Xelitan Video Player

In the age where videos are a few clicks away on numerous content streaming platforms, many don’t even use desktop video players anymore.

Nevertheless, enjoying locally stored videos requires such an application and, if you simply don’t fancy the default Windows tools, then a third-party player such as Xelitan Video Player might be a good option, especially since it comes at no cost.

Xelitan Video Player is compatible with popular video formats, such as MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, 3GP, WEBM and more.

It is also worth mentioning that it can also open and play videos from the Internet, allowing you to load M3U8 playlists, MP4 videos or MP3 songs. For any loaded video, you can see a few details, such as the resolution, duration FPS rate, the number of frames, the used audio and video codecs, and the type of container.

As expected, the video player boasts a straightforward interface with a simplistic layout and basic options. The standard playback controls are there, allowing you to pause, play and stop the video whenever you need to. You can also jump 10 seconds throughout the playback and adjust the volume as you consider fit. The playback speed is also adjustable, and the full screen mode is toggled with the push of a button.

The player comes with various filtering tools, allowing you to sharpen, blur (and smart blur), denoise or apply other effects, such as vibrance or a vintage look.

Xelitan Video Player can handle custom subtitle files, loading them alongside the playing video. Moreover, it can take screenshots of the playing video and save them locallt to a user-defined directory.

Xelitan Video Player is neither impressive nor feature rich, but it does come with built-in decoders that allow you to enjoy watching your videos of choice. In essence, it is a simple video player that does its job as it should. And, since it is 100% free, it can successfully replace the default Windows player.