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Filed under: Video, Windows, Apple, Freeware

Keeping up with Apple: QuickTime Alternative 2.7 released

Quicktime Alternative
Hot on the heels of the release of QuickTime 7.5.5 yesterday, the makers of QuickTime Alternative have released version 2.7: with support for QuickTime 7.5.5 files.

QuickTime Alternative is a Windows program for users who might occasionally want to watch a QuickTime file but don't want to install Apple's media player. The program is bundled with Media Player Classic, an open source Windows media playback utility that looks a lot like Windows Media Player 6. You can use Media Player Classic to watch MOV files you've downloaded to your hard drive. Or you can install the browser plugin to watch files embedded on web pages. The latest version of QuickTime Alternative incldues support for Google Chrome as well as Firefox, Netscape, and Opera.

QuickTime Alternative makes use of the codecs taken from Apple software but is not an official Apple product.

Filed under: Video, Windows, Open Source

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Edition: All in one media player

Media Player Classice HCE
Media Player Classic is an audio and video player for Windows that looks like Windows Media Player 6.4, but works a bit more like all-in-one media application VLC. Each application is open source, and each can handle almost any audio or video file you throw at it. But that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema Edition takes the basic version of MPC and adds a few extra features, including:
  • Support for additional decoders, including H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support
  • Improved support for Windows Vista, including a 64 bit release
  • Translation into additional languages
The media player takes up just a few megabytes and doesn't require installation, so you can throw it on a USB flash drive and carry it around with you.

[via gHacks]

Filed under: Video, Freeware, Open Source

3 free video players for watching almost any movie

GOM Player, KMPlayer, and rulesPlayer
Last week we told you about SMPlayer, a powerful, yet easy to use frontend for open source media player MPlayer. We were pretty impressed with SMPlayer, which can run on Windows or Linux and can handle almost any format except for Real Media.

But our wonderful readers pointed out that SMPlayer was hardly unique. You've probably heard of VLC, but here are three other media players that can handle pretty much any video you can throw at them. Oh yeah, and they're all absolutely free.

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Filed under: Video, Freeware, Open Source

Watch almost any video with SMPlayer

SMPlayerThere are a lot of useful media players out there for handling pretty much any video format you can throw at them. VLC is a pretty nifty all-in-one solution, as is Media Player Classic.

Martin over at gHacks just turned us onto another powerful media player, SMPlayer. It's a front-end for MPlayer, and comes in Linux and Windows flavors. There's also support for a whole slew of languages.

The best thing about SMPlayer is that it just works out of the box. You don't need to install any additional codecs, and it will handle everything from Quicktime movies to Windows Media Video. Of course it has no problem with DivX, XviD, and other MPEG-1/2/4 varieties. It does not appear to support Real Media files.

Is SMPlayer a VLC killer? It's hard to say. But it does have a clean, simple interface that makes it pretty attractive if you find the bells and whistles of VLC a bit confusing.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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