[Review]Elmedia Player for Mac OS X
Elmedia Player is a versatile software tool for Mac that supports a wide range of media formats, including FLV, MP4, AVI, MOV, DAT, MKV, MP3. It can playback pretty much any media file without additional codecs and plugins. Apart from basic playback, the app offers you other advantages – a built-in web browser so you can view online videos directly in the app, Open URL option that enables you to watch videos without intrusive ads, pop ups, links, etc.
There are two editions of Elmedia Player – free and PRO. The UI and navigation are absolutely identical, it’s just the additional features offered by PRO are disabled in the free edition – you’ll see a lock icon next to them.
Elmedia Player also offers various ways to enhance your viewing experience – 10-band equalizer to take control of audio tone, video tuner to adjust brightness, sharpness and other such parameters, aspect ratio change to fit image into screen. You can also adjust playback speed and play a part of video in loop – all you need to do is to specify the beginning and end of the loop.Actions such as pause, flip and rotate video are displayed on-screen.
Additional Features of Using Elmedia Pro
Additional functionality offered by PRO pack of Elmedia enables downloading videos, including RTMP streams and HTML5 videos, from YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook and other such web-sites. It also gives you control over audio playback via settings and allows converting projector EXE files into SWF format. You can make screenshots of a video or even a whole series of screenshots at intervals set by you – from 0.1 to 10 seconds.
Summary
The good thing about Elmedia Player is that it supports a lot of formats – commonly used as well as more exotic ones, it is easy-to-use and provides one with all necessary controls over video playback. PRO pack is certainly worth checking out. To download Elmedia Player visit official Eltima website.
