audio HDCD VCD SVCD DVD HD DVD Blu-ray
AlbumPlayer No No No No No No No No
Amarok Yes No No No No No No No
Audacious Yes No No No No No No No
Audion Yes No No No No No No No
cmus No No No No No No No No
Cog No No No No No No No No
DeliPlayer No No No No No No No No
foobar2000 Yes No No No No No No No
JuK Yes[39] No No No No No No No
KSP Sound Player Yes No No No No No No No
MediaMonkey Yes No No No No No No No
Mesk Yes No No No No No No No
Musicmatch Jukebox Yes No No No No No No No
musikCube Yes No No No No No No No
QuickPlayer Yes No No No No No No No
Rhapsody Yes No No No No No No No
Rhythmbox Yes No No No No No No No
Sonique Yes No No No No No No No
VUPlayer Yes No No No No No No No
XMMS Yes No No No No No No No
XMPlay Yes No No No No No No No
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yes No No No No No No No
Zinf Yes No No No No No No No
Audio player CD DVD-Audio HDCD VCD SVCD DVD HD DVD Blu-ray

Information about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players support. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Video player ID3v1 ID3v2 APEv2 tag Vorbis comment Cue sheet CD-Text
ALShow Yes Yes No Yes No ?
BS.Player Yes Yes No No ? ?
Cog Yes Yes Yes Yes No ?
Elecard MPEG Player No No No No ? ?
GOM Player No No No No ? ?
iTunes Yes Yes No ? ? Yes
jetAudio Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Kantaris Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes
KPlayer Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
Light Alloy ? ? ? ? ? ?
MediaFrame No No No ? ? ?
Media Center Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Media Player Classic Yes No ? Partial ? ?
MPlayer Yes No No Yes Partial[40] ?
NicePlayer No No No ? ? ?
QuickTime Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Quintessential Player Yes Yes ? Yes ? ?
Radioactive Player Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
RealPlayer Yes Yes ? No ? Yes
Songbird Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Totem Movie Player Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Vidlizard Yes Yes No No ? ?
VLC Yes Yes No Partial No ?
Winamp Yes Yes Partial[41] Yes Partial[6] Yes
Windows Media Player Yes Yes ? No ? ?
XBMC Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
xine Yes Partial[42] ? Yes ? ?
Zoom Player Yes Yes ? Yes ? ?
Audio player ID3v1 ID3v2 APEv2 tag Vorbis comment Cue sheet CD-Text
AlbumPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Amarok Yes[43] Yes[43] Yes[43] Yes Yes ?
Audacious Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Audion Yes Yes No No ? ?
cmus Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Cog Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
DeliPlayer Yes Yes No ? ? ?
foobar2000 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
JuK Yes[43] Yes[43] Yes[43] Yes[43] ? ?
KSP Sound Player Yes Yes Partial Yes ? ?
Listen Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
MediaMonkey Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Mesk Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
MPXPLAY Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Musicmatch Jukebox Yes Yes No ? ? ?
musikCube Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
Muzikbrowzer Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
QuickPlayer Partial[42] Partial[42] No ? ? ?
Rhapsody Yes Yes No No ? ?
Rhythmbox Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ?
SnackAmp Yes Yes No ? ? ?
Sonique Yes No ? ? ? ?
VUPlayer Yes Yes Yes ? ? ?
XMMS Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
XMPlay Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
Zinf Yes Yes No Yes ? ?
Audio player ID3v1 ID3v2 APEv2 tag Vorbis comment Cue sheet CD-Text

Information about what subtitle formats the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality. (Note: Pure audio players are not listed)

Video player Bitmap Text Bitmap
VobSub (.idx+.sub) SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass) SubRip (.srt) SAMI (.smi) RealText (.rt) MicroDVD (.sub) Subviewer (.sub) Text file[44] (.txt) PowerDivx (.psb) Universal Subtitle Format (.usf) Structured Subtitle Format (.ssf) XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles)
ALShow Yes No Yes Yes No ? ? ? No No No No
BS.Player Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes[46] No Yes Yes Yes Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[25]
Elecard MPEG Player No No No No No No No No No No No No
GOM Player Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No
iTunes No No No No No No No No No No No No
jetAudio No Partial[45] Yes No No Yes ? No Yes Yes No No
Kantaris Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No No
KPlayer Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Light Alloy Yes Partial[45] Yes No No Yes ? No No No No No
Media Center No No No No No No No No No No No No
MediaFrame No No No No No No No No No No No No
Media Player Classic Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[32] Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[25]
MPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No
NicePlayer No Partial[45] Yes No No Yes No No No No No No
QuickTime No Yes[37] Yes[37] No No No No No No No No No
Quickview pro No Partial[45] Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Quintessential Player No No No No No No No No No No No No
Radioactive Player No No No No No No No No No No No No
RealPlayer Yes[6] No Yes[6] Yes Yes Yes[6] ? Yes[6] No No No No
The Core Media Player ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ?
The KMPlayer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[25]
Totem Movie Player Yes Partial[45] Yes No No ? ? ? No No No No
Vidlizard Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] No Yes[46] No Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[25]
VLC media player Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Winamp Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] No Yes[46] No Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[25]
Windows Media Player Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] No Yes[46] No Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[25]
XBMC Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No[47] No[47] No[47] No[47]
xine [48] Yes Partial[45] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No No
Zoom Player Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] No Yes[46] No Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[46] Yes[25]
Video player VobSub (.idx+.sub) SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass) SubRip (.srt) Sami (.smi) RealText (.rt) MicroDVD (.sub) Subviewer (.sub) TXT (.txt) PowerDivx (.psb) Universal Subtitle Format (.usf) Structured Subtitle Format (.ssf) XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles)

Free software Portal

  1. ^ a b Might be usable with Rosetta.
  2. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) is design to run natively on the Xbox game-console but XBMC was in November 2006 partially ported to Win32 to run on Microsoft Windows, but only the GUI part for development purposes so far.
  3. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) is in the procces of being ported to linux and can as of today (nov 2007) play music and video decent. But is not yet in beta state.
  4. ^ Windows will be supported by Amarok 2 because Amarok 2 (and its dependency KDE-libs) will use the Qt4 toolkit.
  5. ^ Currently no Java 6 for Mac OS X available
  6. ^ 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 aq ar as at au av aw Plugin available.
  7. ^ Available with QuickTime Streaming Server.
  8. ^ Only the media creator can create skins.
  9. ^ Songbird uses the VLC plugin for media playback
  10. ^ VLC 0.9.0 will have a media library amongst many other new features.
  11. ^ through media library in "modern" skin
  12. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) 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)
  13. ^ Basic support with NMM
  14. ^ Context Browser uses CSS.
  15. ^ Basic support via MPlayer backend
  16. ^ The user interface is a pluggable Mono Assembly
  17. ^ UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000.
  18. ^ Using DCOP
  19. ^ Paid version only
  20. ^ Paid version only
  21. ^ Supported through libnms
  22. ^ 3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features.
  23. ^ Present in version 3.0 currently going through Alpha Testing.
  24. ^ As of 0.9.2 it allows reading RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts available.
  25. ^ 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 aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa fb fc The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis, FLAC (No FLAC container support), Speex, and Theora.
  27. ^ a b c d e f g The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime.
  28. ^ 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 aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl Available through a Gstreamer plugin.
  29. ^ Currently only plays WavPack files that are muxed into a Matroska container
  30. ^ 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 Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation
  31. ^ a b Requires another sound system.
  32. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t The playing compatibility of Media Player depends on the availability of DirectShow, QuickTime, RealMedia and Shockwave filters. There are two distributions known as QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative which bundle the required QuickTime and RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponding players.
  33. ^ a b c The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for Quicktime.
  34. ^ Because of the relatively 'slow' Intel Pentium III 733 MHz processor inside the Xbox, XBMC is limited to decoding 480x576 resolution MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video encoded without CABAC and deblocking, or 352x288 resolution MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video encoded with CABAC and deblocking. As the FFmpeg-based codec is optimized further, XBMC might be able to decode MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) at 720x480 resolution on the Xbox hardware, but probably not higher than that unless XBMC moves to another, faster platform.
  35. ^ A hack allows playback.
  36. ^ PPC only plugin to NicePlayer that adds the Xine engine for video playback.
  37. ^ a b c d The open source Perian plug-in adds support for many video formats and codecs to QuickTime. It also adds support for SubRip and SubStation Alpha subtitles.
  38. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) can play back HDCD [High Definition Compact Disc] but only in backward compatibility mode so you will not gain any sound-quality benefits over standard Audio-CDs.
  39. ^ Requires K3B
  40. ^ MPlayer can read .cue files with cue:// type URL, but has problems, see Talk:Cue sheet (computing)#mplayer have more faults
  41. ^ Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible.
  42. ^ a b c Displays basic ID3v1 / ID3v2 / Ogg Vorbis tags
  43. ^ a b c d e f g Support of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
  44. ^ This player supports to open files with the extension .txt, but those could contain any script language. So there is no guarantee it will play it.
  45. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l This player supports some of the formatting data from SSA/ASS (at most coloring but no positioning, animation, typesetting etc.), but some players could add full support by using VSFilter as external subtitle filter instead of their build-in one.
  46. ^ 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 For Windows, support of many subtitle formats can be added by installing VSFilter or ffdshow.
  47. ^ a b c d XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) uses the subtitle library / source code from MPlayer so when/if MPlayer can display these subtitles then XBMC will soon be able to display them too.
  48. ^ Kaffeine Player Homepage. Kaffeine FAQ. Retrieved on 2007-04-05.
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