QuickPlay Consumer Preview - UPDATED: 26-2-2013

[QuickPlay]

QuickPlay Consumer Preview

I finally continued with the development of QuickPlay, I updated some important things and improved the overall performance. I disabled some incomplete functions to prevent any errors.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/quickplaybeta/files/QuickPlay%20Release%2026-2-2013.zip/download

Some screenshot (sorry, made them fast):

http://i.imgur.com/MotRlsW.png


http://i.imgur.com/hJvfVZu.png

http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickplaybeta/

[Brother John]

The screenshots look promising. I haven’t installed it yet due to the .Net 4.5 requirement. Is this really needed? That framework is not even final yet! And since .Net 4.5 replaces the current 4.0 I’m extremely reluctant to install it and possibly break other applications. Please consider requiring 4.0 instead if you don’t have an extremely compelling reason why you absolutely need 4.5.

I’m mainly interested in the Youtube functionality. What I really miss on Youtube (or with browser video in general) is the “remember movie position” function so I can close the player at any time and later start it again and automatically continue watching where I left off. Some kind of library/playlist functionality might be nice in the Youtube context, so that’s what I voted for. I don’t care at all for skinning or any social media integration.

What are your plans with the QuickPlay media format? Basically it’s Webm + FLAC, which is essentially MKV+VP8+FLAC/Vorbis. Nothing new or fancy here. And since “QuickPlay's new Engine plays almost everything” what’s the need to create yet another Matroska based format?

Since there’s no code yet in the Sourceforge project can you comment on the technical details? Did you go for VLC as the backend as you planned in the old thread?

[QuickPlay]

It needs 4.5 because older versions din't support async (makes it possible to use background tasks). Watch later for YouTube is a good idea, I'm already started with integrating YouTube. QuickPlay media format: VP8 + FLAC will be one of the encoder formats, its for very high quality video distribution. QuickPlay is already using libvlc and FFmpeg, currently distributed with version 2.0.1 and uses 2.0.2 internal testing.

[QuickPlay]

Since there’s no code yet in the Sourceforge project can you comment on the technical details? Did you go for VLC as the backend as you planned in the old thread?

Parts of the source will be distributed under open source.

[Keiyakusha]

Not sure if I understand correctly what it is and what it does. Is this a media player that is able to play files from harddrive? If so, what is QuickPlay media format? I mean I understand that it is something related to encoding and stuff, but how it is related to the player? Or this is something bigger like media center?
BTW: "VP8" and "very high quality" is pretty contradicting things.

[QuickPlay]

I know H.264 has higher quality, but also patents, lots and lots of patents. And VP8 doesn't has a limit already at 4K. QuickPlay is actually becoming some kind of QuickTime clone, playback, export. But with YouTube integration, and completely free.

[QuickPlay]

Next up in QuickPlay:

Important YouTube update
- Fixes poor YouTube playback on slow/mobile connections and outside the United States or Canada.
- Better integration with YouTube.
- Sharing videos on Facebook.

Redesigned User Interface
- Smoother experience.
- Choose UI colors.

Improved Playback Engine
- Deinterlace modes.
- Build-in encoder.

[Dark Eiri]

Can you release a light version that's only an offline player, for local files, without the social / youtube stuff? Your player is beautiful, but some people will probably never use those things :/

[QuickPlay]

Read update... above.

[spipouh]

thank's before this informations

[QuickPlay]

Updated details....

[Superb]

31.8MB? Bloated?

EDIT: Most is from using VLC as core...
Better use regular DirectShow.
Getting major tearing w/ this. Really bad video experience.

[QuickPlay]

31.8MB? Bloated?

EDIT: Most is from using VLC as core...
Better use regular DirectShow.
Getting major tearing w/ this. Really bad video experience.

I had some major problems with DirectShow, the VLC core needs more power... currently my CPU is powerful enough to play a 1080p video. I know this issue, but i'm unable to fix it. It works great with newer CPU's but almost everything before 2009 doesn't work.

Some CPU benchmarks:

My Medion notebook: Intel Core i3 M 370 @ 2.40GHz 2029

vs.

Intel Core2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66GHz 1732


Thanks for you bug report.

P.S. Windows 8 (+SP1) ???? maybe change that.... x64. E6750. 2GB Ram. GT430.