Top 10 Video Player For Linux Ubuntu

In case you like Linux and you need to watch a movie to ease things up following an exhausting week, you can proceed to do it. Films act as great stress busters. Linux provide various astounding video players, which you can use. VLC presents itself as the starting point.

 

 

Totem

This application for video playback is developed to run in GNOME 3. It relies on Totem, the initial application for video playback in GNOME incorporated in GNOME ever since 2.10.

Kaffeine

This media player is fully featured for KDE. Kaffeine supports all forms of network and local media as well as (DVB) digital video broadcasting. It is preset to utilize xine-lib media platform although it supports GStreamer. Moreover, it supports utilization of binary codes from Mplayer’s project within proprietary formats.

Xine

This engine for multimedia playback is developed to run in operating systems akin to Unix and is distributed under GNU General Public License. It is developed on (xine-lib) shared library that supports various front end player software. Another essential feature in xine is its ability to manually correct synchronization of video and audio streams.

Mplayer

 

This media player is an open source and free application. The application is available to all main operating systems like Linux, Mac OS X, Unix-similar systems and MS Windows.

Helix Media Player

This is an open source version of RealPlayer. Helix Media Player runs on Symbian, Linux and Solaris. The software is an element of Helix DNA framework that is an entire collection for open source inventions aimed at generating and serving video and music through streaming.

Miro

This is a video, audio player as well as internet television software built by Participatory Culture Foundation. Miro runs in Mac OS X, MS Windows, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and even supports many known file formats of video. Miro provides both video and audio and supports HD quality.

Ogle

This DVD player is developed to run in GNU/Linux as well as other operating systems similar to UNIX. Ogle was the initial free application/open source media player capable of playing DVD menus as well as playing CSS encrypted DVDs however, it doesn’t play DVDs that are protected against ripping through schemes like ArccOS protection, which are common in movie DVDs released by may studios. Ogle never plays anything apart from DVDs.

SM player

This functions like graphical front end in MPlayer through GUI widgets provided by Qt. Since SmPlayer relies on Qt, it runs on multiple platforms. It is capable of playing almost all audio and video formats without the need of external codecs.