media player

Without the need for downloading countless codecs, Kantaris Media Player can play almost anything you can throw at it - AVI, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, QuickTime, Matroska, DivX, Xvid, H264, MP3, WMA, OGG files, and more. It can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player also displays some of the most beautiful music [...]

Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it: AVI (DivX, Xvid, H264), MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV, MP3, WMA, and OGG files. It can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player also displays beautiful visualizations for music.
Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from VideoLan Client (VLC) [...]

Gnomie TechMarshal from the chat room writes in with his top five favorite media players for XP:

VLC: There is only one major reason that this is in my number one spot: it plays SEVERAL media formats. It even plays *.flv files. It is also a very small program that doesn’t take up much disk space [...]

This program is meant to allow for easy playback of playlist (*.pls) files within Windows Media Player. If you use Shoutcast to listen to online music, then through this utility, you can play any of the playlist links without doing anything further than clicking a link.
[395K] [Win2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]