Best Free Media Players

SPlayer

SPlayer playing Home (left)

features

• automatically downloads subtitles.
• software sound volume increase upto 1000%, great for low quality audio movies and laptop or small speakers.

platforms
Windows, Linux via WineHQ


download 
http://splayer.org/index.en.html





UMPlayer

UMPlayer, an MPlayer front-end

features

• automatically downloads subtitles from opensubtitles.org for most movies.
• search, watch and download youtube videos.
• Windows, Mac and Linux supported

SMplayer is another great MPlayer front-end


download
http://www.umplayer.com/




VLC Player

VLC playing Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa

features

• best known to ability to play any format without platform's pre-installed codecs
• works great on Windows, Mac and Linux

download
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/




GOM Player

Gretech Online Media Player

features

• can play broken avi files. (patented.)
• good audio and video quality.

platforms

Windows, Linux via WineHQ

download
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html