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Swiff Player is a Free stand-alone player that enables you to easily play Flash movies as well as any .swf file on your computer. If you have the ability to extract .swf files, you can play those files, whether a movie, video, or game with this easy to use player provided free by GlobeFX Technologies.

Swiff Player offers a variety of playback capabilities including full-screen mode. Swiff Player also includes the unique OpenGL hardware accelerated playback mode, for visualizing Flash movies full screen at maximum frame rate.

Download Swiff Player here

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. K-Lite Codec pack gives you the ability to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the Internet.

There are several different variants of the K-Lite Codec Pack. Ranging from a very small bundle that contains only the most essential decoders to a large and more comprehensive bundle. The global differences between the 5 variants can be found here.

Download K-Lite Codec Pack here

WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF can convert multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and mov’s, all into avi’s all at once.

Here are some of the features available in WinFF:

* Easy to use interface.
* High quality output.
* Converts multiple different files all to the same format at once.
* Convert video to audio.
* Convert between audio formats.
* No external codec’s needed.

Download WinFF here

Xvid Converter is a FREE, powerful video tool to convert Xvid video formats to AVI, MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV formats, and convert AVI, MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV video to Xvid video formats. Xvid is free so this software is free too.

Download XvidConverter here
**Please note: The download link has changed to a Tucows hosted page since the link hosted by xvidconverter.com was no longer working.

VLC Media Player is a free open-source media player. The list of compatible formats and codecs it supports is a long one but it includes MPEG (1, 2, DVD, VCD, SVCD etc.) Audio CD, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP3, MP4, MOV, 3GP, OGG, WAV, FLAC, FLV, DivX, XviD, Cinepac, MJPEG, Indeo, Real Audio (partial), and more.

Download VideoLAN Media Player here

Convert video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality.

Input formats:

avi, asf, mov, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg, 3gp, m4v, vob, YouTube videos and more.

Output formats:

avi, mp4, wmv, flv, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, mpg (PAL or NTSC), mp3, wma, ogg, aac
Download Any Video Converter here

Nothing to install here. Just download the player and run the program.

Download Wimpy Desktop FLV Player here

With Orbit Downloader you can download video/music/streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, and Rapidshare to name a few and save it to your PC.

Download Orbit Downloader here