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Chroma player - 2007.2

movie player with AVI subtitles & DVD support

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All Time:	(3.9)
Version 2007.2:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	2007.2
Release Date:	2007-07-04
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 2007.2):	4,883
Downloads (all versions):	32,396
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:

Several new MPEG4 derived codecs
Subtitle font selection
Subtitle default text encoding
Subtitles with right-to-left text improved
VobSub and Vplayer subtitles
Multi-screen handling improved
Anamorphic movies
Audio codec search
Doubleclick enters fullscreen
CoreVideo mis-detected
More Altivec acceleration
Recognizes files ending in .part
.xvid movies
Tested against recent third-party components

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or later

Feedback Summary:

Version 2007.2:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(4.7)
Ease of Use:	(4.7)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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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!!).