Seagull 3.0 review
DownloadSeagull is a playlist based video player, similar to iTunes and iPhoto, which focuses on giving you an experience better than television while watching video content from the Internet, including vidcasts, the video equivalent of a podcast.
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Seagull is a playlist based video player, similar to iTunes and iPhoto, which focuses on giving you an experience better than television while watching video content from the Internet, including vidcasts, the video equivalent of a podcast. You can subscribe to one of the included vidcasts, or enter the address to any vidcast, and it will be added to your source list.
Seagull Supports multiple playlists and many of the video formats that are supported in QuickTime.
The vidcasts are regularly checked for new videos automatically. When new videos are found, they are downloaded to your computer, added to the vidcast playlist, and ready to be viewed. While all this is happening, you don't have to wait, and you don't have to do any work. Instead, you can just watch your videos and the new ones will just show up.
In addition to downloading your vidcasts for you, Seagull 3 can also scan a webpage, download all of the videos that it finds, and automatically add them to your library.
Here are some key features of "Seagull":
Supports multiple playlists.
Supports many of the video formats that are supported in QuickTime. (MPEG, MOV, AVI, etc.)
In Full Screen Mode, videos are automatically played at the largest size without disturbing the aspect ratio.
In Window Mode, videos are played at the size that you choose (Half, Original, Double, Maximum).
Instead of adding videos one by one, Seagull Video Player can scan a folder and add all of it's videos to the library at once.
Playlist window contains a preview area, where you can play a miniature version of any video file in the playlist.
Play, Pause, Stop, Fast Forwad, Rewind, Next Video, and Previous Video controls.
The video library keeps track of over thirty different pieces of information about each one of your videos. You can sort your playlists by size, dimensions, duration, rating, format, etc.
You can color code your videos using labels.
Move videos between the library and playlists using drag and drop or cut and paste.
AppleScriptable.
Limitations:
Limited to 25 videos per library in demo.
What's New:
Warning: You will no longer be able to open library files created with previous beta versions of this application.
Fixed a bug that made it difficult to resize the video player window when the playlist was set to preserve the aspect ratio.
Fixed a bug in the professional version that prevented the audio from being output after the first video.
You can now join multiple videos together.
Smart playlists can now have multiple rules.
The View Options dialog is now available and it allows you to customize which columns to display in the list view.
Added buttons to the video player window, which will allow you to send feedback to the video creator, or visit the website associated with that video.
Fixed a bug that caused a video's star rating to occasionally be saved as one star less than desired.
Fixed a bug that made it difficult to select the desired star rating for a video, depending on the width of the rating column.
If you have the preferences configured to delete viewed vidcasts after they have been played, then that is now done.
In the professional version, the video output settings can now be set for each playlist. They were previously global settings.
In the professional version, you can now change the video output settings without having to turn output on and off first.
In the professional version, the application now waits five seconds before beginning output in order to give external devices time to prepare, and so that no frames are lost.
The join movie feature now removes all of the movies from the library, and replaces them with a reference movie, which makes it work extremely fast. It also makes a guess as to what the file name of the reference movie should be.
Disabled full screen playback and view size changing when outputting to a device.
Fixed a bug that caused the video player to be placed in the wrong position on the window, when returning from full screen playback.
The controller no longer disappears when coming out of full screen.
The cursor shows up sooner when coming out of full screen.
Fixed the fraction of a second display on the status view.
In the professional version, fixed a bug that prevented the video output mode details from being displayed for the selected mode.
In the professional version, fixed a bug in the way the refresh rate is displayed.
Fixed a bug that occurred when an existing library was set to automatically open, but it could not be found. A half blank document appeared. Now, if the existing library can't be found, a new library is opened.
Resizing of the player window is now animated.
Fixed a drawing problem in the rack view. When the thumbnail was taller than it was wide, it was not placed inside the television correctly. Improved centering of the thumbnail in the tv.
Requirements:
QuickTime 7 or later.
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