
MythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified “10-foot user interface” design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer.



The mediafront platform is an open source (GPLv3) front end media/video solution for the web using HTML5 content delivery with dynamic Flash fallback for non-standard media.




FlareVideo is an open source and free HTML5 video player that falls back to Flash for incompatible browsers.




Open Video Player (OVP) is an initiative encompassing the use of open standards, best practices, and established development methodologies in the development of media player applications.




XBMC Media Center is a free cross-platform media player software and entertainment system application framework for Linux, Mac, and Windows. XBMC is capable of playing back and streaming all popular video, audio, and picture formats out-of-the-box.




The open source video CMS for centralizing all of your video and podcasting needs. MediaCore provides unparalleled organization, statistics, accessibility, and scalability.




Kaltura provides the first open source platform for the creation and consumption of video and rich-media web applications and the source code is publicly available in the form of a free Software Development Kit and as rich-media extensions for other open platforms.




MediaPortal is an OS application that can turn your PC / TV into an advanced Media Center. You can listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and more.


Media Player Classic is a light-weight media player for Windows. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QT and/or Real player), and lots more.


MPlayer is a straight forward media player that runs across most systems and will play pretty much any type of video you throw at it. Reliable and stable, this is as good a media player solution as any.




VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, etc) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.




Miro is much more than just Internet TV, the application plays nearly any video file, offers thousands of TV channels, the ability to download torrents and all this in a very striking interface.



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