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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

MAC ADAM  please let hide top windows when in fullscreen we acced to menu bar  
(Version 0.96.1)

PINCHIES  This player is fantastic and has a great UI. It has a intuitive interface and many nifty features such as "Scroll-to-zoom". I use a old 733mhz quicksilver, and it allows me to watch videos that usually stutter in quicktime. I am like many above, hoping for continued updates! (Please keep 10.4 support :-P)  
(Version 0.96.1)

CASSIOTONES  Very good app. Loved it.

I just noticed a bug, window always on top no matter how many times I turn this function off.  
(Version 0.96.1)

LANOUVELLECHAIR  I love this player. He is my favorite. I hope the support of the remote will be back soon.

Works perfect with perian.

Thanks  
(Version 0.96)

MAC ADAM  Really Nice,

• Could be better by fix top windows in fullscreen appear when we need acces menu bar.

• Will Nice to Crop Size for FullScreen

• Sub-Title Support will fine too

Nice Work and Player !  
(Version 0.96)

NYC][  This is my perfect player for casual movie watching, especially for watching in a small window while doing other work.

Top features:

- Scrollwheel/trackpad controlled window resizing. (wonderful when paired with a scrolling trackpad capable macbook)

- Scrollwheel/trackpad controlled volume.

- Apple remote support. (great for home viewing as well as presentation use)

- Customizable back/forward jump times. (Excellent for both skipping forward quickly to a specific spot, and backing up just a bit to catch something you might have missed)

- DVD player

Not as full featured as VLC, but what is does offer has been well-implemented. Comes with a changelog readme, links for recommended codecs.

Stable so far - MacBook 2.16/intel/10.4.9.  
(Version 0.95)

OCHYMING  Wow.

NicePlayer really.

Why can´t Apple makes QT play .flv files?

Frontrow plays them, even the finder - Command+3 (visualization).

I use it to watch tutorials, to open any folder w/ movies.

Lovely.  
(Version 0.95)

JBTULE  If you have a bug, issue, or feature request, added it to our support site http://charon.laya.com/niceplayer/trac.cgi/newticket, so we can make sure we get the information we need to get it fixed in the next release.

-Jay  
(Version 0.95)

NYMPHE  Great program, but the subtitle support must be better. The accented characters are very important for other languages. There should be an encoding import setting.

Apart from this, I am amazed. looks really nice.  
(Version 0.95)

LANOUVELLECHAIR  Great app but i have a problem with accentuated characters in subtitles. I'm french so that's important to me.

Thanx  
(Version 0.95)

LEMMING  It's great to see an update to NicePlayer. I love this app. Unfortunately, it still can't play second audio on DivX files (via CoreVideo) even though that feature was supposed added to version 0.95.  
(Version 0.95)

FILIPP  Brilliant program. Many thanks!

Too bad the iTMS videos will not play back with it. After wrapping the mp4 file in a MOV, you'll only get a "Computer not authorized..." message when trying to play with NicePlayer.  
(Version 0.94.1)

FOLLEREC  NicePlayer, together with Perian and Flip4Mac completes my video playing requirements. Although a lot more to install, it currently beats both MPlayer and VLC (on Intel) by a wide margin.  
(Version 0.94.1)

JBTULE  The crashing bug in 0.94 has a work around of moving the DVD plugin to the bottom of the plugin order list in the prerefences. We will release a fixed version of niceplayer tonight.  
(Version 0.94)

MIKURO  Not a bad player. I use it on the rare occasions I need to play QuickTime movies with a playlist.

Some of the features I just don't appreciate, though, like the lack of real title bars and controls. I understand that they want to keep the interface minimal, but I think the cost is too great. I like to be able to see the controls of the movie (including the progress slider, elapsed time, play/pause controls, etc.) while I watch the movie in windowed mode. As far as I can tell, there's no way to do this with NicePlayer, because it places these things ON TOP of the movie (only while the mouse is hovering over that area).

One feature that I like in NicePlayer is the ability to select output modes. QuickTime Player won't let you choose when it tries to use Core Video for output, and the result is terrible performance when using certain codecs on certain machines (3ivx in particular). Using QuickTime Player, the only way around this is to disable Quartz Extreme (using Quartz Debug) before opening your movie, and then turning it back on. That's a bit of a hassle.

So while NicePlayer is not without its advantages, I still use QuickTime Player most of the time, because of its interface and features. Of course, if you don't have QuickTime Pro, then QuickTime Player is virtually useless (no full screen mode? What the..?!), so give NicePlayer a few more points in that case.

If you need playlist support for QT-only content, NicePlayer is...well, nice! But most of the time, I'd rather use VLC or MPlayer when I need playlist support, and QuickTime Player when I need to play something only QuickTime can handle, so NicePlayer's niche is small.  
(Version 0.94)

ZC456  This looks like a very nice program.

Only program is that it won't stop crashing when I try to start a movie.  
(Version 0.94)

IHEIJOUSHIN  Keep up the good work! I look forward to future versions of this program especially if they further refine the interface, performance, and codec support! Great stuff!  
(Version 0.93)

FANGROCK  This is excellent - at the moment (for me at least) it is the ONLY way to watch commercial DVDs with an external firewire drive - for that I am very grateful.  
(Version 0.93)

WILL L  Zoom Does Not Work.

Up until a certain size, it zooms On Center, then it seems to stop at some kind of hard margin at the left.

-It then zooms with the left edge stationary and the image migrates left to right as you zoom.

-Not like zooming with a consumer electronics dvd player which zooms on center.

Also, It was impossible to RePosition the video. Upon Dragging, the 'Frame' of the window Crops out the view, but the playback itself is stationary & cannot freely be positioned around at fullscreen, zooming in to fill a widescreen dvd to a 4:3 computer monitor.

V0.92  
(Version 0.92)

MACUSER25  I love this application, been using it from the start, however when I upgraded to Tiger, NicePlayer seem very choppy....I hope they can fix that maybe in the next update. Other than that, great application!!  
(Version 0.92)

ANONYMOUS  Very nice and simple program to use. I really like the boarderless view.   
(Version 0.91)

ANONYMOUS  Half size (Apple + 0 ) doesn't work.

It's quite a nice player, personally I prefer a border round movies, it helps give them a seperate context to whatever else is happening on your desktop.

I find the icons a little bit too minimal and cold for my tastes.  
(Version 0.91)

MATTKINABREW  I agree with the previous reviewer that this is the interface Apple should have included with Quicktime.

I've been using this for a long time, since (I believe) 0.6.

The interface is incredibly simple to use, with nothing to distract from the video. It is by far my most preferred video application, and I hope the author continues development.

The only request I would have would be to put "Show Playlist" under the "Window" menu instead of under "File", and maybe have an option to have the playlist drawer disappear when the program isn't the active application.

Great program.  
(Version 0.91)

TONY  From a design perspective this is very well crafted. The interface is exceptional and highly functional. (Even the logo is nice) This is the UI that Apple should have designed for Quicktime.

Currently i'm using VLC as it supports more file types. If the developer could improve on this with NicePlayer then it would become an indispensible app.  
(Version 0.91)

ANONYMOUS  Good program. Nice useability. And the developper is hot too.  
(Version 0.91)

ANONYMOUS  Volume control, it sorely needs volume control.

Image correction (brightness, contrast) and basic EQ (bass, treble) would be cool additions.

But it sorely needs volume control.

Other than that, very cool.  
(Version 0.91)

MACSTERDAM  Holy, moly, this is absolutely brilliant. A much nice way to watch movies. Stunning interface too. Thank you!  
(Version 0.90)

ANONYMOUS  Perfect!  
(Version 0.90)

DAVIS1  Why do I need a player that plays Quicktime movies when there already is a Quicktime player called...Quicktime. Or am I missing something?  
(Version 0.90)

SERGE   It is, really, a nice player !  
(Version 0.90)

ANONYMOUS  really classy looking player, nice!  
(Version 0.88)

MACUSER24  Great app. The only problem is that the prefrences DON"T save. Not at all! Must be a bug somewhere. Hopefully that can be fixed in the next version of NicePlayer. Again, other than that...great app.!!  
(Version 0.88)

MACUSER24  NicePlayer does what it says, which is plays QT movies very nicely...I have no problems with it what so ever. Its a small and very easy to use app. Plus its FREE!! Why complain? Hmm? To the maker(s) of NicePlayer: Keep up the good work!!  
(Version 0.88)

ANONYMOUS  Did I word the poll wrong? Or is there some really common "other" usage?

If you choose "other" in the poll post a comment or email me what that "other" is thanks!!  
(Version 0.88)

TS  I like having the controls inside the window when playing movies in fullscreen mode, but it isn't very nice when not playing fullscreen.

The only thing that disturbs me is that the playing window is always in front.  
(Version 0.86)

STEP  a very good looking, full screen capable and free, quicktime movie player, with a gui that only appears when you need it, well worth a download  
(Version 0.86)

ANONYMOUS  After several months of trying to be happy with this app I have stopped using it.

* The player can't handle scrubbing, and jams all the time

* I hate having to push its window to the background all the time: it forces its way to the front.

• Its internal volume control is set at 50%, rather than 100% as the Apple player is, making me work with two sets of volume controls: the Mac's and this one.  
(Version 0.85)

ANONYMOUS  (rev 2 dual 2.0GHz G5, 10.3.5 with all updates)

If I could change the volume graphically, as well as maintaining the "apple up" "apple down" functionality, and if the volume icon didn't stick in the middle of the window, this would be a 5-star application. It's great right now, and I like not having borders, but I would like to be able to change the volume and have Niceplayer remember the setting, at least as long as the movie is open.

Otherwise, this application is awesome. Thanks and please continue development.  
(Version 0.85)

ANONYMOUS  Amazing! I've been looking for something like this for a while. no borders = more attention to the movie. nice job!

Sincerely,

a film student  
(Version 0.84)

JOSHUA  Works great! This is a wonderful tool for viewing videos without any hassle.

Good work, thanks!  
(Version 0.81)

153957  works good, looks great....

features a a bit limited, but a great piece of software  
(Version 0.81)