Through its integration with popular content management systems, it employs an innovative and intuitive interface that allows any website administrator to completely customize the front end media experience for their users without writing any code.

Key features include:

- An open source ( GPL ) and free front end media solution with a built in media player.
- HTML5 content delivery with dynamic Flash fallback for non-standard media.
- A dynamic and integrated YouTube and Vimeo player which the same presentation to users.
- Easily themable media player using jQuery-UI ThemeRoller.
- An advanced, easy to use administrator interface for configuring your media player.
- A simple to install and configure front end media solution.

The player can be customized easily using CSS-HTML and JS with its theming support (and already ships with 3 themes: default, spotify and Vimeo).

Currently this project provides a code base that can be used to solve common problems as part of building advanced, scalable, and robust web-based media player applications in Flash and Silverlight.

OVP is developed and maintained by a core team of dedicated volunteers. OVP is distributed for free and “as-is” on SourceForge under a standard BSD license.

While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.

MediaCore features:

- users can browse video or audio added to the CMS from any device such as an Android, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

- Create a podcast and publish unlimited episodes to it. The CMS generates the iTunes Feed and the RSS automatically.

- Store media anywere: YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, on the Amazon S3 cloud, or on any server.

- Track comments, views and likes on published video and audio. The CMS automatically ranks the most popular items.

- Categorize and tag media to make it more searchable. Users can browse categories or search for videos.

- Support for both closed captioning and audio descriptions for the visually impaired is built into MediaCore Video CMS.

- Users can comment or share video or audio with their friends through the Twitter and FaceBook sharing features.

- Users can upload media via the upload interface. An admin is notified and can review and approve new content.

Kaltura’s open source code is publicly available in the form of a free Software Development Kit and as rich-media extensions for other open platforms, including content management (Drupal), blogging (WordPress), and collaboration (MediaWiki). Kaltura also provides ancillary paid services that include maintenance and support, integration and professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services.

As Open Source software licensed under the GNU/GPL agreement, you get MediaPortal for free. This means anyone can contribute to MediaPortal or customize for their own needs!

MediaPortal is built on the Microsoft .NET framework using C# and currently has a growing international community of over 10,000 users.

You can use it to watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.

It also has a wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too.

MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.