ALLPlayer is one of the most popular programs for watching movies with matching subtitles. It plays all known media formats, RAR files, and futhermore has an implemented LiveUpdate function to update the latest codecs if there is a problem with opening a movie file.
 

Main features:
•Most popular formats such as DivX, XviD, MP3, and AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, RMVB, WMV, QuickTime, MOV, FLAC, APE, and many more less known formats can be played thanks to codecs downloaded by the program (only ALLPlayer needs to be installed).
•DVD support.
•Two monitors or monitor and TV support.
•Support for Dolby Surround, SPDIF and 3D audio.
•Intelligent subtitles - the program checks the length of the subtitles and sets the time duration.
•Subtitles editor.
•LiveUpdate - an option for detecting missing codecs needed to open a file.
•AVI Doctor - repairs damaged avi files. This function allows you to watch a movie which is damaged, or a movie which is downloading.

BSplayer is an application that plays back all kinds of media files (avi,mpg,asf,wmv,wav,mp3...) and specialises in video and DIVX playback.
Main Features
•Display subtitles - Support custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency,... Supported formats: MicroDVD, Subviewer, SubRip
•Fully skinnable - Any shape, transparent skins...
•Resizable movie window
•Multilingual
•Drag & drop support
•Command line support
•Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option
•Custom aspect ratios
•Playlist support
•Resolution changing
•Frame capture
•AVI files with more than 2 audio streams supported (multilanguage)
•Support for OGM files, including more then 2 audio/video tracks, supports embeded subtitles/chapters
•External audio file supported
•S/PDIF output supported for AC3 files (with Intervideo audio decoder)
•INI files
•Remote control support - WinLIRC
•Bookmarks
•Simple equalizer (DirectX 8 required)
•Playback rate (1/2x, 1x, 2x) and custom
•and lots of other features not listed here, try it out.

DivX®  for Windows is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on your computer, including HD H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology. You can also play your DivX files (.divx, .avi) on millions of DivX Certified® devices today. Look for DivX Plus™ HD Certified devices later this year that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus files, as well as .mkv (H.264/AAC) videos from the Internet.

Web Player: DivX Web Player lets you play up to HD-quality DivX® video in your web browser. You can also use DivX Web Player to easily embed DivX videos onto your website or blog.

Community Codec: With the DivX Community Codec, you can watch high-quality DivX® and DivX Plus™ (.mkv) videos using your favorite media player or create DivX files with popular third-party software.

Drag-and-drop DivX HD video creation (15-day trial): Convert your digital videos to the DivX® format for playback on your computer or DivX Certified® devices in one easy step. DivX Converter now supports the new DivX Plus™ HD profile so you can easily convert your HD video to H.264 (.mkv) with AAC audio.

DivX Pro Codec (15-day trial): The codec that revolutionized the video world is at it again.

foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

Main features:
•Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
•Gapless playback.
•Full unicode support.
•Easily customizable user interface layout.
•Advanced tagging capabilities.
•Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
•Full ReplayGain support.
•Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
•Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in.

Codec Finder

GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one.

Play Broken AVI Files (Patented)

GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken indexes or that are still being downloaded.

Powerful Subtitle Support

GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there's any mismatch.

Convenient Playlist

If you run a video file and there is already a file with a similar name in the directory, it will be automatically added to your playlist. GOM Player has a similar playlist format as M3U, PLS, ASX.

Support Different Media Types

Along with different media format such as AVI, MPG, MPEG and DAT, GOM Player also supports streaming Windows media format (WMV, ASF, ASX). You can also watch DVD-quality videos with 5.1 channel audio output.

iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.

•Organize your music into playlists
•Edit file information
•Record compact discs
•Copy files to an iPod or other digital audio player
•Purchase music and videos on the Internet through the built-in iTunes store
•Run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music
•Encode music into a number of different audio formats.

32 and 64 bit versions are available.

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The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways.
 

The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.
 

In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.

RealPlayer has always enabled you to play RealAudio (*.ra) and RealMedia (*.ram) files.

•Download videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click
•Build your own video library and playlists
•Play all major audio and video formats
•Flash Video support
•DVD, SVCD, VCD burning and video recording
RealPlayer for personal use includes audio CD burning capabilities, DVR-style playback buffering, multimedia search, Internet radio, a jukebox-style file library, an embedded web browser (using Microsoft Internet Explorer), and the ability to transfer media to a number of portable devices, including Apple's iPod, MP3 players, and Windows Media devices.

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

It is integrated with these Web 2.0 services: mashTape, SHOUTcast Radio, Last.fm Scrobbling, and Songkick concert tickets. You can enhance Songbird with community-contributed plugins like Media Flow.
 

Features include:
•GStreamer
•Smart Playlists
•Built-In Web Browser
•Multi-language Support
•Automatic Updates
•Setup Assistant
•Custom User Interface
•Library Management
•Developer Support

Beta features include portable device support, metadata management, album artwork, and subscriptions.

SMPlayer is a front-end for the mighty open source MPlayer. It comprises basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...

But there are even more interesting features:
•Configurable subtitles. You can choose font and size, and even colors for the subtitles.
•Audio track switching. You can choose the audio track you want to listen. Works with avi and mkv. And of course with DVDs.
•Seeking by mouse wheel. You can use your mouse wheel to go forward or backward in the video.
•Video equalizer, allows you to adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation and gamma of the video image.
•Multiple speed playback. You can play at 2X, 4X... and even in slow motion.
•Filters. Several filters are available: deinterlace, postprocessing, denoise... and even a karaoke filter (voice removal).
•Audio and subtitles delay adjustment. Allows you to sync audio and subtitles.
•Advanced options, such as selecting a demuxer or video & audio codecs.
•Playlist. Allows you to enqueue several files to be played one after each other. Autorepeat and shuffle supported too.
•Preferences dialog. You can easily configure every option of SMPlayer by using a nice preferences dialog.
•Possibility to search automatically for subtitles in opensubtitles.org.
•Translations: currently SMPlayer is translated into more than 20 languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese....

A little bonus tool in the SMPlayer package is the "YouTube(TM) Browser for SMPlayer" providing you with a quick access to the most popular, most viewed and most rated videos on YouTube.

VirtualDJ (VDJ) is a feature-packed deejaying software for mixing and playing digital audio and video tracks. The UI resembles a classic DJ setup with a mixer and two turntables but can be expanded to 4 decks or more. It’s vinyl emulation feature allows to control music files on the computer through physical turntables which makes the mixing and scratching experience authentic and far more powerful than using keyboard and mouse. VirtualDJ’s large range of features include standard controls (play, pause, stop, cue), automatic BPM and KEY calculation, a 3 band equalizer, pitch control, real scratch simulation, karaoke support, CD to MP3 encoder, compatibility with iTunes playlists, recording of DJ sessions and many more.

SopCast is free tool to watch TV and video, and listen to music and other audio streams on your PC. The software is also configurable as a broadcaster to deliver your own content to an online audience via P2P. Using your home computer with a broadband connection you can stream your video and audio to thousands of people. Many TV stations and Video-on-Demand services are accessible through the Web. Some channels are pre-defined but the Internet holds thousands more that broadcast live and on-demand content like sports, documentaries, TV shows and news from dozens of countries. To watch them SopCast uses Windows Media Player by default but allows to connect other media players like VLC or Miro. Channels can be recorded for later watching either immediately or after setting a one-off or repeated timer.

Supported Streaming Formats: ASF, WMV, RM, RMVB, MP3, SPL

Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format media player.

Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.

You can extend Winamp's functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.