Best 4 Open Source Video Playback

1. VLC media player (My Favorite)

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Features:
- Simple, Powerful and Fast
- Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray), Webcams and Streams
- Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
- MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, WebM, WMV player
- Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking
- Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix
- Media Converter and Streamer

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2. Miro

The beautiful open source music and video player

Features:
- Manages your music effortlessly
- Easy to try Miro with your video and music
- Miro Syncs to Android device
- A beautiful HD video experience
- Download, Play, Convert, and syncs effortlessly

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3. MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

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4. Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema project is based on the original "Media Player Classic" SourceForge project created by Gabest. After the original author stopped working on it the new versions came under the new project called Media Player Classic - Home Cinema also hosted at SourceForge.net.

Features:

- An option to remove Tearing
- MPC Home Cinema in Your Language (see all languages)
- Additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support
- Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for the 64-bit platform
- Support for EVR renderer
- Bugs and vulnerability fixes
- All previous features from the Guliverkli Project (MPC) by Gabest
- Free Remote control APP for Android phones

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