When it comes to multimedia players, there is nothing that can surprise us anymore, except one that actually supports most video file types (that almost never happens).

Total Video Player is a small, free application that is compatible with most popular video and audio formats.

It's pretty straightforward  from the very beginning, and has no extraordinary features. You insert the file you want to play, sit back, and relax.

With this tool you can capture a frame (save as BMP), adjust subtitles (font, alignment and margins, border style, color and transparency), and assign hotkeys to various commands.

The best thing about Total Video Player is the fact that it can play DVDs, and it does so without getting stuck or anything, except when we tried creating a playlist. Sometimes it crashes, and the whole application needs to be restarted.

We also tried playing a FLV file (because Settings say the program also supports it), but Total Video Player refused to open it.

At times it can become frustrating when trying to navigate through the software (e.g. pressing the options in the menu toolbar doesn't always work from the start), but Total Video Player is very decent overall.

CPU and memory resources are fairly used (we have seen much worse), so you shouldn't have any problems running other processes in the background.

All in all, if you want a simple (and let us not forget, free) software that doesn't have special functions but does its job very well, try Total Video Player.