Splash Video Player is a free multimedia player that lets you stream videos in HD. It boasts of smooth motion, crisp details, and vivid colors for a high-quality experience with your videos. It also allows other player functions that are fast becoming the standard today, such as hardware-accelerated video encoding and decoding. Splash starts up in no time and has been optimized for HD playback, so expect better-looking graphics when you use this player. However, while it has a lot of upgraded and advanced features that let it compete with other media players out there, most of them are locked behind the premium version of Splash. The lite version’s functionality is limited—for example, you only get a few of the popular file formats that you can use. It’s still a stable program but compared to its free rivals, it can rank pretty low for long-time media player experts.