VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
* Free, Open Source and cross-platform
* Independant of systems codecs to support most video type
* Live recording
* Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
* Finer speed controls
* New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
* New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and majors improvements in many formats…
* New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
* Video scaling in fullscreen
>> VLC media player website
>> Download VLC media player 1.0.0