Media player

A Media player is a piece of software tailored for playing back different forms of multimedia file formats.

Formats that are generally played back by a competent Media player include DVD, CDDA, MPEG video, DivX, MP3, Karaoke (*.Kar), Ogg-variants and FLAC. Generally speaking, the more formats it can play, the better it is. Hard-to-get-at formats like QuickTime using the Sorenson codec are less common in media players.

A good media player will look up titles and song names from an online database such as CDDB or FreeDB.

A good media player will playback both files stored on the users hard disk and media streams provided through the Internet and is therefore often seen as a companion of the web browser.

A free code media player is uses the GNU License and the file format, specially in the internet media streaming is not owned ( it´s not propietary).

There also exist hardware media players, such as MP3 players.

Media Players

• Linux and Unix
  • MPlayer
  • Xine
  • XMMS
• Mac OS
  • QuickTime made by Apple Computer
  • iTunes made by Apple Computer
  • Audion
• Microsoft Windows
  • Real player
  • QuickTime
  • Winamp
  • Windows Media Player
  • WinDVD
  • PowerDVD

See also

• CD ripper.
• DVD ripper.