Quack Player is a media player developed to run under Windows. Quack Player supports a wide range of codecs and multimedia media file formats including AVI, WMA, WMV, MPG, MOV, MP3 and plenty more. Quack Player is intended to provide a simple and enjoyable media player experience.

These are the primary capabilities of Quack Player:

- Easy Playlist navigation
- Easy Playlist building
- Snapshot taking - capture a frame within a video
- Wide range of media file handling
- Minimize to system tray
- Hue, Contrast, Brightness and Saturation Adjustment
- Sound Equalizer Adjustment
- Drag-and-Drop Support
- Animated interface

Developer: HD1988 Labs
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 6.1 MB
Download Quack Player 2.0.0.1 link

Nullsoft Winamp 5 Full is a fast and high-fidelity media player for Windows.

Besides MP3, Winamp supports a very wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and Windows Media Audio. Winamp was one of the first common music players on Windows to support playback of Ogg Vorbis by default. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume levelling 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 uses Windows’ DirectShow API to support playback of the same video formats as Windows Media Player, along with Nullsoft Streaming Video. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

Features:

Winamp Main Window
* Winamp 5.5 features our new Bento Skin that’s easier to use and more powerful than ever.
* Easily access the Media Library, Playlist Editor, Video, Visualizations, Media Monitor Browser, EQ, Skin Options and Color Themes all from one single user interface.
* Includes over 20 color themes that suit nearly every mood or occasion!
* Winamp 5.5 carries forward the unobtrusive “Window Shade” mode.

Winamp Library

* Organize and find your favorite songs and videos in ONE place
* Rip your favorite music CDs into AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV or FLAC (Ripping limited to ~6x speeds for free users. MP3 encoding is only available in Winamp Pro)
* Burn your favorite music compilations to Audio CD (limited to 2x speed for free users)
* Media Library “Smart Views” allow you to easily create rule based lists of your media
* Easily modify your music collections tags (Artist, Album, Genre, Title, etc.)
* Download and view cover art for all of your albums
* Online Services
o Easily tune into user created Internet TV and Radio stations
o Over 10,000 SHOUTcast Radio stations and 250 Internet TV channels to choose from
o Bookmark your favorite stations and channels for future access
o Hundreds of Winamp Music and AOL Videos for your viewing pleasure
o Other integrated features include: In2TV, Games, Winamp Remote, and more.
* Now Playing
o View album art, artist biographies, discographies
o Keep track of your favorite artists by browsing fan sites and news articles presented in the client
o Easily buy your favorite CDs, memorabilia, or just sell your own
* Download or subscribe to music and video podcasts via the Podcast Directory
* Easily manage all of your Portable Media Players. Winamp natively supports the following devices:
o iPod (Original, Shuffle, Nano & Classic, but NOT iTouch or iPhone)
o Creative Nomad/Zen/MuVo
o PlaysForSure (P4S) devices
o USB Thumbdrives
o ActiveSync devices

Developer: AOL/Nullsoft
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 8.7 MB
Download Winamp 5.54 link

#1 DVD Ripper provides you a fast and easy way to back up your favorite DVD movies and not worry your children might be scratching the copies during day-to-day use. You can easily convert DVD to AVI with latest DivX codec, MP4/H264, MPEG, WMV, MP3 and other formats. You can take your DVD’s on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on your computer, laptop, iPod, iPhone, PSP or pocket pc on vacation, at work or at school, no matter where you are, no need to take DVD Disc.

Supports Apple iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Microsoft Zune, Sony PSP, PS3, XBOX 360,Windows Mobile Pocket PC, Creative Zen Vision (and Vision M), Archos Media Player, HP iPAQ Pocket PC, Windows Smartphone, Video Cell / Mobile Phone, Windows CE handheld device.

#1 DVD Ripper powerful capability:
* Rips DVD to avi with AC3 or DTS audio.
* New preview ripping mode. See details.
* More compatible with most DVD like home made DVD and any other DVD playable.
* Built-in full functioned DVD player.
* Rips all newly released DVD movies and home DVD in the market. (Unique in the world)
* Rip DVD to Wii, PS3, Xbox360.
* Convert recorded DVD to Windows Media Player compatible.
* Rip DVD to MPEG1/VCD PAL/NTSC.
* Rip DVD to MPEG2/SVCD PAL/NTSC.
* Rip DVD to DivX, AVI, XviD.
* Rip DVD to WMV((Zune, Pocket PC, XBOX 360, Archos Media Player, HP iPAQ Pocket PC, Creative Zen Vision…).
* Rip DVD to MP4/H264 ,MP3, M4A,AAC for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen players and many other portable players.
* Rip DVD to 3GP, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, M4A for playback on almost all mobile phones.
* Extract the selected clip or scene from a DVD .
* Rip each chapters from a DVD movie.
* Crop settings for removing black bar of DVD movie.
* Built-in AC3,DTS,LPCM,MPEG2 audio decoding.
* Supports Ripping CSS(Content Scrambling System) protected DVD movies.
* Removes region protection(Region-free) and Macrovision Protection.
* Rips SONY ARccOS protected DVD movies(Unique in the world).

Developer: Apollo Multimedia
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 5.6 MB
Download #1 DVD Ripper 7.30 link

DivX for Windows gives you everything you need to create and play high-quality DivX videos on your PC and beyond.

The free DivX for Windows download includes:

* DivX Codec 6.8 (with 15-day trial of DivX Pro Codec) - High quality, great compression
** Up to 50% faster decoding on multi-core computers for better HD playback
** New custom matrices that allow better fine tuning of the encoder for specific content types
** Compress digital video 5 to 10 times more than MPEG-2/DVD format and hundreds of times over raw digital video
** Encode high-definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p
** Play DivX videos on almost any 3rd party software media player
** Achieve the perfect balance between visual quality and performance with six carefully optimized encoding modes
** Enjoy maximized performance for all multithreaded processors (Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64 FX)
** Reduce grain and low-light noise (common with DV cameras) without significantly degrading the video with the automated noise reduction feature

* DivX Web Player 1.4 - Play DivX videos in your browser
** Cross-platform support - Compatible with nearly every popular web browser
** Superior compression - Enables higher quality video at smaller file sizes
** Full-screen mode - Double-clicking on the screen switches playback to full-screen mode for a more cinematic experience
** Full-screen navigation controls - Left clicking in full-screen mode accesses convenient video navigation controls
** Windowed mode - Allows users to watch videos in a separate window while continuing to surf (right click on the player to access it)
** HD Playback - Supports DivX high definition (HD) video
** Skinnable - Allows webmasters to personalize the player to match their web pages
** Multiple audio tracks - Supports multiple available audio tracks
** Subtitles - Allows subtitles for multiple languages
** Desktop dimmer – Automatically dims the desktop screen around the web player while videos are playing for a better viewing experience

* DivX Player 6.7 - Play any DivX file
** Enjoy 5.1 channel, room-rattling MP3 surround sound and manipulate and improve the quality of the audio in your videos with DFX Audio Enhancer®
** Watch DivX videos with .srt subtitles
** Create video playlists
** Pause and progressively play video downloads
** Add URLs and queue online DivX videos for automatic downloading
** Burn videos to disc from within DivX Player for playback on millions of DivX Certified devices
** Activate and manage DivX Certified devices from within the DivX Player

* DivX Converter 6.6 (15-day trial) - Convert to high-quality DivX video in one step
** Convert nearly any popular video format to a DivX file
** Convert digital video camera footage into DivX video with up to 25:1 savings to easily store and share home movies
** Merge several videos into a single DivX video with an auto-generated menu
** Maintain quality while decreasing the file size of HD videos (up to HD 1080p)
** Keep original subtitles thanks to external subtitle muxing support
** Back up your home-made DVDs and fit a whole movie onto one CD using the optional MPEG-2/DVD Plug-in

Developer: DivX, Inc.
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 15.7 MB
Download DivX for Windows 6.8.3.18 link

Kantaris Media Player is the all-in-one media player that provides the best audio and video experience. Kantaris is an open-source alternative to Windows Media Player with similar GUI and features. Video playback is based upon Videolan Client (VLC) which enables Kantaris Media Player to play almost anything you throw at it without the need of installing any codecs. Unlike VLC, Kantaris Media Player also has extensive support for music and other audio formats, these include MP3, WMA, OGG, MIDI, AC3, AAC, MP4 and FLAC. It possibly contains the most beautiful music visualizations ever seen.

Kantaris Media Player can play almost anything you can throw at it - AVI, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, quicktime, matroska, divx, xvid, H264, MP3, WMA, OGG files and more. Kantaris Media Player can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player also displays some of the most beautiful music visualizations ever seen. All this is completely free.

Developer: Christofer Persson
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 8.9 MB
Download Kantaris Media Player 0.3.7 link

BSPlayer is used by more than 70 millions of multimedia users throughout the world and it has been translated into more than 90 languages. All the downloaded versions of our FREE version exceed the sum of all downloads of competitive media players and payable DivX or DVD players. Because it does not use much of the CPU processing resources it is suitable for all those who use slightly less capable computers for their multimedia playback. Enjoy the playback of DVD movies of the highest quality.

Last, but not least - BSPlayer free media player is a product for the worldwide consumers and therefore is equipped with a extensive subtitle options which enable the users to watch video content with subtitles from many popular subtitle formats (MicroDVD .sub, VobSub .sub + .idx, SubViewer .sub, (Advanced) SubStation Alpha .ssa or .ass, SubRip .srt, VPlayer .txt…).

BSPlayer is the software movie player that supports all popular video and audio media file types, containers and formats such as:
DivX, avi, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, Xvid, 3ivx, QT QuickTime mov, RM Real media, OGM, Matroska , asf, wmv, DV, m1v, m2v, , mp4, mpv, swf, vob and wav, mpa, mp1, mp2, mp3, Ogg, aac, AC3, aif, ram, wma…

Developer: BSplayer.Org
License: Adware
OS: Windows All
Size: 9.0 MB
Download BSPlayer 2.28.963 link

Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform. Using our powerful Smart Play technology, more media formats play with less hassle, improved stability and greater performance.

Zoom Player’s fullscreen navigation interface is based on a simple 5-Key system (up/down/left/right/select). The 5-key system allows easy access and navigation to such interfaces as Media Library, File Browsing, Playlist, Color Control, Audio Equalizer, Chaptering, Play History and many more. The system’s simplicity makes it ideal for users with no previous computer experience.

With Zoom Player, you can instantly Convert any PC into a Home Entertainment Center or Home Theater PC (HTPC) with no requirement for specialized hardware or operating system (Zoom Player runs on every version of Windows). Zoom Player’s Install Center will scan your system for missing or outdated components and automatically present you with a list of recommended updates, improving your playback performance and experience.

Utilizing Zoom Player’s modular design and flexibility, you can easily design a safe viewing environment, limiting or extending functionality, making it ideal for both children and to the consummate professional.

Developer: Inmatrix
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4.1 MB
Download Zoom Player 6.00 RC2 link

Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for windows. Some of Evil Player’s key features include Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast2 support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular formats (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and MOD).

Evil Player features:
* Easy to use
* Small (less than 1MB!)
* Audio formats supported: WAV, OGG, MP1, MP2, MP3, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, MTM, UMX, MO3
* Supports BASS plug-ins
* Low memory footprint
* Radio streaming (SHOUTcast/ICEcast/ICEcast2)
* SHOUTcast recording

Developer: Hakeem
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0.5 MB
Download Evil Player 1.23 link

QuickTime Alternative is a trimmed down version of QuickTime that contains only the essential components needed for playing QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.

Advantages of QuickTime Alternative are: Quick and easy install, Ability to make an unattended installation, No background processes, No unwanted stuff and other nonsense, Smaller size.

Media Player Classic and ZoomPlayer are capable of playing QuickTime files by using the QuickTime framework that gets installed by QuickTime Alternative. Other players require DirectShow filters to be able to play QuickTime files.

If you want to play QuickTime files in Windows Media Player or another DirectShow based player, then it is recommended to install the K-Lite Codec Pack. That contains all the DirectShow filters that are required to play QuickTime files.

Developer: Codec Guide
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 12.8 MB
Download QuickTime Alternative 2.5.1 link

VLC media player (VideoLAN) - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player (VideoLAN) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC media player (VideoLAN) features:
* It is a free cross-platform media player
* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, …)

Developer: VideoLAN
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 9.3 MB
Download VideoLAN - VLC media player 0.8.6f link