Comparison of video player software

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The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs.

For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video, even if it can also play audio files.

## General

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### Active players

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Name  | Author  | First public release  | Stable version  | Cost  | Software license | Framework used  | Written in

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ALLPlayer | ALLPlayer Group Ltd. Partnership  | 1998 (1998) | 8.9.2 (April 4, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-04-04)) [±] | No cost | Proprietary | FFmpeg \+ original + DirectShow  | Object Pascal (Delphi)
Apprentice Video | Pavel Koshevoy  | 29 May 2010 (2010-05-29) | r407 and later  | No cost | MIT | FFmpeg  | C++ (Qt)
DivX | DivX, LLC  | 15 July 2001 (2001-07-15) | 11.12 (April 17, 2025)  | No cost | Proprietary | Proprietary | C/C++ (Qt)
FFplay | FFmpeg project  | 20 December 2000 (2000-12-20) | 7.1.1[1] 3 March 2025  | No cost | LGPL-2.1-or-later, part GPL-2.0-or-later | FFmpeg  | C
GOM Player | GOM & Company  | 7 January 2003 (2003-01-07) |

Windows

2.3.71.5335 (November 19, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-19)[2])

iOS

1.5.1 (February 26, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-02-26)[3])

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1.6.1 (August 30, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-08-30)[4]) [±]

| No cost | Proprietary | FFmpeg  | ?
iTunes | Apple Inc. | 9 January 2001 (2001-01-09) |  | No cost | Proprietary | QuickTime | ?
jetAudio (Basic)  | Cowon Systems  | 1997 (1997) | 8.1.8.20800 (6 August 2020; 5 years ago (2020-08-06))  | No cost | Proprietary | FFmpeg  | C++
jetAudio (Plus)  | Cowon Systems  | 1997 (1997) | 8.1.8.20800 (6 August 2020; 5 years ago (2020-08-06))  | $29  | Proprietary | FFmpeg  | C++
JRiver Media Center | JRiver, Inc.  | 1998 (1998) | 34.0.24 (Windows) (May 6, 2025; 3 months ago (2025-05-06)[5]) [±] | $69.98 to $89.98  | Proprietary | original + DirectShow  | C++, SSE/MMX assembly
K-Multimedia Player | YoungHuee Kang  | 1 October 2002 (2002-10-01) | 4.2.2.588 (3 December 2021; 3 years ago (2021-12-03)[6]) [±] | No cost | Proprietary | DirectShow  | Object Pascal
Mac Blu-ray Player | Macgo Inc.  | 2011 (2011) | 3.3.21 (28 August 2021; 3 years ago (2021-08-28))  | $59.95  | Proprietary | ?  | ?
MediaPortal | Team MediaPortal  | 2004 (2004) | 2.4 (December 30, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-12-30)) [±] | No cost | GPL | DirectShow  | C#, C++
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Gabest | 29 March 2006 (2006-03-29) | 2.3.8 (November 27, 2024; 8 months ago (2024-11-27)) [±] | No cost | GPL-3.0-or-later | FFmpeg + DirectShow  | C++
Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video)  | Microsoft | 26 October 2012 (2012-10-26) |  | No cost | Proprietary |  |
Microsoft Photos | Microsoft | 26 October 2012 (2012-10-26) |  | No cost | Proprietary |  |
MPlayer | Árpád Gereöffy  | September 2000 (2000-09) | 1.5[7][8] 27 February 2022  | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later | FFmpeg + original  | C
mpv | mpv Community  | 7 August 2013 (2013-08-07) | 0.40.0[9] 25 March 2025  | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later, part LGPL-2.1-or-later | FFmpeg  | C, Objective C, Lua
Plex Media Player | Plex, Inc.  | 21 May 2008 (2008-05-21) | Windows: 2.57.0.1074 (May 5, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-05)[10]) [±]

macOS: 2.57.0.1074 (May 5, 2020; 5 years ago (2020-05-05)[11]) [±]

iOS: 7.28.1 (February 8, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-02-08)[12]) [±]

Android: 8.29.1.30697 (February 15, 2022; 3 years ago (2022-02-15)[13]) [±]

| No cost | Proprietary | FFmpeg  | C++
PotPlayer | Kakao  | 2006 (2006) | 1.7.22498 (March 4, 2025 (2025-03-04)) [±] | No cost | Proprietary | DirectShow  | ?
PowerDVD Standard  | CyberLink | 1998 (1998) | PowerDVD 23 (2024-03-07) [±] | $59.99  | Proprietary | DirectShow  | ?
PowerDVD Pro  | CyberLink  | 1998 (1998) | PowerDVD 23 (2024-03-07) [±] | $79.95  | Proprietary | DirectShow  | ?
PowerDVD Ultra  | CyberLink  | 1998 (1998) | PowerDVD 23 (2024-03-07) [±] | $99.99  | Proprietary | DirectShow  | ?
QuickTime X | Apple Inc.  | 28 August 2009 (2009-08-28) | 10.5 (August 31, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-08-31)) [±] | No cost | Proprietary | QuickTime | Cocoa (on OS X)
RealPlayer | RealNetworks | April 1995 (1995-04) | Windows: 24.0.1.306 (September 20, 2024; 10 months ago (2024-09-20)) [±]

OS X: 12.0.1.1750 (September 7, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-09-07)[14]) [±]

Windows Mobile: 1.1 (July 30, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-07-30)[15]) [±]

Android: 1.61 (October 23, 2024; 9 months ago (2024-10-23)) [±]

| No cost | Proprietary | original  | ?
SMPlayer | Ricardo Villalba  | 11 December 2006 (2006-12-11) | 25.6.0[16] 8 June 2025  | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later | MPlayer  | C++ (Qt)
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | The GNOME Project | February 2003 (2003-02) | 43.1[17] 23 October 2024  | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later \+ exception[18] | GStreamer | C
Videostream | Videostream Team  | February 2014 (2014-02) | 2.1.3.15  | No cost | Proprietary | Chrome \+ FFmpeg  | JavaScript, C++
VLC | VideoLAN | 1 February 2001 (2001-02-01) | | Windows, Linux, & macOS| 3.0.21[19] / 5 June 2024; 14 months ago (5 June 2024)

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Android| 3.6.5[20] / 7 May 2025; 3 months ago (7 May 2025)
ChromeOS| 1.7.3[21] / 23 December 2015; 9 years ago (23 December 2015)
iOS, Apple TV| 3.6.4[22] / 23 August 2024; 11 months ago (23 August 2024)
Windows (UWP)| 3.1.2 / 20 July 2018; 7 years ago (2018-07-20)[23][24]
Windows Phone| 3.1.2 / 20 July 2018; 7 years ago (2018-07-20)[25]
No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-or-later | libVLC + FFmpeg  | C, C++
WinDVD Pro | Corel  | 1998 (1998) | WinDVD Pro 12 Service Pack 8 (April 28, 2021; 4 years ago (2021-04-28)[26][27]) [±] | $79.99  | Proprietary | DirectShow  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Team-Kodi (formerly Team-XBMC)  | 2002 (2002) | 19.3 (codename: "Matrix") (October 25, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-10-25)[28]) [±] | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later | FFmpeg  | C++
xine | xine Team  | 15 August 2000 (2000-08-15) | 0.99.14 (January 7, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-01-07)) [±] | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later | xine-lib \+ FFmpeg  | C
sView | Kirill Gavrilov  | 2009 (2009) | 22.01 (January 6, 2022 (2022-01-06))  | No cost | GPL-3.0-or-later | FFmpeg  | C++
IPTVX | IPTVX LLC  | 3 April 2019 (2019-04-03) | 14.4.2 (tvOS), 5.4.2 (iOS)  | $13.99/year  | Proprietary | VLCKit  | Objective-C / Swift / Kotlin
Name  | Author  | First public release  | Stable version  | Cost  | Software license  | Framework used  | Written in

### Inactive players

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Banshee | Aaron Bockover  | 2005-02-17  | 2.6.2 (February 18, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-02-18)[29]) [±] | No cost | MIT | GStreamer | C#
CorePlayer | CoreCodec Inc.  |  2006  | 3.0.1.0 (September 9, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-09-09)[30]) [±] | ?  | Proprietary | ?  | ?
Creative MediaSource | Creative Technology |  2002  | 5.10.38 (December 22, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-12-22)) [±] | Requires Creative product  | Proprietary | DirectShow | ?
DSPlayer  | DSPlayer team  |  2002  | 0.889 (12 February 2007; 18 years ago (2007-02-12)) [±] | No cost | Proprietary |  | Object Pascal (Delphi), C++
Media Player Classic | Gabest | May 29, 2003  | 6.4.9.1 Revision 107 (February 14, 2010; 15 years ago (2010-02-14)) [±] | No cost | GPL-2.0-or-later | DirectShow | C++
Ogle | Chalmers University of Technology |  1999  | 0.9.2 (November 6, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-11-06)) [±] | No cost | GPL | ?  | C
Quintessential Player | Paul Quinn  |  1997  | 5.0.121 (February 18, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-02-18)) [±] | No cost | Proprietary | ?  | ?
Songbird | Tom Lord  | February 8, 2006  | 2.2.0, Build 2453 (February 4, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-02-04)) [±] | No cost | GPL | GStreamer, XULRunner | C++
The Core Pocket Media Player | Gabor Kovacs  |  2004 Jul as "BetaPlayer"  | 0.71 (November 23, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-11-23)) [±] | No cost | GPL | FFmpeg + original  | C++
TotalMedia Theatre | ArcSoft | November 15, 2009  | 6.7.1.199 June 6, 2014; 11 years ago (2014-06-06) | ?  | Proprietary | original  | C++
QuickTime | Apple Inc.  | 1991-12-02  | 7.7.9 (January 7, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-01-07)) [±][31][32] | No cost | Proprietary | QuickTime | Cocoa (on OS X)
Winamp Lite, Full, Bundle  | Nullsoft |  Jun 1997  | 5.9.2 Build 10042[33] (April 26, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-04-26)) [±]

| No cost | Proprietary | ?  | ?
Winamp Pro  | Nullsoft  |  Jun 1997  | 5.9.2 Build 10042[34] (April 26, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-04-26)) [±]

| ?  | Proprietary | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Microsoft |  Nov 1992  | May 2025 Update (11.2505.2.0) (25 June 2025; 46 days ago (2025-06-25)[35]) [±] | No cost | Proprietary | DirectShow  | C++ (COM)
Name  | Author  | First public release  | Stable version  | Cost  | Software license  | Framework used  | Written in

## Operating system compatibility

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This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player, each one for a given operating system.

Video player  | Windows | macOS | iOS | Android | Linux | BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like | DOS | BeOS, Haiku, ZETA | OS/2

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Apprentice Video | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
DivX | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
GOM Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video)  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
iTunes | Yes  | Included  | Included  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
jetVideo | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Alpha version  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
MediaPortal | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Plex Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
PotPlayer | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | Included  | Included  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
RealPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
SMPlayer | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Videostream | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Winamp | Yes  | Beta version  | No  | Yes  | Last version is Winamp 3  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Windows Media Player | Included  | Dropped (WMP9)  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Dropped (WMP6.3)  | No  | No  | No  | No
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
xine | unmaintained  | WIP for 1.2 series  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
sView | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Video player  | Windows | macOS | iOS | Android | Linux | BSD Unix | Solaris | Unix-like | DOS | BeOS, Haiku, ZETA | OS/2

## Features

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Video player  | Outbound streaming  | Skinnable  | Media database  | Gapless audio decoding  | Visualizer | Audio equalizer | Remote controllable  | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria)  | HDR video playback | Stereoscopic 3D Playback  | 360-degree video playback

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
Apprentice Video | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | only on OSX  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
DivX | Yes (DLNA)  | No  | Yes (limited)  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
GOM Player | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes
iTunes | Yes  | Partial[v 1] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
jetAudio | Partial[v 1] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No[featurenotes 1] | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | No
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No
Plex Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
PowerDVD | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | No  | ?
QuickTime Player  | Partial[featurenotes 2] | Partial[featurenotes 3] | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
SMPlayer | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | yes, not macOS  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Some[featurenotes 4] | ?
Winamp | Partial[v 1] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Partial[v 1] | Yes[featurenotes 5] | ?  | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes[featurenotes 6] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
xine | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
sView | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ? (WebUI)  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Video player  | Outbound streaming  | Skinnable  | Media database  | Gapless audio decoding  | Visualizer  | Audio equalizer  | Remote controllable  | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria)  | HDR video playback  | Stereoscopic 3D Playback  | 360-degree video playback

### Extended features

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Video player  | Color controls  | Time stretching | Pitch shifting | A-B repeat  | Seek bar preview tooltip  | Interactive playback zoom  | Audio resync  | Subtitle resync  | Chapter (DVD, mkv, mp4, ogm)  | Bookmark (DVD, video, audio)  | Auto resume (DVD, video, audio)  | Shutdown on play complete

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Apprentice Video | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Banshee | ?  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
DivX | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
FFplay | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
GOM Player | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
iTunes | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
jetAudio | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
JRiver Media Center | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Some[featurenotes 7] | Yes  | Yes
Mac Blu-ray Player | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MediaPortal | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[featurenotes 8] | Yes[featurenotes 8] | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | No  | No  | Yes
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Plex Media Player | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
PowerDVD | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[featurenotes 9] | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No
RealPlayer | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
SMPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[featurenotes 10] | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | No  | Yes  | Yes
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes (from 2.2)  | Yes
Winamp | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | DVD only  | No  | Partial[v 1] | Partial[v 1]
WinDVD | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
xine | Yes  | Audio plugin  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes
sView | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Video player  | Color controls  | Time stretching  | Pitch shifting  | A-B repeat  | Seek bar preview tooltip  | Interactive

playback zoom

| Audio resync  | Subtitle resync  | Chapter (DVD, mkv, mp4, ogm)  | Bookmark (DVD, video, audio)  | Auto resume (DVD, video, audio)  | Shutdown on play complete

1. ^ "gapless mp3 playback - The KMPlayer's Forums". Kmplayer.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2009.
2. ^ Available with QuickTime Streaming Server.
3. ^ Only the media creator can create skins.
4. ^ anaglyph only
5. ^ Via media library in "modern" skin
6. ^ Kodi/XBMC 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)
7. ^ Bookmarks are limited to 20 files Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine and are stored with absolute paths, which renders them inaccessible when files are moved Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
8. ^ a b Pitch-shifting and AB-Repeat are not included in Mplayer's interactive keyboard controls, but can be set up via command line parameters. Mplayer manual
9. ^ www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/ Archived January 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine \- A-B repeat using Play Selection Only command
10. ^ As of SVN 3349

## Consumer video format ability

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Information about what video formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.

Video player  | MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 Part 2 (ASP)  | MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 (AVC)  | WMV | RealVideo | Theora | Flash | Dirac | VP8 | VP9 | HEVC (H.265)

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Apprentice Video | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
DivX | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
FFplay | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
GOM Player | Yes  | Partial[v 2] | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[36] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Yes
iTunes | Yes  | Partial[v 4] | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 5] | No  | Partial[v 6] | Partial[v 7] | No  | Partial[v 7] | ?  | ?
jetAudio | Yes  | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[36] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | ?  | ?
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ?  | Yes
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Microsoft Movies & TV | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Plex Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | Partial[v 4] | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 5] | No  | Partial[v 6] | Partial[v 7] | No  | Partial[v 7] | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 1] | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | ?  | ?
SMPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | ?
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Winamp | Yes  | Partial[v 2] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[36] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes[v 2] | Yes[v 9] | Yes[v 9] | Yes  | Partial[36] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 10] | ?  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
xine | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
sView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Video player  | MPEG-1  | MPEG-2  | MPEG-4 Part 2 (ASP)  | MPEG-4 Part 10 H.264 (AVC)  | WMV  | RealVideo  | Theora  | Flash  | Dirac  | VP8  | VP9  | HEVC (H.265)

## Production video format ability

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Video player  |

MPEG-4
SStP

AVC-Intra

AVC-Ultra

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Apple ProRes

VC-2
/Dirac Pro

VC-3
/Avid
DNxHD

VC-5
/GoPro
CineForm

Redcode RAW

ARRIRAW

CinemaDNG

Cineon
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sequence

OpenEXR
sequence

TIFF
sequence

PNG
sequence

JPEG
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JPEG 2000
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FFplay | Yes[37] | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Some[38] | No  | No[39] | Yes  | Some  | Some  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MPlayer | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Some  | No  | No  | Yes  | Some  | Some  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
VLC | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Some  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes

## Audio format ability

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Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such abilities.

Video player  | Lossy compression | Lossless compression

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Apprentice Video | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
DivX | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
FFplay | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
GOM Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
iTunes | Yes  | yes, no DRM  | No  | Partial[v 6] | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | Partial[v 6] | Yes  | No  | No
jetAudio | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Plex Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | Partial[v 5] | No  | Partial[v 6] | No  | Yes  | Partial[v 1] | ?  | No  | Partial[v 6] | Yes  | No  | No
RealPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 1] | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
SMPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8]
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Winamp | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | Partial[40] | Yes  | Partial[40] | Partial[40] | Partial[40] | Yes  | Partial[40] | Partial[40] | Partial[40]
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3]
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
xine | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
sView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Video player  | MP3  | WMA  | RealAudio  | Vorbis  | Musepack  | AAC  | AC-3  | Opus  | APE  | FLAC  | ALAC  | SHN  | WV

## Container format ability

[edit]

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

Video player  | AVI | ASF | QuickTime | Ogg | OGM | Matroska | MP4 | NUT  | FLV | WebM

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Apprentice Video | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
DivX | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
FFplay | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
GOM Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Vorbis only  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes
iTunes | No  | Windows: yes
macOS: file is parsable  | Yes  | Partial[v 6] | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
jetAudio | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[41] | Vorbis only  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 3] | ?  | ?  | Yes
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Mac Blu-ray Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Plex Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | Partial[v 5] | Yes  | Partial[v 6] | No  | Yes[42] | Yes  | ?  | Yes[42] | Yes[42]
RealPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[v 1] | Partial[v 1] | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | ?  | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8][43]
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Winamp | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[41] | Vorbis only  | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | WMP12 Yes[41] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | Partial[v 3] | WMP12 Yes[v 3] | ?  | Yes  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
xine | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
sView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Video player  | AVI  | ASF  | QuickTime  | Ogg  | OGM  | Matroska  | MP4  | NUT  | FLV  | WebM

## Streaming support

[edit]

Information about which protocols the players understand, for receiving streaming media content.

Video player  | HTTP | HTTPS | HLS | DASH | HDS | Smooth | FTP | SFTP | RTSP
RTSPU/RTSPT | MMS
MMSU/MMST | RTMP | Podcast | RDT/RealRTSP  | RTP | DAAP | DLNA

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ALLPlayer | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Amarok | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Apprentice Video | Yes  | No  | Partial  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No
DivX | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
FFplay | Yes  | Yes[44] | Yes  | Yes[45] | patch available[46] | No  | Yes  | Yes[47] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
GOM Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
iTunes | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
jetAudio | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
MPlayer | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[48] | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | ?  | ?  | Yes[v 8] | ?  | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | Yes[v 8] | No  | ?  | Yes[v 8] | Yes  | Yes
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[49] | Yes
Winamp | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Dropped
(WMP10)  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
xine | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
sView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | No  | No
Video player  | HTTP  | HTTPS  | HLS  | DASH  | HDS  | Smooth  | FTP  | SFTP  | RTSP  | MMS  | RTMP  | Podcast  | RDT/RealRTSP  | RTP  | DAAP  | DLNA

## Playlist format ability

[edit]

Information about which playlist formats the players understand.

Video player  | asx/wax/wvx  | m3u/m3u8 | pls | xspf | ram/rmm  | sdp  | rpl  | xpl  | bdmv  | wmx

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ALLPlayer | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Apprentice Video | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
DivX | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
FFplay | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?
GOM Player | ASX support  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
iTunes | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
jetAudio | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Mac Blu-ray Player | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
MediaPortal | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
mpv | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes
QuickTime Player  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Winamp | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
xine | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
sView | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Video player  | asx/wax/wvx  | m3u/m3u8  | pls  | xspf  | ram/rmm  | sdp  | rpl  | xpl  | bdmv  | wmx

## Electronic program guide format ability

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Information about which Electronic program guide format the players viewable.

Video player  | PSI EIT  | PSIP | XMLTV

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ALLPlayer | ?  | ?  | ?
Apprentice Video | ?  | ?  | ?
FFplay | No  | No  | No
DivX | No  | No  | No
GOM Player | ?  | ?  | ?
iTunes | ?  | ?  | ?
jetAudio | ?  | ?  | ?
JRiver Media Center | ?  | ?  | ?
K-Multimedia Player | ?  | ?  | ?
Mac Blu-ray Player | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | ?  | ?  | ?
MediaPortal | ?  | ?  | ?
MPlayer | No  | No  | ?
mpv | No  | No  | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | No
QuickTime Player  | ?  | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | ?  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | ?  | ?  | ?
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Winamp | ?  | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | ?  | ?  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Partial  | ?  | Partial
xine | ?  | ?  | ?
sView | No  | No  | No
Video player  | PSI EIT  | PSIP  | XMLTV

## Subtitle ability

[edit]

Information about what subtitle formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such abilities.

Video player  | Text | Bitmap

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SubRip (.srt)  | SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass)  | MicroDVD (.sub)  | SAMI (.smi)  | SubViewer (.sub)  | RealText (.rt)  | Text file (.txt)  | Universal Subtitle Format (.usf)  | Closed captioning |

MPEG-4 Part 17

SCTE-27

TTML/
SMPTE-TT

| WebVTT (.vtt)  | VobSub (.idx+.sub)  | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles)  | DVD subtitles  | DVB subtitles
ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Apprentice Video | Yes
[stnotes 1] | Yes
[stnotes 1] | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
[stnotes 1] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
FFplay | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | No  | Yes
[stnotes 2] | Yes
[stnotes 2] | No
[50] | No
[51] | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
GOM Player | Yes  | Partial
[stnotes 3] | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?
iTunes | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No
jetAudio | Yes  | Partial
[stnotes 3] | Yes  | No  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Mac Blu-ray Player | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
QuickTime Player  | Yes
[42] | Yes
[42] | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No  | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes  | Partial
[stnotes 3] | ?  | No  | ?  | No  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Some  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Winamp | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | No  | No  | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | ?  | ?
Windows Media Player | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | No  | No  | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
[stnotes 4] | Yes
[stnotes 4] | ?  | ?
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
xine[stnotes 5] | Yes  | Partial
[stnotes 3] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?
sView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Video player  | SubRip (.srt)  | SubStation Alpha (.ssa+.ass)  | MicroDVD (.sub)  | SAMI (.smi)  | SubViewer (.sub)  | RealText (.rt)  | Text file (.txt)  | Universal Subtitle Format (.usf)  | Closed captioning |

MPEG-4 Part 17

SCTE-27

TTML/
SMPTE-TT

| WebVTT (.vtt)  | VobSub (.idx+.sub)  | XSUB (.divx embedded subtitles)  | DVD subtitles  | DVB subtitles

1. ^ a b c Subtitles stored separately from the media file are not supported.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i only if FFmpeg was built with libass and 'subtitles' video filter.
3. ^ a b c d This player understands some of the formatting data from SSA/ASS (at most coloring but no positioning, animation, typesetting etc.), but some players could understand the rest of it by using DirectVobSub as external subtitle filter instead of the built-in one.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p For Windows, the ability to use many subtitle formats can be added by installing DirectVobSub or ffdshow.
5. ^ "FAQ | Kaffeine - KDE Media Player". Kaffeine FAQ. Archived from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2009.

## Metadata ability

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

Video player  | ID3v1  | ID3v2  | APEv2 tag | Vorbis comment | AMF | ASF metadata  | MOV metadata  | Cue sheet | CD-Text

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ALLPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | No
Apprentice Video | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
FFplay | Yes[52] | Yes[53] | Yes[54] | Yes  | Yes[55] | Yes  | Yes  | patch available[56] | No
GOM Player | No  | No  | No  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
iTunes | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes
jetAudio | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Partial[metadatanotes 1] | ?
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes
Mac Blu-ray Player | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
MPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[metadatanotes 2] | ?
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
RealPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
VLC | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial  | Yes
Winamp | Yes  | Yes  | Partial[metadatanotes 3] | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Partial[v 1] | Yes
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Partial[metadatanotes 4] | ?  | Partial[v 1] | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Partial[v 1]
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Partial
xine | Yes  | Partial[metadatanotes 5] | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
sView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Video player  | ID3v1  | ID3v2  | APEv2 tag  | Vorbis comment  | AMF  | ASF metadata  | MOV metadata  | Cue sheet  | CD-Text

1. ^ Supports via plugin available in Cowon Forums
2. ^ MPlayer can read .cue files with cue:// type URL, but has problems, see Talk:Cue sheet (computing)#mplayer have more faults
3. ^ Winamp relies on the tagging of its decoder. Replacing the standard decoder with an APEv2 capable one is possible.
4. ^ ID3 V2.4 not supported (even on Windows Media Player 12).
5. ^ Displays basic ID3v1 / ID3v2 / Ogg Vorbis tags

## Optical media ability

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Information about what kinds of optical discs the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about abilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such abilities. Playback of Super Audio CD is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists. All media players capable of audio CD playback will also play the Redbook core of any HDCD disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.

| Audio | Video |

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Video player  | CD | DVD-Audio | HDCD | Super Audio CD (SACD)  | Video CD (VCD)  | SVCD | DVD | Blu-ray Disc | HD DVD | UHD BD
ALLPlayer | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  |
Apprentice Video | No  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  |
FFplay | via libcdio  | No  | via libcdio[optical 1] | ?  | No  | No  | No  | via libbluray  | No  |
GOM Player | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  |
iTunes | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  |
jetAudio | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
JRiver Media Center | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  |
K-Multimedia Player | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
Media Player Classic Home Cinema | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Commercial BDs unsupported  | Yes  |
MediaPortal | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No[optical 2] | ?  |
MPlayer | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
PotPlayer | Yes  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
PowerDVD | Yes  | No longer supported  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No longer supported  | Yes, limited
QuickTime Player  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No[optical 3] | Yes  | No  | No  |
RealPlayer | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
GNOME Videos (formerly Totem)  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
VLC | Yes  | Yes[optical 4] | No  | ?  | Yes  | Partial[optical 5] | Yes  | Commercial BDs unsupported[57] | Yes[optical 6] |
Winamp | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  |
Windows Media Player | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
Kodi (formerly XBMC)  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Partial[optical 7] | Partial[optical 7] | Yes  | Commercial BDs unsupported  | ?  |
xine | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  |
WinDVD | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
sView | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  |
Video player  | CD  | DVD-Audio  | HDCD  | Super Audio CD (SACD)  | Video CD (VCD)  | SVCD  | DVD  | Blu-ray Disc  | HD DVD  |

1. ^ A built-in hdcd audio filter is available but needs to manually enable via commandline option.
2. ^ Non-commercial BDs supported through plug-in, see this thread on team-mediaportal.com
3. ^ See VCD and SVCD players Archived July 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine on The X Lab
4. ^ DVD Audio files are playable in VLC 1.1
5. ^ See VLC playback Features at videolan.org.
6. ^ HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) from version 3.0.0
7. ^ a b VCD menu and SVCD menus are not supported nor displayed.

## See also

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* Free and open-source software portal

* List of codecs
* Open source codecs and containers
* Comparison of video codecs
* Comparison of audio coding formats
* Comparison of video container formats
* Subtitles
* Comparison of video codecs
* Comparison of DVR software packages

Related lists on other projects

* Open Source Toolset \- short sections on Audio editing and Video editing
* Software \- short lists of Ogg audio and video editors
* Help:Converting video \- tools for manipulating audio and video

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Plugin available.
2. ^ a b c d This format is supported out-of-the-box in Windows 7 and later. In Windows Vista and earlier, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
3. ^ 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 The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
4. ^ a b The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for QuickTime.
5. ^ a b c d The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for QuickTime.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h 3rd party plugins are available. The Xiph QuickTime Components allow any QuickTime application to parse Ogg files and play Vorbis, FLAC (Doesn't work with FLAC containers), Speex, and Theora.
7. ^ a b c d On macOS, 3rd party plugins are available. The Perian QuickTime components for Mac OS X 10.4.7+ allow any QuickTime application to play a wide variety of formats.
8. ^ 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 Available via Gstreamer plugin.
9. ^ a b This format is supported out-of-the-box in Windows Media Player 12 and later (which requires Windows 7 or later). In Windows Media Player 11 and earlier, the playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters.
10. ^ The playing compatibility depends on the availability of DirectShow filters, or in the case of Windows Media Player 12 and above, there is also the option of using Microsoft Media Foundation components, which have the added bonus of adding WebM support through the HTML5 <video> element to Internet Explorer 9 or later.

## References

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1. ^ "[FFmpeg-devel] Point releases". March 3, 2025. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
2. ^ "Windows Desktop". web site. April 16, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
3. ^ "Apple on the App Store". iTunes Store. March 5, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
4. ^ "GOM Player". Google Play Store. March 14, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
5. ^ "Release Notes MC". Retrieved July 30, 2024.
6. ^ "KMPlayer Multimedia Player". Retrieved February 17, 2022.
7. ^ "MPlayer 1.5 released". February 27, 2022.
8. ^ "MPlayer - The Movie Player". Retrieved February 28, 2022.
9. ^ "v0.40.0". March 25, 2025. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
10. ^ "Plex Media Player for Windows". web site. May 5, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
11. ^ "Plex Media Player for Mac". web site. May 5, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
12. ^ "Plex". iTunes Store. February 8, 2022. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
13. ^ "Plex". Google Play Store. February 15, 2022. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
14. ^ http://service.real.com/realplayer/security/09072012_player/en/
15. ^ "RealPlayer 1.1". Ewandoo. Retrieved February 20, 2015.
16. ^ "Version 25.6.0". June 10, 2025. Retrieved June 15, 2025.
17. ^ "43.1 · Tags · GNOME / totem". October 23, 2024. Retrieved February 24, 2025.
18. ^ "COPYING file mentioning exception added 8th Feb 2005". Totem. May 6, 2009. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
19. ^ "VLC for Windows Store". June 5, 2024. Archived from the original on April 1, 2025. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
20. ^ "3.6.5". May 7, 2025. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
21. ^ "VLC - Chrome Web Store". December 23, 2015. Retrieved April 4, 2022.
22. ^ "VLC media player on the App Store". Retrieved January 7, 2025.
23. ^ "VLC for Windows Store". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. Archived from the original on April 1, 2025. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
24. ^ "VLC UWP". www.microsoft.com. VideoLAN. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
25. ^ "VLC for Windows Phone". www.videolan.org. VideoLAN. Retrieved April 6, 2025.
26. ^ Corel WinDVD Home
27. ^ Corel WinDVD Pro Updates
28. ^ "Kodi "Matrix" 19.3 Release". Retrieved February 17, 2022.
29. ^ "October 10, 2012". banshee.fm. October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
30. ^ "CoreAVC Changelog". www.corecodec.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
31. ^ "About the security content of QuickTime 7.7.9".
32. ^ "Apple - Support - QuickTime - Downloads".
33. ^ "Winamp: Supported versions: Latest supported version". Winamp Forums. December 22, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
34. ^ "Winamp: Supported versions: Latest supported version". Winamp Forums. December 22, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
35. ^ "Windows Media Player". Microsoft Apps. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
36. ^ a b c d The playing compatibility depends on the availability of RealMedia filters. There is a distribution known as Real Alternative which bundles the needed RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponding player.
37. ^ Support MPEG-4 Studio Profile FFmpeg Project
38. ^ Red Cinema r3d files not supported FFmpeg Project
39. ^ Support for DNG (RAW) FFmpeg Project
40. ^ a b c d e f g Available via plugins that can be automatically downloaded during installation
41. ^ a b c The playing compatibility depends on the availability of QuickTime filters. There is a distribution known as QuickTime Alternative which bundles the needed QuickTime components without the need to install the corresponding player.
42. ^ a b c d e The open source Perian plug-in adds the ability to use many video formats and video codecs to QuickTime. It also adds the ability to use SubRip and SubStation Alpha subtitles.
43. ^ http://www.webmproject.org/tools/#gstreamer-plug-ins As of Gstreamer 1.0, WebM related support is included in gstreamer-plugins-good
44. ^ only if FFmpeg was built with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Secure Transport or SChannel.
45. ^ Since FFmpeg 3.4, only if FFmpeg was built with libxml2
46. ^ FFmpeg-devel - PATCH - add hds demuxer, FFmpeg project, October 14, 2016
47. ^ only if FFmpeg was built with OpenSSH.
48. ^ With FFmpeg or youtube-dl
49. ^ NEWS, VideoLAN
50. ^ #4439 (Support SCTE-27 / Digicipher II (DCII) subtitles) FFmpeg Project
51. ^ #4859 (TTML subtitles) FFmpeg Project
52. ^ id3v1.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
53. ^ id3v2.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
54. ^ apetag.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
55. ^ rtmppkt.h File Reference, FFmpeg project
56. ^ [FFmpeg-devel,1/7] lavf: add cue sheet demuxer, FFmpeg project, May 8, 2017
57. ^ S, Ganesh T. "VLC 'Hack' for Encrypted Blu-ray Playback Capability". Archived from the original on January 24, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2016.

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| active|

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