• If you find any buffering taking place while the video streaming, you can stop the process and perform it some time later. There may be cases where the websites shut the servers down for the maintenance, thereby causing stalls in the video streaming.
• If the problem persists the other unnecessary podcast software programs or any other software and video accelerators can be shut down. Start the program again after doing this and the problem may be solved.
• To stop buffering you can also try this simple step out. Open the Windows Media Player and select “Options” from the “Tools” menu. Now select “Performance” and then “Network Buffering” and “Buffer”.
• There appears a text box where you can enter 60 or any higher value as per your wish. This may solve the buffering problems but the only issue is that you may have to wait before the video begins to play.
• To stop buffering of online videos you need to check the connection of your internet. When the internet speed is slow the buffering is bound to occur. You can replace the Dial up internet connection with broadband or DSL services.
• Having some unnecessary windows open while playing the video may also cause buffering. So make sure all the other windows are closed to stop the buffering of videos.
• Go to control panel and find “Internet Options” and in the “General” tab select “Delete temporary internet files” and also check the box for “Delete all offline content” and click “OK”.
• You can also solve the problem by visiting the “Control Panel” and clicking the “Display” option. Move to the “Settings” tab and select “Advanced” and then the “Troubleshoot” option. Bring the hardware acceleration in a disabled state by dragging the slider to the extreme left.

Price: Free

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, DirectX 9, FLASH8

Software Engineer: iTinySoft

Web Site: Total Video Player

Size: 3.66 MB

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Total Video Player is a media player that is able to play all the most popular video formats including 3gp, Mp4, H264, Mp3, Wma, Ogg, Mpeg-1,Mpeg-2. Total Video Player does not require the installation of any video codecs. The given player also supports Flash format Total Video Player-flv, and it plays it as well as Adobe Flash Player. The player also supports DVDs, CD Audio and Swf Flas Files.

With Total Video Player you do not need various video codecs because the software has its own mode of encoding and decoding. In spite of its small size, Total Video Player is able to playback any video file without any problem.

Total Video Player 1.31 has undergone some changes in the graphic interface. Besides, there were some mistakes corrected from the previous versions. Total Video Player 1.31 is a freeware and it does not require activation or a license key. The given version also includes bug fixes and GUI enhancements.

DVD X Player is a DVD player with the built-in function of evasion of regional protection. It allows watching any DVD discs with any regional code. It evades RPC1/RPC2 Region Free, RCE Disc Region Free, Macrovision Free and Operation Free regional protection. The DVD X Player software does not need firmware modification. The same refers to the case when you have changed the region code for more than five times.

DVD X Player supports the following formats: : DVD-VideoVCD/SVCD, MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), RM, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio (WMA), WMV, Windows Media Video High Definition (WMV-HD), AIFF/AU/SND/WAV/MIDI, Video Object File (VOB), VCD/SVCD, DAT, MPG, HD-Video, MPEG-2/1 Video.

There is also the support for zoom and 16:9, 4:3, Letter-Boxed, Pan&Scan video, viewing of pictures as slideshow with more than 50 gradation effects, watching and taking off DV and WEBCAM video from the screen with the function of color correction. DVD X Player supports DTS 5.1 Digital Surround Audio, Dolby, Dolby Pro-Logic I/II, Dolby Digital 5.1 – AC3, 24/96 LPCM audio passthrough, 5.1/6.1/7.1 Surround Audio, etc. With DVD X Player you have the ability of recording DVD movies into MP3 audio or video files (PMP, Zen, Blackberry, Smart Phone, Apple iPod Video, iPhone, etc.). The Smart Stretch function allows you watching movies with 16:9 aspect ratio on any screen mode. It should be also note that the player in question supports High-Definition Video.

The availability of bookmarks will help you to save the location of any scene you want. In the issue you can jump directly to your favorite scenes. With the Desktop Video you can work and watch DVD at the same time. DVD X Player comes with the built-in converter that helps to convert the recorded video file to iPod-MP4, PSP-MP4, ASF, AVI, MPEG, etc. The visualization function allows the player in question displaying multicolored patterns that harmonize with the audio tracks that are being played.

Kantaris Media Player has been developed on the basis of the well-known client Videolan (VLC), that gives the possibility to playback practically all video and audio formats without the necessity to install various codecs in the system.

The given player can work with AVI, MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMA, OGG, AC3, ACC, FLAC, WMV, MOV, MKV, QuickTime, Matroska, DivX, Xvid, H264, MP3 and many other formats of media files. In addition, Kantaris Media Player allows viewing DVD video discs and playing Audio CD, as well as video and audio streams from Internet.

Kantaris Media Player comes with the all standard functions and options such as subtitles, playlists, the module of visualization for audio files, equalizer, video and sound control and many others.

The player has very easy and intuitively understandable graphic user’s interface. It also has the direct access to Apple Movie Trailers on the Apple web site. Due to Kantaris Media Player the user can search for subtitles for films on opensubtitles.org.

It is worth mentioning that the project was developed by Christopher Persson (a Swedish student from Lund University) on the basis of VideoLAN Client in 2006.

Kantaris Media Player Advantages

·It can run a RAR compressed video file directly without the necessity to extract the archive.

·Broadband equalizer.

·Playlists (PLS, M3U).

·The support of popular formats including MP3, QuickTime, WMA, Xvid, OGG, MIDI, DivX, AC3, AAC, H.264, MP4 and FLAC as well as DVD and audio CD.

·Open source code.

·The player can play practically any audio or video file without previously installed codecs in the system.

·The support of visualizations

It should be noted that AC3 filter is distinguished by high functionality and a great number of settings.

The main features of AC3Filter:

·The AC3Filter decodes AC3, DTS, MPEG1, and Audio Layer I/II formats.

·It supports WAV/AC3, WAV/DTS, AVI/DTS, AVI/AC3, and DVD.

·Sound processing from any source;

·The decomposition of any source into six channels;

·Total information about sound track format;

·The AC3Filter supports the mode of SPDIF passthrough;

·The output of multi-channel sound on SPDF from any source (AC3 encoding on the uptake);

·Per-channel amplification for all input and output channels;

·The automatic control of amplification;

·Clipping;

·Equalizer;

·The analyser of acoustical spectrum;

·Mixing in Dolby Surround / Pro Logic / Pro Logic II;

·Dynamic Range Compression (DRC);

·The indication of levels for input/output channels;

·The availability of the matrix mixer. There is also the ability to modify mixing matrix directly.

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Price: Free
Size: 385 KB
Operating System: 98/ME/2000/XP

Full Screen Player is a DVD player specially designed for individuals who value comfortable full screen viewing. 99% of commands are performed by the means of a single mouse click. The player in question plays video from physically broken discs (scratched within reasonable limits, however not broken). Full Screen Player supports the extension of abilities by plug-ins.

The player menu does not close the image of a movie as it is transparent. All the control elements appear directly on the image of a movie. They appear when pointing the mouse and then disappear by themselves.

The other options of Full Screen Player include:

·Fast enlargement of a picture and instantaneous panning;

·The cutting of an uneven border of a picture;
·The opening of VideoCd standard play lists and the most popular players;

·The searching of video on CD and DVD;

·The ability to omit static pictures and ads as well as the initial menu when watching DVD.

·“Favorite Folder” function. Beginning with Windows 2000, there a new element has appeared Open File Dialog such as Place Bar. This function serves for the fast choice of the most popular and important folders (Journal, My Documents, etc.). Each of these folders you can replace by your own (fro example you can replace them by a folder where you keep all the films). All these folders will be available from each application.

·Frame-by-frame rewinding;

·Plug-ins;

·Several modes of the computer shut down.

VC-1 is the official codec for the Xbox 360 game box. FFmpeg includes the free version of VC-1 decoder.
VC-1 specification includes three codecs that have different FourCC codes.

WMV3
Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3), was developed before putting into operation of VC-1. It corresponds to Simple and Main VC-1 Profiles. This makes WM3 video flow fully compatible with VC-1. When decoding video with progressive and line interlacing there different color spaces – YUV 4:2:0- and less widespread YUV 4:1:1 are used.

It should be noted that high definition films have been released in a format that was called WMV HD that is WMV3 Main Profile @ High Level.

WMVA
WMVA may be called the forerunner of WVC1 and it corresponds to the Advanced Profile for the decoding with high bit rates. It was released together with Windows Media player 10 and Windows Media Format SDK 9.5. There are some differences between WMVA and WVC1.

WVC1
Within the bounds of VC-1 the Advanced Profile means the use of namely WCC1. This decoder is supplied together with Windows Media Player 11.

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Operating Systems: Windows All

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Elecard MPEG -2 Decoder and Streaming Plugin for Windows Media Player is a set of software components developed by Elecard. It is meant for the demultiplexing and decoding of multi-media data as well as for the receipt and decoding of data-flow broadcasting. MPEG-2 video decoder, also known as DVD decoder, components for the data-flow receipt and demultiplexer that are included in the set are realized on the basis of the proprietary technology Microsoft DirectShow. They are fully compatible with the applications that use this technology.

The use of the technology of the hard-ware based acceleration DXVA, realized in MPEG-2 video decoder, allows lowering of the central processor unit loading significantly. In addition, it allows increasing productivity of the system in whole.

The multiprocessor support ensures the high performance of MPEG-2 decoder when reencoding of video data in real time on powerful personal computers.

Elecard MPEG-2 video decoder supports DVD Subpicture, Closed Captions (DVD, ATSC, DVS157, C-Cube, SCTE).

Install Elecard MPEG-2 Decoder and Streaming Plugin for Windows Media Player and you will be able to play DVD video in multimedia players developed in concordance with DirectShow technology (for instance, Windows Media Player).

XviD is a codec meant for the work with video. It is a video codec library that follows the MPEG-4 standard. This MPEG-4 codec is distinguished by the fast speed as well as by good quality of the video image. Xvid codec has been developed on the base of Open-source code. Files, compressed by Xvid codec can be recorded both on CD and DVD and played on a DivX compatible DVD player.

As opposed to DivX codec, which represents proprietary software, developed by DivX, Inc., Xvid is free ware distributed under GNU License (General Public License). This means that as opposed to DivX codec that was released only for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms, Xvid can be used on all operating systems and platforms, for which the source code codec can be compiled. However the methods of compression, used in MPEG-4, can be patent. Consequently, the use of Xvid in some countries can be illegal.

It is considered that Xvid decoder realizes the most qualitative post-processing of the image. The level of the post-processing is adjusted by hand. There is the ability to add the noise (film effect). The last version of Xvid codec is 1.1.2. At the present moment there 1.2 version of the codec has been developed with the support of several processors.

The most important thing in Xvid codec is the post processing. This decoder can not automatically lower the quality of post processing in case of full booting of the processor. Therefore if you come across with some difficulties with the video playback you should lower the level of the post processing (the power of your processor is not enough for the decoding of a video recording with the selected quality). For this in the section Postprocessing you should switch off the use of one or several algorithms of image processing. In the section FourCC you may switch on the support of video decoding compressed by DivX 4, DivX 5/6 or standard MPEG 4 video.

SMPlayer Features:

·The player in question has inherited the greater part of the features and abilities from MPlayer;
·Adjusted subtitles that include print, size and color of subtitles;
·The ability to switch video and audio track (both embedded in the file and external ones);
·The adjustment of sound and subtitles delay allows synchronizing the sound and subtitles;
·Video equalizer – the adjustment of brightness, hardness, hue, color saturation of the image;
·The advanced control with the help of a mouse and mouse scroll wheel such as the fast forwarding and rewinding, volume control, the speed of playback and ranging;
·Playback at different speeds acceleration and slowdown;
·Built-in filters (post processing, karaoke filter, deinterlacing and the removal of noises);
·Advanced settings;
·Multi language interface with more than 20 languages;
·The dialogue of settings with the large number of options;
·The list of playback allows to play several files sequentially or in the random order;
·Saving of definite options that unique for different files.

The Supported Formats:

SMPlayer supports a great number of video and audio formats such as Audio CD, DVD, Video CD, multimedia files in AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Ogg Vorbis, NUT, NSV, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, RoQ, PVA and Matroska formats recorede with the following video codecs DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Sorenson, WMV, RealVideo, x264 and audio codecs MP3, Musepack, Vorbis, RealAudio, AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital), AAC (MPEG-4 аудио), QuickTime, VIVO audio and WMA.

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