Linux Video Players

There is sizesable amount of Linux video players available in the internet that are free and are fully featured and that perform well. Here are some examples of video players that are considered by other users and reviewers as the better video players available.

Xine, the is a powerful multimedia program, specializing in video playback. In addition functioning as a standalone product. It plays CDs, DVD,s and VCD,s. I also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local drives and displays multimedia stream from the interest.

The Totem Media Player, This Linux Video Player is an application is a movie player for the GNOME (defed). Based if Gstreamer framework and xine library, and enables you to play movies of songs. Various formats such as mpg audio y vega, ogg, avi, asf, mov, wmv and quicktime.

VLC Linux Media Player, this one seems to be like a wide spread favorite, it also handles all your needs. It can handle DVDs, VCD (and SVCD), Audio CDs, web streams, TV Cards and much more. It supports a extensive range of formats without the need for additional codecs. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast on a high-bandwidth network.

SMPlayer Free Linux Media Player. This program is a front-end for Mplayer (basic included in Linux when installed), includes basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for Mplayer filters and more. It can also play DVD ISO images, audio CDs, MPEG, AVI and ASF.

Ogle, Free Linux Video Player. Ogle is by far the most simple to install and to use, as unlike most others, it's designed to be a software DVD player (see DVD players for more info) and nothing more. It fully supports menus, most sound formats, and is ALSA compatible. It achieves simplicity very well.

Mplayer. It has built in support for the most common video and audio manipulation. Mplayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood . Is considered by many users as the best Linux Media Player. A very popular Linux Video Player which runs on many systems besides Linux.