Top 5 Media Players for Windows

When it comes to video playback, there are way too many choices available, even if you look at only the free options. Within that selection, some players are fantastic and others are sorely lagging behind their competitors, and the most popular ones aren’t always the best ones. The difficulty is taking the time to separate the wheat from the chaff.

So here are the 5 of the best media players you can use on windows for free. Take this list with a grain of salt. Try them for yourself and see which ones do you like.

1.       VLC Media Player

Back in the day, VLC used to be the king of free Windows media players, it was a long while ago and the only viable alternatives were Windows Media Players or Winamp.

To get VLC Media Player, you can download HERE

 

2.       Media Player Classic-Home Cinema

Despite the program’s name (which admittedly sounds outdated), Media Player Classic – Home Cinema is one of the best media players. It’s designed to be a compact. No frills sort of program, yet it does pretty much everything you’d expect from a media player. It works straight from installation without requiring any additional codec packs, except maybe for the most obscure formats.

-          Simple, easy to use, and intuitive interface

-          Extremely lightweight and uses very few resources while playing

-                      Out of the bos suppor for VCD, SVCD, and DVD file format playback

-                      Using the DirectShow, MPC-HC immediately supports a vast array of video format families including AVI, MPEG, MKV, MP4, MOV, FLV, RM, WMV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, and whole lot more.

To get Media Player Classic, you can download HERE

 

3.       GOM Player

GOM player is the primary player for GOM TV, a popular competitive gaming stream site in Korea, and it’s no secret why. Let’s check out the features

-          Brilliantly designed UI with a powerful skinning system

-          Codec finder for when you try to play a video and don’t have a matching codec. GOM automates the process and gets you viewing as quickly as possible.

-          Control Panel that helps optimize your viewing controls with functions like in-clip repeating , subtitle controls, and 10 band equalizer

-          Image and audio capture, so you can isolate screen caps and audio tracs from videos.

To get GOM Player setup, you can click HERE

 

4.       SMPlayer

SMPlayer doesn’t have the prettiest of Interfaces, but it has some great functionality that may prove enough for you to overlook the lacking aesthetics. Fortunately, SMPlayer doesn’t have a skimming system that helps there. With built-in codecs, SMPlayer will handle almost anything you throw at it right way.

-          Youtube Browser lets you search and browse. Youtube straight from inside SMPlayer. You can also download a video by recording it as it plays.

-          Search and download subtitles easily with SMPlayer’s integration wirh Opensubtitles

-          Take screen short of thr current video with a single button click

-          Open source and cross-platform Windows and Linux.s

To download SMPlayer, you can click HERE

 

1.       KMPlayer

KMPlayer is light weight audio and video for Windows that support a wide range of different file formats, including AVI, WMV, ASF, AVS, FLV, MKV.

KMPlayer has a small desktop footprint and its minimalist interface makes video playback quick and hassle-free. The player’s interface is fully skinable, and there are some nice aesthetic touched, such as the changing of colour on the player with every new track

To download KMPlayer, you can click HERE

 

Well, enjoy u'r self watching movies..:)