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Audio - Players (17)

SMPlayer v24.5.0

SYSTEM on 15 May 2024
  • 225MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 May 2024
  • Suggested by Jainendra

SMPlayer is a feature-rich, skinnable player that views most media without any dependency on installed codecs, as well as streaming media, Youtube and DVD video. Audio, video and subtitle settings for individual files are all remembered between sessions so you can start again exactly where and how you left off. Supports subtitle downloading, youtube support, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, equalizer, filters, playlist support and much more.

The program is a frontend for MPlayer and mpv that also works on Linux. Alternatively, SMPlayer Portable (stealth and adjusts paths) and the outdated X-SMPlayer and are also available.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes. Under Options, Preferences, select Advanced, Advanced, and make sure Pass short filenames (8+3) to MPlayer is selected.
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the "portable" 7Z package (32- or 64-bit) and extract using a 7-Zip-compatible program to a folder of your choice. Launch smplayer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: MPC-HC, VLC, PotPlayer
What's new?
  • Bug fixes.
  • The Windows portable version now saves the configuration files in the folder "config".
Latest comments
Andrew Lee on 2021-08-22 21:58

@dmiranda: Entry updated to remove WinXP.

dmiranda on 2024-05-17 13:39

Happy to tell that the last 2-3 versions are working well in XP now

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mpv.net v7.1.1.0

Andrew Lee on 3 Feb 2024
  • 82MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Feb 2022
  • Suggested by Midas

mpv.net is a media player based on mpv. It's a highly advanced and extremely configurable player that targets power users. Unlike similar tools, the program uses FFmpeg for decoding instead of relying on DirectShow or Media Foundation. mpv.net adds a modern GUI on top of mpv but retains mpv's command line support.

mpv has OpenGL video output with support for several video scaling algorithms, color management, interpolation, HDR, D3D11VA and DXVA2 hardware video decoding, and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\mpv.net
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract:
  1. Download the "portable" ZIP or 7Z package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Within the folder, create a subfolder named portable_config
  3. Launch mpvnet.exe
Similar/alternative apps: SMPlayer
What's new? See: https://github.com/stax76/mpv.net/releases

Light Alloy v4.11.2

webfork on 31 May 2021
  • 36MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Apr 2021
  • Suggested by joby_toss

Light Alloy is a lightweight, feature-rich, customisable media player. The program can play a long list of audio, video, and playlist formats, DVD/Blue-Ray, internet radio stations, and online videos including YouTube. The program supports keyboard shortcuts, global keys and tray control.

Includes available Internet radio recording capability.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch LA.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: MPC-HC, PotPlayer, SMPlayer
What's new? See:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://light-alloy.com/releases/
Latest comments
ozziguy on 2016-12-26 09:01

The Fosshub link does work but not with any download manager

Note that XP and Vista support has been removed from the 4.9 series, so grab 4.8.8.2 while you still can

tomcat on 2024-10-11 08:24

The player doesn't seem to have a stop button, which is both strange and inconvenient.

joby_toss on 2024-10-12 02:17

Indeed, no skin displays the Stop button and that is indeed strange because there is a shortcut (default Alt+Q) for that action.

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MPlayerGUI v0.6.79

billon on 21 Oct 2017
  • 858KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Sep 2011
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

MPlayerGUI is a graphical frontend for MPlayer, a cross-platform media decoder that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX, without additional codecs. It includes a visual equalizer to control brightness/contrast/hue/saturation, playlist and shuffling, right-click context menu etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete content of Source folder and rename it to mplayer
  3. Download latest build of MPlayer here or here and extract to mplayer folder
  4. Launch MPlayerGUI.exe
Latest comments
Arckeron on 2008-07-10 05:48

Version 0.5.19 download here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=230386

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Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 Revision 107

Andrew Lee on 10 Apr 2020
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 May 2012
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Media Player Classic is a powerful and efficient media player that appears as an earlier version of Windows Media Player. You can configure keyboard commands, configure/reorder/disable codecs/filters etc.

Note: There is another fork of Media Player Classic available called
Media Player Classic Home Cinema.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: GDIPLUS.DLL
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: Yes. There are two versions of the player to choose from. The 98/ME version works on all versions of Windows but does not support Unicode. The 2K/XP version only works on WinNT and higher.
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayerc.exe. Select View, Options, Player and check "Store settings to .ini file" to store settings in the application folder instead of the registry.
What's new? Added Win7/8 Support
Latest comments
dianoga on 2009-09-01 17:11

Many new changes in the latest version of MPC-HC as jazzruby said. They even changed the exe name! I propose MPC-HC has its own entry now.

Aterdin on 2009-09-03 12:50

MPC Homecinema now winPenPack portable app http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.1228
In this version all play list and recent files paths are normalized.

Masterbrowser on 2010-10-27 20:36

If I am correct, creating an .ini file in the application folder with the same name as the .exe file (eg. mpc-hc.ini or mpc-hc64.ini) and with the first line reading [Settings] will make the application portable. All settings will be written to the ini file and default.mpcpl in the application folder. This will prevent settings to be written to the registry or to the %appdata% folder.

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MPlayer WW SVN-r37356

billon on 20 Oct 2017
  • 35MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Jan 2015
  • Suggested by the_watcher

MPlayer WW is a feature-rich media player that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX without additional codecs. Includes a native UI, options dialog (MEditor, MEditor2) and skin support.

Even more codecs and tools are available in the MPlayer Extra Package. MPlayer WW is a code fork of mplayer.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: DirectX is required if running in Direct3D mode on Vista+.
Stealth: ? No. DVDs cause %APPDATA%\dvdcss.
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL v2
How to extract: Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayer.exe
What's new? See:
https://sourceforge.net/p/mplayer-ww/code/ci/master/tree/
Latest comments
Allen on 2013-01-29 23:20

Anyone know how to install the "Mplayer extra package" listed above?
Thanks

smaragdus on 2015-01-20 02:26

The latest version of MPlayer WW is SVN-r37356

Checker on 2015-01-20 16:00

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

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Ziepod v1.0

webfork on 28 Feb 2017
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Oct 2007
  • Suggested by CyberCeed

Ziepod is an audio podcast manager, RSS & ATOM Feed reader, and Podcast Streamer.

You can search for and play podcasts from within the player (MP3s, etc. using installed codecs).

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Installed Codex
Stealth: ? No
Path portability: Requires manual entry of drive-less absolute path (eg. \docs\personal\work.doc without the drive letter)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Ziepod.EXE.
Similar/alternative apps: gPodder
Robert's Podcatcher
Latest comments
I am Baas on 2014-01-30 05:12

Is it stealth?

Is ZiepodOneClicker.dll required?

What about ZiepodUninstaller.exe?

donald on 2014-01-30 21:54

My copy does not have either.

olliebean on 2017-03-29 21:11

This is a great piece of software, but with one major flaw: it can't cope with https. If the feed has an https url, it won't read it. If the feed is http, but the enclosures are https, it won't download them. If anyone knows of a workaround for this, I'd love to hear it.

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