| VideoLAN
VideoLAN is the project homepage for a popular media player called the VLC Media Player. This free software is created to solved the existing problems of movies having too many different codecs to play. VLC comes with codecs built-in and they support a large variety of codecs. In addition, it can be used as a server to "stream" video across the LAN or the Internet through some addons. It plays VCDs, DVDs, Divx, Ogg and many other video formats. It supports Windows, Mac and even Linux Operating Systems.
http://www.videolan.org/ [ VideoLAN ]
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| Divx, Inc
Divx is a very popular video codec designed for performance and quality but at a faction of the data size needed. It allows users to create high quality videos and make it small enough to stream these videos through the Internet or other mediums. In their site, you can download the video codec, or their Divx Player and their converter. This converter allows you to convert videos onto the Divx format. They have a "Pro" version available for those who needs the more advanced features of the Divx codec.
http://www.divx.com/ [ Divx, Inc ]
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| Xvid.org
Xvid.org is the official homepage for the Xvid codec The Xvid codec is a powerful video compression software which creates MPEG-4 high quality video streams while maintaining a relatively small size. You can use this compressed video to transmit through the Internet or using a portable storage. Xvid is maintained by a number of developers who constantly ensure that this codec is bug free and has the latest technology so that Xvid can produce the highest quality videos. One of the biggest advantage is that Xvid is freely available and open source.
http://www.xvid.org/ [ Xvid.org ]
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| BS Player
BS Player is an all-in-one multimedia player for Windows. It is available on the Internet for free. BS Player's biggest advantage is that it uses very little CPU resources enabling your PC to make better use of it's resources to play your multimedia files. It supports a wide variety of codecs as well. They have subtitle support built-in. BS Player also has support for different languages making it a truly international product. Oh, and it's skinnable as well. If you are looking for better features, you can purchase the "Pro" version.
http://www.bsplayer.org/ [ BS Player ]
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