Shooter Media Player - competition for VLC ?

[lbaty]

Found an interesting review of SPlayer on gHacks ...
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/11/24/splaye ... ia-player/

Have no PC of my own right now and in an internet cafe so can't test this app for usefulness or portability.

I plan to keep a keen eye on this as it sounds very promising.
Smaller, faster, low mem footprint and open source.

Would be curious to hear feedback from other TPFC members.
Particularly anyone that can check for portability.

[ashghost]

It's not really portable.

It saves settings to the registry and it writes a file or two in %APPDATA%. The 7zip "portable" package includes a .bat file (named with Chinese characters) that deletes the settings from the registry, but without saving those settings anywhere.

I wasn't that hopeful after looking at their "comparison chart". They've ignored the best media players (VLC, MPlayer, and MPC), and they just made subjective statements about how the apps compare, rather than reporting objective, measurable differences. It's obvious that they're not confident enough about the quality of the program to publish a serious comparison.

That said, I do like the interface - the semi-transparent menu bars that appear when you hover the mouse over the window make sense. I didn't play with it much after seeing it wasn't portable.

If you try it out outside of Sandboxie, it asks you in Chinese to set it as the default player on first startup - choose the middle button. To get it to display in English, right-click and hover over the menu items until you see the "Language" entry.

[-.-]

its not bad, but i prefer kmplayer over it.

for some reason the settings on splayer wont save so I have to redo it each time i launch it. but jauntepe takes care of the reg problem, just wont save settings lol

[the_watcher]

i've tried the new version (3.5). it doesn't write to the registry if you uncheck the file associations, it only creates a folder called 'Splayer' in %APPDATA%.
i guess i can make a .bat which will move this folder to SPlayer dir and back when the app opens / closes (if anyone's interested)

(at least that's how i can do it..if you have something else in mind plz share it..)

[Lupo73]

We could consider to contact its authors to improve an official release of it.. it could be a good portable solution..

[the_watcher]

given that everything (except the front page) is in Chinese i don't know if it's possible to contact the authors..i thought of contacting them too but i couldn't find any e-mail address..

[joby_toss]

given that everything (except the front page) is in Chinese i don't know if it's possible to contact the authors..i thought of contacting them too but i couldn't find any e-mail address..

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[Lupo73]

I have contacted the author and asked to improve the software to a fully portable version. He answered me, now I'm waiting an second answer (to store also history and other files in software folder instead of the system one).

[I am Baas]

@Lupo73

Any news on this?

[tproli]

Just gave it a try and I like it! More handier for me than KMPlayer or PotPlayer. I guess I'll portablize it for my own pleasure

[I am Baas]

I have contacted the author and asked to improve the software to a fully portable version. He answered me, now I'm waiting an second answer (to store also history and other files in software folder instead of the system one).

Any news yet?

[Lupo73]

Nothing..you could consider to recontact him..but someone know what video core use to be so small?

[Magibon]

i just tried the Portable version from the main site.

Someone mentioned a .bat file that supposedly cleans up after itself, but that's not true.
Even after restarting my computer, it missed a lot of registry entries:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SPlayer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\TypeLib\{ED3110F1-5211-11DF-94AF-0026B977EEAA}\1.0\0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SPlayer
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2239838298-549259766-2519686207-1000\Software\SPlayer
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\TypeLib\{ED3110F1-5211-11DF-94AF-0026B977EEAA}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{ED3110F1-5211-11DF-94AF-0026B977EEAA}

And of course as mentioned earlier, 'SPlayer' folder is created in AppData>Roaming.

p.s.
auto update is on by default, it launches right as soon as you start the program. my firewall went haywire.

[joby_toss]

Long live JauntePE!

[jcreator]

[Moderator note: the owner might not be interested in having his actual email address in a public place. Addresses have been edited. Additionally, the URLs below have not been verified as those of the author of Splayer as they are in Japanese]

If you want to contact the Author(Shen Sheng a.k.a. Tomasen) of the Splayer directly, you can
Email: tomasen at gmail period com
Sina microblogging: http://t.sina.com.cn/tomasen
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShooterPlayer
dabr: https: / / dabr.tomasen.org / user / ShooterPlayer
MSN: sentomas at hotmail period com
QQ: tomasen at gmail period com (1091736829)