And I personally turned off several logs and playlists to save drive space - but you may want the custom ini files that can save playback settings per video - another powerful feature if needed! It works better than any other video player I've tried, I prefer the interface and find it's controls and menus very easy to use, it is faster, and so far it plays everything with ease. The program can be used to open and play video and audio files YouTube videos, DVDs, VCDs, audio CDs and more. I do recommend choosing to custom install and checking off the additional codecs - can never have enough of those. Download Size: 23.00 MB Download 100 Free Tested & Secure Also available for these platforms Windows 64 bit Linux SMPlayer is a compact but powerful media player, based on the MPlayer package.

It can instantly play in full screen, which many media players including VLC have problems with in Win 7.

It can sync audio - a vital feature of VLC. SMPlayer not only fit the bill, it surpassed VLC in every way. The best Windows alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. The Portable VLC player can be used to play DVDs, VCDs, and various audio and video formats and codecs such as FLV, AVI, OGG, DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3, WAV and many other streaming protocols.

However there have been several bugs in it recently that made me (and many others) look for something else. nPlayer is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. Portable VLC Media Player is an open source Portable Multimedia Player.

I was a big supporter of VLC since it had so many more features than Windows Media Player.

Smplayer portable