Synopsis: M3U Dropper creates, imports, and organizes playlist files that take selections from an audio/video collection and put them in an order of your choice. This is useful for example in creating a mix of songs or videos with a specific mood or purpose. As the name suggests, the program creates M3U files which are used in most software players (Winamp, Foobar, etc.) and some hardware players.

Although other programs can generate these files, M3U Dropper can use a more portable method of relative pathways.

A 64-bit version is also available for download from the website.

Note: according to the author, Windows Media Player and VLC support playlists with "mixed media," or both audio and video.

Synopsis: VLC is a skinnable, feature-rich media player that supports a wide variety of multimedia formats. It can play files while they download, from inside RAR files, online radio stations, convert video formats, and much more. The software cal also behave as a streaming server for delivering video in unicast or multicast mode.

Alternately, VLC Media Player Portable is available, optimized for external flash memory.

Synopsis: Aegisub is an advanced subtitle editor that allows for many advanced effects in the subtitles, apart from basic timed text. It works naively with the Advanced SubStation Alpha format used by many players and editors including Avidemux, Media Player Classic, VLC and others.