CrystalPlayer is one of the most popular video players available on the market. The program offers functions such as reading text files, creating screenshots from a movie, automatically downloading the necessary codecs to play the media, a list of favorite movies, zoom in on the image, etc. In addition, CrystalPlayer has a set of Video and Audio filters, its own MPEG4 decoder, Crystal AC3 multichannel audio decoder and Crystal MPEG1/2 video decoder.

Unlike many players, the application does not use the Windows Media Player engine, and in comparison to the competition, it is distinguished by the high quality of played media, from AVI files, MPEG, etc., to Internet streams.