Video Playback
Media Player Classic
Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
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Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
Download Page MPlayer
Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
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Media Coder
Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
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