Comparison of video player software
The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs.
For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video, even if it can also play audio files.
General
Active players
Name | Author | First public release | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework | Written in | ||||||||||||||
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ALLPlayer | ALLPlayer Group Ltd. Partnership | 1998 | 8.2 (August 9, 2018 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg + original + DirectShow | Object Pascal (Delphi) | ||||||||||||||
Apprentice Video | Pavel Koshevoy | May 29, 2010 | r407 and later | Free | MIT | FFmpeg | C++ (Qt) | ||||||||||||||
FFplay | FFmpeg project | December 20, 2000 | 4.0.2 (July 18, 2018[1]) [±] | Free | LGPL, part GPL | FFmpeg | C | ||||||||||||||
GOM Player | Gretech Corporation | January 7, 2003 | 2.3.14.5270 (March 20, 2017 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | ? | ||||||||||||||
iTunes | Apple Inc. | January 9, 2001 | 12.9 (September 12, 2018 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | QuickTime | ? | ||||||||||||||
jetAudio (Basic) | Cowon Systems | 1997 | 8.1.5 April 24, 2016 | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||||
jetAudio (Plus) | Cowon Systems | 1997 | 8.1.5 April 24, 2016 | Not free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||||
JRiver Media Center | JRiver, Inc. | 1998 | 21.0. (June 30, 2015 ) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | original + DirectShow | C++, SSE/MMX assembly | ||||||||||||||
K-Multimedia Player | YoungHuee Kang | October 1, 2002 | 4.0 (6 October 2015[2]) [±] | Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | Object Pascal | ||||||||||||||
Mac Blu-ray Player | Macgo Inc. | 2011 | 2.11.1 December 26, 2014 | Not Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||||
Media Go | Sony Network Entertainment | March 17, 2009 | 3.0a December 4, 2015 | Free | Proprietary | original + DirectShow + QuickTime (optional) |
? | ||||||||||||||
MediaPortal | Team MediaPortal | 2004 | 1.16.0 (April 17, 2017 ) [±] | Free | GPL | DirectShow | C#, C++ | ||||||||||||||
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Gabest | March 29, 2006 | 1.7.13 (March 6, 2017 ) [±] | Free | GPL | FFmpeg + DirectShow | C++ | ||||||||||||||
Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video) | Microsoft | October 26, 2012 | Free | Proprietary | |||||||||||||||||
MPlayer | Árpád Gereöffy | 2000-09 | 1.3.0 (February 16, 2016 ) [±] | Free | GPL | FFmpeg + original | C | ||||||||||||||
mpv | mpv Community | 2013-08-07 | 0.29.0 (July 23, 2018[3]) [±] | Free | GPL, part LGPL | MPlayer | C, Objective C, Lua | ||||||||||||||
Plex Media Player | Plex, Inc. | May 21, 2008 | Free | Proprietary | FFmpeg | C++ | |||||||||||||||
PotPlayer | Kakao | ? | Windows: 1.7.13963 (August 29, 2018 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | ? | ? | ||||||||||||||
PowerDVD Standard | CyberLink | 1998 | 18 build 1815 (July 8, 2018[5][6]) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | ? | ||||||||||||||
PowerDVD Pro | CyberLink | 1998 | 18 build 1815 (July 8, 2018[7][8]) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | ? | ||||||||||||||
PowerDVD Ultra | CyberLink | 1998 | 18 build 1815 (July 8, 2018[9][10]) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | ? | ||||||||||||||
QuickTime X | Apple Inc. | August 28, 2009 | 10.5 (August 31, 2018 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | QuickTime | Cocoa (on OS X) | ||||||||||||||
RealPlayer Basic | RealNetworks | April 1995 | Windows: 18.1.14.202 (September 10, 2018 ) [±]
OS X: 12.0.1.1750 (September 7, 2012[11]) [±] Windows Mobile: 1.1 (July 30, 2009[12]) [±] Android: 1.2.151 (December 27, 2013 ) [±] |
Free | Proprietary | original | ? | ||||||||||||||
RealPlayer Plus | RealNetworks | April 1995 | Windows: 18.1.14.202 (September 10, 2018 ) [±]
OS X: 12.0.1.1750 (September 7, 2012[13]) [±] Windows Mobile: 1.1 (July 30, 2009[14]) [±] Android: 1.2.151 (December 27, 2013 ) [±] |
Not Free | Proprietary | original + DirectShow (optional) + QuickTime (optional)[15] |
? | ||||||||||||||
SMPlayer | Ricardo Villalba | December 11, 2006 | 18.6.0 (June 22, 2018[16]) [±] | Free | GPL | MPlayer | C++ (Qt) | ||||||||||||||
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | The GNOME Project | February 2003 | 3.30.1 (25 September 2018[17]) [±] | Free | GPL + exception[18] | GStreamer | C | ||||||||||||||
Videostream | Videostream Team | February 2014 | 2.1.3.15 | Free | Proprietary | Chrome + FFmpeg | JavaScript, C++ | ||||||||||||||
VLC | VideoLAN | February 1, 2001 |
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Free | GPL, LGPL | libVLC + FFmpeg | C, C++ | ||||||||||||||
WinDVD Gold | Corel | 1998 | WinDVD Pro 12 Service Pack 5 (June 12, 2018[28][29]) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | ? | ||||||||||||||
WinDVD Platinum | Corel | 1998 | WinDVD Pro 12 Service Pack 5 (June 12, 2018[30][31]) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | ? | ||||||||||||||
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Team-Kodi (formerly Team-XBMC) | 2002 | 17.1 (codename: "Krypton") (23 March 2017) [±] | Free | GPL | FFmpeg | C++ | ||||||||||||||
xine | xine Team | August 15, 2000 | 0.99.9 (August 21, 2014 ) [±] | Free | GPL | xine-lib + FFmpeg | C | ||||||||||||||
Name | Author | First public release | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework | Written in |
Inactive players
Name | Author | First public release | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework | Written in |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banshee | Aaron Bockover | 2005-02-17 | 2.6.2 (February 18, 2014[32]) [±] | Free | MIT | GStreamer | C# |
CorePlayer | CoreCodec Inc. | 2006 | 3.0.1 (September 9, 2011 ) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | ? | ? |
Creative MediaSource | Creative Technology | 2002 | 5.10.38 (December 22, 2006 ) [±] | Requires Creative product | Proprietary | DirectShow | ? |
DSPlayer | DSPlayer team | 2002 | Not Free | Free | Proprietary | Object Pascal (Delphi), C++ | |
Media Player Classic | Gabest | May 29, 2003 | 6.4.9.1 (December 10, 2008 ) [±] | Free | GPL | DirectShow | C++ |
Ogle | Chalmers University of Technology | 1999 | 0.9.2 (November 6, 2003 ) [±] | Free | GPL | ? | C |
Quintessential Player | Paul Quinn | 1997 | 5.0.121 (February 18, 2009 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | ? | ? |
Songbird | Tom Lord | February 8, 2006 | 2.2.0, Build 2453 (February 4, 2013 ) [±] | Free | GPL | GStreamer, XULRunner | C++ |
The Core Pocket Media Player | Gabor Kovacs | 2004 Jul as "BetaPlayer" | 0.71 (November 23, 2005 ) [±] | Free | GPL | FFmpeg + original | C++ |
TotalMedia Theatre | ArcSoft | November 15, 2009 | 6.7.1.199 June 6, 2014 | Not Free | Proprietary | original | C++ |
Quicktime | Apple Inc. | 1991-12-02 | 7.7.9 (January 7, 2016 ) [±][33][34] | Free | Proprietary | QuickTime | Cocoa (on OS X) |
Winamp Lite, Full, Bundle | Nullsoft | Jun 1997 | 5.666.3516 (December 12, 2013 ) [±] | Free | Proprietary | ? | ? |
Winamp Pro | Nullsoft | Jun 1997 | 5.666.3516 (December 12, 2013 ) [±] | Not Free | Proprietary | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Microsoft | Nov 1992 |
12.0.7601.17514 (July 22, 2009 ) [±] |
Free | Proprietary | DirectShow | C++ (COM) |
Name | Author | First public release | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based framework | Written in |
Operating system compatibility
This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player, each one for a given operating system.
Video player | Windows | Windows IoT (formerly Windows Embedded) | Windows Mobile (formerly Windows Phone) | Mac OS X | iOS | Android | Linux | BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like | DOS | BeOS, Haiku, ZETA | OS/2 |
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ALLPlayer | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Apprentice Video | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
FFplay | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video) | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
iTunes | Yes | No | No | Included | Included | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | No | No | Alpha version | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Go | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
MediaPortal | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
MPlayer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
mpv | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Plex Media Player | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
QuickTime Player | Yes | No | No | Included | Included | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
RealPlayer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
SMPlayer | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Videostream | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
VLC | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | No | No | Beta version | No | Yes | Last version is Winamp 3 | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Windows Media Player | Included | ? | Included | Dropped (WMP9) | No | No | No | No | Dropped (WMP6.3) | No | No | No | No |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
xine | unmaintained | No | No | WIP for 1.2 series | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Video player | Windows | Windows IoT (formerly Windows Embedded) | Windows Mobile (formerly Windows Phone) | Mac OS X | iOS | Android | Linux | BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like | DOS | BeOS, Haiku, ZETA | OS/2 |
Features
Video player | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless audio decoding | Visualizer | Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) | HDR video playback | Stereoscopic 3D Playback | 360-degree video playback |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | No | No | No | Yes | No | only on OSX | No | ? | ? | ? |
FFplay | ? | No | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Some | No |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes |
iTunes | Yes | Partial[v 1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
jetAudio | Partial[v 1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[featurenotes 1] | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Media Go | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | SensMe | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | No |
mpv | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | No |
Plex Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
PowerDVD | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? |
QuickTime Player | Partial[featurenotes 2] | Partial[featurenotes 3] | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
SMPlayer | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | yes, not Mac | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Some[featurenotes 4] | ? |
Winamp | Partial[v 1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 1] | Yes[featurenotes 5] | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes[featurenotes 6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
xine | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless audio decoding | Visualizer | Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) | HDR video playback | Stereoscopic 3D Playback | 360-degree video playback |
Extended features
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apprentice Video | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Banshee | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
FFplay | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iTunes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
jetAudio | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some[featurenotes 7] | Yes | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Go | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 8] | Yes[featurenotes 8] | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes |
mpv | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
Plex Media Player | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PowerDVD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
QuickTime Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 9] | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No |
RealPlayer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
SMPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[featurenotes 10] | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Yes | Yes |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (from 2.2) | Yes |
Winamp | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | DVD only | No | Partial[v 1] | Partial[v 1] |
WinDVD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Audio plugin | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | 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 |
- ↑ "gapless mp3 playback - The KMPlayer's Forums". Kmplayer.com. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ↑ Available with QuickTime Streaming Server.
- ↑ Only the media creator can create skins.
- ↑ anaglyph only
- ↑ Via media library in "modern" skin
- ↑ Kodi/XBMC 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)
- ↑ Bookmarks are limited to 20 files and are stored with absolute paths, which renders them inaccessible when files are moved
- 1 2 Pitch-shifting and AB-Repeat are not included in Mplayer's interactive keyboard controls, but can be set up via command line parameters. Mplayer manual
- ↑ www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ - A-B repeat using Play Selection Only command
- ↑ As of SVN 3349
Consumer video format ability
Information about what video formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 Part 2 (ASP) | MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 (AVC) | WMV | RealVideo | Theora | Flash | Dirac | VP8 | VP9 | HEVC (H.265) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[35] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | ? |
iTunes | Yes | Partial[v 4] | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 5] | No | Partial[v 6] | Partial[v 7] | No | Partial[v 7] | ? | ? |
jetAudio | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[35] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Microsoft Movies & TV | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
mpv | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Plex Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
QuickTime Player | Yes | Partial[v 4] | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 5] | No | Partial[v 6] | Partial[v 7] | No | Partial[v 7] | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 1] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ? | ? |
SMPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[35] | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes[v 2] | Yes[v 9] | Yes[v 9] | Yes | Partial[35] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 10] | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 Part 2 (ASP) | MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 (AVC) | WMV | RealVideo | Theora | Flash | Dirac | VP8 | VP9 | HEVC (H.265) |
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Plugin available.
- 1 2 3 4 This format is supported out-of-the-box in Windows 7 and later. In Windows Vista and earlier, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- 1 2 The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for Quicktime.
- 1 2 The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime.
- 1 2 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis, FLAC (Doesn't work with FLAC containers), Speex, and Theora.
- 1 2 3 4 On Macs, 3rd party plugins are available. The Perian QuickTime components for Mac OS X 10.4.7+ allow any QuickTime application to play a wide variety of formats.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Available via Gstreamer plugin.
- 1 2 This format is supported out-of-the-box in Windows Media Player 12 and later (which requires Windows 7 or later). In Windows Media Player 11 and earlier, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
- ↑ The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters, or in the case of Windows Media Player 12 and above, there is also the option of using Microsoft Media Foundation components, which have the added bonus of adding WebM support through the HTML5 <video> element to Internet Explorer 9 or later.
Production video format ability
Video player | MPEG-4 SStP | AVC-Intra | AVC-Ultra | XAVC | Apple ProRes | VC-2/Dirac Pro | VC-3/Avid DNxHD | VC-5/GoPro CineForm | Redcode RAW | ARRIRAW | CinemaDNG | Cineon/DPX sequence | OpenEXR sequence | TIFF sequence | PNG sequence | JPEG sequence | JPEG 2000 sequence |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FFplay | No[36] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some[37] | No | No[38] | Yes | Some | Some | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPlayer | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some | No | No | Yes | Some | Some | Yes | Yes | Yes |
VLC | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | Yes | ? | Some | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Video player | MPEG-4 SStP | AVC-Intra | AVC-Ultra | XAVC | Apple ProRes | VC-2/Dirac Pro | VC-3/Avid DNxHD | VC-5/GoPro CineForm | Redcode RAW | ARRIRAW | CinemaDNG | Cineon/DPX sequence | OpenEXR sequence | TIFF sequence | PNG sequence | JPEG sequence | JPEG 2000 sequence |
Audio format ability
Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | Lossy compression | Lossless compression | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MP3 | WMA | RealAudio | Vorbis | Musepack | AAC | AC-3 | Opus | APE | FLAC | ALAC | SHN | WV | |
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
iTunes | Yes | yes, no DRM | No | Partial[v 1] | No | Yes | No | ? | No | Partial[v 1] | Yes | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
mpv | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Plex Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
QuickTime Player | Yes | Partial[v 3] | No | Partial[v 1] | No | Yes | Partial[v 4] | ? | No | Partial[v 1] | Yes | No | No |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 4] | No | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
SMPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Yes | Partial[39] | Yes | Partial[39] | Partial[39] | Partial[39] | Yes | Partial[39] | Partial[39] | Partial[39] |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | 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 |
Video player | MP3 | WMA | RealAudio | Vorbis | Musepack | AAC | AC-3 | Opus | APE | FLAC | ALAC | SHN | WV |
Container format ability
Information about what container formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | AVI | ASF | QuickTime | Ogg | OGM | Matroska | MP4 | NUT | FLV | WebM |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
FFplay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Vorbis only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
iTunes | No | Win: yes Mac: file is parsable |
Yes | Partial[v 1] | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
jetAudio | Yes | Yes | Partial[40] | Vorbis only | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 2] | ? | ? | Yes |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
mpv | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Plex Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
QuickTime Player | Yes | Partial[v 3] | Yes | Partial[v 1] | No | Yes[41] | Yes | ? | Yes[41] | Yes[41] |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[v 4] | Partial[v 4] | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | ? | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5][42] |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Partial[40] | Vorbis only | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | WMP12 Yes[40] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 2] | WMP12 Yes[v 2] | ? | Yes | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? |
Video player | AVI | ASF | QuickTime | Ogg | OGM | Matroska | MP4 | NUT | FLV | WebM |
Streaming support
Information about which internet protocols the players understand, for receiving streaming media content.
Video player | HTTP | HTTPS | HLS | DASH | HDS | Smooth | FTP | SFTP | RTSP RTSPU/RTSPT |
MMS MMSU/MMST |
RTMP | Podcast | RDT/RealRTSP | RTP | DAAP | DLNA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Amarok | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes | No | Partial | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
FFplay | Yes | Yes[43] | Yes | patch available[44] | patch available[45] | No | Yes | Yes[46] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
GOM Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
jetAudio | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
mpv | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes[47] | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
QuickTime Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | ? | ? | Yes[v 5] | ? | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | Yes[v 5] | No | ? | Yes[v 5] | Yes | Yes |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[48] | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Dropped (WMP10) |
? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | HTTP | HTTPS | HLS | DASH | HDS | Smooth | FTP | SFTP | RTSP | MMS | RTMP | Podcast | RDT/RealRTSP | RTP | DAAP | DLNA |
Playlist format ability
Information about which playlist formats the players understand.
Video player | asx/wax/wvx | m3u/m3u8 | pls | xspf | ram/rmm | sdp | rpl | xpl | bdmv | wmx |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
FFplay | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
GOM Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
jetAudio | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
mpv | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
QuickTime Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
xine | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | asx/wax/wvx | m3u/m3u8 | pls | xspf | ram/rmm | sdp | rpl | xpl | bdmv | wmx |
Electronic program guide format ability
Information about which Electronic program guide format the players viewable.
Video player | PSI EIT | PSIP | XMLTV |
---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | ? | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | ? | ? | ? |
FFplay | No | No | No |
GOM Player | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | ? | ? | ? |
jetAudio | ? | ? | ? |
JRiver Media Center | ? | ? | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | ? | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | ? | ? | ? |
MediaPortal | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | No | No | ? |
mpv | No | No | ? |
QuickTime Player | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | ? | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | ? | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | ? |
Winamp | ? | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | ? | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Partial | ? | Partial |
xine | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | PSI EIT | PSIP | XMLTV |
Subtitle ability
Information about what subtitle formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.
Video player | Text | Bitmap | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubRip (.srt) | SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass) | MicroDVD (.sub) | SAMI (.smi) | SubViewer (.sub) | RealText (.rt) | Text file (.txt) | Universal Subtitle Format (.usf) | Closed captioning | MPEG-4 Part 17 | SCTE-27 | TTML/SMPTE-TT | WebVTT (.vtt) | VobSub (.idx+.sub) | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles) | DVD subtitles | DVB subtitles | |
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | Yes[stnotes 1] | Yes[stnotes 1] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes[stnotes 1] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FFplay | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | No | Yes[stnotes 2] | Yes[stnotes 2] | No[49] | No[50] | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GOM Player | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? |
iTunes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | No | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
QuickTime Player | Yes[41] | Yes[41] | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | ? | No | ? | No | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Some | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Winamp | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | No | No | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | ? |
Windows Media Player | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | No | No | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes[stnotes 4] | Yes[stnotes 4] | ? | ? |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
xine[stnotes 5] | Yes | Partial[stnotes 3] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? |
Video player | SubRip (.srt) | SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass) | MicroDVD (.sub) | SAMI (.smi) | SubViewer (.sub) | RealText (.rt) | Text file (.txt) | Universal Subtitle Format (.usf) | Closed captioning | MPEG-4 Part 17 | SCTE-27 | TTML/SMPTE-TT | WebVTT (.vtt) | VobSub (.idx+.sub) | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles) | DVD subtitles | DVB subtitles |
- 1 2 3 Subtitles stored separately from the media file are not supported.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 only if FFmpeg was built with libass and 'subtitles' video filter.
- 1 2 3 4 This player understands some of the formatting data from SSA/ASS (at most coloring but no positioning, animation, typesetting etc.), but some players could understand the rest of it by using DirectVobSub as external subtitle filter instead of the built-in one.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 For Windows, the ability to use many subtitle formats can be added by installing DirectVobSub or ffdshow.
- ↑ "FAQ | Kaffeine - KDE Media Player". Kaffeine FAQ. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
Metadata ability
Information about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players understand. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities.
Video player | ID3v1 | ID3v2 | APEv2 tag | Vorbis comment | AMF | ASF metadata | MOV metadata | Cue sheet | CD-Text |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALLPlayer | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | No | No |
Apprentice Video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
FFplay | Yes[51] | Yes[52] | Yes[53] | Yes | Yes[54] | Yes | Yes | patch available[55] | No |
GOM Player | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
iTunes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
jetAudio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Partial[metadatanotes 1] | ? |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Mac Blu-ray Player | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 2] | ? |
QuickTime Player | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
RealPlayer | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
VLC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes |
Winamp | Yes | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 3] | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Partial[v 4] | Yes |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 4] | ? | Partial[v 4] | ? | Yes | ? | No | Partial[v 4] |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial |
xine | Yes | Partial[metadatanotes 5] | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Video player | ID3v1 | ID3v2 | APEv2 tag | Vorbis comment | AMF | ASF metadata | MOV metadata | Cue sheet | CD-Text |
- ↑ Supports via plugin available in Cowon Forums
- ↑ MPlayer can read .cue files with cue:// type URL, but has problems, see Talk:Cue sheet (computing)#mplayer have more faults
- ↑ Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible.
- ↑ ID3 V2.4 not supported (even on Windows Media Player 12).
Optical media ability
Information about what kinds of optical discs the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities. Playback of Super Audio CD is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists. All media players capable of audio CD playback will also play the Redbook core of any HDCD disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.
Audio | Video | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Video player | CD | DVD-Audio | HDCD | Super Audio CD (SACD) | Video CD (VCD) | SVCD | DVD | Blu-ray Disc | HD DVD |
ALLPlayer | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes | ? | ? |
Apprentice Video | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
FFplay | via libcdio | No | via libcdio[optical 1] | ? | No | No | No | via libbluray | No |
GOM Player | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
iTunes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
jetAudio | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
JRiver Media Center | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Commercial BDs unsupported | Yes |
MediaPortal | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[optical 2] | ? |
MPlayer | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
PowerDVD | Yes | No longer supported | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No longer supported |
QuickTime Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No[optical 3] | Yes | No | No |
RealPlayer | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem) | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
VLC | Yes | Yes[optical 4] | No | ? | Yes | Partial[optical 5] | Yes | Commercial BDs unsupported[56] | Yes[optical 6] |
Winamp | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No |
Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Kodi (formerly XBMC) | Yes | No | No | ? | Partial[optical 7] | Partial[optical 7] | Yes | Commercial BDs unsupported | ? |
xine | Yes | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
WinDVD | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Video player | CD | DVD-Audio | HDCD | Super Audio CD (SACD) | Video CD (VCD) | SVCD | DVD | Blu-ray Disc | HD DVD |
- ↑ A built-in hdcd audio filter is available but needs to manually enable via commandline option.
- ↑ See this thread on team-mediaportal.com
- ↑ See VCD and SVCD players on The X Lab
- ↑ DVD Audio files are playable in VLC 1.1
- ↑ See VLC playback Features at videolan.org.
- ↑ HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) from version 3.0.0
- 1 2 VCD menu and SVCD menus are not supported nor displayed.
See also
References
- ↑ "FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu"". FFmpeg Git. 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
- ↑ "KMPlayerㅣMultimedia Player". 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
- ↑ Herkt, Martin (2018-07-23). "Release v0.29.0". mpv-player/mpv (source code repository). GitHub. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
- ↑ "Plex Media Server - Page 9 — Plex Forums".
- ↑ http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdvd/patches_en_US.html PowerDVD Patches & Support
- ↑ http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdvd-ultra/features_en_US.html
- ↑ http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdvd/patches_en_US.html PowerDVD Patches & Support
- ↑ http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdvd-ultra/features_en_US.html
- ↑ http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdvd/patches_en_US.html PowerDVD Patches & Support
- ↑ http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdvd-ultra/features_en_US.html
- ↑ http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/09072012_player/en/
- ↑ "RealPlayer 1.1". Ewandoo. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/09072012_player/en/
- ↑ "RealPlayer 1.1". Ewandoo. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ↑ 'Unsupported file type' error RealNetworks
- ↑ "Commit 9075 Show". Retrieved 11 July 2018 – via Assembla.
- ↑ Catanzaro, Michael (25 September 2018). "GNOME 3.30.1 released!". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 29 September 2018.
- ↑ "COPYING file mentioning exception added 8th Feb 2005". Totem. May 6, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ↑ "VLC 3.0.3". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "VLC for Android - Android Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. VideoLAN. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "Index of /videolan/vlc-android/". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "VLC - Chrome Web Store". chrome.google.com. VideoLAN. 23 December 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ↑ "VLC for Mobile on the App Store". itunes.apple.com. VideoLAN. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "Official Download of VLC media player for Apple TV - VideoLAN". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "Official Download of VLC media player for Windows Store - VideoLAN". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "Get VLC - Microsoft Store". www.microsoft.com. VideoLAN. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ "Official Download of VLC media player for Windows Phone - VideoLAN". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ↑ Corel WinDVD Home
- ↑ Corel WinDVD Pro Updates
- ↑ Corel WinDVD Home
- ↑ Corel WinDVD Pro Updates
- ↑ "October 10, 2012". banshee.fm. October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- ↑ "About the security content of QuickTime 7.7.9".
- ↑ "Apple - Support - QuickTime - Downloads".
- 1 2 3 4 The playing compatibility depends on the availability of RealMedia filters. There is a distribution known as Real Alternative which bundles the needed RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponding player.
- ↑ Support MPEG-4 Studio Profile FFmpeg Project
- ↑ Red Cinema r3d files not supported FFmpeg Project
- ↑ Support for DNG (RAW) FFmpeg Project
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation
- 1 2 3 The playing compatibility depends on the availability of QuickTime filters. There is a distribution known as QuickTime Alternative which bundles the needed QuickTime components without the need to install the corresponding player.
- 1 2 3 4 5 The open source Perian plug-in adds the ability to use many video formats and video codecs to QuickTime. It also adds the ability to use SubRip and SubStation Alpha subtitles.
- ↑ http://www.webmproject.org/tools/#gstreamer-plug-ins As of Gstreamer 1.0, WebM related support is included in gstreamer-plugins-good
- ↑ only if FFmpeg was built with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Secure Transport or SChannel.
- ↑ FFmpeg-devel - PATCH v14 - avformat/dashdec: add dash demuxer base version, FFmpeg project, April 9, 2017
- ↑ FFmpeg-devel - PATCH - add hds demuxer, FFmpeg project, October 14, 2016
- ↑ only if FFmpeg was built with OpenSSH.
- ↑ With youtube-dl
- ↑ NEWS, VideoLAN
- ↑ #4439 (Support SCTE-27 / Digicipher II (DCII) subtitles) FFmpeg Project
- ↑ #4859 (TTML subtitles) FFmpeg Project
- ↑ id3v1.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
- ↑ id3v2.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
- ↑ apetag.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
- ↑ rtmppkt.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
- ↑ [FFmpeg-devel,1/7] lavf: add cue sheet demuxer, FFmpeg project, May 8, 2017
- ↑ S, Ganesh T. "VLC 'Hack' for Encrypted Blu-ray Playback Capability". Retrieved August 19, 2016.
Related lists on other projects
- m:Open Source Toolset - short sections on Audio editing and Video editing
- Software - short lists of Ogg audio and video editors
- Help:Converting video - tools for manipulating audio and video