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Elmedia Player
Elmedia Player 4.2.168
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Media player, PRO version available (was SWF & FLV Player).   Free ($19.95)
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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
What's New
Version 4.2.168:
  • Improved: YouTube videos downloading (due to recent optimization of YouTube links building mechanism)
  • Added: OS X 10.8 support
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later



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Elmedia Player User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 4.x:
(17)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(31)

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+48

Derekcurrie reviewed on 22 May 2012
Just about any other player is better. AND the developer coerces SPAM reviews of this app, as one can witness either here or at [the competitor site that shall not be named]. Shameful crapware that is unworthy of the Mac platform. It has been that bad for years.
[Version 4.2.168]


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+361

Penguirl reviewed on 22 May 2012
One of the worst apps I've ever installed on my Mac. Unintuitive, features that sound great but don't actually work, poor video quality…

Couldn't uninstall it fast enough.
[Version 4.2.168]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 22 May 2012
Hello, Penguirl. What features don't work?
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-1
GomPhiasis commented on 03 Apr 2012
Clumsy little program...not half as elegant as Jaksta, and that's not saying much. I'll give them one star though for not being as greedy as the producers of Jaksta.
[Version 4.2.153]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 15 May 2012
Sorry, but your comment doesn't have any constructive arguments.
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+1

Ian Groves reviewed on 10 Feb 2012
Causes instability, crashes and kernel panics on Mac OSX Lion; installer scatters files all over your system which the uninstaller then fails to remove.

Avoid.
[Version 4.2.153]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 13 Feb 2012
Hello! Thanks for your comment. If you are sure that Elmedia Player really caused the kernel panic on your Mac we will appreciate much if you send the crash logs at our support e-mail. Our developers will investigate this issue. Also please tell us the version of your OS.

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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+1

Dominikhoffmann reviewed on 08 Feb 2012
You need to buy the PRO version (lists for $19.99), which was just what fit the bill, when I wanted to have local copy of a video file embedded deeply in a web page and served as an RTMP stream. Other solutions I had, like Videobox, didn't even detect the video on that page.

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.
[Version 4.2.153]


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+1

Quick6 reviewed on 21 Dec 2011
Really awesome application and PRO works as advertised. But just recently it's stopped working for me on YouTube. Instead of one flv file being available containing the video, there are multiple ones that show up and they are all 2.27 MB in size. The longer the video plays the more flv files that become available. At times up to 20 flv files. The bad thing is if you download them they will not play. Just wondering what I can do to fix this. I'm giving this app a good rating because it is when it's working without the issue that I've described. Thanks
[Version 4.2.153]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 22 Dec 2011
Thanks for your kind words. Please send the URL you are downloading from at support [at] eltima [dot] com and we'll check what's wrong.
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Quick6 replied on 23 Dec 2011
First I would like to thank the Elmedia staff for helping me with my problem. Now it is fixed and I think I love this application even more. Thanks Guys!!!!!!
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Ahhamado F P reviewed on 30 Nov 2011
marketing words on the official website is very promising. I did not even realize that this software is actually a waste without the pro version. You can not even use it to download videos. remove it from the system now!
[Version 4.2.153]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 05 Dec 2011
At our official site we inform our users that only PRO Version downloads online videos to Mac.
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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-4
Meshuggahman replied on 11 Jan 2012
Is it such a shame that hard-working developers have to put up with people who cannot read posting low ratings. Such a shame...
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+39

Iscreen reviewed on 16 Oct 2011
Uninstall

"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.
[Version 4.2.153]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 19 Oct 2011
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.

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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+39
Iscreen replied on 19 Oct 2011
@ Eltima Software (developer)

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.
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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 20 Oct 2011
At the final stage of Elmedia Player uninstallation process the uninstaller launches the script with the following directives:

/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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Meshuggahman replied on 11 Jan 2012
So what is your response to the dev's last comment: "It means that if the uninstaller does its job successfully, the empdaemon process cannot be launched." I'm following this thread and your concerns but looks like it is HARDLY a concern now, yes??
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Iscreen replied on 11 Jan 2012
@ Meshuggahman

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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+1

cel24 reviewed on 02 Oct 2011
It downloads streaming videos perfectly!
[Version 4.2.153]


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+1

Padrini reviewed on 23 Aug 2011
This program have many problems. After i installed this crappy program give me troubles to open SWF files with any program. That's bad, I'm worried for my Mac.
[Version 4.2.153]

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Eltima Software (developer) replied on 02 Sep 2011
Hello! Why did you decide that Elmedia was the reason of your troubles with SWF files? Please send more detailed description of your issue at support at eltima dot com. We'll investigate this.
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Meshuggahman replied on 11 Jan 2012
Again, such a shame that hard-working developers have to put up with people who either cannot read, or in this case, clearly CANNOT speak a drop of English, and give low rating VERY LIKELY before any communication with the developer. I have seen time and time again Eltima Software replying to comments and offering to help. People are just bitchy...they would rather complain that ask for help
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Cascalheira had trouble on 18 Jul 2011
Last night i installed this on my MacbookPro4,1 with Mac os X Lion.
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.
[Version 4.2.141]


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Intellect Inside had trouble on 28 Feb 2007
Trash your SWF Movie Player preferences file before trying to use the new SWF&FLV Player. The old app's prefs file was causing the new app to crash on start every time.
[Version 3.0.33.5096]


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Otsego had trouble on 24 Aug 2006
Application unexpectedly quit a second or so after launch...
[Version 2.0]

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Eltima Support replied on 25 Aug 2006
I'm really sorry for this issue. I can confirm that we are working on fixing the problem and hope to release a fix-it build very-very soon.

+85

Gitteboy rated on 05 May 2012

[Version 4.2.153]



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THEE:LEE rated on 26 Mar 2012

[Version 4.2.153]



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Brentwin rated on 28 Feb 2012

[Version 4.2.153]



+1

Josh2000 rated on 13 Feb 2011

[Version 4.0.3.109]


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Version Downloads:509
Type:Multimedia & Design : Video
License:Free
Date:22 May 2012
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price: $19.95
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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.

The Basic version of Elmedia Player is free while the Pro version, which allows downloading of videos, is $19.95. For a full list of differences between the two versions see this page.
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