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VLC media player

VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. Its popularity has been aided by compatibility and codec issues which render competitor media players like QuickTime, itunes and RealPlayer useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options mean few free media players can match VLC. Flexibility VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats. For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish. Easy to Use VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player. Advanced Options Don’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. Summary VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org.

Transmission

Transmission is a simple BitTorrent client for MacOS X, giving users everything they need to download torrents fast. While Transmission doesn't boast complex advanced features, it functions perfectly well as a compact and highly usable client with virtually no learning curve. On install, Transmission will function on most Macs without any system tweaking, making it ideal for the novice user. Its developers boast that it has an extremely low memory footprint, so most OS X users should be able to let it run in the background without worrying about system performance. Transmission is also available as a Linux application. It's actually bundled with Ubuntu, although it's available for most Unix distributions. Other benefits include: Scores of third party apps and add-ons to make Transmission even more useful, including Android remote controls, browser extensions and IM plugins. Ad-free interface and open source philosophy, allowing the software to be truly free. Neat dovetailing with the OS X interface, including support for GNOME. Support for magnet links, encryption and UPnP. Best of all, Transmission can be controlled remotely from anywhere using just a web browser.

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Vuze for Mac

Earlier known as Azureus, Vuze is a BitTorrent client that has everything that you might need. You would be able to locate and then download your favorite video content with the torrent files by using this application. As compared with other BitTorrent clients available for the Mac users, Vuze has an interface that is quite similar to iTunes. This makes the interface quite fresh, clean and refreshingly rich as well. They have paid a lot of attention on finding videos as well as uploading them which makes Vuze a great choice for the people who remain annoyed with the torrent finding capabilities of their respective clients. The users, however, might be disappointed by the huge number of podcasts, trailers and several promos that appear on the Vuze HD Network. Still, the search is fairly easy and a lot of content is protected by copyrights. The downloads are fast too. There is a Devices feature that helps you use your video in iTunes. It is a very beginner friendly Torrent client that provides a simple and very easy introduction to how torrents usually work. You get the capability of remotely checking your downloads and how they work. The management of the download queue is easy and it allows subscriptions to the users. The media player is certainly the one with a very high definition. It comes with a video transcoder, therefore, any of your videos can be easily converted into a format that is compatible with the PS3, Xbox, iPhone or your iPad. As it is an open source project, the development is continuous and you get a lot of support from the community. The stats about the downloads are fairly comprehensive. It is a good application that has a lot to offer so new users can give it a shot.

Zipeg for Mac

Zipeg for Mac is a file compression tool, which offers the convenience of previewing an entire file before extracting it. It supports popular archiving formats such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, TGZ, BZIP2, ISO, CBR, CBZ and many others. With Zipeg for Mac you can open a compressed file, sort file-names in alphabetical order, view its content and extract the content from it. It also supports auto-detect filename encoding and you can preview images, not just various documents. Zipeg for Mac supports content extraction from password protected archives that are encrypted, such as ZIP and RAR files including those that contains multiple parts. There is an Options button that allows you to select the file you would like the application to open by default, and also where you would like the destination file to be placed. Zipeg for Mac is a great tool for previewing compressed files. For its functionality it really is quite lightweight and uses hardly any system resources. It has a clean interface that can be navigated by users of all levels of experience as there is virtually zero learning curve; simply install and use. The only downside is that Zipeg for Mac is unable to create archives, but then again, it doesn't claim to. Note, Zipeg requires Jave to operate.

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