VLC media player is an open source video and audio player capable of playing almost any type of media including DVDs and VCDs. In addition to being able to play most video and audio files, VLC can also post free ads without registration
File extensions that can be opened by songbird

pw.FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec Compressed Audio FIle
pw.WAV	Waveform Audio
pw.3GP	3G Mobile Phone Video
pw.M4A	MPEG-4 Audio File
pw.APE	Monkey's Audio Compressed Audio File
pw.ASF	Advanced Systems Format Video
pw.AIF	Audio Interchange Format File
pw.MID	MIDI Audio Sequence
pw.OGG	Ogg Multimedia Container File
pw.MP4	MPEG-4 Part 14 Multimedia Container
pw.AC3	Dolby Digital AC-3 Compressed Audio File
pw.WV	WavPack Compressed Audio File
pw.MP1	MPEG-1 Audio Layer I
pw.MKA	Matroska Audio Stream
pw.MOD	MOD Audio File
pw.SND	Sun / NeXT Audio File
pw.AU	Sun / NeXT Audio File
pw.MP3	MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
pw.M4P	Protected AAC File
pw.MP2	MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
pw.WMA	Windows Media Audio File
pw.XM	Extended Module Audio File

File extensions that can be opened by vlc-media-player

pw.ASX	Advanced Stream Redirector
pw.DTS	Digital Theater Systems Audio File
pw.GXF	General eXchange Format
pw.M2V	MPEG-2 Video
pw.M3U	MP3 Uniform Resource Locator
pw.M4V	MPEG-4 Video File
pw.MPEG1	MPEG-1 Video
pw.MPEG2	MPEG-2 Video
pw.MTS	AVCHD Video File
pw.MXF	Material eXchange Format
pw.OGM	Ogg Multimedia Container File
pw.PLS	Playlist
pw.BUP	DVD Information File
pw.A52	Dolby Digital AC-3 Compressed Audio File
pw.AAC	Advanced Audio Coding Compressed Audio File
pw.B4S	Winamp 3+ Playlist
pw.CUE	Cue Sheet
pw.DIVX	DivX Movie
pw.DV	Digital Video
pw.FLV	Flash Video
pw.M1V	MPEG-1 Video
pw.M2TS	MPEG-2 Transport Stream Videos
pw.MKV	Matroska Video Stream
pw.MOV	Apple QuickTime Movie
pw.MPEG4	MPEG-4 Video
pw.OMA	OpenMG Audio File
pw.SPX	Ogg Speex Audio File
pw.TS	DVD Video
pw.VLC	VLC Media Player Data
pw.VOB	DVD Video Object
pw.XSPF	XML Shareable Playlist Format
pw.DAT	VCD Video
pw.BIN	Binary DVD Video
pw.IFO	DVD Information File
pw.PART	Partially Downloaded File
pw.3G2	3G Mobile Phone Video
pw.AVI	Audio Video Interleave
pw.MPEG	MPEG Video
pw.MPG	MPEG Video
pw.FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec Compressed Audio FIle
pw.M4A	MPEG-4 Audio File
pw.MP1	MPEG-1 Audio Layer I
pw.OGG	Ogg Multimedia Container File
pw.WAV	Waveform Audio
pw.XM	Extended Module Audio File
pw.3GP	3G Mobile Phone Video
pw.SRT	DVD Subtitles File
pw.WMV	Windows Media Video
pw.AC3	Dolby Digital AC-3 Compressed Audio File
pw.ASF	Advanced Systems Format Video
pw.MOD	MOD Audio File
pw.MP2	MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
pw.MP3	MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
pw.MP4	MPEG-4 Part 14 Multimedia Container
pw.WMA	Windows Media Audio File
pw.MKA	Matroska Audio Stream
pw.M4P	Protected AAC File

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