Free VLC media player 0.9.9

VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Zaurus, and is widely used with over 100 million downloads for version 0.8.6.

VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.

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Songbird 1.1.2

Songbird is a free and open source software media player and web browser developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable (with members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."

Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner platform, and is thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. Songbird utilizes the GStreamer media framework.

Features:

• Cross-platform compatibility with Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X v10.5 (x86, x86-64) and Linux (x86, x86-64). Mac OS X v10.4-10.5 (PPC) and Windows 2000 are unofficially supported by either 1.0 for PPC or using the official Win32 version to run on 2000.


• Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless and WMA


• Ability to play Apple FairPlay-encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into QuickTime (authorization takes place in iTunes)


• Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms


• A skinnable interface, via feathers


• Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird


• MP3 file download


• Ability to subscribe to MP3 blogs as playlists


• User-created bookmarks


• Ability to build custom mixes


• Ability to scan the user's computer for all audio files and add them to a local library


• A configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and mini-player mode


• Keyboard shortcuts and media keyboard support


• Automatic updates


• Last.fm integration via a plugin, complete with love/hate buttons


• Insound.com and HypeMachine integration


• Microsoft MTP compatible device support


• Ability to edit and save metadata tags

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