The ALShow Free Media Player integrates popular audio and video codecs combined with automatic missing codec detection and download and installation help so you can always play your movies, DVDs and other videos quickly the first time.

For people that like to share videos and download social media videos like Youtube videos and those on other social video web sites, this free media player plays Flash Video FLV files with the help of the ALShow Free Media Player Online Codec Center.

This free media player can automatically detect missing codecs then display a download link to get the proper video codecs in mere seconds.

To further help people share videos and favorite movie clips, this free media player can take video clips of favorite or important scenes that can be imported into a video editor for mashups and montages. In addition to taking video clips, users can also take audio clips and movie screen shots.

For customizing screen displays, available options include changing color, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, video aspect ratio, zoom options, caption location, caption colors, and many more fully customizable video and audio options.

With a strong focus on ease of use, the user interface for this free media player is clean and attractive with several skins available. More advanced functionality is always a mere click or two away.

Part of the ALTools family of free PC utilities and multimedia software, this free media player is preferred by some for their music player over ALSong, the ALTools live lyrics music player. Users cite the clean, intuitive and easy interface as a primary reason for substituting in this free media player over alternative music players.

For education, users can adjust movie playback speed, loop video, and display captions and subtitles. The combination of playback speed adjustment, video looping and toggling captions makes learning new languages both easier and more enjoyable with this free media player.