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Crystal
Player Professional
Crystal Player Professional is a video player that includes a wide
variety of audio and video filters, equalizer, internal post processing,
volume customizing, autodownloading of required codecs, dynamic XML
skins, friendly zooming, pan scanning, dragging, subtitle support (SRT,
SMI, SUB, JS, DKS, MPL, RT, SMIL, and SSA), external audio files, OSD
with antialiasing and blend effects, and screenshots (JPEG, BMP). It
also offers a wide variety of delicate options for the player's kernel
(overlays, buffering, audio restrictions, preloading, caching of the
data), customs and corrections for special files, OSD brightness,
contrast, saturation, hue, and sharpness.
Version
1.8
brings Stabilization work and major fixes and speed-ups in Crystal MPEG2
decoder, minor bugfixes in MPEG splitter, new CMEA decoder, providing
better quality on the same bitrate for mobile video.
Review of Crystal Player Professional
This video player includes features that justify the epithet
Professional in its name, but some interface quirks take getting used
to. The player installs easily and lets you associate it with a variety
of video-file types. A row of tiny icons occupies the top of Crystal
Player's frame, with each leading to an impressive array of features.
The subtitle features let you do things such as add shadows to them,
make them transparent, or move them off the screen. The View menu lets
you adjust brightness, saturation, and contrast as well as take captures
and zoom. One oddity is the View menu entry for Effects, which lets you
control whether to display a volume bar and other control features. What
other applications refer to as effects are located under the Options
menu as Video Filters. The Options menu includes an impressive array of
professional features, such as video post-processing, buffer-size
settings, an equalizer, and overlay controls. Crystal Player has all the
features you could want, but finding them is sometimes difficult. For
example, it does have a time line, but you need to hold the cursor over
the bottom part of the screen for it to appear. Crystal Player works
well and offers a complete set of features, but the interface could use
some work.
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$65
$15
