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MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor problems, also in DOS using HX DOS Extender. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available.[1] A version for the Wii Homebrew Channel has also emerged. [2]

MPlayer supports a wide variety of media formats[3]. In addition to its wide range of supported formats MPlayer can also save all streamed content to a file.

MPlayer is a command line application which has different optional GUIs for each of its supported operating systems. Commonly used GUIs are gMplayer written in GTK+ (the default GUI for Unix-like systems), MPlayer OS X (for Mac OS X), MPUI (for Windows) and WinMPLauncher (also for Windows). Several other GUI frontends are also available for each platform.

Supported Operating Systems – Windows, Mac, Linux, OS/2, Syllable

Version – 2009/03/12

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• MPlayer v2009/03/12 [External Server]

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VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.

• 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, …)

Author – VideoLAN

Operating Systems – Windows, MAC, Linux (BeOS, Syllable, Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Zaurus, Red Hat, ALT, Arch, Slackware)

Version – 0.9.8a

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• VLC v0.9.8a [External Server]

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