Showing posts with label media players. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media players. Show all posts

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Winamp 5.52 – Universal Media Player

Winamp is flexible and free multimedia player designed to play and manage your music. But Winamp is more than just a player. It is your window to the world of multimedia. From mp3s to streaming video Winamp is the one place you go to feed your audio and video habit.
Winamp supports a great number of audio and video formats. It can play any video or audio file for which there are built-in, or external decoders. Winamp also plays streamed audio and video content, interacts with online shops and online-services, synchronize audio files with portable digital players, and more.
Moreover, it has an extremely customizable media library, and allows you to rip and burn your favorite music CDs.
Winamp has highly flexible and customizable interface. There are thousands of skins and plug-ins that allow you to completely modify the appearance of the player interface and add new features. It is also worth mentioning a new Bento layout that gets Winamp away from the old modular design. The joined panes for the media library, browser, media player, playlist editor and more make Winamp at once more visually attractive.

winamp bento skin video window


The player also can easily tune into user created Internet TV and Radio stations, allowing you to choose from over 10000 SHOUTcast Radio stations and 250 Internet TV channels.
Winamp comes in several versions: Lite, Full, Bundle and Pro. The differences between them are in the additional features. The Pro version is the only non-free version that allows users to encode mp3 and burn CD at full-speed.
The new version 5.52 build 1800 of Winamp has been released recently.
New version has a completely redesigned interface, multiple device support, including iPods. It also has Winamp Remote feature to access and share user’s music and videos, and better integration with a web services for downloading music and obtaining data on songs.
You can download the latest version of Winamp from this page.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Zoom Player 5.01 - One of the Most Powerful Media Players for Windows


If you're looking for a flexible, powerful media player with numerous features, you should try Zoom Player. This is one of the most well-known multimedia players was designed to be simple at first glance while being strikingly flexible and powerful when used to its full potential. The interface of Zoom Player can be easy learned even by a child, but it may take a lifetime to reveal all its features.

Zoom Player Video Playback


Zoom Player’s modular design and flexibility allows you to personalize this player to match your needs. You can modify the interface of the player by number of different type of skins suitable for any user as well as change operation modes, codec compatibility, control options and many other features. The great customization capabilities make Zoom Player ideal for both users with no previous computer experience and to the highly qualified professional.

Zoom Player Options


Zoom Player supports nearly all audio, video and image formats, including AVI, Matroska (MKV), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), MPEG-1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG-2 (MPG/SVCD/VOB), MPEG-4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), OGG Movie (OGM), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), MusePack Audio (MPC), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), Wave Audio (WAV), True Audio (TTU), CD-Audio and many others.
The program updated on a regular basis and supports all the latest playback technologies such as P2P Video Preview, VMR9, and Multi Monitor.
One of the special Zoom Player’s features is the zoom functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan.
There are three versions of Zoom Player: Standard, Professional and WMV Professional. The Standard version is free for non-commercial use, while Zoom Player Professional and WMV Professional cost 27.95$ and 35.95$ respectively.
The only important feature missing in Standard version is DVD support, which is available in Zoom Player Professional. The WMV Professional version of Zoom Player, besides all features available in Zoom Player Professional, also has the ability to playback DRM Encoded Windows Media files.
A few days ago, the new version Zoom Player was announced. It is Zoom Player 5.01 final. This release patches a recently discovered vulnerability and some other errors.
You can download appropriate version of Zoom Player on this page.