Free DVD Player Downloads!

When looking for free DVD player downloads, you should check what you have inside your computer already, because you may end up with a few big surprises! Don't worry, I am not going to state the obvious here - we all know that Windows Media Player is capable of playing DVDs, but it's far from being perfect, and - if you ask me - its interface leaves a lot to be desired. Even worse, Windows Media Player doesn't exactly come for free, since you need Windows to run it, so let's get busy going through a few free DVD player downloads for everyone, with some of them being available on all platforms, just as...

...VLC is! Don't know what VLC stands for? VLC media player is a cross-platform media player AND a streaming server, coming with support for an impressive amount of audio and video formats, and the downloads counter on its official website is getting closer to the 100,000,000 mark!

Its interface is rather basic, and most people may find themselves lost inside VLC's maze of settings, but there are a lot of rewards coming with this program, like speed, portability (most video and audio file work without the need of installing any additional codecs), and a very nice feature for the Mac version, that allows you to browse Internet TV and Radio stations. Priceless!

VLC is free to download and use for all platforms you can think of, and a few extra ones, and some of its minor drawbacks, apart from the user friendliness missing in action, are the inability to jump inside FLV files, some minor issues with DVD menus that occur sometimes, and poor performance when playing HD MKV files. All in all, VLC is a great choice!

The interesting part is that, where VLC fails, GOM Player fills the gap wonderfully. For example, this one has much easier to use image and sound adjustments, it easily jumps through FLV files, and also plays DVDs pretty well. Unfortunately, it's only available for Windows, and sometimes needs codecs, when VLC doesn't. Well, nothing is perfect, but VLC + GOM Player is one of the best "2 in 1" free DVD player downloads you can get!

Both players above can handle incomplete or damaged AVI files, and they are both free to download and use. Unfortunately, Mac and Linux users will have to be happy with VLC and other programs, but both platforms have a pretty rich offering of free DVD player downloads, so it's not a hopeless cause.

At last, I have to tell you about one of the favorite free DVD player downloads of my friends, namely KM Player. This one is probably worth more than VLC + GOM Player, only that I didn't manage to dig in deeper just yet. Since this is also a free program, I am talking about its value in features, of course, and here's what you can get with it: compatibility with an impressive number of video and audio formats, including QuickTime, RealMedia and DVDs, as well as the capability of capturing audio, video, and screenshots, audio and video effects, a wide range of skins, and an insane amount of settings. Despite the above, it still manages to be quite user friendly, and since it's free...I hope you know what to do!

My friends, these are the free DVD player downloads I've been able to offer you today. If I think well, you don't even need more than the above, but if you do, just ask...I got a feeling some may need DVD ripping and burning tools, and that's something not too easy to find in the free DVD player downloads realm...