Free Video Player Alternatives

VLC Media Player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

Features:

• Lightweight
• Ad-free
• Built-in Media converter
• Support for subtitles
• Video playback
• Replay Gain
• Playlists management
• Supports loads of file formats
• Automatic subtitles download
• Apps with Chromecast Support
• Integrated codecs
• Create PlayList
• Customizable
• Support for Themes
• Audio playback
• Hotkeys
• In built video player
• Interface
• Multiple languages
• Optimal performance
• Playback speed control
• Plugins
• Portable
• UI customization
• 360 Videos
• Audio Recording
• Sync Audio & Video
• Automatic conversion to multiple formats
• Automatic Tagging
• Built-in subtitle search
• Built-in video/audio codecs
• Google Drive integration
• Internet Radio
• Low memory usage
• Media Streaming
• Music Library
• Music Player
• Network Traffic Obfuscation
• Resume video after shutdown
• Scripting language
• Subtitle Effects for Custom Fonts
• Video converter
• Video streaming
• Visualize Music
• Voice pitch visualization

KMPlayer

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format.

Features:

• Support for 4K
• Hardware Accelerated
• Supports H265 Codec
• Support for Batch Mode
• Music Player

SMPlayer

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Customizable
• 3D Support
• Ad-free
• Built-in subtitle search
• Apps with Chromecast Support
• Integrated codecs
• Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
• Multiple languages
• Portable
• Secondary Subtitle
• Support for subtitles
• UI customization
• YouTube background listening
• Youtube support

MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska...

Features:

• QR Code Reader
• Integrated codecs
• Command line
• Command line interface

MX Player

MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies. a) HARDWARE ACCELERATION - Hardware acceleration can be applied to more videos with the help of new H/W decoder. ...

Features:

• Multiple languages
• Audio playback
• Customizable
• Video Sharing
• Flexible and powerful
• Playlists management
• Support for subtitles

QuickTime Player

Watch Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media clips. Whether it’s on the web or on your desktop, QuickTime Player brings your digital media brilliantly to...

Features:

• Audio Recording
• Screen recording
• Record videos

MPlayerX

MPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X.

Features:

• macOS-like
• MultiTouch
• Support for Multiple Monitors
• Support for subtitles

BSPlayer

BSPlayer is the first software movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around...

Features:

• Automatic subtitles download
• Integrated codecs
• Lightweight
• Support for subtitles

Movist

A Mac media player based on QuickTime and FFMpeg, Open source under the GPLv3 and hosted on Google Code. A Simple and clean interface and high codec compatibility...

DivX

A professional and reliable software solution that provides you with the latest codecs and enables high quality DivX HEVC video creation and video streaming.