Thread: Your favorite *free* movie player

We all probably watch a movie from time to time, and my guess is that one doesn't want to spend additional money to buy a movie player software, when such great free alternatives exist.

The purpose of this thread (and poll) is to share opinions about our favorite movie players, possibly pointing users to software or features they never heard of before.

I will group the most popular of them after platform specificity, and I will start with the two great cross-platform players:

• VLC Media Player
• MPlayer (with SMPlayer and UMPlayer front-ends)

An (arguably incomplete) list of Windows specific software:

• Media Player Classic
• There also are many free-to-use, but closed-source and essentially proprietary Windows players out there:
• Windows Media Player (if you have Windows, you probably heard about or used this one)
• KMPlayer
• GOM Player
• Quintessential Player
• Core Media Player

And, finally, a list of commonly used Unix-like platform specific software:

• Totem media player (Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distros default)
• Kaffeine/Dragon Player (KDE specific)

This lists may be incomplete, and all your opinions and additions are welcome.
It would be great if you will support your vote with a post containing the favorite features of your player of choice.



My favorite one is UMPlayer, the new GUI front-end for MPlayer (I extensively used SMPlayer before this one). I use both Windows and Linux, and this player is cross-platform. It also is fully-loaded with all the features and shortcuts I need, and handles without any problem all the formats I need.
The reason I prefer it to VLC is the Subtitle Size +/- option and shortcut, which is available even for mkv embedded subtitles. I especially love this feature, as I need a subtitle for almost all the movies I see, and VLC doesn't handle the size and shading of text so well.

That being said, I wish you happy voting!

I like VLC, don't have to mess with codecs and its cross platform.

I went for media player classic here because this is the player i use on windows. I havent used linux in a while, but mplayer is my choice there.

i gotta go with kmplayer it has never let me down.
its got options to sharpen and blur and many different options.
the interface is so computer friendly and it plays all my videos.

VLC media player : no codecs needed, sound boost up to 400% volume, play everything you need.

I use to be a big fan of VLC player but now with all HD and DVD movies in stock I prefer MPC. For some reason I find it better than VLC. but to be frank both of them fails without k-lite codec pack. If you have that you have the best quality.

VLC... It just works. I have not had a problem to date with it yet

KM Player is best for me.. Besides the fact that it contains all the codecs, it also make me feel like if I'm sitting in a theatre xD
Truly Awesome :)

BS Player and GOM Player are my favorite!