Tag Results For: media player

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Rules Player Provides GUI Front-End & Extensive Format Support For MPlayer

Among the plethora of video players available for Windows (and other cross-platform applications), MPlayer has earned a name of its own, owing to its support for various media formats and open source nature. Although Mplayer relies on a command-line interface, you can easily obtain optional media players off the internet that provide its GUI front-end. [...] (more…)

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Use Hotkeys For Playback Control Of Multiple Media Players With MPH

There are numerous applications available out there that let you assign custom global keyboard shortcuts to a specific media player, so that you can easily play or pause a media file, control volume, etc., even if your media player is not active, but what if you want to assign hotkeys to not just one, but [...] (more…)

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solplay Lets You View A Twitter Stream With A Topic & Update Frequency Of Your Choice [Web]

Want to know the Twitter crowd’s opinion on a particular topic? solplay (currently in beta) displays a continuous flow of tweets regarding a topic chosen by you. The interface takes after that of a conventional media player. You have controls that allow you to play/pause the flow of tweets, or view new ones, by clicking a forward button, while the [...] (more…)

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Miro 5 Adds eMusic Store, Option To Download HD Vimeo Videos & More

Back in May 2011, we covered Miro 4, a powerful media manager application with iTunes-like functionalities. What makes Miro different from other media managers is its ability to sync media files with Android-powered devices. Now, almost after one year, Miro dev team has finally released Miro 5. It brings various backend changes to the actual [...] (more…)

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DJ Genius: Simple Media Player & Tag Editor With Online Radio

iTunes has become the heart and soul of many music lovers around the globe, due to its support for all iOS devices and an elegant GUI. However because of its many features and heavy UI, it also kicks down your system performance. So, if you are looking for a trimmed down version of iTunes, which [...] (more…)

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MediaPortal: HTPC App To Play Music, Stream Radio & Record Live TV

Media center applications have become a popular phenomenon among HDTV enthusiasts. While the concept of  “media center” might have been brought to mainstream market by Microsoft with their Windows Media Center application, there are a few other media center applications that have become quite popular such as QVIVO and XMBC. MediaPortal is another media center/HTPC application [...] (more…)

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SPlayer: A Feature-Rich Media Player With GPU Acceleration

SPlayer is an open source media player that claims to be (in a lot of ways) better than other popular free media players such as Storm player, QQ Player, Realplayer and KMPlayer. The application supports many file formats and also calls itself to be the lightest of all. Some of the key features of this [...] (more…)

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What’s New In VLC 2.0? We Review The New Features & Improvements

Developed by VideoLAN, VLC is one of the few media players, which support a huge array of codecs, compression methods and file formats, and is best known for the way it handles multimedia file rendering. There’re surely sheer number of media players available nowadays, but VLC is arguably the most powerful, open source media player [...] (more…)

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MPlayerX Remembers Where You Stopped A Media File & Plays Flash [Mac]

Mac’s native media player, QuickTime Player, has a multitude of features, allowing you to do just about everything, from screencasting to publishing your videos directly to YouTube or Vimeo. While the application is rich in functionality, not everyone uses all those functions, and if you just want to watch a couple of music videos, tutorials [...] (more…)

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VSO Media Player: Play Media From ISO Files With Hardware Support

When it comes to media players, the market is so saturated that only a handful brand names such as VLC Media Player, GOM Player, Classic Player, MPlayer and native Windows Media Player are considered as the market leaders, and others barely stand a chance of attracting users. This, however, does not necessarily mean that other media players [...] (more…)

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Noow: Integrate Audio, Video & Torrent Website For Downloading Content

Noow is a feature rich application that serves as an HD media player, torrent downloader, podcast client and a multimedia file manager. You can integrate any web service which offers audio, video or torrent downloading capability to Noow interface. For example, you can integrate MegaVideo by simply adding its URL to Noow sources and browse [...] (more…)

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How To Create Totem Unity Quicklist In Ubuntu Linux

Totem is a GStreamer based media player for the Gnome desktop and comes pre-installed with Ubuntu. One of the features that Totem has lacked since the inception of the Unity launcher is a quicklist. As we all know quicklists provide easy access to major features of an application which is integrated with the Unity launcher. [...] (more…)

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Emit – Encode, Download & Stream Media From Computer To Android Over WiFi

If you are tired of continuously porting your favorite media files to your Android device from your computer or if your SD card cannot stand any more heavy media files, then may be it’s time to try Emit, a real-time media encoder and streamer that allows you to play media directly from your computer onto you [...] (more…)

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MediaKeys – Register Global Hotkeys For Popular Media Players

Many media players have built-in option to register hotkey combinations, so that you can quickly use their provided functions and features, such as, play/pause media playback, shuffle playlist, sort playlist items, jump to next/previous track, etc, but it becomes quite tiring to specify shortcut keys in each media player for performing more or less same [...] (more…)

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UMPlayer Is MPlayer With Loads Of Additional Features And YouTube Integration

For long I have relied on the open source VLC and the Windows 7 default Windows Media Player 11. It is not often that we come across a media player so comprehensive that it can match the quality of such robust players. UMPlayer or Universal Media player is a cross platform open source media player [...] (more…)