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Elmedia Player is a Flash and media player for Mac OS X. It will play media on Mac for absolutely free! This convenient player supports playback of FLV, SWF, XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (Real), AVI, MOV, MP4, and many other formats. Elmedia Player features built-in web browser, so you can browse through websites and watch movies without leaving the application. It provides you with convenient instruments for media files management: media library inspired by iTunes, usual and smart playlists creation.
Elmedia Player is also available in PRO version. It boasts with a list of
Elmedia Player is also available in PRO version. It boasts with a list of
What's New
Version 4.2.153:
- Improvements for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, including videos download and sound adjustment
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Elmedia Player User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:82,684 |
| Version Downloads:7,690 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:12 Aug 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Elmedia Player is a Flash and media player for Mac OS X. It will play media on Mac for absolutely free! This convenient player supports playback of FLV, SWF, XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (Real), AVI, MOV, MP4, and many other formats. Elmedia Player features built-in web browser, so you can browse through websites and watch movies without leaving the application. It provides you with convenient instruments for media files management: media library inspired by iTunes, usual and smart playlists creation.
Elmedia Player is also available in PRO version. It boasts with a list of additional features, such as downloading online videos and movies of various formats from Internet, including streaming videos broadcasted over RTMP and videos embedded via HTML5; watching videos in full-screen mode; keeping player window always on top of all applications; making screenshots of your favorite movie moments.
What really makes Elmedia Player a standout and unique tool, is that when downloading from a website, you will also be able to download external resources of the initial file, such as other videos, main videos loaded by Flash frame on the website, images, etc. Additionally Elmedia Player will keep the original structure of the videos and other resources, which is rather significant for correct playback of some media files.
Elmedia Player is also available in PRO version. It boasts with a list of additional features, such as downloading online videos and movies of various formats from Internet, including streaming videos broadcasted over RTMP and videos embedded via HTML5; watching videos in full-screen mode; keeping player window always on top of all applications; making screenshots of your favorite movie moments.
What really makes Elmedia Player a standout and unique tool, is that when downloading from a website, you will also be able to download external resources of the initial file, such as other videos, main videos loaded by Flash frame on the website, images, etc. Additionally Elmedia Player will keep the original structure of the videos and other resources, which is rather significant for correct playback of some media files.
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Ian Groves reviewed on 10 Feb 2012
Avoid.
If you decided that the kernel panic was caused by the kernel extension which was installed by the player we want to assure you that it's not so.
ElmediaPlayer is not only a video player, but also an online video downloader. For better links catching from the web some additional components like ElmediaPlayer.kext file should be installed.
So installing these components is the normal thing for the app with such functionality and it does not mean that they are definitely the reason of the kernel panics. Only in rare cases the kernel panic can take place because of the driver installed and there can be lots of reasons for this.
Regarding Elmedia Player uninstaller we can say the following. We've made it on purpose so that definite files were still present in the system even after the full uninstallation of Elmedia Player.
This was done to save all your settings (media library, license info, codecs installed, etc.) in case you want to install Elmedia Player once again in future.
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Dominikhoffmann reviewed on 08 Feb 2012
For me, I was still willing to part with what it cost to download the PRO version, but it was somewhat painful, given the anticipated rate of use. I am hoping that this software will have a long life. You can apply Coupon Code ELMEDIA-TWITTER-15 to your order, to knock off 15%, at least.
Silark reviewed on 25 Jan 2012
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Karina_K reviewed on 16 Jan 2012
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kimmy_white reviewed on 13 Jan 2012
Quick6 reviewed on 21 Dec 2011
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alexisklaus reviewed on 14 Dec 2011
Ahhamado F P reviewed on 30 Nov 2011
You can also find the comparison chart which lists all the features available in FREE and PRO versions. So what makes you think that we misinform everybody?
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Iscreen reviewed on 16 Oct 2011
"Their official Elmedia Player Uninstaller is located at h**p://www.eltima.com/download/elmedia_player_uninstaller.zip
This uninstaller does what you would think, however it is designed like a regular "installer".
Don't be put off, it does remove the files, its just the developers are a little different in how they wrote the text for this app.
Despite it uninstalling the Elmedia Player application it still leaves behind several folders and files (some empty) that you might want to purge from your system.
They are:
/Library/Application Support/ElmediaPlayer/ /private/var/db/receipts/com.eltima.elmediaPlayerUninstaller.ElmediaPlayerUninstallerSource.pkg.bom /private/var/db/receipts/com.eltima.elmediaPlayerUninstaller.ElmediaPlayerUninstallerSource.pkg.plist /Users//Library/Application Support/Eltima Software/Elmedia Player /Users//Library/Application Support/Eltima Software/Elmedia Player/EMPHistory.xml /Users//Library/Application Support/Eltima Software/Elmedia Player/EMPLibrary.xml /Users//Library/Application Support/Growl/Tickets/Elmedia Player.growlTicket /Users//Library/Preferences/com.Eltima.ElmediaPlayer.plist
I do hope this helps anyone. Cheers"
Thanks to Richard Muscat @ macinside :
h**p://www.macinside.info/process.php?id=2467
This allows the Mac to have a clean "uninstall" and get rid of the empdaemon process.
This was done to save all your settings (media library, license info, codecs installed, etc.) in case you want to install Elmedia Player once again in future.
This is an absolutely normal practice for apps of such kind, so I don't understand why you consider this to be the reason for setting low rating.
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Maybe you can google "empdaemon process"?
h**p://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=empdaemon+process&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Not to uninstall such a file allows it to continue to hog CPU resources, after the app has been trashed.
BTW the low rating is for the Uninstaller which can be not the best part of your app.
Sorry.
/bin/launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon.plist (unloads the empdaemon using standard tools of Mac OS X via plist)
sudo /bin/rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.eltima.ElmediaPlayer.daemon.plist (the plist, which manages the process, is removed)
sudo /bin/rm -f /Library/Application Support/ElmediaPlayer/empdaemon (the empdaemon file is removed)
It means that if the uninstaller does its job successfully, the empdaemon process cannot be launched.
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On one hand the uninstaller hasn't done his job successfully at the time of my post. On the other hand, as often with those kind of problems, it can happen to one peculiar Mac one time.
Can't say more. Sorry. The good thing is to see that the developer has taken the time to answer. Despite this, I have not tried to reinstall this app until now.
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cel24 reviewed on 02 Oct 2011
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After a restart my computer wasn't booting and stopped at the initial Apple logo. I didn't relate that to ElMedia player at first, but then i booted in verbose mode and my system stopped just after loading the elmedia extension.
I had to boot in single user mode and remove the extension so my system would work again.
If you are a developer using Lion, for now seems that is a good idea to keep away from this software.
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Donny-Jonny rated on 31 Jan 2012
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Josh2000 rated on 13 Feb 2011