Wanted testers/feedback for media player.

[Phyz]

I'm looking for around 10 testers for the final beta testing of a new media player.

For a while now I've been developing a media player specifically for use with HCPC's. I tried a number of others but none seemed to have all the features I needed. Its been in testing by a small number of people for some months now and seems quite stable, so now I'd like to get some feedback from a wider audience.

Most of the users above were using it on a monitor so I'd really like people who would use it with a TV. I use it with a TV but its a 4/3 SDTV so people with LCD, plasma's and even widescreen CRT's would be most welcome.

A list of features etc can be found here.

http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/YAPDocs/index.html

As a separate program I've also written a very simple frontend.
http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/YAPDocs/YAPFront.html

Downloads here
http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/download.php

The player download here is a 'trial' version so has some of the most useful functionality cut out.

If your interested in taking part post in this thread, please include a brief description of the hardware you would use the player on.

If you have any questions about any of the features also feel free to post them.

Thanks.

[Sirber]

Doc don't say which codecs it supports. Also, why would people pay for a media player when there are hundreds free?

[eb]

The player download here is a 'trial' version so has some of the most useful functionality cut out.
Could you tell us just for what to download castrated version?

eb

[Phyz]

Sirber: Doc don't say which codecs it supports. Also, why would people pay for a media player when there are hundreds free?

Its a directshow based player so supports all directshow codecs.

ICS (intelligent codec system) knows about Elecard, Sonic, Cyberlink, PowerDVD, AC3Filter, Intervideo, Nero, 3ivx, Vorbis, Xvid, VP, HDX4, all the standard MS filters and many others. With this knowledge it will decide which is the best use to playback.

Why pay for it? I believe that it has a number of unique features that many of the 'hundreds' of other players don't have. I've tried to use them in the past and none did everything that I wanted. In my opinion ICS alone is worth the small fee I ask for it, I have almost no problems playing back files now. I've installed serveral codec packs on my system. Its nearly impossible to get files to play in things like ZP and WMP and when they do play they certainly don't use the best codecs they could.

With a payment you also expect support so if you have a bug, problem, new feature request I then have an obligation to fix/implement it.

But its not tied to the MS video codec. It has its own overlay and directx 9 codec, ie you never need to use overlay filter or vmr9. It will however use vmr7 to enable hardware support for mpeg2 files. It defaults to using directx9 which gives vastly superior picture quality over the standard overlay.

eb: Could you tell us just for what to download castrated version?
It can be downloaded http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/download.php and is a 98.5K download, the full version is about 8K more. No installation is required, just put the file somewhere and run it.


Quickstart guide: http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/YAPDocs/quickstart.html
More detail guide: http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/YAPDocs/yaphowto.html

And has the following features removed. But still has plenty of others.
Intelligent Codec System (ICS)
DVD Playback
Title Skipping
Re-Matting

Full docs and features details: http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/YAPDocs/

Don't forget to have a look at YAPFront too, its a very simple frontend. Its basically like an explorer window but with large text so its easily visible on a TV. It has some sorting methods that could be useful to people with TV series.

Docs: http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/YAPDocs/YAPFront.html

Download as above and this one is 23K in size. And its free for all.

[eb]

@Phyz,

Thank you for explanations that encuraged me to test and I must to say that I like this player especialy all this informations displayed with very clear fonts.

Greetings

eb

[Phyz]

My pleasure.

If you have any other questions post them here or at the YAP forums.
http://www.yapsupport.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php

[eb]

About audio:
please add .mp2 extensions, after renaming to .mp3 no problem to drag them and to play.

eb

[Sirber]

Originally posted by Phyz
I've installed serveral codec packs on my system. Its nearly impossible to get files to play in things like ZP and WMP and when they do play they certainly don't use the best codecs they could.
That's why you don't use codec pack, and only install what you need :)

[Phyz]

@Sirber

The point being that if you have ICS then it doesn't matter what a mess you have made of your codecs. It will figure it out for you and not allow 'bad' codecs to load, assuming of course you have some good codecs installed. If you don't it'll take you to a webpage that will suggest better ones and where to get them.

@eb

I've added .mp2, I usually do new releases on a Friday. But in the meantime there is a checkbox on the general options page, right click->options->general tab, called 'Accept all file types' that will allow you to drop any file on YAP and it will try to play it.

If you PM me an email address I'll create you an account so you can try the full version if you want? Email address is for login id only, doesn't necessarily need to be a real email address.