A video player or media player is a type of computer software used for playing back video and audio content. Content is "encoded" into different formats (called codecs) and file types (called containers) and requires a player capable of playing back the particular format of the video.
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.wav .avi .mp4 .mkv can contain many different codec types. Being able to play one file those types does not mean that you can play all files with the same extension. Tools like GSpot can help you identify which codec(s) are required to play a file. Since over 90% of all video files can be played with only a handful of codecs you might want to try one of the players/codecs listed below before you try to dig deeper.
You need a suitable video player for playing those subtitles. Usually you will need to select the correct subtitle files from the players' menus after you have started the playback. Depending on the settings, the player may also start the subtitles automatically, if they are in the same directory as the video file.
These players come with their own, large library of codecs and usually are able to play almost anything available and thus are often the player of choice if one does not want to bother with installing various codecs.
DirectShow is a microsoft windows architecture used by many media players to play various file types and video formats. Thus adding support for more formats to windows by installing DirectShow filters will add it to all of these players.Note: RealNetworks' RealMedia and some of Apple's Quicktime formats are not supported by pure DirectShow players and must be played with separate players.
Options are fairly limited when it comes to OS X with one of the cross-platform media players being your best bet for playing. At one stage the continued development of VLC on OS X was in doubt but the current version is still in line with other platforms. Additional codecs can be added to QuickTime through Pernian although this is technically support in QuickTime 7.6 as QuickTime X currently doesn't support many features present in QuickTime 7.6 and earlier. The codec support added by Pernian should cross over to the likes of iDVD too.
You should also be alert for scams related to video playback. The scams are usually related to "new" video formats needing either a new special codec or a new player, which you only can get from their never-heard of website. Alternative scam format might be a passworded file.
In general, it is best to stick with the major players (like VLC) and widely-distributed codecs from well-known sources. Downloading some new obscure codec might help you to play the video in question, but you should really weight the risks before downloading a new codec from an unknown supplier.
The latest release of Vuze now includes a completely new, totally rewritten media player that excels at playing all of the video formats you are likely to come across(.avi .flv .flc .mp4 .divx .h264 .mkv .mov .mp2 .m4v .mp3 .aac)
Some other common sources of problems include trying to view the video on a secondary monitor. (Some players, including the Vuze player, do not support additional monitors that may be connected to your computer for all video types.) Also, you can try different video output options for the Vuze player. Go to the Options dialogue (Tools menu Options, on Windows, or Vuze menu Preferences, on Mac), expand the Plug-ins entry in the tree on the left, and select Embedded Media Player. Note down what option is currently selected under Video Output Mode, so you can restore that value when you're done experimenting, and try the other options. Select an option, press the Close button, close the player (if it is open), and try re-opening it with the same content.
Vuze allows users to use various media players to view videos, with Quicktime and Windows Media Player being the most popular. If you are having difficulty viewing the video, check your media player software to make sure you have the most current version.
If the HD Player plugin becomes corrupted for some reason, Vuze will switch to using your computer's default player (e.g. quicktime, VLC). One indication that such a corruption has occurred is a yellow warning triangle being displayed at the right of the status bar on startup - clicking on it will show the warning text and this will mention something about 'plugin azemp'.
To re-install the HD player close Vuze and use Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) to the Configuration_directory. Look in the 'plugins' folder for a sub-folder called "azemp". Delete this folder and restart Vuze. The plugin should re-install.
If the player doesn't install, and you get the message "Can't read 'plugin.properties' for plugin 'azemp'" appearing as a warning on startup (see the bottom right of the Vuze window for a warning triangle) then you have a broken player plugin installation.
From Vuze version 5.7.1.1 the internals of the HD Player have been rewritten to use VLC ( ) rather than MPlayer as the underlying rendering engine. This means that all of the latest video decoding support brought to you by the VLC team are immediately available within the Vuze HD Player.
Vuze is a full-featured BitTorrent application with a network of high-quality undiscovered torrents as well as a media player. The Vuze application is built on the original code of the Azureus Bittorrent client.It is written in Java and is compatible on Mac and Windows operating systems. Vuze was first released as Azureus in June 2003 by SourceForge.net and has since become their second most productive project amassing 516,004,916 downloads.
Vuze is a full functioning BitTorrent application that enables users to find, play and share all kinds of content. Users are able to search and download music, movies, television shows, images, computer games, computer programs, e-books, and anything else that is offered in a digital form. Video content is the most popular downloaded media as Vuze offers HD quality videos and a media player to view them.
Content that is downloaded on Vuze is often copyrighted and this creates a magnitude of both legal and ethical issues. Vuze is one of many BitTorrent Clients that makes copyrighted media easily accessible. Vuze offers an interface for users to access pirated copies of media and download them quickly and easily. A variety of content is made available to download before it is publicly available to customers. Films are uploaded as they become released into theaters, and music albums are made downloadable in days or possibly weeks in advance before the actual release date. The availability of these illegal copies to customers causes problems for the movie and music industry.
A UPnP client, also called a control point, functions as a digital audio/video remote control. Control points automatically detect UPnP servers on the network to browse content directories and request the transfer or streaming of media. A UPnP media renderer performs the actual audio or video rendering. Control points and media renderers most commonly run on separate devices, the control point being for example a tablet, and the renderer a television or a networked audio computer connected to an audio receiver. Some control points integrate a media renderer and may function as a complete music playing application.
wxVLCBackend v2 is a wxMediaCtrl backend. The latter is a stub media player in wxWidgets and provides an interface for various kinds of backends (gssteamer, wmp,...). wxVLCBackend maybe integrated in the official wxwidgets code..The backend code provides a guide to integrade libvlc in other c/c++ gui frameworks as well. In fact the only TRICKY part was to get a low-level hadle for the drawable surface.
wxvlc_test is a simple wxWidgets based app. It has a textbox where you give a media filename and a play, stop button to control playback. In my tests wxvlc_test crashes when starting playing ( somewhere inside libavcodec library with no other dubuging symbols ) *some* avis.. On the other hand vlc plays these same files smoothly.
DLNA provides a standard for sharing digital media among multimedia devices and Vuze can be used to streamaudio and video from a computer to a device that supports the DLNAstandard, e.g., a input device for a television (TV).
After I've encoded the video to be played from Vuze, when I bring upthe display on the TV for the Blu-ray player, I see one of the sources foraudiovisual(AV) input, is now Vuze on PC_Name, wherePC_Name is the name of the PC on which Vuze is installed. I can thenselect the Downloads folder from the display on the TV, where I seethe file I encoded on Vuze, in this case Faceboo.mp4, whichis a video the user downloaded from Facebook. Selecting that file allowsme to view the video and hear the found for it from the TV. 2ff7e9595c
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