NicePlayer 0.94.1 (v437) review
DownloadNicePlayer aims to be a QuickTime player designed for playing movies nicely for a person who likes to watch or present movies on their computer (such as the casual viewer or the video artist).
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NicePlayer aims to be a QuickTime player designed for playing movies nicely for a person who likes to watch or present movies on their computer (such as the casual viewer or the video artist).
This program features full screen or border-less floating windows, and convenient controls for scrubbing or queuing movies.
Right now NicePlayer is in early development, and while it's not refined, it is quite functional, and should suit the needs of many.
Designed from the ground up from people who like to watch movies, NicePlayer does all of the things that you would expect from a media player, and all of the things you didn't know you needed.
Here are some key features of "NicePlayer":
Easy to Use Interface. With an interface that only appears when you need it, NicePlayer makes it more convenient and easier to play all of your media. Double click on the window to change to full screen. Right click to pause. Use the scroll wheel to change the window size.
The Size You Want. Because NicePlayer allows you to use the scroll wheel to adjust playback of your movie to arbitrary sizes, you can easily do your work while watching a movie. You can even adjust the size of the window when playing DVDs -- so when you come across one of those widescreen DVDs encoded in full frame, you can zoom in so that you don't get black bars on all four sides of the movie when watching on your Powerbook or Cinema Display (using NicePlayer's "Fit Width" command also simplfies this more in most cases).
Playlists. Queue up multiple media files and have them play sequentially, automatically.
Plugins. QuickTime doesn't support playing the files you want to watch? NicePlayer has an open plugin architecture to support other media playback engines as well. That means that anyone can create a plugin to embed another media playback engine so NicePlayer can go be extended past QuickTime (i.e. DVD Playback, VLC).
What's New:
Fixes a crashing bug caused by the DVD plugin
Universal Binary
Supports the Apple Remote
Added an option to disable the scroll wheel
Now uses almost no CPU when idle
New smarter resizing (resize from screen edge)
Fixed DVD aspect ratio scaling framework problems
Fixed auto-starting of playback after minimize
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