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The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video, even if it can also play audio files.
Unreal Media Server: Unreal Streaming Technologies 2003-09-15 15.0 (2023-01-03) 2023-01-03 $995 perpetual license proprietary: Audio/Video VLC media player: VideoLAN? 2.2.4 (2016-06-05) 2016-06-05 Free GPL v2: Audio/Video Windows Media Services: Microsoft: 1996-12-10 9.6 (2010-04-05) 2010-04-05 Free proprietary: Audio/Video Wowza Streaming Engine
VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS.
Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to distinguish it from the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11) is the first media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play audio and video on personal computers.
The quality the codec can achieve is heavily based on the compression format the codec uses. A codec is not a format, and there may be multiple codecs that implement the same compression specification – for example, MPEG-1 codecs typically do not achieve quality/size ratio comparable to codecs that implement the more modern H.264 specification.
Windows Media Player (or simply Media Player) is a video and audio player developed in UWP by Microsoft for Windows 11 and subsequently backported to Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV , and the original Windows Media Player .
Common logo for all VideoLAN projects. VideoLAN is a non-profit organization which develops software for playing video and other media formats. It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS), but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result renamed VLC media player.
Apart from Windows Media Player, most of the WMA compression formats can be played using ALLPlayer, VLC media player, [55] Media Player Classic, [56] MPlayer, RealPlayer, Winamp, Zune Software (with certain limitations—DSP plugin support and DirectSound output is disabled using the default WMA plugin), [citation needed] and many other ...