Windows Media Player is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media...
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MPCStar Alternatives
MPCStar is described as 'MPCSTAR is an all-in-one package of video player, audio player and many codecs. It contains a user-friendly player and carefully selected codecs to support various media formats. With MPCSTAR, you would be able to play all your movies and music downloaded from the internet' and is a Media Player in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MPCStar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best MPCStar alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MPCStar are MPC-HC, AIMP, Clementine and SMPlayer.
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- 218 Windows Media Player alternatives
132 GOM Player alternativesGOM Player is a freeware media player. Key strengths are the ability to play the majority of media files without the need to obtain a codec, and the ability to play some broken media files, both advantages over traditional players, like Windows Media Player.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Bundleware
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- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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SPlayer is a player that supports all popular formats, including DVDRip, HDTV, RMVB, QuickTime, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AC3/DTS, VP3/6/7, Indeo, XVD, OGG / OGM, APE, FLAC, TTA, AAC, MPC, 3GP/AMR, and subtitles.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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151 QMPlay2 alternativesQMPlay2 is a video and audio player. It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and Prostopleer browser.
146 UMPlayer alternativesUMPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
124 RealPlayer alternativesRealPlayer with RealTimes (aka “RealPlayer” for short) still includes the legacy features, such as Video Player, Downloader, Converter, Organizer and Web Videos. It also includes RealTimes features, such as Photos and RealTimes Stories, the automatic video collage feature.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
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108 BSPlayer alternativesBSPlayer is the first software movie player ever to enable its users to focus on watching the movie instead of dealing with poor computer capabilities or running around looking for a proper setting and codec. Also, it has very low CPU and RAM requirements.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Android
- Kindle Fire
Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
95 MPlayerX alternativesMPlayerX is an open source project which aims to be the most powerful, beautiful, easy to use multimedia player on Mac OS X.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Warning
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- MPlayer
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226 Switch Player alternativesSwitch allows you to play a variety of web and professional media formats, inspect and adjust the properties of the file and export a new file.
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83 SmoothVideo Project alternativesSVP allows you to watch any video on your PC file with frame interpolation (like you can watch it on high-end TVs and projectors). It increases frame rate by generating intermediate animation frames between existing ones to produce very smooth, fluid and clear motion.
SmoothVideo Project is the most popular commercial alternative to MPCStar.
- SmoothVideo Project is Paid and Proprietary
166 Volumio alternativesVolumio is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution, designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback. It runs on a variety of devices, typically small and cheap computers like the Raspberry PI, but also on low power PCs, notebooks or thin clients.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
- Raspberry Pi
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Volumio is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MPCStar.
- Volumio is Freemium and Open Source
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