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DESCRIPTION
Movist... Movie Player for Mac OS X based on QuickTime & FFmpeg.
  • Supports QuickTime and FFmpeg
  • Customizable high quality caption
  • Supports smi, srt format captions
  • Playlist support
  • Media playback control
  • Full screen control panel
  • Simple user interface
  • Universal binary
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.6.6:
Release notes were unavailable at the time this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:cocoable, moosoy
Downloads:44,992
  - Version d/l:7,510
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Free
Date:07 Oct 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Nov 1 2009
*****

JEREMYAN  This is very promising. Good performance. Plays about everything. Simple interface. I really like it!  
(Version 0.6.6)

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Oct 7 2009

LANOUVELLECHAIR  I have a huge problem with apple remote. SL continue to ignore movist and open iTunes when i push the play button. Same problem with menu button opening front row.

Are you working on it ?  
(Version 0.6.6)

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Oct 7 2009

TESLANAUT  Holy CRAP this version (0.6.6) needs to fix that Memory problem. It devoured ALL MY RAM playing a 720p MP4 video. Definitely need to fix that problem.

Snow Leopard 10.6.1 Intel iMac  
(Version 0.6.6)

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+1
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Oct 7 2009

NYMPHE  Actually the memory leak should have been fixed... I couldn't test it throughfully but I had A/V sync problem at a movie...  
(Version 0.6.6)

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Oct 6 2009
*****

MAGENTIS  + Speedy seeking and skipping

+ Very pleasing to the eye (especially with the BlackMod)

+ Subtitles are recognized painlessly and are easily adjustable

+ Stable (memory leak seems fixed with 0.6.5)

+ Great codec support

+ Range repeat option

- Wonky with some vob files and does not recognize vobsubs yet

- No option to set a default width to stretch to

- Moderate CPU (The latest VLC uses more on average. Mplayer less)

- Video equalizer settings reset when quit

- Playback speed adjustment works only some of the time

- When repeating a movie that's been stretched it defaults back to the original resolution

Most of my negatives are minor (except the first). Movist has a great feel and I've come to prefer it over VLC and MplayerExtended.  
(Version 0.6.4)

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Oct 3 2009

NYMPHE  I am still waiting for a problem-free Snow Leopard version.   
(Version 0.6.4)

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Oct 5 2009

NYMPHE  http://cocoable.tistory.com/

and below the first post the download link for 0.6.5:

http://cocoable.tistory.com/attachment/cfile2.uf@127854264AC3163E5F35DF.zip  
(Version 0.6.4)

praisebury
+1

Sep 12 2009

BLABLABLA@DODGIT.COM  I was fearing they stopped developing.

But as I seen at the project-page, they did some work @ Sep 06:

dx/sub subtitle display fixed.

some memory leak fixed.

snow leopard compatible.

Still no download available, but it looks good. I hope they will make the source-code also snow-leopard compatible. Cheers!

BTW: Movist uses more CPU than every other player, but it's also very fast and responsive (which comes with a price).  
(Version 0.6.4)

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Sep 24 2009

NYMPHE  I don't understand why they don't release a point version like 0.6.5 to rescue us, Snow Leopard users, from the huge memory leak. If I want to watch a movie of more than 1 GB, I have to stop in the middle of the movie, quit Movist, and then re-open it.

Are there any nightly builds for Movist? Or can someone build it from the available code? Because I can't. :)

Just this review can show how good Movist is. I simply don't want to go back to VLC or MPlayer Extended.  
(Version 0.6.4)

praisebury
+3

Sep 11 2009
**...

DR. GIRLFRIEND  Movist is usually pretty damn awesome, but this update is bad news on Snow Leopard. There's a huuuge memory leak -- it gobbles up over 2GB of RAM playing a simple .avi file on my system. Stay far away if you're on Snow Leopard.

Use VLC until this issue gets fixed.  
(Version 0.6.4)

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Aug 29 2009

WILLYA  Movist seems to have a pretty bad memory leak in Snow Leopard. In the course of watching a movie the memory usage goes up to over 800mb!  
(Version 0.6.4)

praisebury
+5
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Aug 30 2009

NYMPHE  Unfortunately it is quite bad. If you pause the movie, you'll see everything lags at the system. I am sure it is easy to fix, and hopefully they update it soon, because Movist is really very good movie player.

In the project site, you can enter this problem at the "issues" page.

http://code.google.com/p/movist/issues/detail?id=74  
(Version 0.6.4)

praisebury
+3

Aug 7 2009
*****

FORMICA  Without question the best movie player available. and FREE! Try it and see.  
(Version 0.6.4)

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Jul 22 2009

BLABLABLA@DODGIT.COM  Excellent - while fullscreen, it shows the subtitle in the black region, not in the movie. Very nice. Never seen that before. BTW Press CMD-UP or CMD-DOWN to change the subtitle-size.   
(Version 0.6.4)

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