Comparison of media players |
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of media player programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. External links lead to plugins or extensions that add features to that player.
=General=
Basic general information about the players: creator/company, license/price etc.
=Operating system support=
The operating systems on which the players can run natively (without emulation).
=Features=
Information on what features each of the players support.
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Plugin available.
UIs may be switched. Shares Windows themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000.
jetCast (free) needed [http://www.jetaudio.com/download/jetcast.html].
Avalible with Quicktime Streaming Server [http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/].
Only the media creator can create skins.
There is a separate tool available [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx].
The tables compare general and technical information for a number of media player programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. External links lead to plugins or extensions that add features to that player.
=Protocol support=
Information about which internet protocols the players support, for receiving streaming media. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features.
=Audio format support=
Information about what audio file formats the players support out of the box. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
has stopped supporting the MP3 format.
3rd party plugins are available, although they are currently incompatible with the latest QuickTime release (7.0), which underlies iTunes.
which bundle the required QuickTime and RealPlayer components without the need to install the corresponsing players.
Available via plugins.
Available with QuickTime FLAC Plugin.
Requires another sound system
Converts only
as well
WMA support available in the Special installer [http://www.foobar2000.org/]
Requires a DirectShow compliant codec
=Video format support=
Information about what video file formats the players support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
filters.
The playing compatibility depends on the availability of MPEG2 component for Quicktime.
The playing compatibility depends on the availability of WMV Player component for Quicktime.
=Container format support=
Information about what container formats the players support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
The playing compatibility depends on the availability of properly installed codecs.
Requires QuickTime 4 or higher.
=Optical disc support=
Information about what optical discs the players support. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
Supports CD and CDDA (Jitter correction optional)
=Metadata support=
Information about what metadata (computing) formats the players support for .mp3 files. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
3rd party plugin is available for 0.8.3. Natively supported in 0.9.
Support of ID3v1, ID3v2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib [http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html].
Displays basic ID3v1 / ID3v2 / Ogg Vorbis tags
=Subtitle support=
Information about what subtitle the players support. DVD subtitle is not listed as the players either have to support all DVD features or none. External links lead to information about support in future versions of the browsers or extensions that provide such functionality.
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=See also=
*List of media players
=External links=
*[http://www.xeon.tv/services/comparison.htm Media Player/Encoder Comparison]|
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