

2) 5KPlayerĥKPlayer should be on your list of go-to video players that do a good job playing back ultra high-resolution video such as 4K, 5K, and 8K.

Also, if you have a media file that you just can’t open, chances are that VLC will be able to play it. If you want to support open source projects, VLC is king of the hill. It may not have the looks of some of the other players, but one of the best things about it is that it’s completely free. Using a range of open source codecs to power it, VLC media player is like the Swiss army knife of video and audio players. VLC plays all sorts of media files, from AVI and DivX to MP3 and DVD.

Other players do less and are not even free. VLC is one of the best free and open source media players around.
