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Chroma player - 2009.1

movie player with AVI subtitles & DVD support

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2009.1
Release Date:	2009-03-27
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	3,017
Downloads (all versions):	32,228
Price:	$22.00

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Product Description:

Chroma is a movie player for playing feature movies, no matter if it's DVDs, MPEG, QuickTime, DivX AVI's, XviD or Windows Media files.

It contains optimized codecs for MPEG4, DivX, XviD, 3ivx and MS-MPEG4. It plays QuickTime movies. It plays Windows Media WMV's with Flip4Mac's components. It does AVI subtitles. It plays DVDs. It has windowed, fullscreen and overlay presentations.

This is not a ported application or front end for some command line tool; Chroma is a from ground up a 100% native Mac OS X application that looks and feels like a Mac application should. It's built on the QuickTime media library with its excellent audio synchronisation and full support for all QuickTime movies and QuickTime codec plug-ins.

What's new in this version:

Opening multiple movies or dropping multiple movies on Chroma will pop up a small playlist window. Each movie will play in succession without user intervention.
Following many requests there is now a subtitle option to display two shorter subtitle lines instead of one long. The double subtitle option is selected in the Subtitle preferences.
Many improvements in making subtitles line-break for readability, especially for ideographic languages like Chinese.
External subtitles now support more of their standard markup tags, and several known but non-standard tags have been added.
The outline style has been changed and should be more readable, especially with thin fonts. Now both 'outline' and 'shadow' subtitle styles work on Mac OS X 10.2 too.
Now prevents screen dimming while watching movies on newer MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
Improved text encoding detection for muxed subtitles (subtitles in the movie file), and improved detection of ISO Latin2 and Thai text encodings.
Chroma now releases the AppleRemote when not active so other applications can use it.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.2

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Video player for mac users - Version: 2007.2, 9/2/2007 10:29AM PST

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sigalakos

After years of using VLC as my video player of choice I came upon Chroma Player. This is how a video player for the mac platform should look and act like. Used it for the full 15-day trial period and never had a crash. Much more stable than VLC but the best part is how it renders subtitles using the native resolution of the monitor instead of that of the video file (like VLC). The result is crisp text that doesn't strain yor eyes. Also try using the transparent background subtitle style (the animation of the text box is wonderful). I love Chroma and use it a lot so I wrote a Sofa Control script for that (it's in the new version of Sofa Control).
I hope the next versions will add playlist support. If you like me are anal about type (and if you're using a mac you should be) and view a lot of movies with subtitles then Chroma is the player for you.

Excellent - Version: 2007.2, 8/15/2007 10:02PM PST

zeny

I used VLC for almost 2 years for all my video files QuickTime couldn't play or play without sound . I just got frustrated with all the crashes and bad subtitile handling from VLC and I decided to do a search on versiontracker for any other AVI player . I came across Chroma Player . I tried all the files and DVD folders I knew as not working . I was amazed to see they all work seamlessly . Excellent audio synchronization , great subtitile handling.

flawless - Version: 2007.2, 7/15/2007 08:12AM PST

ultradeluxe

Chroma is by far the best video file player I've come across, and I've used them all. It automatically detected the subtitle file and now I can watch all of my foreign films without the crash of VLC (which seems to crash every time I use it anyway, subtitles or not!!).