UMPlayer – Best Alternative to VLC Media Player

With loads of features built in, UMPlayer can surely replace VLC as your best media player. As per the official site, it can handle various media formats like AAC, AC3, ASF, AVI, DIVX, FLV, H.263, Matroska, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, OGG, QT, RealMedia, VOB, Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMV, XVID, etc.

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I won’t extend this post long and waste my readers’ time. Rather I would like to come to the point directly that how UMPlayer has han edge over VLC Media Player. It has following exclusive features -

1) YouTube integration – UMPlayer lets you play YoutTube videos directly. Just go to Tools –> YouTube and search for the video or directly search from the text box on the main UI. Don’t forget to put your proxy settings for the network before starting with this feature. It automaticall shows

2) Automatic subtitles search – Just open the file which you want to play and click on Subtitles –> Find Subtitles on OpenSubtitles.org. It will automatically search for the possible subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org and give you the options.

3) Radio Integration – Just click on Tools –> SHOUTcast and it will show the list of Top 500 stations. Just double click on any station to play it.

Moreover, its lightweight than VLC Player, occupies less disk space.

Download UMPlayer from here.

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Article by Harsh

Harsh is an avid Blogger who blogs at Harsh Tech Talk. He writes about Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, technology and tips and tricks. By profession he is a software engineer working at Oracle, Bangalore. He is a big music freak.

  • http://techgopal.com/ TechGopal

    still not tried yet i hope it has wide rage of media format like vlc …will try it soon..

  • Yerc

    Re: “Moreover, its lightweight than VLC Player, occupies less disk space”
    For the linux versions, umplayer may come up bigger than vlc since it requires – Qt.