Video Player--open source free three major representative of video playback tools, because to face the huge compatibility and complex algorithms, from the architecture, can stand out from the system is numbered. Broadly speaking, there are 3 major architectures in the industry: MPC, MPlayer and VLC. These 3 large architectures and their derivatives occupy 90% of the market, and none of the free media-play software that users can see comes from these 3 architectures.
MPC/HC (Windows)
The MPC (Media Player Classic) and its successor, MPC-HC, should be tied up. MPC is based on the DirectShow architecture and is a player at the meta-ancestor level of the Windows system. Including the KMP the first is to copy the MPC code and then change the interface. MPC-HC is the MPC successor, MPC-HC has a lot of innovative features, including the beginning to integrate FFmpeg and support more DirectX features and DXVA and so on.
MPlayer (Windows,gun/linux,mac OS X)
If the MPC is Ganso on Windows, then MPlayer is the meta-ancestor of the media playing on Linux.
MPlayer uses ffmpeg as the decoding core, is also the most closely associated with FFmpeg project, FFmpeg code is from MPlayer to host, the developer Group also has a very large intersection。 With the power of Linux developers/users, MPlayer has established a much more stable workflow than DirectShow. Beyond the functionality of the ffmpeg itself, it was later engineered to invoke the DirectShow Filter DLL on Windows, making the MPlayer architecture more appealing and an excellent work of stability and performance.
VLC (Windows,mac OS x,gun/linux,other Systems)
VLC is a rising star, the development speed of the progress can be said to be a wonderful. Although it is also based on ffmpeg, it is possible that the VLC architecture was designed to take into account the modular development of the MPlayer architecture, which is more attractive to young developers than the "three-year-mend three-year-old right three years." Become a very fast-growing architecture in recent years.
====================================================================
Many people will find that FFmpeg's name can be seen in the 3 architecture. Speaking of FFmpeg, that's really "one ring to rule them all,one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all".
about 70% Ordinary users have to decode video directly or indirectly through FFMPEG, including Storm audio, QQ av, KMPlayer, Potplayer
Video Player--open source free three major representatives
