Video Players

Once you've produced your video and encoded it you'll need to play it in something. Both VLC and Mplayer will run on Linux, Mac and Windows however VLC is by far the easiest to run, particularly for Mac and Windows users. VLC inparticualar will play almost any video format you throw at it.

VLC 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 audio on a high-bandwidth network.
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MPlayer is a platform independent media player. It plays a wide range of formats Mplayer also allows you to convert files to a variety of output formats. A lot of other programs utilise mplayer as a background application because of its multi-format support.
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