User:Orejwan/UMPlayer media player

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UMPlayer
Developer(s)UMPlayer
Initial releaseSeptember 11, 2010 (2010-09-11)
Stable release
0.95 / May 23, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-05-23)[1]
Written inC++ / Qt 4.x
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inMultilingual
TypeMedia player
LicenseGNU General Public License v2 or later
Websitewww.umplayer.com

UMPlayer (Universal Media Player) (or UMP in abbreviation) is a free, Cross-platform, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU, and Linux.[2] and open source media player front-end for MPlayer and is a fork of the open source SMPlayer project.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 or later, UMPlayer is free software.[3]

The default distribution of UMPlayer includes the MPlayer binary and a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of MPlayer's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project.

Key strengths inherited from libavcodec include wide ranging ability to play media files, including .flv - without needing to obtain an external codec, and the ability to play some broken media files. Both of those features are present in other projects using libavcodec like VLC, but are absent from some other media software, including Windows Media Player. Other key strengths that are unique to UMPlayer front-end include the ability to play YouTube and SHOUTcast streams directly from the player and a very attractive Graphical User Interface.

Over a short period of time since it's initial release UMPlayer has become the one of the most popular media player for the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) platform [4].

Features[edit]

  • Over 270 built-in audio and video codecs
  • Ability to search, play and record YouTube videos directly from the player
  • Ability to search and play SHOUTcast Radio Stations directly from the player
  • Ability to search subtitles of playing media
  • User friendly skinnable user interface
  • Remembers settings and time position of each file it plays
  • Configurable subtitles
  • Advanced Audio and video filters
  • Localized in more than 20 languages

Supported Audio / Video formats[edit]

UMP supports all audio and video formats and all file formats supported by libavcodec and libavformat. This means that UMP can play back H.264 or MPEG-4 video as well as support FLV or MXF file formats "out of the box" using FFmpeg's libraries. UMP can also play the video content of some damaged, incomplete or unfinished videos. (For example, files still downloading via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks).

The latest version of UMPlayer includes over 270 built-in codecs, among the most popular file formats included are:

Video formats
WMV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 Part 2, MS MPEG4 V1/2/3, DIVX, H.263(+), H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC), FLV1, XVID, RealMedia, MOV and many more.
Audio formats
WAV, MP3, AAC, Vorbis, OGG and many more.[5]


Subtitles[edit]

The latest version of UMPlayer supports the following subtitle formats -

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "UMPlayer Project Files".
  2. ^ "UMPlayer". Ori Rejwan. Retrieved 2011-05-23. {{cite web}}: Text "Universal Media Player" ignored (help)
  3. ^ "UMPlayer". Sourceforge. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  4. ^ "Video Players - Download.com".
  5. ^ "Status of codecs support".

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