PMPlayer

At a first glance, you'd say that PMPlayer looks and feels like just another lightweight media player, with nothing special under its hood, but that's where you would be wrong. The player comes with a good amount of special tools, which set it apart from other similar applications. It is capable of playing back from various sources, it can record, receive live feeds and much more.

The software is offered completely free of charge. It comes in a small package and you can have it up and running in no time. Besides the usual options you will encounter during the installation process, you will also find a few check boxes for setting PMPlayer as your default player for general media files or for videos or audio files.

In terms of appearance, PMPlayer is similar to most media players on the market. It comes with standard playback and volume controls, located in the lower region of the window, as well as options for switching between aspect rations, loading and tweaking subtitles, bring up a playlist and a set of general settings. Everything is quite easy to understand, so you won't have any kind of difficulties, regardless of what you intend to do.

The software lets you make various visual adjustments. For example, you can increase or decrease the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue, switch to Grayscale, invert the colors and more. You can also find a rich set of controls for panning and scanning, so you can fit the image on the screen better.

A particularly interesting feature is PMPlayer's motion detection. This feature gives you the possibility of suing the software for security purposes, if you hook it up to a surveillance camera.

PMPlayer's straight forward design and powerful functionality give you a wide range of possibilities.