- CrystalPlayer
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CrystalPlayer Original author(s) Kim Bondarenko Developer(s) Crystal Reality LLC Initial release March' 2003 Stable release 1.98 (May 31, 2007) [+/−] Preview release 1.98 RC1 (7 April 2007) [+/−] Written in C++ Operating system Windows Available in Multilingual Type Media player License Proprietary Website www.crystalplayer.com CrystalPlayer originally made by Kim Bondarenko (russian software developer) and acquired by Crystal Reality LLC is a compact media player for Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista.
CrystalPlayer features an original video kernel, and does not use built-in WindowsMedia environment, so there are fewer limitations implied as with other players using the WindowsMedia environment. Playback engine of CrystalPlayer is a first version of Crystal Reality's playback technology which was later deployed to Yota and SPB Software as the kernel of mobile multimedia services (known as Crystal2 technology)
Crystal Reality planned to release 2.0 version of CrystalPlayer based on Crystal2 technology but for some reason 2.0 version wasn't deployed to the public.
CrystalPlayer Professional offers an ability to improve the quality of the videos using video filters, video postprocessing, multisampling and supersampling features.
CrystalPlayer can smoothly play video on slow machines (netbooks, etc.). It uses large buffer for decoded frames. This allows to avoid frame-skip and glitches in most cases.
Supported formats are including, but not limited to: DivX, XVID, MPEG1/2, MPEG4, WMV, Real etc.
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Features Summary
Features 1.98 Pro 1.98 Free Skins Yes Yes Speed troubleshooting modes Yes Yes Multilingual support Yes Yes Multicolor on-screen controls and seeking-bar Yes Yes Subtitles Yes Yes External audio track support Yes Yes Playlists with bookmarks Yes Yes Image capturing Yes Yes Runtime help messages Yes Yes Runtime statistics & suggestions Yes Yes Aspect and audio/text skew correction Yes Yes Graphical ten band equalizer Yes Yes Video postprocessing Yes No Zooming, scrolling & panorama Yes No Supersampling Yes No Motion interpolation
(referred to as "multisampling")Yes No Video filters Yes No Audio filters Yes No Automatic codec downloader Yes No Native Crystal MPEG1/2 format support Yes No Native Crystal AVI format support Yes No Crystal MPEG1/2 video decoder Yes No Crystal AC3 multichannel audio decoder Yes No Unicode-support No No License controversy
FFmpeg developers claim that CrystalPlayer is violating their copyrights by distributing binaries of software from the FFmpeg project without complying with the LGPL[1].
See also
External links
- CrystalPlayer Web Site
- Official CrystalPlayer forum
- Mobile TV
- Setting netbook for maximum performance for HDTV (using CrystalPlayer)
References
Categories:- Windows media players
- Windows-only software
- Multimedia software stubs
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