The final version of the popular media player VLC 1.1 has just been released by its developers. The Open Source player continues to roll over the majority of competing players by being among the first to introduce support for WebM decoding and encoding, gpu decoding on Windows and Linux and an overall decoding speed increase. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows Media Player Plus is a third party plugin for Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. It adds a series of features to the media player, more precisely to Windows Media Player 12 and 11. The plugin adds several useful features to Windows Media Player including a more comfortable tag editor that can be accessed by right-clicking [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows users have two choices when selecting a media player: Select a player that makes use of system wide codecs or a player that comes equipped with all codecs. The later players offer the advantage that it is usually not necessary to go codec hunting to play a video on the computer system. SMPlayer is [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

SPlayer, yes you read SPlayer not SMPlayer, is a new contender for the Windows media playback throne. Depending on your media player of choice you are either stuck with installing codecs to get certain video formats to work or enjoy a media player that comes with binary codecs for video formats so that the user [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows Media Player and Winamp are two of the most popular media players that come with a large feature set that include playing various video and audio formats or media management capabilities. Users who want to transfer their multimedia collection from Windows Media Player to Winamp now have the possibility to automate the process with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes a high number of bugs that were present in previous versions of the media player. The changelog lists all of the changes and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Following up on last week’s much commented article about how you guys use your Firefox, I decided to also take a look at how you use your media player applications. This is perhaps a bit more complex than last week’s question, since we are covering multiple applications. Nevertheless, which media player do you use, and [...]

Categories: ask the readers, Software

CD-Text stores additional information on a audio CD. The information consist usually of the album, name, song name, track info and artist. Many computer music players like Winamp or MediaMonkey can read CD-Text and display the information. Instead of playing track 1 the user would actually see the track name and related information. Windows Media [...]

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My first though was “Oh no, not another media player”. Adobe Media Player is based on the Adobe Air plattform which has to be installed before the media player can be installed.Think of flash for the desktop and you are more or less there. The interior of the media player reminds me a lot about [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web