The free RealPlayer is the first product that integrates Real's revolutionary new Harmony technology. RealPlayer enables consumers to buy and download music that plays on more than 100 portable devices, including the Apple iPod.

The famous full pack, not only for playing matroska media files, but it will also allow playback of most modern video formats on any DirectShow player, even with WMP 6.4/7/8/9 ( Windows Mediaplayer ). For this reason the Matroska Pack Full has gathered some attention from the video compression scene, and has established itself as a very slim and intelligent alternative to the usually overloaded codec packs out there.

Downloads videos from 1097 YouTube-like web sites, and converts directly to other video formats including AVI, MPEG, DivX, XviD, iPOD, iPhone, MP4, WMV, RM, MOV, PSP, Zune, 3GP, 3G2 and MP3.

Create MP3 playlists, burn CDs, and download music to your iPod and iPhone.

The Cole2k Media Advanced Codec Pack features a collection of codecs and filters for encoding/decoding a large variety of video/audio formats. Support for formats includes DivX 6.8.2 Pro, DivX Media, XviD, 3ivx, MP4, h.264, x264, AVC, Nero Digital, MPEG-2, AC3, DTS, AAC, APE, FLAC, MPC, OFR, TTA, OGG, Vorbis, WavPack, MP3, and ATRAC3 + many more. Support for container files includes MP4, MKV, OGM.

Kantaris is an audio/video player that can handle all of the same media formats as VLC and then some. It features an attractive skin, some trippy audio visualizations, and integration with Last.fm and Apple movies trailers.

GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can specify margin, location, size, resolution, font and others. You can also enable shadow, view ASF files with subtitle, karaoke subtitle mode. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there's any mismatch.GOM Player supports playlist formats such as M3U, PLS, ASX. You can include different media types on a playlist. Also, it also lets you edit playlists for different media types. It's easy to create and edit your own multimedia playlist with GOM Player.

Shop for the music you want, anytime you want one song at a time or by album on the iTunes Store. The high-quality AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) music files you purchase are yours to keep.

Organize and find your favorite songs and videos in ONE place.Rip your favorite music CDs into AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV or FLAC (Ripping limited to ~6x speeds for free users. MP3 encoding is only available in Winamp Pro).Burn your favorite music compilations to Audio CD (limited to 2x speed for free users).Media Library "Smart Views" allow you to easily create rule based lists of your media.Easily modify your music collections tags (Artist, Album, Genre, Title, etc.)Download and view cover art for all of your albums.Download or subscribe to music and video podcasts via the Podcast Directory.

MakeInstantPlayer gets around this problem by avoiding the need to even have the right player installed because it creates an EXE file that can be opened by anyone and played anywhere. There's no need to install any codecs or any player with MakeInstantPlayer.