Media player (software)

A media player is a computer program for playing multimedia files.

Description

Media players display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players, such as:

• Play ( Octicons-playback-play.svg )
• Pause ( Octicons-playback-pause.svg )
• Stop ( Octicons-primitive-square.svg )

Examples

Mainstream operating systems have at least one built-in media player.

• Windows Media Player (Microsoft Windows)
• QuickTime Player (OS X)
• VLC media player, SMPlayer, Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, MPlayer, Rhythmbox, Totem, xine (Linux)

See also

• Multimedia
• Streaming media
• VLC media player

External links

• Media player (software) @ Wikipedia