Real Alternative 1.52

Real Alternative

Enables you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer. Supported formats: .ra, .rpm, .rm, .ram, .rmvb, .rpx, .smi, .smil, .rt.
The suite includes: Media Player Classic, RealMedia Codecs, RealMedia DirectShow splitter, and the required plug-ins.
"Download" links to the Real Alternative Downloads page.
Real Alternative home page

QuickTime 7.1.5

QuickTime

Description by the Software Developer:
"QuickTime 7 is Apple's cutting-edge digital media software for both Mac and Windows-based computers delivers unparalleled quality for creating, playing and streaming audio and video content over the Internet.
Besides playing MPEG-4 and MP3 content, it supports timecode tracks as well as MIDI standards such as the Roland Sound Canvas and GS format extensions. It also supports key standards for web streaming, including HTTP, RTP and RTSP. Plus, it supports every major file format for images, including JPEG, BMP, PICT, PNG and GIF. QuickTime 7 features an ultra efficient new H.264 video codec delivering stunning quality at remarkably low data rates from 3G to iChat AV to HD."
QuickTime home page

Plato DVD + Video to iPod Package 5.63

Plato DVD + Video to iPod Package

Description by the Software Developer:
"Plato DVD to iPod + Video to iPod Package -- Easily convert DVD to iPod , and convert almost all kinds of video files such as rm, divx, xvid, avi, wmv, asf, mpg, mpeg, vob, mov, qt, vcd, svcd to Apple iPod video."
Plato DVD + Video to iPod Package home page

A-one DVD to MP3 Ripper 4.44

A-one DVD to MP3 Ripper

Description by the Software Developer:
"Already have great numbers DVD music you want to play on your MP3 player? No Problem. A-one DVD to MP3 Ripper helps you easily convert them to MP3 format that can play in your MP3 player. And you will be enjoy it anytime anywhere."
A-one DVD to MP3 Ripper home page

AIMP Classic Full 1.72.5 Test

Lightweight & Powerful MP3 player, with a lot of features, like burnig, converting, ripping etc.

e-TV 1.1.14 (Shareware)

e-TV is a software program that enables you to access your home TV via the internet on your desktop computer or laptop when you are away from your home. e-TV consists of eTVStation (server), which broadcasts all the channels you have at home to the eTVPlayer (client), which allows you to enjoy those programs on your computer.

A TV capture card installed in your home computer allows for your home computer to receive all TV channels available at your home. The eTVStation then broadcasts these TV channels over the internet from your home computer to the eTVPlayer installed on any internet connected PC or laptop and watch all your TV channels broadcasted from the eTVStation.

eTVPlayer is compact and convenient and can be carried in a small USB flash memory card, since it is less than about 400 Kbytes in size. Just plug it in to a USB on any computer with broadband internet connection and now you're ready to watch your own Personal Internet TV.

eOneSoft LLC

MIS Info Video 2.4.0

MIS Info Video lets you to play DVD, AVI, MP3 and MPEG files, manage, and obtain information about a media file using MIS specification (subtext, chapters, URL...), .NFO or .TXT. It also give you the possibility to resume a media (video/audio), a 10-foot onscreen TV interface, parental control with a .MIS, sorting, profiles, work like a regular player (no profile needed), English/French ...

Here are some key features of "MIS Info Video":

· New: Let you play a DVD (2)
· New: Search for a word in the title or .MIS
· Let you play (1) (DVD, AVI, WMV, MPEG 1/2, MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF) and displays more types
· Acts like a regular media player without the need to create a profile
· 10-foot onscreen TV interface
· Support password, parental control (Advanced mode)
· Can resume playback where you last stop it (support multi user and the .MIR specification) (Advanced mode)
· Support .MIS chapters, subtexts
· Profile Manager Program to better see your profiles
· Mini Web browser for the URLs within a .MIS
· Order by original date, file extension (avi, wmv...)
· Create a .TXT from a .MIS
· Launch and play the VIDEO_TS.IFO(DVD) on your hard drive (2)
· 12 Color scheme(6 gradient, 6 normal)
· Take snapshots of a video media
· Organize all of your video files with the help of a profile (before, it was only in Advanced mode)
· Resize to the screen resolution
· Configure your favorite video player
· Support network drive (before, it was only in Advanced mode)
· English and French support
· Free Basic mode supported with the registrations
· No spyware or adware
What's New in This Release:

· Add: Now FREE (MIS Info Video Basic is now officially discontinued: remove it and install 2.4)
· Add: In the Main page, 1 new way to display your media files: Standard no pictures. This will be faster on slower computer.
· Add: In the Information page, search credit name on imdb.com
· Add: Option to hide the date when resuming
· Add: Enter an alternate name when resuming a second time (mostly for computers with one account)
· Change: In the Main page (display mode Picture and information)

McGrath Info Solution

Bsplayer 2.14.942

Plays back all kinds of media files (AVI, MPG, ASF, WMV, WAV, MP3...) and specializes in video and DivX playback. Supported formats (some formats require additional codecs to be installed) -- Video: avi, mpeg 1, mpeg 2, xvid, divx, 3ivx, ogg, ogm, matroska, asf, wmv, etc; Audio: wav, mp2, mp3, ogg, etc; Images jpeg, gif, bmp (DirectX 9 required). Main Features: Display subtitles - Support custom subtitles position, color, font, transparency... Supported formats: MicroDVD, Subviewer, SubRip; Fully skinnable - Any shape, transparent skins; Resizable movie window; Multilingual; Drag & drop support; Command line support; Pan-scan and custom pan-scan option; Custom aspect ratios; Playlist support; Resolution changing; Frame capture; AVI files with more than 2 audio streams supported (multilanguage); Support for OGM files, including more than 2 audio/video tracks, supports embeded subtitles/chapters; External audio file supported; S/PDIF output supported for AC3 files (with Intervideo audio decoder); INI files; Remote control support - WinLIRC; Bookmarks; Simple equalizer (DirectX 8 required); Playback rate (1/2x, 1x, 2x) and custom, and lots of other features.
Bsplayer home page

CD-Runner 2000.00

CD-Runner is designed to automatically identify and play media of all types, from Audio CD to MP3. It also rips CDs, plays MP3 CDs and DVD movies, automatically downloads CD info from the freedb online. It is a CD/multimedia player, ripper, WAV/MP3 converter, MP3 ID editor, a database with CDDB-2 support, etc. ('Etc' being a high-quality player supporting MPEG, AVI, DAT, MOV, QT, as well as other popular video formats; a DVD player; an audio player supporting most audio formats - from WAV to MP3; a ripper which enables you to rip CDs to your computer's hard disk in a completely automated mode (in WAV, MP3, or WMA formats), the new Spectrum Analyzer and 15-band Equalizer with Parametric/Graphic EQ options).

CD-Runner home page

QuickTime Alternative (QT7) 1.77

A full-featured alternative to QuickTime.

"Download" links to the QuickTime Alternative Downloads page.

QuickTime Alternative (QT7) home page

KMPlayer 2.9.3.1214

Description by the Software Developer:
"KMPLAYER is a korean movie and audio player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, It has full VCD/DVD playback functionality.

KMPlayer is a program that allows you to play audio and video files."

KMPlayer home page

Apollo 37zz

A player whose slogan is "Sound quality is not skinnable." It plays MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV, OggVorbis, FLAC, and audio CD (to make Apollo play some formats, you might need to download the plugins). Apollo doesn't have a super-duper interface, to be sure, but nevertheless it does have a very good MP-codec that, according to those in the know, may happen to be even better in quality than the codec of the popular Winamp player. The Apollo interface is perhaps best recognized by its playlist-orientedness. Playlists can be created and modified with standard Windows methods such as drag&drop and context menus. The main playlist is displayed as a tree which may contain nested playlists, which is a most interesting feature which makes it possible to have multiple playlist files open at once, yet having the possibility to handle them as separate entities. The playlists sit right in the program window so you can see the song titles, file sizes, ID3 tags, and other useful info (Apollo doesn't support ID3 tag editing, though. "It will never do. The reason is that I don't use ID3 tags myself and the current development of Apollo is based on my own needs," says the Apollo author.)
Other useful features of Apollo include: Accurate adjustable pauses between tracks (gapless play also supported); Realtime 16-band graphic equalizer; Built-in playlist (PLS/M3U/AAP) editor with drag&drop capabilities; Support for Winamp 2.xx plug-ins (including visualization and digital signal processing (DSP) plug-ins); CDDB support.
The Apollo website details the various stages of Apollo development. It turns out that Apollo started out, in 1997, as an MP3-player. You see, the main purpose for creating this player was that its author wanted to learn Windows coding and MP3-player seemed a nice project since the author had a general interest in players (some of us might remember CapaMod). Apollo 6 was released 08/22/98, and "the damn installer wouldn't install," so Apollo 7 was released with "lots of changes and fixes and stuff," but it was soon superseded by version 8 (aka "damn hypocrites"). The point is, "US citizens found the previous one too offending because of the nudity in it." 03/12/99 version 30 (aka "XXX", but with no nudity) was released and, just in case someone wanted to continue developing Apollo, the author wrote he would be happy to sell the source code, but the price would be "at least 10,000 USD, maybe 100,000 USD. Just mail me if you are interested." No one seemed interested, so version 31, "with the most annoying bugs fixed," was released 05/13/99. Version 37zp was released 06/20/05 ("with a fix to a serious deadlock problem"). Now the author of this great software presents Apollo 37zq wherein certain bugs in background track info retrieval are finally fixed.

Apollo home page

Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.1.4.020

Description by Software Developer:"Over 390 million Web users have installed Macromedia Shockwave Player. These people now have access to some of the best the Web has to offer - including dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications. Shockwave Player displays Web content that has been created by Macromedia Director."
Developer:Macromedia Updated:30.09.2006 Price:Free Size:5.2 MB OS:98/ME/NT/2K/XP
Macromedia Shockwave Player home page