ALLPlayer
Encyclopedia
ALLPlayer is a Polish
freeware
media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching video
s with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player
to play media, but rather asks DirectX
directly. In support of its aim to read all possible formats, downloadable version contains basic codecs. Most popular formats such as DivX, XviD, MP3, and AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, RMVB, WMV, QuickTime, MOV, FLAC, APE, and many more less known formats can be played thanks to codecs downloaded by the program (only ALLPlayer needs to be installed). However, many codecs are not included with the free download, and the user must pay to get them.
developers claim that ALLPlayer is violating their copyrights by distributing binaries of software from the FFmpeg project without complying with the GPL. The issue remains unresolved.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
freeware
Freeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...
media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
s with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices...
to play media, but rather asks DirectX
DirectX
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with Direct, such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay,...
directly. In support of its aim to read all possible formats, downloadable version contains basic codecs. Most popular formats such as DivX, XviD, MP3, and AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, RMVB, WMV, QuickTime, MOV, FLAC, APE, and many more less known formats can be played thanks to codecs downloaded by the program (only ALLPlayer needs to be installed). However, many codecs are not included with the free download, and the user must pay to get them.
Features
- LiveUpdate - Detection of missing codecCodecA codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" or, more commonly, "coder-decoder"...
s needed to open a media file - Integration with a reader (a speech synthesizerSpeech synthesisSpeech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
) for subtitles reading - Intelligent subtitles, in which the time they are displayed is dependent on how fast users can read them
- Password protection of media
- Creating a menu
- Automatically downloading subtitles from the internet.
- Subtitles support in all known formats (hh:mm:ss, ASS - Advanced SubStation, SSA - SubStation Alpha, SubRip. SubViewer (1 & 2), MicroDVD, MPL2 , SRT, SMI etc.)
- Ability to display subtitles under the picture.
- The possibility of setting transparent or translucent subtitles
- Playback of RAR files
- DVD support
- CD support
- The option to preview images from webcams, DV or any other video source such as TV tuner
- Two monitors or monitor and TV support
- ALLCoverflow - attractive way of browsing the movie covers
- Autoplay of movies such as two or multi-part series
- Support for Dolby Surround, SPDIF and 3D audio
- PlayList - searching for all movies or music in a specified folder or drive and putting them into a playlist
- Equalizer
- Ability to choose any audio output, including SPDIF, allowing lossless digital transmission of sound to an amplifier
- Remote control ability
- Option to paste subtitles onto any video file creating only one file – a movie with subtitles
- OSD - On Screen Display
License controversy
FFmpegFFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia data. The most notable parts of FFmpeg are libavcodec, an audio/video codec library used by several other projects, libavformat, an audio/video container mux and demux library, and the ffmpeg command line...
developers claim that ALLPlayer is violating their copyrights by distributing binaries of software from the FFmpeg project without complying with the GPL. The issue remains unresolved.