If you're looking for a free media player for your computer that will play just about any video or audio file you throw at it you've come to the right place. In this top 5 I'll count down the best media player software that you can use for free all of which are available for windows along with a few that are also available for Linux and MacOS.
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5. Divex Player
Starting off our countdown coming in at number five is Divex player their claim to fame is being the first of any media player to offer hevc playback up to 4k. They also offer support for most of the popular formats including mp4, mkv, avi and of course their very own format divx. They have this cool feature called trick play which lets you quickly jump to various chapters in your video. Their multiple audio feature lets you easily switch sound tracks without interrupting playback. You can easily cast from your computer to any compatible device including chrome-cast. The user layout is easy enough to figure out even for novice users with most of the key settings and features located along the lower right including their casting feature to cast what is on your screen to another device one downside of devx is that it's ad supported. If you want to get rid of the ads and take advantage of the additional features give x pro's a reasonable one-time fee of just around 20 dollars. If divex were completely free it would easily be number one on our list, if you can afford the twenty dollar one-time payment it's totally worth it but don't you worry we have some excellent freebies coming up for you. In our top four divex player is available for both Windows and MacOS.
4. MPV Player
Coming in at number four is MPV player. This free and open source cross-platform media player offers a minimalistic design and great for those of you looking for a media player that has a low impact on system resources. It supports all of the popular media formats with GPU video decoding and high quality video output while MPV at its core is a basic media player. There are hundreds of user scripts available on Github to enhance its capabilities for those of you interested in checking this out the link to this page as I mentioned earlier the interface is minimal. You'll find the basic controls in an overlay here at the bottom of the window. Mpv player is available for all three of the major operating systems Windows, MacOS and Linux.
3. POP Player
In at number three is POP player it's a favorite of many people and uses techniques like cuda, dxva and quick-sync to deliver the ultimate performance. It supports most of the popular video and audio codecs along with various subtitle formats and supports open codec which lets you add any codec you want. To the player some of the other features include 360 degree output online streaming and support for dvds and blu-rays being the opposite of mpv. Pop players interface is full of options and features including this control panel here on the right that pops up to change the audio video subtitle and playback settings. Pop player angered a lot of its users. A couple years ago with the inclusion of advertisements they since removed the ads. It's only available for Windows on any computer for any windows XP or newer.
2. SM Player
In the runner-up spot coming in at number 2nd is SM player featured earlier this year in our free software series it lets you change the look of the player with several skins and icon themes included it's packed full of features including bookmarking of the time position of the file played configurable subtitles and just like mpv.
1. M-Player
And our number one pick coming up as some player is completely free and open source using the M-player playback engine with the codex built in. It supports most of the known audio and video file formats and codecs. Some people are put off by the way it looks when they first install it to customize it the way you want it. Here in the toolbar select options then select preferences here in the sidebar click interface experiment with GUI icon set and style. In this example I'll change the GUI and the icon set when you're done making your changes click apply you'll see the new look. When the media player relaunches SM player is available for both Windows and Linux with competition nipping at its heels VLC media player by a slight margin retains the crown as the best free media player. It's free and open source with no ads spyware and user tracking and available for just about every platform. It can play just about any known file format you can think of and can play dvds with support for subtitles. It's also highly customizable you can change the way it looks by adding already made skins or you can create your own with their skin editor and you can also install extensions just like SM player.
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