The Portable Freeware Collection - Video

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VLC V1.1.0
Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by the_watcher on 22 Jun 2010
72MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (8098)
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Category: CD/DVD - Players (3), Video - Players (12)

Synopsis: VLC is a media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats. It functions independently of the system codecs, so this is the tool for you if you are tired of spending hours messing around with codecs simply to play a video file your friend sent you. It can also be used as a streaming server for delivering video in unicast or multicast mode.

You may also like to check out VLC Media Player Portable for a portable package of VLC that is optimized for USB memory sticks.

Writes settings to: Application folder. Creates some working files in the user profile folder.

How to extract: Download the 7-ZIP or ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch using "vlc.exe --no-plugins-cache --config=vlcrc".

Stealth [?]: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: GPL

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7

MPlayer WW SVN-r31036(20100415)
Suggested by the_watcher - Updated by infimum on 18 May 2010
18MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (675)
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Category: Video - Players (12)

Synopsis: MPlayer WW is a feature-rich fork of mplayer, a cross-platform media decoder that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX, without additional codecs. It has a native UI, options dialog (MEditor2), and skin support.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayer.exe

Stealth [?]: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win98 / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7

SMPlayer V0.6.9
Suggested by Jainendra - Updated by webfork on 27 Feb 2010
43MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (4074)
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Category: Audio - Players (22), Video - Players (12)

Synopsis: SMPlayer is a GUI frontend for MPlayer. It is able to play most media files without any dependency on installed codecs. It is also capable of playing DVD discs and Internet media streams. Other interesting features include configurable subtitles, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, video equalizer, playlist support etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: None

How to extract: Download the portable 7-Zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch smplayer.exe.

Stealth [?]: No

Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)

Unicode support: Yes. Under Options, Preferences, select Advanced, Advanced, and make sure Pass short filenames (8+3) to MPlayer is selected.

License: GPL

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

What's new: >>

A serious bug has been fixed: sometimes smplayer failed to find subtitles in opensubtitles.org
Implemented the possibility to mark an A-B section, to play a part of the file only
(Linux) smplayer doesn't use alsa as default audio driver anymore. It should fix freezing problems on Ubuntu
Possibility to display the video resolution and frames per second in the status bar
Audio: selection of left or right channel does work now
(Linux) Improved support for vdpau

KMPlayer V2.9.4
Suggested by Fluffy - Updated by webfork on 13 Apr 2010
44MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (6643)
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Category: Video - Players (12)

Synopsis: KMPlayer is a audio/video player that supports a wide range of file formats, including AVI, MKV, MPEG, OGM, MP4, ASF etc. without any additional codecs installed. It also has full VCD/DVD playback functionality. In addition, it is able to play incomplete/damaged AVI files, or media files that are locked while downloading or sharing.

Note that this program may or may not be in compliance with one or more licenses.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: DirectX V9

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch KMPlayer.exe. Then bring up the "Preferences" window, click on "General", and check "Store Settings to KMPcfg.ini". Alternatively, before running the program, create a file called KMPCfg.ini in the EXE folder with these lines of text:

[SoftwareKMPlayerKMP2.0OptionArea]
ConfigUseIni=int:1

Stealth [?]: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

Media Player Classic V6.4.9.1
Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by webfork on 11 Feb 2010
4MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (3072)
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Category: Video - Players (12)

Synopsis: Media Player Classic looks like Windows Media Player V6.x, but it is not a me-too application. Beneath its classic look lies an extremely powerful media player. You can configure keyboard commands, configure/reorder/disable codecs/filters etc.

Note: There is another fork of Media Player Classic available called Media Player Classic - Home Cinema.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: System codecs GDIPLUS.DLL

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayerc.exe. Select View, Options, Player and check "Store settings to .ini file" to store settings in the application folder instead of the registry.

Stealth [?]: No

Unicode support: Yes. There are two versions of the player to choose from. The 98/ME version works on all versions of Windows but does not support Unicode. The 2K/XP version only works on WinNT and higher.

License: GPL

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

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