Free DVD and VCD Players, Free Movie and Video Playing Software
Free standalone software to play DVD movies and other video files (MPG, WMV, AVI, DivX, etc) on your computer
Free VCD and DVD Movie Players / Free Movie and Video Files Playing Software
This page lists some standalone software to play DVD movies on your computers without the need to install additional codecs, plugins or software. These software can also typically play VCDs, SVCDs, as well as media files such as AVI files, MPEG (MPG) files, DivX / XVid files, Windows Media Video (WMV), ASF, RealVideo, QuickTime (QT) (etc) files as well. Some of these files with proprietary formats (apart from DVDs), like Real and QuickTime may require you to install additional decoding software (codecs).
Note that while most, if not all, of these programs can handle DVDs with encrypted CSS content, such as those found on many commercial DVD movie disks, they may not be able to handle situations where your DVD drive has a different region code from your DVD movie disk. For example if your DVD has a region code of 1 (USA) and you try to play a region 2 (UK) disk, the software may not be able to play it, since modern DVD drives itself will not permit it (older drives are region free). Some commercial DVD playing software like DVD X Player Standard and DVD X Player Professional claim to be able to play any DVD movie disk on your DVD drive regardless of its region code. Alternatively, if you have multiple DVD drives, it is a trivial matter to devote each DVD drive to playing a different region disk, such as (say) drive D: to playing region 1 disks and drive E: to playing region 2 disks.
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Free Movie Players, DVD Players, Video File Players: Play MPG, AVI, WMV, DivX, etc
- VideoLAN - VLC Media Player
VideoLAN is a cross-platform media player that supports the playing of many video and movie formats, including DVD disks (both encrypted and unencrypted DVD disks), VCD, SVCD, audio CD, MPEG, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP4, MOV, 3GP, Ogg, OGM, Annodex, Matroska (MKV), WAV, raw audio (DTS, AAC, AC3, A52), raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash), DivX, MPEG-4, XViD, 3ivX, H.264, H.263, H.263i, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), MJPEG, Indeo Video (IV32, IV41, IV51), etc. It can also handle streaming video both as a client and as a server. Support systems include Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, WinCE / PocketPC, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, and QNX. The program is open source and is released under the GNU General Public License.
- MPlayer - The Movie Player
MPlayer is a movie player that works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (and possibly other systems). It handles DVD disks (included encrypted DVD disks), VCDs (not in Windows?), SVCD (super Video CDs), AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, QuickTime MOV, MP4, Ogg, OGM, Matroska, NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video), VIVO, FLI, Real Video, Real Audio, DivX, 3ivx, etc. MPlayer is open source and is released under the GNU General Public License. You may also be interested in SMPlayer (Windows and Linux only), a player built on top of MPlayer with some additional features. If you use Linux, there is also KMPlayer for KDE, which also uses MPlayer and Xine as backends.
- Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic is a Windows media player fashioned in the image of Microsoft's old Media Player 6.4. However, while it may look like the latter, it boasts an extensive list of features including the ability to play DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, video files of numerous formats (including AVI, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, Real video, etc) and so on.
- Xine
Xine is a free multimedia player that handles DVD disks, CD disks, VCD disk, SVCD disks and a variety of multimedia file formats like AVI, MOV, WMV, MP3 and streaming multimedia (streaming audio and video). Platforms supported by this player include Linux, Solaris, and OS/2. It is possible that other systems are also supported as well. If you are interested in Xine, you may also want to check out the Kaffeine Player, an open source player for KDE built on top of Xine.
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