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Media player is a termtypically used to describe

computer software forplaying back multimedia

files.


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1) Windows Media Player2) VLC Media Player

3) Winamp Player4) Media Player Classic

5) MPlayer


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(WMP)

1) Windows Media Player


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Windows Media Player (abbreviated WMP) is aproprietary digital media player and medialibrary application developed by Microsoftthat is used for playing audio, video and

viewing images on personal computersrunning the Microsoft Windows operatingsystem, as well as on Pocket PC and WindowsMobile-based devices. Editions of WindowsMedia Player were also released for Mac OS,Mac OS X and Solaris but development ofthese has since been discontinued.


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Microsoft Windows has had a media playersince 1991, when Windows 3.0 withMultiMedia Extensions was released.

This version of Windows, which was includedwith "Multimedia PC"-compatible machinesbut not available for retail sale, included theMedia Player application, was capable ofplaying .mmm animation files, and could beextended to support other formats.


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Allows the user to connect, share and syncdata with portable handheld devices andgame consoles since version 7.

Media can be optionally transcoded to aformat better suited for the target device,automatically, when synchronizing.

When deleting playlists from devices,

Windows Media Player can automaticallyremove their contents.


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VideoLAN Client

2) VLC Media Player


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VLC media player is a free and open sourcemedia player and multimedia framework writtenby the VideoLAN project.

VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder,

and streamer supporting many audio and videocodecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs,and various streaming protocols. It is able tostream over networks and to transcode

multimedia files and save them into variousformats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client,but that initialism is now deprecated.


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Originally the VideoLAN project started as anacademic project in 1996. It was intended toconsist of a client and server to stream videosacross a campus network. VLC was the client

for the VideoLAN project, with VLC standingfor VideoLan Client. Originally developed bystudents at the cole Centrale Paris, it is nowdeveloped by contributors worldwide, yetsecond year student of cole Centrale Parisstill coordinate the project.


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VLC is popular for its ability to play the videocontent of incomplete, unfinished, ordamaged video downloads before the fileshave been fully downloaded. (For example,

files still downloading via BitTorrent, eMule,or Gnutella) . It also plays m2t MPEGtransport streams (.TS) files while they arestill being digitized from an HDV camera via aFireWire cable, making it possible to monitorthe video as it is being played. This isbecause it is a packet-based player.


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Developed by

3) Winamp Media Player


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Winamp is a proprietary media player forWindows-based PCs, written by Nullsoft, nowa subsidiary of AOL. It is freeware/shareware,multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and

skins, and is noted for its graphical soundvisualization, playlist, and media libraryfeatures. Winamp was released by JustinFrankel in 1997, and its popularity grewquickly, along with the developing trend ofMP3 file-sharing.


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The minimalist WinAMP 0.20a was released asfreeware on 21 April 1997.

Its windowless menubar-only interface showedonly play (open), stop, pause, and unpause

functions. A file specified on the command line or dropped

onto its icon would be played. MP3 decoding wasperformed by the AMP decoding engine by

Tomislav Uzelac, which was free for non-commercial use. The acronym "AMP" stood for"Advanced Multimedia Products".


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Winamp supports music playback using MP3,MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2,AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA

Winamp was one of the first common musicplayers on Windows to support playback ofOgg Vorbis by default.

It supports gapless playback for MP3 and

AAC, and Replay Gain for volume levelingacross tracks.


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