If you love to watch videos on your PC, you may be frustrated by the number of different video formats and codecs, and the number of different video players required to be able to play any video you want. Having to find the right player with the right codec, depending on where your video came from, can be a real pain.

Haihaisoft Universal Player solves that problem by playing just about any digital media format. You can also play digital media files which are protected by DRM-X on Haihaisoft Universal Player, and it emulates a number of video players. You can use Haihaisoft Universal Player as Windows Media Player or as a Flash Video (FLV) Player. You can run it in Real Player mode, Apple QuickTime Player mode, PowerDVD mode or Adobe Flash Player mode.

Haihaisoft Universal Player literally plays practically every format of video, even those protected by DRM. Just a few of the formats it can play include WMV, WMA, ASF, DVD, SVCD, MOV, RMVB, MPEG, 3GP, SWF, FLV, MP3, M4A, OGG, MIDI, GIF, WMS, VCD, RM, AVI, AMR an ACC. Haihaisoft also updates the software regularly with new codecs so you’ll always be able to load and play video files.

Haihaisoft Universal Player embeds into Internet Explorer, which is great if you use IE. Any time you visit a page with a video file compatible with Haihaisoft Universal Player, you can watch the video instantly. Since Haihaisoft supports, for all practical purposes, every format, you’ll never encounter a video in Internet Explorer that you can’t view.

Haihaisoft Universal Player is completely free, plays virtually every format and embeds in Internet Explorer. What could be better? First, it could be improved by providing a wider range of preferences for user configuration. Second, and mainly, embedding into Firefox would vastly improve this player, as many people who would use it choose Firefox over Internet Explorer.