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DESCRIPTION
NicePlayer aims to be a multi-engine player designed for playing movies nicely for a person who likes to watch or present movies on their computer (such as the casual viewer or the video artist). This program features full screen or borderless floating windows, convenient controls for scrubbing or queuing movies, and on the fly playlist creation.

Features:

  • Zoomable full screen playback
  • Multiscreen support
  • Boarderless windows
  • Floating windows
  • Below Desktop windows
  • Heads Up Display controls
  • Playlist
  • Drag & drop
  • Fully AppleScript-able
  • DVD Playback
  • On the fly swappable plug-in engine support
  • Chapter Support
  • Transparent Playback
  • Apple Remote Support
  • Adjustable aspect ratio
  • Resolution Independence
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.96.2 (v581):
  • Fix for lack of folder expansion when dragging directly to the playlist
  • QuickLook support for mkv and divx file extensions
  • m4v file extension document association added.
  • NicePlayer Apple Remote code has been updated for Leopard
  • NicePlayer can now be set on every screen in Leopard Spaces
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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SCREENSHOT

Developer:James Tuley
Downloads:34,847
  - Version d/l:6,630
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Free
Date:22 Aug 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½
DEVELOPER POLL
Q: What do you (or would you) use NicePlayer for?
Watching DivX (or other) at home
Presenting a video project in class
Projecting video mixes in a night club
Displaying video art in a gallery
Other
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Oct 28 2009
****.

CORPSECORPS  Rather nice little player app, but development stalled?  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Oct 17 2009
*****

FIGHTINGCAT  I love this player. More i can't say about this app. Please support it for a good future.   
(Version 0.96.2)

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Oct 13 2009

SMIBBITY  This is still a better player than QuickTime. Can resize far smaller than quicktime is capable of, control layout is better, and the square edges feel more complete. I use QuickTime to convert things, course, but ALL video types get changed to open with NicePlayer for me.  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Oct 12 2008

FORAGING FERRET  A very nice media player when paired with Perian – much more stable than VLC, I've found. However, I would love to see a "get info" window/inspector giving detailed technical information about the file (a/v tracks, bit rate, fps, codec, etc).

With that little feature and improved playlists I would get rid of VLC altogether.

This is a very nice player!  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Sep 18 2008
*****

HIHAGEN  Very cool player for presenting multiple videos on multiple displays. Very smooth playback even with 4-5 videos. I am looking forward to follow the development on this. A full customizable keyboard short cut for multiple videos/playlist would have been nice. (eksemple; PLAY Video No. 1 with "1+P", STOP video No. 2 with "2+H" etc ... )  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Aug 27 2008
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MACNERD1984  Hangs on startup for me, requiring a force quit.   
(Version 0.96.2)

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Aug 27 2008

MACUPDATE ADMIN  This should have been posted as a comment and not as a review. It is not fair to give it a one-star rating if you can't even use it, and you should notify the developer of your problem.  
(Version 0.96.2)

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+2
Aug 27 2008

MACUPDATE ADMIN  By the way, I just now downloaded it, launched it, it works fine on my MBP C2D running OS X 10.4.1.1.  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Aug 22 2008

TESLANAUT  Holy crap, Quicklook for MKV? I just tried it. You guys are doin really well. Keep it up!  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Aug 22 2008
****.

NOTSHARP  excellent lightweight movie player. Not perfect, but what is...?  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Aug 20 2008

LEVIXX  Great Player, been using it for a while now.

But, when I have Niceplayer in full screen on my native monitor, while using another display for other endeavors, the controls do not pop up on the bottom on the screen. If I go to half screen on the native display, or even full on the secondary display, all is well.

The last version did not have this problem.  
(Version 0.96.1)

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Aug 22 2008

JBTULE  you should check and see if you are still having these problems with version 0.96.2, if you are please post this problem to the issue tracker (http://code.google.com/p/niceplayer/issues/list) where it can be track and I correspond with you with possible fixes in the preview builds we are now doing between general releases.  
(Version 0.96.2)

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Dec 12 2007

MAC ADAM  Could be Nice;

• Preserve Zoom when swith between FullSrceen and Window

• Desentrelace

• Script to resize interface not work on Leopard  
(Version 0.96.1)

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