VLC
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It also supports playing encrypted DVDs out of the box (most DVDs have this) and also can be themed.
VLC playing a video
Comments
Mplayer FTW
mplayer rocks my socks off.
very stable, extremely functional, loads of options,
no superfluous and unnecissary gui,
another vote for mplayer.
MP
MPlayer appears to be faster and more
stable than VLC.
Vote For MPlayer!
VLC == A player using the
VLC == A player using the mplayer libs with much more features(eg streaming)