As we all know that there are plenty of audio, video and
image formats, however, despite the amount of available media formats people
have already developed, it is not always easy to find one perfect media player
for all the formats you want to play on Mac. Macgo Free Mac Media
Player has been well received by CNET
editors as a powerful media player on Mac recently, and this review has been
reproduced on Yahoo News. To verify that Free Mac Media Player is a great media
player for Mac users, here’s a comparison among Free Mac Media Player from
Macgo and three media players of Apple Mac.
1. Macgo Free Mac Media Player V2.11.1
Since being introduced several years ago, Mac Media Player
works as all-in-one media player software for almost all media categories and
formats. It has offered a solution for those who want to open several media
files in a single, streamlined interface. Although iTunes can play almost
everything that you have downloaded, it can be clunky and will add that content
to your library, also QuickTime can't play all media file types.
2. QuickTime V7.7.6
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia
framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various
formats of video, picture, sound. QuickTime features advanced video
compression technology called H.264 to deliver brilliant, crisp HD video using
less bandwidth and storage. Bundled with OS X, it offers a simple user
interface with basic buttons. Also you can preview the video content when you
drag the mouse pointer along the progress bar.
3. iTunes V12.0.1
iTunes acts as a front end for Apple's QuickTime media
player. It is designed to play, download, and organize digital audio and
video on personal computers running the OS X and Microsoft Windows operating
systems. Through the iTunes Store, you can purchase and download music,
MVs, TV shows, movies, and movie rentals in some countries, and ringtones,
available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
4. Apple DVD Player V5.7
Apple's DVD Player is the default option for viewing DVD
movies in OS X, and is set up in the "CDs and DVDs" section of the
system preferences to automatically launch when a video DVD is mounted and
recognized by the system. It is fully compatible with DVDs authored
by iDVD and DVD Studio Pro. With DVD Player, users can watch DVD movies
right on their Macs and get the same controls they'd find on a DVD player
remote control.
Name
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Macgo Free
Mac Media Player
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QuickTime
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iTunes
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Apple DVD Player
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Pros
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Compatible with hardware acceleration.
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Quick to play media files on your hard drive.
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You can set certain file types as default, next time
you open them, they will be played automatically.
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Support an external drive or USB stick with a disc
image for playback
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An user-friendly interface
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Pro version can edit and convert video
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Play video in a webpage
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QuickTime Windows version was developed
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An simple way to connect and synchronize an iOS device
and a computer
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iTunes store makes buying and downloading media files
easier, like music, movies, podcast, etc.
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Comes bundled in Mac machines and is totally free
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Support all the standard DVD features
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Cons:
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Occasionally slow loading menus
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Doesn't support some some common video formats
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Need many extra codecs
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Must add another $29.99 for Pro features
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Take a while to launch
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It’s difficult to stream music wirelessly to non-Apple
devices.
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Doesn’t support WMA files (though it can convert ones
which aren’t copy-protected into other formats).
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Doesn’t keep track of songs or videos that you move,
rename or delete from your computer.
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You need to have a built in optical drive or external
Apple USB SuperDrive that comes with a DVD Player.
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Enforce most
restrictive measures of DVD technology, such
as region-restrictive encodings and user-inhibited
operations ("disabled actions").
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Force
Apple's Grab (screen-grabbing) program to cease functioning through
the Finder interface until the DVD Player application is quit to prevent the
user from taking screen captures of visual DVD content.
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To find the perfect media player for Mac certainly is
hard. Equipped with H.264 video compression technology QuickTime supports its
special streaming video format MOV. iTunes is more like a powerful music
organizer and only supports several video formats. Apple DVD Player, as we can
see from its name, is mainly designed for DVD and requires an internal DVD
drive due to licensing restrictions of the DVD decoding technology. And formats
like AVI and MKV cannot be well supported by players of Apple Mac, while Free
Mac Media Player has already solve this problem, besides these two, it can play
almost any media formats like DVD, VideoCD, MOV, FLV, WMV, MP4, MPEG, RMVB,
MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3,etc.
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