Miro is a project to allow users to download and watch the TV shows and videos from one powerful application. Miro was formally known as Democracy.

VideoLAN is a project to develop a media player and a video server—the VLC media-player and the VLS media-server. VideoLAN is a large and active project, and development is split into the client and server components, which are each large projects in their own right. VLC and VLS are noted for their support of a wide variety of media codecs, including MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4, DVD, DVB-T, and DVB-S.

Xfmedia is a simple audio and video player based on libxine. It is designed to be fast and easy-to-use, taking up a minimum of screen real estate, while providing access to media files of all types.