I already love SimplePlayer, but I've only used it to play a few vids that don't play well in the other major players I have aboard, like QT 7 & X, MPlayerX, MPlayer OSX Extended, Movist, NicePlayer, and of course the Video Swiss Army Knife known as VLC (please let me know if there are other good ones I didn’t mention here).

Since, AFIK, there aren’t many videos around that can’t be played by at least one of the players mentioned above, and AFIK SimplePlayer cannot permanently convert or export vids into any of the different containers it remuxes to, I'm wondering if there is some other primary, secondary, or even tertiary purpose(s) for it that I haven’t thought of. How are the rest of you using it, and why is SimplePlayer better for that use than other players?

Come to think of it, since SimplePlayer can so effortlessly remux video on the fly to a different container format for any single viewing instance, why are there so very few Mac apps available that can just as easily remux videos permanently? I must be missing something crucial in my analysis, because I’m stymied. If you are even slightly less clueless about this than I, please help me understand.

Returning now to less philosophical concerns, how can we tell that SP is remuxing a video we’re watching into a different container format (i.e., remuxing), and how do we learn what that new format is? Though it’s possible that I’m just a bigger tard than I think I am (as is often the case with tards), that one-line description just above the timeline never changes, no matter if it’s set to play using QTX by default, to ‘Fallback’ from QTX to QT7, or to fallback to remuxing. In other words, bupkis.

Anyway, SimplePlayer started out as probably the coolest project of the year by one of the smartest minds in the game, and it continues as such with this new version. Any further guidance on the issues above wi’andat all will be much appreciated (especially from you, Mr. Developer!).

Needs a better screenshot, can't tell which part of the interface belongs to the player and which part doesn't.

I like it! When this puppy gets the kinks worked out it'll be a must-have app! You can count on this developer's products — like x264Encoder — he's one of the smartest dudes on the planet!

Waiting for subsequent versions before I rate it.

It does exactly what it's name describes. It's a player, it's simple and it works well. I love applications that do one thing and that one thing very well.