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Quack Player for Windows: Create video playlists, screen captures
by Simon Kerbel Jan 16th 2008 at 5:00PM
Quack Player for Windows touches down on the already crowded media player battlefield. So what are its weapons? Quack Player claims support for a wide range of codecs and multimedia media file formats, including AVI, WMA, WMV, MPG, MOV, MP3, all the big boys. Quack Player also offers easy playlist building for your supported media files.
The interface is clean, with a few buttons for color adjustment, sound equalizer adjustment, and full screen initialization. The coolest feature in our book is the frame capture option, where you can quickly capture a screenshot of the video and save it anywhere on your hard drive.
Quack Player is easily customizable, with downloadable skins. You can even build your own skin (though the instructions look a little daunting).
Quack Player is a free download for Windows. It has plans to go open source in the future, so if you want to get your hands dirty as a developer, let them know.
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James said 5:23PM on 1-16-2008
Meh, Media Player Classic has had frame-capture since the beginning of time, and supports pretty much every format out there (through plugins, if nothing else). There might one day come a time when some media player with have a feature I need that isn't in MPC, but I'd be pretty surprised.
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Todd said 5:36PM on 1-16-2008
Hey James how about a media player that doesn't "phone home" with the DRM encoded number of plays a particular media file has had? Use TCPView with Windows Media Player running and see all the Big Brother "goodness" for yourself.
I actually used this Quack player for a bit, after reading this blog post, its pretty cool. If only I could mash-up Quack "quiet" UI with my beloved Miro player.
http://www.getmiro.com/
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Cebok said 8:11PM on 1-16-2008
I think he's referring to Media Player Classic (the open source one) not the Windows Media Player (Microsoft's)
Riley Moses said 11:17PM on 1-17-2008
VLC can take snapshots, too.
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Superevil said 3:43PM on 1-18-2008
I'm a bit partial to KMPlayer myself.
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