Free playback software for mac

Requirements: G3, G4, or G5 processor (G5 required for HD playback), Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg (Vorbis), Ogg (FLAC), Musepack, WavPack, Monkeys Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.

Play is integrated with the official Last.fm client, so you can share your listening habits with everyone. Consider joining the Play Users group!

Play is freeware, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

PlayGUI is a simple client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon. It does all your basic music player stuff, and has nice searches.
Enhancements:
- Volume and playback control were added.
- PlayGUI is now ready for general use.

JahPlayer is a professional grade media player capable of playing uncompressed video and image sequences at resolutions as high as 2K and 4K in real-time and features a robust set of image analysis and asset management tools.
Jahplayer uses a completely hardware accelerated pipeline, allowing you to maintain the aspect ratio of the source media or change it on the fly, and is capable of both disk based playback and ram based playback.
Jplayer sports real time pan and zoom, is resolution independent, can be run from the command line, has HDR sequence support, and includes a dynamic, real time video wall that can be used for the playback of multiple shots, color grading or digital dalies!
Main features:
- Variable frame rate control
- Real-time aspect ratio control
- RGBA color channel views
- A & B media playback channels with both A/B & A|B playback
- Full audio support (including audio only tracks)
- Real-time hardware based pan and zoom
- Dynamic edit points stored in the database
- Dynamic thumbnail generation
- GPU based visualization tools (RGB parade)

qp allows you to play audio and video files using QuickTime from the command line.
Also includes a shell script for more complex tasks such as playing multiple files and looping. Source code also included.
Enhancements:
- QP is now also a GUI application, making it accessible to more users
- Nevertheless, the command line mode remains and has been improved
- Greatly improved video playback options
- More optimal performance.

Now features TurboPlay, giving broadband users near-instant playback of RealVideo and RealAudio by dramatically reducing the time it takes to load or buffer a clip prior to playback through the intelligent utilization of available bandwidth on a broadband connection.
This latest version of the RealOne Player also gives Mac users direct radio tuner access to the industrys best radio selection: 1700 radio stations from around the world, categorized by genre and location.
RealOne SuperPass subscription service allows Mac users to subscribe to the best news, sports and entertainment content on the Web, featuring brand-name digital programming from partners.
Main features:
- Watch near DVD-quality video
- View video clips in full-screen theater mode
- Optimize your sound with our graphic equalizer
- Behaves just like your other Mac applications
- Plays QuickTime files
Enhancements:
- This 10.1 build 412 version of RealPlayer is recommended for all users.
- It contains all prior security updates and is a Universal Binary.
- This version should fix the issue that causes Camino and Firefox to crash when viewing embedded content.

MultiSpeedPlayer is a small playback speed controllable movie player. Keys can be defined to set a certain speed.
It allows the user to create a playback rate list which is effected by the chosen key command.
MSP is compatible with any movie format supported by QuickTime (although it is not be able to open every one without editing its internal plist.)
Enhancements:
- Transparent movie window option added
- Change play rate on key down instead of key up preference added
- Multiple preferences window bug fixed
- Many other small bug fixes and code improvements.