Video File Review
Multi-Format Player
Engineering Player
The Multi-Format Player is a free and widely applicable tool in file-based environments. Due to its extremely powerful decoding engine, it can play the majority of SD and HD video formats. It supports camera, editing, archiving, video server, streaming, and download formats. Therefore, it can be used for ingest, review purposes, or quality control.
Format Support
The Multi-Format Player supports wide range of professional and commercial containers and codecs.
Broadcast features
The Multi-Format Player is equipped with the usual player controls as well as single-frame stepping and looping. Furthermore, a frame-accurate seeking and playback of video files are possible. It also displays LTC and VITC timecode. A special highlight is the ability to output the video through professional interface cards as HD-SDI signal. Another highlight is the side-by-side view, which allows a direct comparison of two video files on two monitors, for instance. Thus, the Multi-Format Player is ideal for video quality comparisons.
An overview of the Multi-Format Player features:
Features
- Based on Medialooks SDK
- All broadcast containers and codecs are supported
- Single frame stepping
- Single frame looping
- Professional output like SDI or NDI
- LTC and VITC
- Audio channel selection
- Side-by-side view
The Multi-Format Player system specifications:
Hardware Requirements
Entry level system
- Intel Xeon E-2186G, 3.8 GHz, 6 cores CPU or similar
- 16 GByte RAM
- 512 GByte SSD
- Nvidia Quadro P400
- 1 Gbps Ethernet
- USB 3 Connector
- Windows 10 Pro
- Google Chrome
Best value system
- Intel Xeon 6242R, 3.1 GHz, 20 cores CPU or similar
- 32 GByte RAM
- 512 GByte SSD
- Nvidia Quadro P400
- 1 Gbps Ethernet
- USB 3 Connector
- Windows 10 Pro
- Google Chrome
Devices
- IO Cards: Blackmagic Design, AJA, BlueFish444, Stream Labs, DELTACAST, Magewell andDekTec
- NDI (Network Device Interface developed by Newtek) Sender and Receiver
File/Stream Formats
- Mostly any known Container and Codec Format (Video and Audio as well as Image) is supported for decoding and encoding.
- Streaming protocols like http/https, udp, rtsp, rtmp are supported as input and output.
- Special support for youtube URLs: when a link to Youtube is provided as source, the highest quality of the main video is automatically parsed from Youtube.
All Multi-Format Player related documentation:
Brochures
- Multi-Format Player product brochure (download)
The Multi-Format Player related HowTo videos:
X-Dream-Media
Software integrator with an entire commitment to media IT, developing its own software products for file-based workflows and asset management. Part of the x-dream-group.
Based in Germany.
The Team
Stefan Pfütze
Managing Director and co-founder
Harald Jordan
Technical Director
Michael Weber
Senior Developer
