Here are some of my media player application settings including tips. See also: Media Player Device Settings (iPod, etc.), Programs, Operating Systems, Software.
DivX Converter (trial version) (OS X 10.8)
To: AVI (the only possible format in the trial version)
Final Cut Pro 7 (OS X 10.8)
To: AVI, DIVX, MKV, WMV
Disable the DivX plug-in in all browsers after installing the DivX Player (OS X). You can enable it later if you need it.
VLC Media Player 2 (OS X)
With a search engine, search for [listen stream asx].
Example stream: http://livestream.cprnetwork.org/wmp/listenNews.asx (May 2016)
VLC Media Player: File, Open Network. Copy-paste the stream you are interested in. Open.
OS X's energy saving and related settings like App Nap can cause problems, so try the following.
OS X 10.11: Settings: Desktop & Screen Saver: Start after: [Never].
OS X 10.11: Settings: Energy Saver: [ ] Automatic graphics switching.
OS X 10.11: Settings: Energy Saver: [ ] Put hard disks to sleep when possible.
Upload
[x] Automatically upload songs added to iTunes (enabling this seems to make the uploading faster)
Advanced
"Bandwidth available for uploading:" "[1024 kbps]"
"Fastest possible" = in practise 130 KB/s = 1040 kbps (12/2013), can't do other things online.
"128 kbps (Slowest)" = in practise 120 KB/s = 960 kbps (12/2013), almost the same as the fastest speed and 7.5 times faster than 128 kbps as promised!
Add Event
File, Import, Movies, Create new Event (for example "Event 001")
Comments
Sound is better with Mac Pro with Hardware Accelerator turned off. Other apps are also less sluggish.
Comments
Comment: if you want to get rid of "Failed to enable Spotify Social" message, try "File": "Log Out" instead of "Disconnect from Facebook" or instead of changing your Facebook password.
View
[ ] People List (takes space)
Preferences
Activity Sharing
[ ] Scrobble to Last.fm
[x] Share my activity on Spotify Social
Profile
Publish
[ ] Automatically publish new playlists
[ ] Top Tracks
[ ] Top Artists
Language
[English (English)]
Local Files
Show tracks from these sources (on your local PC, practically means from iTunes in my case)
[x] Music
[x] Downloads
[x] iTunes
Playback
[x] High quality streaming (of course I want high quality by default, especially when I'm using Spotify Premium)
[x] Gapless playback
[ ] Crossfade tracks
[x] Set the same volume level for all tracks
[x] Hide unplayable tracks
Purchases
[ ] Hide purchase buttons
[x] Remember my Spotify password
Cache
Size: (*) Automatic - use no more than 10% of free disk space
Open Spotify automatically after you log into the computer
(*) Don't open automatically
Music announcements
[ ] Hide on What's New page
Options
Preferences
General Preferences
Select your internet connection: [Always connected]
[x] Check for new versions of Winamp at startup
[x] Allow Winamp to report anonymous usage statistics
[x] Recycle permanently deleted files
Show Winamp in: [x] Taskbar
Playback
Playback
Audio
[ ] Allow 24bit
[x] Allow surround sound
[x] Use dither
Note
macosx is everywhere, so I mention it only on Interface.
Keyboard shortcuts / hotkeys
Command + Alt + S
Preferences (Simple)
Interface
Menus language: [American English]
[x] Allow only one instance
[Set up associations]
[x] Select All (or almost all)
Audio
(*) Always reset audio start level to: 0 %
Subtitles & OSD
Preferred subtitles language: Finnish
Preferences (All)
Input / Codecs
Demuxers
DV
[ ] Hurry up
PS
[ ] Trust MPEG timestamps (maybe usual reason for crashing when MPEG timestamps are trusted)
FFmpeg
[ ] Hurry up
Video
(General)
[x] Enable video
[x] Embedded video
[ ] Drop late frames (no dropping, seems to be more stable)
[ ] Skip frames (no skipping, seems to be more stable)
[ ] Disable screensaver
[ ] Show media title on video
Video snapshot directory (or filename): [/Users/tomihasa/Desktop]
Video snapshot file prefix: [vlan-]
Video snapshot format: [png]
Deinterlace: Automatic
Deinterlace mode: Linear
Filters
Video filter module: [depends what you have checked below]
[x] Video post processing filter (doesn't seem to matter)
[ ] Deinterlacing video filter (seems to mess up interface a bit)
Postproc
Post processing quality: 6 (higher is better)
Audio
(General)
[x] Enable audio
Default audio volume: 0
[x] Use S/PDIF when available
[ ] Peak protection
[ ] Enable time stretching audio
Playlist
[x] Play and pause (pause on the last frame)
Interface
(General)
Verbosity: 0
[ ] Log to file
[ ] Log to syslog
[ ] Locally collect statistics (create your own stats file or something)
Main interfaces
(General)
[ ] Mac OS X interface (Mac OS X 10.6, maybe unstable)
macosx
[x] Auto-playback of new items (otherwise won't start video immediately)
[ ] Keep Recent Items
[ ] Keep current Equalizer settings
[x] Show Fullscreen controller
[ ] Control playback with the Apple Remote
[ ] Control playback with media keys
[ ] Stretch video to fill window
[x] Black screens in fullscreen
Hotkeys settings
Very short jump length: 1 second
Short jump length: 5 seconds
Right-click interface
View
Advanced Controls (Windows 7)
Customize Interface (Windows 7)
Remove unnecessary buttons
Buttons: Play/Pause, (Spacer), Frame by Frame, (Spacer), A -> B Loop, (Spacer), Toggle Loop, (Long Spacer), Snapshot, (Spacer), Volume
Last modified: February 5th, 2019
Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)
URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/media-player-application-settings