Play Any Audio, Video Format In Windows, Linux, Mac With UMPlayer Alternative To VLC

UMPlayer is a VLC alternative with supported for a large array of codecs and YouTube integration. This cross platform media player can fulfill all your media playback needs with over 270 built-in Audio and Video codecs.  The supported codecs include commonly used  codecs such as:

AAC, AC3,ASF, AVI, DIVX,FLV, H.263, Matroska, MOV,MP3,MP4, MPEG,OGG, QT, RealMedia, VOB, Vorbis,WAV, WMA, WMV, XVID as well as audio support for  CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs. With UMPlayer You can also get TV / Radio cards, SHOUTcast Radio streams. Like VLC, this open source player can even play incomplete or damaged media files. It contains built-in YouTube and SHOUTcast search integration which allows searching and streaming SHOUTcast and YouTube streams from within UMPlayer. I have personally left VLC ever since I found UMPlayer as I have found it to be more stable.

Other than its ability to play almost any audio and video codec,  UMPlayer provides simplified subtitle search and integration options. You can get media information about a selected file, specify CD/DVD drives, take a screenshot the playing video, stream videos from a specific URL and search for subtitles in multiple languages from the buttons on the main interface.

The Open menu provides options to select ROM drives, create a playlist, select files or folders to play media files from, stream media from a URL and radio or TV stream (by entering a URL).

Open

Tools drop down menu can be used to perform a search for media content from YouTube and SHOUTcast.

You can search  or sort YouTube and SHOUTcast content by category.

Click on a YouTube video title to start streaming it.

Preferences button from the top toolbar allows assigning CD/DVD ROMs for detecting media, managing subtitles, configuring hotkeys, managing custom playlists, TV and radio streams, setting UMPlayer’s process priority and so on.

UMPlayer has versions available for

  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Apple Mac OS/X
  • GNU/Linux operating systems, such as Debian and Ubuntu

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