Players And Ripping Softwares

Video Playback

Media Player Classic

Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.
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VLC

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
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MPlayer

Similar to VLC-- plays loads of video formats.
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DVD Ripping / Video Conversion

Media Coder

Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.
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