Comparison of media players

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of media player programs. Please see the individual players' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.

Contents 1 General 2 Operating system support 3 Features 4 Protocol support 5 Audio format support 6 Video format support 7 Container format support 8 Optical media publication support 9 Metadata support 10 Subtitle support 11 See also 12 Notes

[edit] General

Basic general information about the players: creator/company, license/price etc.

Video player
	Creator	First public release date	Stable version	Cost	Software license
ALShow	ESTsoft	2004	1.62	Free	Proprietary
BSplayer	Webteh	2000	2.15  (February 19, 2007)	Free (AdWare), €29,90 (Pro)	Proprietary
Elecard MPEG Player	Elecard Ltd.	November 1999	4.0.3	$20.00	Proprietary
GOM Player	Gretech Corporation	January 7, 2003	2.1.3.3413  (March 21, 2007)	Free	Proprietary
iTunes	Apple Computer	January 9, 2001	7.1.1  (March 16, 2007)	Free	Proprietary
jetAudio	Cowon Systems	1997	6.2.8 (December 13, 2006)	Free (Basic), $29 (Plus)	Proprietary
Kaffeine	KDE	2003	0.8.3  (November 26, 2006)	Free	GPL
KPlayer	KPlayer Team	January 2003	0.6.1  (March 4, 2007)	Free	GPL
Light Alloy	Velikanov Ilya	December 21, 2001	4.0	Free (trial), $9.95	Proprietary
MediaFrame	Airlock Limited	October 2004	2.0 rc3  (February 13, 2005)	Free	GPL
Media Center	J. River	July 2003	12.0.164  (January 29, 2007)	$40.00	Proprietary
Media Player Classic	Gabest	May 29, 2003	6.4.9.0  (March 20, 2006)	Free	GPL
miniMedia	Max Naylor	?	2.0 (May 21, 2005)	Free	Proprietary
MPlayer	Árpád Gereöffy	September 2000	1.0rc1  (October 22, 2006)	Free	GPL
NicePlayer	Jay Tuley & Robert Chin	June 2004	0.95  (February 03, 2007)	Free	GPL / MPL
Ogle	Chalmers University of Technology	1999	0.9.2  (November 6, 2003)	Free	GPL
PowerDVD	CyberLink	1995	7.3  (May 3rd, 2006)	$49.95 (Standard), $59.95 (Max), $69.95 (Deluxe)	Proprietary
QuickTime	Apple Computer	December 1991	7.1.5  (March 5, 2007)	Free (Basic), $29.95 (Pro)	Proprietary
Quintessential Player	Paul Quinn	1997	4.51  (March 11, 2004)	Free	Proprietary
Quickview pro	Wolfgang Hesseler	1994	2.57	$23/$15	Proprietary
Radioactive Player	Shady Industries	2005	1.0.1	Free	Proprietary
RadLight	RadLight	?	4 (November 18, 2005)	Free (Basic; Pro, AdWare), €29.95 (Pro)	Proprietary
RealPlayer	RealNetworks	1995	10.5  (October 2004)	Free (Basic), €24,99-32,99 (Plus)	Proprietary
SimpleCenter	Universal Electronics Inc.	2002-2003	4.1  (February, 2007)	Free	Proprietary
Songbird	Pioneers of the Inevitable	February 8, 2006	0.2.5  (March 1, 2007)	Free	GPL
The Core Pocket Media Player	Gabor Kovacs	July 2004 named "BetaPlayer"	0.71  (23 November 2005)	Free	GPL
The KMPlayer	Kang, YoungHuee	December 2002		Free	Proprietary
TrayPlayer	@MAX software	June 21, 2003	1.01b (July 07, 2005)	Free	Proprietary
Totem Movie Player	Totem Team	July 2002	2.18.0  (9 March 2007)	Free	GPL
Vidlizard	Softdepia software agency	December 2003	1.24  (November 24, 2005)	$24.95	Proprietary
VLC media player	VideoLAN	February 2000	0.8.6a  (January 4, 2007)	Free	GPL
ViPlay	URUSoft	December 01, 2002	2.09 (March 06, 2004)	Free	GPL
Winamp	Nullsoft	June 1997	5.33  (February 13, 2007)	Free (Basic), $19.95 (Pro)	Proprietary
Windows Media Player	Microsoft	November 1992	11.0.6000  (November 9, 2006)	Free, Windows-License needed	Proprietary
WinDVD	InterVideo	1998	8.0  (2006)	$39.95(Gold), $59.95(Platinum)	Proprietary
XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter)	Team-XBMC	October 2003	2.0.1  (November 12, 2006)	Free	GPL / LGPL
XAnim	Mark Podlipec	March 14, 1999	2.80.1 (March 21, 1999)	Free	GPL
xine	xine Team	August 15, 2000	1.1.4  (29 January 2007)	Free	GPL
Zoom Player	Inmatrix	December 31, 2000	5.00  (December 28, 2006)	Free (Basic) $27.95 (Pro) $35.95 (WMV Pro)	Proprietary
Audio player [1]
	Creator	First public release date	Stable version	Cost	Software license
1by1	Martin Pesch	?	1.60 (February 8, 2007)	Free	Proprietary
Amarok	Mark Kretschmann	June 2003	1.4.5  (February 4, 2007)	Free	GPL
Audacious	Audacious Team	October 30, 2005	1.3.1  (March 10, 2007)	Free	GPL
Audion	Panic	August 16, 1999	3.0.2 (2002)	Free	Proprietary
Banshee	Aaron Bockover	August 2005	0.12.0  (March 5, 2007)	Free	MIT
BOSSA	Swami Systems	December 2006	2.0	Free (Basic), $24 (Pro)	Proprietary
Beep Media Player	Milosz Derezynski	June 24, 2004	0.9.7.1  (October 22, 2005)	Free	GPL
Cactus Jukebox	Sebastian Kraft	March 02, 2005	0.3.0	Free	GPL
Cmus	Timo Hirvonen	January 18, 2005	2.1.0  (December 21, 2006)	Free	GPL
Cog	Vincent Spader	May 01, 2006	0.0.5  (May 1, 2006)	Free	GPL
damp	Matt Craven	1999	0.96 (April 09, 2000)	Free	Proprietary
DeliPlayer	Peter Kunath, Florian Vorberger	2000	2.03b (April 04, 2004)	Free (Basic), $20 (Pro)	Proprietary
Exaile	Adam Olsen	May 24, 2006	0.2.8  (January 8, 2007)	Free	GPL
foobar2000	Peter Pawlowski	December 2002	0.9.4.2  (2006-11-29)	Free	Proprietary (core), BSD (first-party components)
Helium Music Manager 2006	Intermedia Design	2006	2.1.0.5160	$39.00	Proprietary
Jajuk	Jajuk Team	March 2004	1.3.7  (Mars 4 2007)	Free	GPL
JuK	Scott Wheeler	February 2003	2.3.2  (January 25, 2006)	Free	GPL
KSP Sound Player	Kalliope s.c.	December 2005	2006R2  (August 28, 2006)	Free	Proprietary
Listen	Mehdi Abaakouk	March 04, 2006	0.5	Free	GPL
MediaMonkey	Ventis Media Inc.	August 25, 2003	2.5.5  (January 2007)	Free (Standard), $19.95 (Gold), $29.95 (Lifetime)	Proprietary
Mesk	Travis Shirk	May 27, 2006	0.2.1	Free	GPL
MP3Toys	Robert Frahm	April 2004	2.2	$14.95	Proprietary
MPXPLAY	MPXPLAY	1998	1.53	Free	GPL
Music Player Daemon	Warren Dukes	May 2003	0.12.1  (October 11, 2006)	Free	GPL
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yahoo!	May 1998	10.1  (2005)	Free (Basic), $19.99 (Plus)	Proprietary
musikCube	Casey Langen	2005	1.0  (December 3, 2006)	Free	BSD
Muzikbrowzer	Pecan Ventures	2003	1.0	$20.00	Proprietary
Napster	William Christopher Gorog	October 2003	3.7.2.6	$9.95 and up	Proprietary
QuickPlayer	Jan Vorel	July 2006	1.00 beta 58  (January 19, 2007)	Free	GPL
Rhapsody	RealNetworks	2003	4.0  (October 6, 2006)	Free	Proprietary
Rhythmbox	Colin Walters	April 2004	0.9.8  (21 February 2007)	Free	GPL
SnackAmp	Tom Wilkason	January 2002	3.1.2  (July 2, 2005)	Free	GPL
Sonique	Media Science	November 1998	1.96 (March 2002)	Free	Proprietary
VUPlayer	James Chapman	2000	2.42	Free	Proprietary
XMMS	XMMS Team	November 1997	1.2.10  (February 23, 2004)	Free	GPL
XMPlay	Ian Luck	July 1998	3.3  (December 23, 2005)	Free	Proprietary
Zinf	Zinf Team	April 2002	2.2.5  (February 14, 2004)	Free	GPL
	Creator	First public release date	Stable version	Cost	Software license

[edit] Operating system support

The operating systems on which the players can run natively (without emulation), meaning which operating systems have which players specifically coded for them (not, for example, Windows Media Player for Windows running on Linux using Wine).

Video player	Windows	Mac OS X	GNU/Linux	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)
ALShow	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
BSplayer	2000/XP/2003 only	No	No	No	No	No	No
Elecard MPEG Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
GOM Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
iTunes	2000 & XP only[2]	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
jetAudio	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
KPlayer	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Light Alloy	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
MediaFrame	Yes	PPC native [3]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Media Center	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Media Player Classic	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
NicePlayer	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Ogle	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	No
QuickTime	2000/XP/2003 only	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Quintessential Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Quickview pro	win9x/me	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Radioactive Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
RealPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
SimpleCenter	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Songbird	2000/XP/2003 only	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
The KMPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Totem Movie Player	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Vidlizard	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
VLC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Winamp	Yes	No	Last version is a beta of 2.x	No	No	No	No
Windows Media Player	Yes	Only WMP9 Supported	No	No	No	No	No
XBMC	Partial [4]	No	No	No	No	No	No
xine	No	PPC native [3]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Zoom Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Audio player [1]	Windows	Mac OS X	GNU/Linux	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)
1by1	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Amarok	No [5]	Yes (via X11 layer)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audacious	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Audion	No	PPC native [3]	No	No	No	No	No
Banshee	No	No	Yes	?	?	?	No
BOSSA	2000/XP/Vista	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cmus	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Cog	No	10.3+, PPC [3]	No	No	No	No	No
damp	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
DeliPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
foobar2000	2000+ only since v0.9	No	No	No	No	No	No
JuK	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
KSP Sound Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Listen	No	No	Yes	?	?	?	No
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Mesk	No	No	Yes	?	?	?	No
MP3Toys	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
MPXPLAY	win9x/me	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Music Player Daemon	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	2000/XP/2003 only	No	No	No	No	No	No
Muzikbrowzer	2000/XP/2003 only	No	No	No	No	No	No
QuickPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
SnackAmp	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Sonique	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
VUPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
XMMS	No	Yes (via X11 layer)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XMPlay	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Yahoo Music Engine	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Zinf	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Windows	Mac OS X	GNU/Linux	BSD Unix	Solaris	Other Unix	DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS)

[edit] Features

Information on what features each of the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Video player	Video playback	Outbound streaming	Skinnable	Media Database	Gapless Audio Decoding	Visualizer	Remote Controllable
ALShow	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
BSplayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Elecard MPEG Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	?
GOM Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
iTunes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [7]
jetAudio	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?
KPlayer	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	?
Light Alloy	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
MediaFrame	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	?
Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Media Player Classic	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
NicePlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
QuickTime	Yes	Partial [8]	Partial [9]	No	No	No	?
Quintessential Player	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Quickview pro	Yes	No	text-interface	No	Yes	No	No
Radioactive Player	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
RealPlayer	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?
Songbird	Yes [10]	No	Yes	Yes	?	?	?
The KMPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Totem Movie Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	?
Vidlizard	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
VLC	Yes	Yes	Yes	No [11]	No	Yes	Yes
Winamp	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]
Windows Media Player	Yes	Partial [12]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
XBMC	Yes	Yes [13]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
xine	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zoom Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Audio player [1]	Video playback	Outbound streaming	Skinnable	Media Database	Gapless Audio Decoding	Visualizer	Remote Controllable
1by1	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Amarok	Partial [14]	Yes	Partial [15]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audacious	Partial [16]	No	Yes	No	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes
Audion	No	No	Yes	No	?	Yes	?
Banshee	No	Yes	Partial [17]	Yes	?	In Development	?
Cmus	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Cog	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	?
damp	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
DeliPlayer	No	No	Yes	No	?	No	?
Exaile	No	?	No	Yes	No	No	No
foobar2000	No	Partial [6]	Yes [18]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]
JuK	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes [19]
KSP Sound Player	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Listen	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	?
MediaMonkey	Partial [6]	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]
Mesk	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
MPXPLAY	Only sound output	?	text-interface	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (also lcd-support)
Musicmatch Jukebox	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?
musikCube	No	No	No	Yes	?	Partial [6]	?
Muzikbrowzer	No	No	Partial	Yes	No	No	Yes
QuickPlayer	No	No	No	No	?	No	?
Rhapsody	No	No	No	Yes	?	No	?
Rhythmbox	No	No	No	Yes	?	available in cvs	Yes
SnackAmp	No	Yes	No	Yes	?	No	?
Sonique	Partial [6]	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	?
VUPlayer	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	?
XMMS	Partial [6]	Partial [6]	Yes	No	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes
XMPlay	No	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Zinf	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	No	?
	Video playback	Outbound streaming	Skinnable	Media Database	Gapless Audio Decoding	Visualizer	Remote Controllable

[edit] Protocol support

Information about which internet protocols the players support, for receiving streaming media content. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Video player	HTTP	RTSP	MMS	Podcasting
ALShow	Yes	No	Yes	No
BSplayer	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Elecard MPEG Player	Yes	Yes	No	No
GOM Player	Yes	?	?	?
iTunes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
jetAudio	Yes	Yes	?	?
KPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Light Alloy	?	?	?	?
MediaFrame	Yes	Yes	No	?
Media Center	Yes	?	?	Yes
Media Player Classic	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
NicePlayer	?	?	?	?
QuickTime	Yes	Yes	No	?
Quintessential Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Radioactive Player	No	No	No	No
RealPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Songbird	Yes	?	No	?
The KMPlayer	Yes	No	Yes	No
Totem Movie Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Vidlizard	No	No	No	No
VLC media player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Winamp	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Windows Media Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
XBMC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
xine	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Zoom Player	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Audio player [1]	HTTP	RTSP	MMS	Podcasting
1by1	No	No	No	No
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audacious	Yes	Yes [20]	No	No
Audion	Yes	No	No	No
Banshee	Yes	No	No	Yes
Cmus	Yes	No	No	No
Cog	No	No	No	No
DeliPlayer	Yes	No	No	No
foobar2000	Yes	No	No	Partial [21]
JuK	?	?	?	?
KSP Sound Player	Yes	?	Yes	Yes
Listen	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	No
Mesk	Yes	No	No	No
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	?	?	?
musikCube	Yes	No	No	?
QuickPlayer	No	No	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	No	Partial [22]
SnackAmp	Yes	No	No	Yes
Sonique	Yes	?	?	?
VUPlayer	Yes	?	?	?
XMMS	Yes	?	?	?
XMPlay	Yes	?	Yes	Yes
Zinf	Yes	Yes	No	No
	HTTP	RTSP	MMS	Podcasting

[edit] Audio format support

Information about what audio codecs, and by extension their native audio file formats, the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality.

	Lossy compression							Lossless compression
Video player	MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	AC3	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV
ALShow	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
BSplayer	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
Elecard MPEG Player	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
GOM Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
iTunes	Yes	no DRM	No	Partial [24]	No	Yes	No	No	Partial [24]	Yes	No	No
jetAudio	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
KPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Light Alloy	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
MediaFrame	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Media Player Classic	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NicePlayer	Yes	Partial [25]	No	Partial [24]	Partial [6]	Yes	Partial [6]	No	Partial [24]	Yes	Partial [6]	Partial [6]
QuickTime	Yes	Partial [25]	No	Partial [24]	No	Yes	Partial [6]	No	Partial [24]	Yes	No	No
Quickview pro	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Quintessential Player	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Partial [6]	Partial [6]	No	No	Partial [6]
Radioactive Player	Yes	Yes	No	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	No	No	Partial [23]
RealPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Songbird	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?
The KMPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
Totem Movie Player	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]
Vidlizard	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
VLC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes [27]
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [28]	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]
Windows Media Player	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
XBMC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
xine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Zoom Player	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
Audio player [1]	MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	AC3	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV
1by1	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes	Partial	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Audacious	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Audion	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Banshee	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]
Cog	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Cmus	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
DeliPlayer	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Exaile	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]	Yes [26]
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes	Yes
JuK	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
KSP Sound Player	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Listen	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	Partial [6]
Mesk	Yes [26]	No	No	Yes [26]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
MP3Toys	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	Yes	Partial [28]	No	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Yes	Yes	No	No	Partial [28]
Muzikbrowzer	Yes	Yes	No	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	No	No	Partial [23]
QuickPlayer	Yes	Partial [23]	No	Yes	No	No [29]	No	No	No [29]	No	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
SnackAmp	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Sonique	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	No	No	No	No	No	No
VUPlayer	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
XMMS	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Yes	Yes	No	Partial [28]	Yes	No	Partial [28]	Yes
XMPlay	Yes	Yes	Partial [28]	Yes	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]	Partial [28]
Zinf	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
	MP3	WMA	RealAudio	Vorbis	Musepack	AAC	AC3	APE	FLAC	ALAC	SHN	WV

[edit] Video format support

Information about what video codecs the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality. (Note: Pure audio players are not listed)

	MPEG-1	MPEG-2	MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2)	MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10)	WMV	RealVideo	Theora	Flash
ALShow	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	No	No	No
BSplayer	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Yes
Elecard MPEG Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	No	No
GOM Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
iTunes	Yes	Partial [31]	Yes	Yes	Partial [25]	No	Partial [24]	Yes
jetAudio	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	No
KPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Light Alloy	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	No
MediaFrame	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Media Player Classic	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Partial [30]
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NicePlayer	Yes	Partial [31]	Yes	Yes	Partial [25]	No	Partial [24]	Yes
QuickTime	Yes	Partial [31]	Yes	Yes	Partial [25]	No	Partial [24]	Yes
Quintessential Player	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Quickview pro	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	No	No
Radioactive Player	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	?	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Yes
RealPlayer	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	Yes
The KMPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Totem Movie Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
VLC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Vidlizard	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	No
Winamp	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	No
Windows Media Player	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Yes
XBMC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Limited [32]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
xine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zoom Player	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Partial [30]
	MPEG-1	MPEG-2	MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2)	MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (MPEG-4 Part 10)	WMV	RealVideo	Theora	Flash

[edit] Container format support

Information about what container formats the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality.

Video player	AVI	ASF	QuickTime	Ogg	OGM	Matroska	MP4
ALShow	Yes	Yes	Yes	Vorbis only	Yes	Yes	Yes
BSplayer	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
Elecard MPEG Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
GOM Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Vorbis only	Yes	Yes	Yes
iTunes	No [33]	Win: yes Mac: file is parsable	Yes	Partial [24]	No	No	Yes
jetAudio	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Vorbis only	Yes	Yes	Partial [23]
KPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Light Alloy	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
MediaFrame	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	AAC only
Media Center	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Media Player Classic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Vorbis only	Yes	Yes	Yes
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NicePlayer	Yes	Partial [25]	Yes	Partial [24]	No	No	Yes
QuickTime	Yes	Partial [25]	Yes	Partial [24]	No	No	Yes
Quickview pro	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	?
Quintessential Player	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
Radioactive Player	Yes	Yes	No	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	No
RealPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [6]	Partial [6]	No	Yes
Songbird	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
The KMPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Totem Movie Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vidlizard	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Yes	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
VLC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Vorbis only	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Yes
Windows Media Player	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
XBMC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
xine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zoom Player	Yes	Yes	Partial [30]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]	Partial [23]
Audio player [1]	AVI	ASF	QuickTime	Ogg	OGM	Matroska	MP4
1by1	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Amarok	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic	Basic	Yes
Audacious	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Audion	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cmus	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	AAC only
Cog	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
DeliPlayer	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
foobar2000	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Partial [6]	Yes
JuK	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
KSP Sound Player	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	AAC only
Listen	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MediaMonkey	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
Mesk	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	?	?	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
QuickPlayer	No	No	No	?	No	No	No
Rhapsody	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	?
Sonique	No [28]	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
VUPlayer	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
XMMS	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
XMPlay	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	AAC only
Zinf	No	No	No	Vorbis only	No	No	No
	AVI	ASF	QuickTime	Ogg	OGM	Matroska	MP4

[edit] Optical media publication support

Information about what optical discs the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

	Audio				Video
Video player	CD	SACD	DVD-Audio	HDCD	VCD	SVCD	DVD	HD DVD	Blu-ray
ALShow	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	Yes	No	No
BSplayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Elecard MPEG Player	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
GOM Player	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
iTunes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
jetAudio	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
KPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Light Alloy	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
MediaFrame	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Media Center	Yes	No	No	No	?	?	Yes	No	No
Media Player Classic	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
MPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
NicePlayer	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
QuickTime	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Quickview pro	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Quintessential Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Radioactive Player	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
RealPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Songbird	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The KMPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Totem Movie Player	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Vidlizard	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
VLC	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Winamp	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Windows Media Player	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
XBMC	Yes	No	Yes	Partial [34]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
xine	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Zoom Player	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Audio player [1]	CD	SACD	DVD-Audio	HDCD	VCD	SVCD	DVD	HD DVD	Blu-ray
Amarok	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Audacious	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Audion	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cmus	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Cog	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
DeliPlayer	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
foobar2000	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
JuK	Yes [35]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
KSP Sound Player	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
MediaMonkey	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Mesk	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
musikCube	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
QuickPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhapsody	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rhythmbox	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Sonique	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
VUPlayer	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
XMMS	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
XMPlay	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Zinf	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
	CD	SACD	DVD-Audio	HDCD	VCD	SVCD	DVD	HD DVD	Blu-ray

[edit] Metadata support

Information about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players support. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.

Video player	ID3v1	ID3v2	APEv2 tag	Vorbis comment
ALShow	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
BSplayer	Yes	Yes	No	No
Elecard MPEG Player	No	No	No	No
GOM Player	No	No	No	No
iTunes	Yes	Yes	No	?
jetAudio	Yes	Yes	?	?
KPlayer	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Light Alloy	?	?	?	?
MediaFrame	No	No	No	?
Media Center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Media Player Classic	Yes	No	?	Partial
MPlayer	Yes	No	No	Yes
NicePlayer	No	No	No	?
QuickTime	Yes	?	?	?
Quintessential Player	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
Radioactive Player	Yes	Yes	?	?
RealPlayer	Yes	Yes	?	No
Songbird	Yes	Yes	?	?
The KMPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Totem Movie Player	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Vidlizard	Yes	Yes	No	No
VLC	Yes	Yes	No	Partial
Winamp	Yes	Yes	Partial [36]	Yes
Windows Media Player	Yes	Yes	?	No
XBMC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
xine	Yes	Partial [37]	?	Yes
Zoom Player	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
Audio player [1]	ID3v1	ID3v2	APEv2 tag	Vorbis comment
Amarok	Yes [38]	Yes [38]	Yes [38]	Yes
Audacious	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Audion	Yes	Yes	No	No
Cmus	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DeliPlayer	Yes	Yes	No	?
foobar2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JuK	Yes [38]	Yes [38]	Yes [38]	Yes [38]
KSP Sound Player	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes
Listen	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MediaMonkey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mesk	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MPXPLAY	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Musicmatch Jukebox	Yes	Yes	No	?
musikCube	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Muzikbrowzer	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
QuickPlayer	Partial [37]	Partial [37]	No	?
Rhapsody	Yes	Yes	No	No
Rhythmbox	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
SnackAmp	Yes	Yes	No	?
Sonique	Yes	No	?	?
VUPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
XMMS	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
XMPlay	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Zinf	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
	ID3v1	ID3v2	APEv2 tag	Vorbis comment

[edit] Subtitle support

Information about what subtitle formats the players support. Footnotes lead to information about support in future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality. (Note: Pure audio players are not listed)

	Bitmap	Text										Bitmap
	VobSub (.idx+.sub)	SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass)	SubRip (.srt)	Sami (.smi)	RealText (.rt)	MicroDVD (.sub)	Subviewer (.sub)	TXT[39] (.txt)	PowerDivx (.psb)	Universal Subtitle Format (.usf)	Structured Subtitle Format (.ssf)	XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles)
ALShow	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	?	No	No	No	No
BSplayer	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	Yes [41]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [23]
Elecard MPEG Player	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
GOM Player	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
iTunes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
jetAudio	No	Partial [40]	Yes	No	No	Yes	?	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
KPlayer	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Light Alloy	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	No	No	Yes	?	No	No	No	No	No
Media Center	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
MediaFrame	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Media Player Classic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes [30]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes [23]
MPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
NicePlayer	No	Partial [40]	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
QuickTime	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Quickview pro	No	Partial [40]	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Quintessential Player	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Radioactive Player	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
RealPlayer	Yes [6]	No	Yes [6]	Yes	Yes	Yes [6]	?	Yes [6]	No	No	No	No
The KMPlayer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes [23]
Totem Movie Player	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	No	No	?	?	?	No	No	No	No
Vidlizard	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [23]
VLC media player	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Winamp	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [23]
Windows Media Player	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [23]
XBMC	Yes	Partial [40]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No [42]	No [42]	No [42]	No [42]
xine	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	?	No	No	No	No
Zoom Player	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	No	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [41]	Yes [23]
	VobSub (.idx+.sub)	SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass)	SubRip (.srt)	Sami (.smi)	RealText (.rt)	MicroDVD (.sub)	Subviewer (.sub)	TXT (.txt)	PowerDivx (.psb)	Universal Subtitle Format (.usf)	Structured Subtitle Format (.ssf)	XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles)

[edit] See also

• List of codecs
  • Open source codecs and containers
• Comparison of video codecs
• Comparison of audio codecs
• Comparison of container formats
• Comparison of subtitle formats

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} In this comparison audio players are defined as those who can't play videos by default.
2. ^ Apple still doesn't yet officially support Windows Vista according to their iTunes download page: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Might be usable with Rosetta.
4. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) is design to run nativly on the Xbox game-console but XBMC was in November 2006 partially ported to Win32 to run on Microsoft Windows, but only the GUI part for development purposes so far.
5. ^ Windows will be supported by Amarok 2 because Amarok 2 will use the Qt4 toolkit.
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al} Plugin available.
7. ^ Mac OS X version, with FrontRow
8. ^ Available with QuickTime Streaming Server.
9. ^ Only the media creator can create skins.
10. ^ Songbird uses the VLC plugin for media playback
11. ^ VLC 0.9.0 will have a media library amongst many other new features.
12. ^ There is a separate tool available.
13. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) 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)
14. ^ Basic support with NMM
15. ^ Context Browser uses CSS.
16. ^ Basic support via MPlayer backend
17. ^ The user interface is a pluggable Mono Assembly
18. ^ UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000.
19. ^ Using DCOP
20. ^ Supported through libnms
21. ^ 3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features.
22. ^ As of 0.9.2 it allows reading RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts available.
23. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dy dx dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en eo ep eq er es et eu ev ew ex ey ez fa} The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
24. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis, FLAC (No FLAC container support), Speex, and Theora.
25. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime.
26. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al} Available through a Gstreamer plugin.
27. ^ Currently only plays WavPack files that are muxed into a Matroska container
28. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad} Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation
29. ^ ^{a b} Requires another sound system.
30. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s} The playing compatibility of Media Player depends on the availability of DirectShow, QuickTime, RealMedia and Shockwave filters. There are two distributions known as QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative which bundle the required QuickTime and RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponding players.
31. ^ ^{a b c} The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for Quicktime.
32. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) is because of the relatively 'slow' Intel Pentium III 733Mhz processor inside the Xbox, XBMC limited to decoding 480x576 resolution MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video when encoded without cabac and deblocking, or 352x288 resolution MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video when encoded with cabac and deblocking. As the FFmpeg-based codecs code get more and more optimized as the months goes by, XBMC might one day be able to decode MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) (with cabac and deblocking) at 720x480 resolution on the Xbox hardware, but never higher than that unless XBMC moves to a other hardware-platform.
33. ^ A hack allows playback.
34. ^ XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) can playback HDCD [High Definition Compact Disc] but only in backward compatibility mode so you will not gain any sound-quality benifits over standard Audio-CDs.
35. ^ Requires K3B
36. ^ Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible.
37. ^ ^{a b c} Displays basic ID3v1 / ID3v2 / Ogg Vorbis tags
38. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Support of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib.
39. ^ This player supports to open files with the extension .txt, but those could contain any script language. So there is no guarantee it will play it.
40. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} This player supports some of the formatting data from SSA/ASS (at most coloring but no positioning, animation, typesetting etc.), but some players could add full support by using VSFilter as external subtitle filter instead of their build-in one.
41. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an} For Windows, support of many subtitle formats can be added by installing VSFilter or ffdshow.
42. ^ ^{a b c d} XBMC (XBoxMediaCenter) uses the subtitle library / source code from MPlayer so when/if MPlayer can display these subtitles then XBMC will soon be able to display them too.