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MPV
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Needs no additional codecs
Everything MPV needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed.
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Minimal theme support
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Integrates with streaming services
When used with youtube-dl.
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Lack of a typical GUI can be jarring to some
The minimal interface comes at the cost of beginner-friendliness. You need to know keyboard shortcuts by heart, settings are set in text files, right-clicking won't bring up a menu, etc.
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Minimal interface
Click to open files and get Video with sound (and passthrough of codecs like DTS etc) for a perfect cinema experience. Works okay for many files. Default window is not much more than a title bar - and if you drag/resize the window it resizes the video and leaves no empty areas. There is no visible control or display unless you use mouse/keyboard over the window. This is the best player to use unless you're going for a media center (then use MPV based Plex Media Player to display and play the Plex Server library).
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Up to date
Always up to date, rapid development.
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Extremely responsive
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Caches livestreams
Intelligently caches livestreams and enables jumping within the cached stream.
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Fast
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Android
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OBS
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8
Cons
3
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Records to many popular formats
You can record videos in formats such as mp4, flv, mkv, and more. You also have control over the bitrate used.
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Con
Recording a window will not record the menu bar, popup menus or child dialogs
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Free and open source
No subscriptions or payments or licenses.
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Overkill for simple projects
Plus the interface is a bit intimidating.
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Available for Linux, Mac, Windows
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Needs tutorial to get started
Otherwise it's hard to find out how to record a screen or window.
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Live streams
Can be used to stream.
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Fast
From the website: "GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming."
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Extendable
OBS has an API allowing developers to create their own unique plugins, giving them and others complete control of their streaming experience.
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Encoding using H264 (x264) and AAC and file output to MP4 or FLV
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Unlimited number of scenes and sources
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac
Video Formats:
MP4, FLV, MKV
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VLC
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Pros
13
Cons
4
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Free, open source, and cross-platform
VLC is licensed under the CC-SA v3.0+ and available on Windows, OSX, and Linux with source code available here.
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Not really meant to be a music player
VLC is made to be a video player. Therefore, it won't carry out actions such as managing your music library.
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Simple to setup and use
VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.
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Lacks libraries and advanced music player features
VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.
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Very versatile and easy to use
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Absence of personalization
VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.
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Doesn't require additional codecs
Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
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Contains some insignificant but irritating flaws
Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.
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Tons of advanced settings
Besides basic configurations, video player has an extensive amount of adjustable settings.
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Doesn't manage your music library for you
You organize your music into folders any way you want. Want to play an album? Drag and drop. No tags, no confusion, no fluff. Easy.
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Can be almost completely keyboard-driven
VLC includes keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The video player can be controlled with simple and customizable keyboard commands.
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Surprisingly Lightest on Resources
Yes. Lightest. Even better than the ones known to be light. Both when playing music, only a single song or when playing a video. Either in terms of Ram and Cpu. Compared with almost all, including the ones from Windows like mpc-hc .. or light ones from Linux like Alsa Player, Audacious, SmPlayer .
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Can play every format video available (as of 2017)
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Includes Blu-Ray playback support
Blu-Ray playback support was added on July 13th, 2014. It allows playing back DRM-free Blu-Rays with the help of libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus.
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Supports a GUI interface and an ncurses terminal interface
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Can easily stream music across your home network from any device on the network
Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package
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Large amount of extensions
VLC has a large amount of extensions.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, AppleTV
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FastStone Capture
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Pros
7
Cons
1
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Output to clipboard or any of a dozen formats
Such as saving images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats as well as the screen recorder saving videos in the WMV (Windows Media Video) format.
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It has no feature to trim edges after scrolling capture
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Great capture flexibility, from full screen to freehand region
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The most lightweight, full featured snapshot for Windows.
This responsive, lightweight screenshot will probably be your favorite if you really run it through the test, A scrolling window capture that works, integrated image joining, scanner support, good magnified preview when setting boundaries, support for video capture and editing. Free upgrades for paid version with option for portable. Closest alternatives to feature set are Snagit and Shared, but this one feels much snappier with just the right features for the majority of people. Try it, you will not regret.
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Onboard editing, or output to external programs
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Hotkeys
You can assign hotkeys for everything. Current setup is: F5 - Fixed rectangle capture F6 - Custom (drag a square) rectangle capture F7 - Video capture 30fps F8 - Fullscreen capture F9 - Scroll fullscreen capture F10 - Summon FS to appear if hidden.
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You can capture disappearing items
When capture hotkey pressed - FSC will pause all functions going on in your screen so you can capture website dropdown menu for example, which would disappear otherwise when you leave the website window to press the capture tool.
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Unobtrusive
Always available via hotkey, doesn't interfere with any programs or operations.
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Platforms:
Windows
Video Formats:
WMV
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ScreenToGif
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6
Cons
1
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Open Source
https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/
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Only available for Windows
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Best for Animated GIFs
Create lightweight GIFs with excellent quality, also including tons of possibilities, like automatically reduce duplicated frames, progress bar, free drawing, transitions, etc.
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Available as portable bundle
No need to install.
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Very Easy to use
The interface is very intuitive, no need to read documentation or tutorials
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Good support
The author gives a good attentions for doubts and issues
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Very lightweight
Extremely fast to load (about 1 second)
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Vokoscreen
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8
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Webcam support
An adjustable size window with your webcam feed can be positioned to your desired place on the screen.
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Does not automatically use webcam or microphone
You need to manually select your webcam and microphone each time unless you are using the default one.
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Fullscreen, window and area capture
You can choose to use the software to capture all of your workspace, a select area or a specific window.
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High quality video
Vokoscreen offers the high quality h264 and mpeg4 codecs for encoding and avi and mkv formats for storing the video.
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Easy to set up and use
Vokoscreen has an easy to understand tabbed interface.
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Can hide mouse cursor
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Multilingual
Vokoscreen's GUI has been translated in over 25 languages.
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Zoom-in/out shortcuts
You can choose to use magnification and set shortcut keys for zooming in and zooming out.
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Active development
Vokoscreen is always under development, the latest versions can be found here.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux
Technology:
C++, Qt
Video Formats:
mkv, avi, webm, mp4, mov, gif
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Snagit
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8
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Includes an image editor
Allows you to adjust the capture, add captions and symbols (arrows, boxes etc).
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Pro version costs about $59.94
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Good markers for setting the capture area
Simple to choose between full-screen, window or a selected area.
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the inbuilt image editor is not user-friendly
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Can easily add annotations
The editor allows you to quickly and easily mark and annotate the screen capture.
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Can capture screen video
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Integrates with third party services
Google drive, Twitter, Facebook, email etc.
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Allows for delayed capture
Allows you to arrange the screen as you want it captured. Things like opening a popup menu, to have it part of the capture.
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Can capture editable text
Just about any text on the screen can be editable text. I say "just about" because it's like OCR software in that unusual and extra fancy fonts or text against a low contrast background may be a challenge. But overall it works in most situations.
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Mobile app for easily moving screenshots from smartphone to Snagit's editor
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
Video Formats:
MP4, GIF
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Bandicam Screen Recorder
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Pros
3
Cons
2
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Recording time limitation
If you use a free version, you can only record 10 minutes per recording.
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Real-time Drawing while recording
You can simultaneously add arrows, boxes, numbers or highlights while recording.
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Free version has watermark
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Screen Recording + Game Recording + Webcam Recording
You can record not only your computer screen but also your gameplay and webcam.
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Webcam overlay while recording
You can simply add webcam video of yourself on the video that you are recording.
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Platforms:
Windows
Video Formats:
MP4, AVI
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Apowersoft Free Online Screen Recorder
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Pros
3
Cons
1
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Start from a web page
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Free to use
The free version is easy to use.
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So easy to use.
If you have an internet connection, in two minutes your video will be done. Basic and essential features included.
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Annotations
Annotations and drawings can be added to the video.
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Platforms:
Windows, Android, Web
Video Formats:
MP4, WMV, AVI, FLV, MPEG, VOB, ASF, GIF
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MPC-BE
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Displays preview thumbnails
Seek Bar supports thumbnail preview (like Youtube) and chapters marker.
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Supports madVR external Video renderer
madVR is a high quality video renderer (GPU assisted).
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Supports most known audio and video formats
Plays various video and audio files, and also supports H.265 (with small file size installation). The player doesn't use a lot of computer resources.
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32-bit & 64-bit support
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Built-in YouTube playback support
Can play YouTube videos out of the box. Just drag and drop the URL to the interface.
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Supports multimedia hotkeys
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GOM-Player
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Pros
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Cons
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Ads and a little bulk
Recent version got a bit bulkier than they were some years ago. If things get to much, use one of the older versions, they play mp4 and mkv just fine. Also needs some firewall tweaking to get rid of occasional ads in the free version.
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Auto add playlist
Automatically adds files with similar name to playlist
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Nice working skin engine
In contrast to some other popular players out there, the GOM Player skin engine really works out. Skins on GOM Player feel quite natural and everything is still very responsive. So even skins in use, the whole player doesn't feel bloated.
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Allows renaming of files while playing
Something I did not encounter often is the fact, that GOM Player has some magic trick up its sleeve. It mostly allows to rename the currently playing files and sometimes I can even move them. I cannot really tell how that works, but it does (playing from UNC network paths here (ntfs, windows)).
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Easy playback control
Whether it's switching audio channels, aspect ratio, playback size. All can be done easily via context menu or keyboard shortcuts or even mouse clicks if configured.
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IINA
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Pros
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Like MPV with better GUI and settings
It's like mpv, just more user friendly GUI and more settings available via UI.
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Unstable
May crash unexpectedly, while clicking on something in the subtitles section in the right-hand panel, for example.
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Extremely stable
Extremely stable, even while still in the beta.
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Blacks out other displays when going full screen
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Support for lots of codecs
Supports lots of video codecs, like mp4, mkv, etc, and lots of audio codecs including opus.
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Doesn't black out other displays when going full screen
It can black out other screens if you want, but out of the box it leaves your other displays alone.
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Runs on MPV so it's scriptable and runs any MPV script.
More information here. Tip: if you're doing a lot of cropping and slicing of videos and you thought the new quick tools in Finder / Quicktime Player are a great improvement, try setting up IINA with slicing.lua and some keybindings for navigating your video + setting the slicing positions. Make sure your ffmpeg command (in slicing.lua) is set to copy the original codecs and that it's using your GPU.
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Online subtitle searching and intelligent local subtitle matching
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Fully customizable keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and gesture controls
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Open source
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Powered by FFmpeg
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ShareX
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Allows uploading to a vast number of different services
Designed as file uploader in the first place, ShareX supports overhelming amount of services for you to upload your files to and the list is expanding.
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Too complicated
This is extremely customizable, but extremely complex! If you want something simple and intuitive out of the box, stay away from ShareX.
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Free and open source
ShareX is licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
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Privacy concern
Can upload screenshots to web without you realizing, unable to delete or reverse process.
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Customizable
You can choose what shortcut key to bind your command to, as well what host it uploads the file to.
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Scrolling window capture doesn't work always as expected
Sometimes might need to use another screen capture software to capture a scrolling page.
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Freezes screen when you capture
When you enter a capture mode, the screen content is preserved as it was when you started capturing by default. However there is a special "Light" mode where the screen does not freeze.
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The editor is rather simplistic
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Can capture video too
Apart from still images, ShareX allows the user to record unlimited video with all the options available for normal image capture.
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Capturing (screen, video, a window, etc.) with annotation + automation
Capturing (screen, video, a window, etc.) with annotation + automation makes for some powerful workflows. Annotation is key for research on any project size. Capturing screenshots, editing them ("annotating"), converting to a PNG, removing the background to make a transparent version, saving to google drive, creating large+med+sm sizes, uploading thumbnails, is an example of a workflow you could create. The list goes on... You'll find the same strength & depth in features for image handling also for text, videos, other files by type, and on and on..
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Has an editor
It has its own screen editing tool.
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It has a dead simple way for creating animated GIFs
It is great for creating software tutorials or highlighting new features in a sales function - nothing beats a well-placed animated GIF in an email.
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Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
C#
Video Formats:
GIF
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Kodi
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6
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5
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Can install on several devices
Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Xbox, Apple TV (jailbroken), and more.
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You may have to jailbreak some devices
This is only for things like a Fire stick, but Android TV boxes etc. should be fine.
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Lots of plugins available
Like PlutoTV, Curiosity Stream, and YouTube. 3rd party repositories, such as the SlyGuy Repository, contain more plugins like Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, and Netflix.
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Terrible navigation
Menus over menus with dozens of submenus.
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Free
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Not Client/Server Capable
While most solutions provide a client/server setup the KODI developers REFUSE to adopt this approach forcing individual setups for every device.
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Open source
Completely FOSS, licensed under GPL 2.0
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Poorly optimized
Often not a fluid experience on low-end devices.
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Great customization/multiple skins
You can change navigation flow and other aspects of Kodi with the plethora of customization options and skins.
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No official AAA addons for streaming services
It does not have any official AAA addons and fully relies on the community which result in often broken packages/addons.
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Can play many different file formats
It supports Blu-ray Discs, CDs, DVDs, USB Flash Drives, local Hard Disk Drives, AirPlay, network file shares, basically every video, audio, and image format available, subtitle files, and even retro game console ROMs.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, AndroidTV, iOS, tvOS
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MPC-HC
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3
Cons
2
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Supports H.265, and has for over 5 years
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Discontinued
It's been discontinued since 2017.
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Is actively developed by clsid2 on github
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Windows only
MPC-HC supports only Windows operating systems.
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Supports frame stepping with Ctrl+Left/Right
Useful for game development frame debugging. Your average user won't need this. VLC has frame advance, but it's hidden and non-intuitive; not clear if VLC can step backwards.
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ACDSee
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Pros
2
Cons
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Dark style theme
ACDSee has a nice dark style theme.
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No face recognition
ACDSee doesn't allow you to set face recognition to files. It also doesn't read already recognized faces. Metadata for faces aren't shown.
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Very fast image reader
ACDSee reads the images (jpgs) extremely fast. It displays them very fast, too.
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MplayerX
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System crash is more frequent
MPlayerX creshes occur more often than in usual video players. They should be tackled properly.
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Pleasant Mac Style view
MplayerX fits in OSX environment perfectly with it’s hot keys and plain, but stylish design, giving pleasure to work with
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High CPU usage is possible
Sometimes after the player or OS X update file reproduction can demand a significant part of CPU usage
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Players “memory” of a last reproduced file
If turned off, player will start file reproduction from exact spot it was interrupted on
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No proper playlist feature
In spite of easy and comfy smart-play, in general playlist isn’t user friendly
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Smart-play or automatic next video file search
For example, if number of files with sequent names are mashed up and thrown in the playlist, MplayerX is able to reproduce them in right order
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No retina display support on old OSX
MPlayerX does not support retina display on OS X older than Mountain Lion, but amount of Mac’s with older OS X are quite rare nowadays
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Smart multi-touch control
Convenient track pad commands, that allows user to toggle full screen, change frame size, aspect ratio and volume. To learn more, watch an easy and understandable "how-to" youtube video in the sources.
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Compatibility with other Apple products
File reproduction can be controled with an Apple remote, that awards user with more freedom. Furthermore, dirrect pass through is possible. Start streaming, connect and enjoy your home theatre
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Softwere was designed specially for OS X
As OS X is the only supporting system, the amount of bugs and problems is minimized. This also means, that player can play .m4p, .mp4 & .mov video files.
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CloudApp
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Pros
2
Cons
1
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Con
Too simple
While it's simple enough to share files, isn't complex enough to make a wide organization of files like the others.
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Straightforward sharing
CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Choose a file, drag it to the menubar and a short URL will be automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload. Additionally you can view, track and delete files right from your menubar.
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Free plan
Cloudapp has a free plan that allows uploading 10 files, up to 25MB each, per day.
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