UMPlayer

Anyone who is looking for a versatile, user friendly, and properly good media player that will play just about anything, is well advised to give UMPlayer a try. You’ll like a lot of things about this application: it’s available for multiple platforms, it has a user friendly interface, said interface can be customized, it provides support for tons of formats, it’s free, and more.

As mentioned above, UMPlayer is available for multiple platforms: Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7; available as an installer and as a portable version), Apple Mac OS X (Leopard, Snow Leopard; available for 32 and 64 Intel based CPU), Ubuntu/Debian, Linux. UMPlayer is open source; so if you want to, you can also get its source code.

The interface is just what you would expect from a media player. The main panel presents the video you selected for playback. At the top there’s a File Menu and a toolbar with links to various functions the application can perform. At the bottom there’s a section that presents the playback controls. So to sum it up, a simple layout that you will find very easy to use. It must be added here that the interface provides support for skins. Several are included by default; you can create you own skin if you want to.

From a functionality point of view, UMPlayer has a lot to offer: support for a long list of multimedia formats, manage playlists, play online videos, search for videos on YouTube, listen to online radio stations, adjust playback speed, adjust the colors, rotate/flip/mirror images, filters, take screenshots, set an audio delay, download/upload subtitles, hotkeys, and more. All this wonderful functionality is offered to you for the great price of free.

UMPlayer has all the things you would expect from a properly good media player. Go get it and you’ll see that it won’t disappoint you.