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VLC media player can display the playing video as the desktop wallpaper, like Windows DreamScene, by using DirectX, only available on Windows operating systems. VLC media player can record the desktop and save the stream as a file, allowing the user to create screencasts.
Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players, such as play ( ), pause ( ), fastforward (⏩️), rewind (⏪), and stop ( ) buttons.
YAACC is an open source UPnP/DLNA server, renderer and controller. ZappoTV is a free DLNA compliant digital media controller, server and renderer. Archos Video Player has DLNA rendering/player capabilities. PlainUPnP (formerly DroidUPnP) is an open source DLNA controller. Mbogi Music is an open source DLNA controller.
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.
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.
libavcodec is a free and open-source [4] library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data. [5] libavcodec is an integral part of many open-source multimedia applications and frameworks. The popular MPV, xine and VLC media players use it as their main, built-in decoding engine that enables playback of many audio and video formats ...
Windows Media Player supports playback of audio, video and pictures, along with fast forward, reverse, file markers (if present) and variable playback speed (seek & time compression/dilation introduced in WMP 9 Series). It supports local playback, streaming playback with multicast streams and progressive downloads.
VP9 is the last official iteration of the TrueMotion series of video formats that Google bought in 2010 for $134 million together with the company On2 Technologies that created it. The development of VP9 started in the second half of 2011 under the development names of Next Gen Open Video (NGOV) and VP-Next. [8][9][10] The design goals for VP9 ...