Ants Media Player

Ants Media Player is a free playback tool that supports most widely used audio and video codecs. It can play any movie directly from a DVD, from a VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive, as well as most popular video formats, such as FLV, WMV, MKV, or MPEG.

Similarly, it can play most of your music files, either directly from a CD or from you collection of WAV, MP3, or WMA files.

Ants Media Player comes with an attractive and compact interface with a wide choice of interesting settings and features. It also represents a wise combination of simplicity and versatility: all the basic controls you need to simply watch a movie or listen to some music are there at hand, while its discreet menu options hide the main assets of this player. There you will find not only settings to improve your viewing experience (adjusting the contrast, saturation, hue, and brightness), but also the possibility of saving screenshots of your favorite frames (in BMP, PNG, or JPEG), of rotating the screen, flipping the image, and zooming in and out.

There are also some interesting settings for audio playback. The player can remember the position where you stopped your audio files and play back from there, automatically add to your playlist files considered to be “similar” by the program, remember the history of the files and lists played, or load the settings you used the last time you enjoyed listening to some music.

Being as it is a free multimedia player with a decent degree of versatility, it is an alternative to consider when choosing a playback tool for your desktop.