Fusion V1.7.2

Fusion is a small media player that plays DVD, DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, MP3, WMA, WAV or MID, with skin and visualization plugin support. It also supports recording of streaming content directly to the harddisk.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the no-setup ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. There are also a number of skins and plugins on the website that you can download and place in the plugins or skins subfolders. Launch Fusion.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Media Player Classic V6.4.9.0

Media Player Classic looks like Windows Media Player V6.x, but it is not a me-too application. Beneath its classic look lies an extremely powerful media player. You can configure keyboard commands, configure/reorder/disable codecs/filters etc. There are two versions of the player to choose from. The 98/ME version works on all versions of Windows but does not support Unicode. The 2K/XP version only works on WinNT and higher.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: System codecs

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mplayerc.exe. Select View, Options, Player and check "Store settings to .ini file" to store settings in the application folder instead of the registry.

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Multi Media Center V1.0 RC3

Multi Media Center organizes all your media - music, movies, photos, games etc. with a simple fullscreen interface with large fonts optimized for TV-out. You can interact with the interface by mouse, keyboard or remote control.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. You may delete the SourceCode folder to conserve disk space if you do not intend to modify the source code. Launch mmc.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinXP

Portable BS.Player V1.37

BS.Player is a multimedia player that supports the playback of all sorts of media files, such as AVI, MPG, ASF, WMV, WAV, MP3 (with the right codecs installed). Portable BS.Player is a wrapper that runs BS.Player in a portable manner. The version of BS.Player included is V1.37 (latest version is V2.x), which according to the author "is the last version without spy/adware-crap".

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch i>Portable BSplayer.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

FLV Player V1.3.3

FLV Player is a stand-alone player for Flash .FLV video files. It requires the Macromedia Flash Player plugin to be installed on the target machine.




Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Remove [NSIS].nsi. Launch flvplayer.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

MPUI V1.1.10

MPUI is a graphical frontend for MPlayer, a cross-platform media decoder that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX, without additional codecs. It includes support for multiple audio/subtitle tracks, keyboard navigation and OSD. Important settings such as aspect ratio, deinterlacing and postprocessing can be configured via the GUI interface.

Note: The version of MPlayer packaged with MPUI may not be the latest and does not contain the complete list of codecs. You may want to head to the MPlayer website and download the most recent MPlayer EXE and codecs, then unzip them to the MPUI folder.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MPUI.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Flash Movie Player V1.5

Flash Movie Player is a stand-alone player for Flash .SWF files. It requires the Macromedia Flash Player plugin to be installed on the target machine. It adds advanced features such as animation rewinding, advanced full screen mode, playlists, browser cache integration and EXE projectors support.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. Rename $OUTDIR to language. Remove $PLUGINSDIR and [NSIS].nsi. Launch fmp.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

rulesPlayer V0.99.3

rulesPlayer is another MPlayer front-end designed to be faster, more customizable and more attractive than MPUI. Note that the listed size includes all of the extra MPlayer codecs (this is the full package, capable of playing almost anything).

Writes settings to: Application Folder

How to extract: There are two ways to extract rulesPlayer. If you have a recent copy of mplayer and its codecs, simply download the ZIP package for rulesPlayer and extract to a folder of your choice. Then place your copy of mplayer in a subfolder called mplayer under that folder.

Otherwise, if you don't have a copy of mplayer, or you want to use a more updated version, download the rulesPlayer installer and install to the default folder. During installation, make sure Check for latest MPlayer version and download it is selected. For codecs, select Download essential codecs. After installation, copy all files except src and rulesuninstall.exe to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program.

Launch player.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Open-Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

VLC V0.8.6d

VLC is a media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats. It functions independently of the system codecs, so this is the tool for you if you are tired of spending hours messing around with codecs simply to play a video file your friend sent you. It can also be used as a streaming server for delivering video in unicast or multicast mode.

You may also like to check out VLC Media Player Portable for a portable package of VLC that is optimized for USB memory sticks.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the 7-ZIP or ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch using "vlc.exe --no-plugins-cache --config=vlcrc".

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

SMPlayer V0.5.62

SMPlayer is a GUI frontend for Mplayer. It is able to play most media files without any dependency on installed codecs. It is also capable of playing DVD discs and Internet media streams. Other interesting features include configurable subtitles, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, video equalizer, playlist support etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: None

How to extract: Download the 7-Zip package for V0.5.60 and extract to a folder of your choice. Overwrite with the 7-Zip update package for V0.5.62. Rename smplayer.exe to smplayer_portable.exe and launch. If you plan on using the "Screenshot" feature, create a subfolder called "screenshots". Then select Options, Preferences. Under General, Paths, set "Folder for storing screenshots" to ".\screenshots" and restart.

Stealth: Yes

Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)

Unicode support: Partial. Support display of Unicode characters, but does not support loading of media files with Unicode characters in their names.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

KMPlayer V2.9.3

KMPlayer is a audio/video player that supports a wide range of file formats, including AVI, MKV, MPEG, OGM, MP4, ASF etc. without any additional codecs installed. It also has full VCD/DVD playback functionality. In addition, it is able to play incomplete/damaged AVI files, or media files that are locked while downloading or sharing.




Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: DirectX V9

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch KMPlayer.exe. Then bring up the "Preferences" window, click on "General", and check "Store Settings to KMPcfg.ini". Alternatively, before running the program, create a file called KMPCfg.ini in the EXE folder with these lines of text:

[\Software\KMPlayer\KMP2.0\OptionArea]
ConfigUseIni=int:1

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

MPlayerGUI V0.5.03

MPlayerGUI is a graphical frontend for MPlayer, a cross-platform media decoder that plays hundreds of different video and audio formats, including DVD and DivX, without additional codecs. It includes a visual equalizer to control brightness/contrast/hue/saturation, playlist and shuffling, right-click context menu etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the "Full" 7-Zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MPlayerGUI.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

VirtualDub Portable V1.7.8

Virtual Dub is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is great for video capture and transcoding via third-party video codecs . It can also read MPEG-1 video files. VirtualDub Portable is a portable wrapper for VirtualDub.

Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: Video for Windows

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch VirtualDubPortable.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

DivFix++ V0.29

DivFix++ checks and repairs broken AVI files by rebuilding its index. This is very useful when trying to preview movies with missing or broken index.

Writes settings to: Windows registry

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DivFix++.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

DivXRepair V1.0.1

DivXRepair automatically detects and eliminates bad frames in corrupted AVI files. It cuts off the bad bits and reassemble the AVI file on its own. A report is generated and displayed after the operation is complete. Multiple files can be repaired at one go.

Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DivXRepair.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Subtitle Workshop V2.51

Subtitle Workshop is a subtitle editing tool that supports most subtitle formats. It includes spell checking and video preview which makes subtitle editing more convenient.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder C:\Program Files\URUSoft\Subtitle Workshop. Then copy all files (except uninstall.exe) into a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch the program by double-clicking on SubtitleWorkshop.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

PNotes is a light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. Features include settings for individual note, transparency and scheduling.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Run PNotes.exe.

Stealth: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Notepad++ V4.7.5

Notepad++ is one of the few source code text editors that supports folding. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback etc.

Writes settings to: Application folder. It adds an "open" command to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes in the registry.

How to extract: Download the full version ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch notepad++.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Partial. Able to display Unicode text with proper font selected, but unable to open files with Unicode filenames.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP