MediaPlayer - Video and Audio Player is a versatile Chrome extension offering a seamless media playing experience. Built on the 'video.js' project, this player supports features like media boosting, playlist selection, speed control, HTTP-streaming (M3U8), fullwidth-progress bar, casting to remote devices, and wave surfer visuals for audio files. Users can play local and remote resources, including offline video files, with additional features, like video casting, screenshots, 2x volume-boosting, and media capturing. It also includes keyboard controls for various playback options.
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The "Media Player" is a browser extension to play music and video files either locally or from online sources. This project aims to bring a VLC-liked media playing experience using native HTML5 technology. The add-on is built on top of the well-known "video.js" project by applying a few custom plug-ins to enhance the user experience. This player supports media boosting, speed control, playlist media selection, fullwidth-progress bar, HTTP-streaming (M3U8), cast to a remote device, and wave surfer visual for audio files.
How to Use (local resources):
Open the interface and drop the media link to it
How to Use (remote resources):
Open a video page like https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp
Right-click on the player and select "Open in Media Player"
You can start watching an offline video file by dragging and dropping the video file into the player or pressing the big play button. To have the player load subtitle make sure to drop both video and subtitle files together (The dropped subtitle should have the same name as the file and needs to be in SRT or VTT format). Also, you can add a subtitle file later using the "+CC" button. This button appears when there is no subtitle found for the current track.
Extra Features:
Video casting: right-click on the player. If your browser supports this feature, you can transfer the media to a remote device.
Take a screenshot: Press the "screenshot" button on the player
2x volume-boosting: Like VLC, you can boost the audio by 200%. Use the boosting feature when the volume is not loud enough.
Media Capturing: The player can optionally detect media files in the current tab and transfer them to the media player
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Pros
Recognizes and plays all MP3 and MP4 files flawlessly
Works with Nvidia RTX HDR and SuperResolution for standard 1080p videos
Global shortcuts for easy navigation
Cons
Unable to create playlists
Missing some audio codecs
No support for video formats not supported by Chrome OS
Most mentioned
Doesn't play audio on .mkv files
Trouble playing 2160p videos
No save option for subtitles settings
Recent reviews
A nice lil' extension that recognizes and plays all MP3 and MP4 files flawlessly. Problems: No (apparent) way to create playlists (although one can batch-select files and it'll play 'em in order, looped or shuffled) or skip directly to the next track via swiping, kybrd shrtct or other standard means (although there is a tab showing all currently-loaded songs which users can navigate). Also: NO developer name or other info, no web presence whatsoever outside the Chrome Store. Highly sus' and for Windows users that new young malware punk PikaBot, a show-off with its robust backdoor and anti-detection skills, comes included. But hey, it's small, it works, it's free so wth.
To Stephen Lipira and other users who can't find this app that's because it's a browser extension. So, look to your browser extensions and viola: There it is. Depending on your OS it'll be immediately evident or you can make it accessible/visible by pinning it or whatevs.
Amazing extension that recognizes and plays all MP3 and MP4 files flawlessly. The only problems: No (apparent) way to create playlists (although one can batch-select files and it'll play 'em in order or shuffled) or skip directly to the next track via swiping or kybrd shrtcts (there is a tab that'll show all currently-loaded songs so one can navigate with ease. Also: NO developer name or other info, no web presence whatsoever outside the Chrome Store. Highly sus' and for Windows users that new young malware punk PikaBot, a show-off with its robust backdoor and anti-detection skills, comes included. But hey, it's small, it works, it's free so wth.
To Stephen Lipira and other users who can't find this app that's because it's a browser extension. So, look to your browser extensions and viola: There it is. Depending on your OS it'll be immediately evident or you can make it accessible/visible by pinning it or whatevs.
Amazing extension that recognizes and plays all MP3 and MP4 files flawlessly. The only problems: No (apparent) way to create playlists (although one can batch-select files and it'll play 'em in order or shuffled) or skip to the next track via the GUI, swiping or the listed kybrd shrtcts. Also: NO developer name or other info, no web presence whatsoever outside the Chrome Store: Highly sus' and for Windows users PikaBot comes included. But hey, it's small, it works, it's free so wth.
To Stephen Lipira and other users who can't find this app that's because it's a browser extension. So, look to your browser extensions and viola: There it is. Depending on your OS it'll be immediately evident or you can make it accessible/visible by pinning it or whatevs.
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