This article have a list of few top media players used on Linux systems. This is the list which i personally used, even i always like VLC as me favorite media player. Media players are so important for us to play music which is a part of our daily life. Using this article i have tried to list out top media players for Linux system.
1. VLC Media Player
VLC is the most popular media player. Windows users are always prefer to use vlc to run media files on there system. This is good news for Linux users that VLC is also available for Linux Systems.
Install Instruction’s: Install on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora , Install VLC on Ubuntu
2. Real Player
Real Player is also one of popular media players for running Audio/Video files in Linux system.
Install Instruction’s: Install Real Player 11 on CentOS, RHEL, Fedora and Ubuntu
3. Miro Media Player
Miro is the best media player for Ubuntu so far. Miro is an open source music / video player that features an integrated BitTorrent client, podcast support other interesting features.
Install Instruction’s: Install Miro on Ubuntu
4. Banshee Media Player
Banshee is an Open source media player used for play your music and videos. Keep up with your podcasts and Internet radio. Discover new music and podcasts. It is simple enough to enjoy. Powerful enough to thrill. Open source through and through.
Installation Instruction’s: Install Banshee Media Player on Fedora 20/19/18, Ubuntu.
5. SMP Media Player
SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn’t need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you’ll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.
Installation Instruction’s: Install SMPlayer on Ubuntu
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A new contender: CMPlayer: http://cmplayer.github.io/
Fully featured.
Also, about it: http://www.noobslab.com/2014/01/cmplayer-is-powerful-minimal-light.html
(The skin displayed at that link was buggy in Xubuntu 14.04, “simple” skin worked fine)
CMPlayer is even better now, it’s been renamed to Bomi.
And it’s definitely better than every single player listed here, at least as far as image and upscaling quality goes (don’t know any other Linux player that has proper upscaling algorithms available)
Also since it’s mpv based it has some epic codec support, can usually pull off playing broken and corrupt files, it’s actively being developed, and the only player I know that can really compete with it is K-Lite Codec Pack on Media Player Classic in Windows using it’s finest MadVR renderer with well configured settings; but the latter is actually hard to configure, in bomi you just need to click 2 or 3 buttons and bam you have nice lanzcos upscaling. It’s truly a marvel by now.