Win8 media player compatibility test

Win8 brings a new experience mode, so that thousands of users deeply feel the charm of Windows upgrade, and the traditional features of Windows that Win8 inherits, including Windows software, themes, start menus, and more. So what is the compatibility of the software on the traditional Windows platform, how is it compatible with the new Win8? The ZOL software channel will launch a test article for the Windows 8 software compatibility series, hoping to distinguish it by testing the software compatibility one by one. There are some incompatibilities in the software.

Software to be tested software category software name media player class
TVAnts TV ant boiling point network TV Mplayer movie player video pioneer video star star swf player

Media player is in the computer A playback software used to play multimedia. Since Windows Media before Windows Me has always referred to Windows Media Player as a media player, the media player has become synonymous with Windows Media Player among old computer users. However, with the continuous development of the software industry, third-party media players have also grown, let's take a look at the compatibility of these third-party media players in Windows 8.

TVAnts TV Ant /Boiling Network TV

First of all, to test the Win8 compatibility performance of TVAnts TV Ant and Boiling Network TV two network players.

TVants is a brand new streaming media player. Her core technology is similar to the now popular P2P (PEER TO PEER), in which a playback node exchanges with several playback nodes at the same time (provided or requested) The data maximizes bandwidth usage for the smoothest playback.

Boiling Network TV is a free, high-speed Internet TV software created by the boiling point product team. It provides free NBA, movies, TV and games with the introduction, search and preview of the program. , animation, live sports and other programs; users can easily use this software to watch more than 400 new TV stations, TV series, movies and variety shows channels, a total of more than 1,000 wonderful programs.
TVants prompts users to update the version

During the test, when we select "Yes", the interface jumps to a web page, but we can't open the new interface to download the TVants update. Version, and the version is not working properly on Windows 8 systems.

































Software name compatibility TVAnts TV ant
Not compatible with boiling point network TV
Not compatible

After testing, we can see that TVAnts TV Ant, Boiling Network TV are not working properly in Windows 8 operating system Running in. One of the fuses is that both products encounter software updates, but in Windows 8 mode, the software itself cannot be updated, or it is impossible to jump to the updated page to download the update software.

Mplayer Movie Player/Video Pioneer

MPlayer is an open source multimedia player released under the GNU General Public License. This software can be used in all major operating systems, such as Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft's Windows system and Apple's Mac OS X system. MPlayer is built on a command line interface, and you can choose to install different graphical interfaces in each operating system.

Video Pioneer is a software that can play video and audio online. Supports a variety of streaming media protocols such as HTTP and MMS, and smoothly broadcasts a variety of audio and video formats such as WMV/asf/MP3/WMA/SWf. Online play MP3 supports 10-band equalizer adjustment. It adopts DirectShow and DirectSound playback technology, supports DirectShow video stream and DirectSound audio stream output, and has the advantages of low resource consumption, high operating efficiency and wide support format.
Mplayer is perfectly compatible with Windows 8
About Mplayer
Mplayer is perfect for playing video

In Windows 8, the overall reflection of MPlayer software is fast and sensitive. It can perfectly play video files in various formats.






























(But it does not affect the use of the software itself)
Video Pioneer Perfect Play Video

Test Player Software Name Compatibility Mplayer Movie Player
Compatible Video Pioneer
Compatible

Mplayer movie player, video and audio pioneer two products in Windows 8 compatibility performance is perfect, whether it is from the speed of the software itself, or in the playback of various formats of video, the playback effect is acceptable.

Video Star /Flash Player

Video Star is a pure green software universal video player that will not cause unnecessary plug-ins and advertising troubles when installing users. Hundreds of audio and video files and streaming media in the current mainstream formats are supported. In addition, the video star has also added a blocking function for the malicious advertising pop-up window in the movie, and the fans have a clear world.

The swf player we usually say is actually the Flash Player software developed by ADOBE. It is a high-end client runtime player that can be applied to various browsers, operating systems and mobile devices. .

The difference between the flash player plugin and the flash player: it is a web page ActiveX control, and the flash player is an exe executable program. The former is used to play flash animations in web pages, while the latter is used to play local swf format files.



































Star
Compatible Flash Player
Not Compatible

As you know, Flash Player and Flash Plugin are two different software applications. In Windows 8, there is no doubt that it is perfectly compatible with the Flash plug-in function, because it is easy to detect from the perfect performance of watching online video using IE10 in Win8; and the Flash player (such as SWF player) is The tests in Win8 are not well compatible with the Windows 8 operating system.