VLC Media Player

A multi-platform multimedia player that can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX files VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network.

Here are some key features of "VideoLAN Client":
Input

Input media
UDP/RTP Unicast
UDP/RTP Multicast
HTTP / FTP
MMS
File
DVD 1
VCD
SVCD 2
Audio CD (without DTS)
DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV)
MPEG encoder 3
Video acquisition Direct Show

Input formats
MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
ID3 tags
AVI
ASF / WMV / WMA
MP4 / MOV / 3GP
OGG / OGM / Annodex
Matroska (MKV)
Real
WAV (incuding DTS)
Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
Raw DV
FLAC
FLV (Flash)

Video

Decoders
MPEG-1/2
DIVX (1/2/3)
MPEG-4, divx 5, XviD, 3ivx d4
H.264
Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
DV
Cinepak
Theora (alpha 3)
H.263 / H.263i
MJPEG (A/B)
WMV 1/2
WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 4, 5
Indeo Video v3 (IV32)

Subtitles
DVD 6
SVCD / CVD
DVB
OGM
Matroska
Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
Vobsub

Filters
Deinterlace
Cropping
Image wall
Image adjust
Rotate/Mirror
Logo overlay
Magnification
Image distortion
Bluescreen
RSS/Atom feeds

Outputs
Native DirectX, GDI
SDL
ASCII Art

Audio

Decoders
MPEG Layer 1/2
MP3
AC3 - A/52
DTS
LPCM
AAC
Vorbis
WMA 1/2
WMA 3 7
ADPCM
DV Audio
FLAC
QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
MACE
Real Audio 8
Speex

Filters
Visualization effects
Equalizer

Outputs
Native DirectX WaveOut
S/PDIF DirectX WaveOut
Multi-channel DirectX WaveOut
SDL

Streaming

Interfaces and control
Default WxWidgets
Qt 4
Skins
Web
Telnet
Command line

Miscellaneous
SAP/SDP announces
Bonjour protocol
Mozilla/Firefox plugin
ActiveX plugin
SVCD Menus
Localization
CD-Text 10
CDDB CD info 11
IPv6
IGMPv3 Win XP
CPU acceleration 13