Which Media Player Can Play almost every formats
You may have a tough time playing videos in some format other than wmv or mp4, like divx, mkv, flv, real, mov as the default media player with your Operating System may not support these formats.
But, the free media player from VideoLan, the VLC player can play almost every media formats. And, VLC work well in Windows, Linux, Mac Operating Systems, thus it is regarded as the universal media player
The list of video formats supported by VLC are
- MPEG-1/2
- DIVX (1/2/3)
- MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4
- H.261
- H.263 / H.263i
- H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC
- Cinepak
- Theora
- Dirac / VC-2
- MJPEG (A/B)
- WMV 1/2
- WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 1
- Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
- DV (Digital Video)
- On2 VP3/VP5/VP6
- Indeo Video v3 (IV32)
- Real Video 1/2
- Real Video 3/4
Audio formats
- MPEG Layer 1/2
- MP3 – MPEG Layer 3
- AAC – MPEG-4 part3
- Vorbis
- AC3 – A/52 (Dolby Digital)
- E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus)
- MLP / TrueHD”>3
- DTS
- WMA 1/2
- WMA 3 1
- FLAC
- ALAC
- Speex
- Musepack / MPC
- ATRAC 3
- Wavpack
- Mod (.s3m, .it, .mod)
- TrueAudio (TTA)
- APE (Monkey Audio)
- Real Audio 2
- Alaw/�law
- AMR (3GPP)
- MIDI 3
- LPCM
- ADPCM
- QCELP
- DV Audio
- QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
- MACE