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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: April 07, 2010
- Total Downloads: 100,771
- Downloads last week: 1,562
- Product Ranking: #28 in Video Players
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on January 04, 2010
Watch enough different kinds of videos in Windows and eventually you are bound to run into a codec problem. Codecs encode and decode digital data, and popular media viewers like Windows Media Player don't always have the codecs needed to view all types of videos. ALShow is an easy-to-use media player that comes equipped with plenty of codecs, and it's prepared to download more if needed.
ALShow's interface is plain but intuitive, with its features organized neatly in uncluttered menus. Users can play videos in AVI, MPG, MPEG, DAT, VOB, WMV, ASF, ASX, and many other formats, and if you should happen to try a format for which ALShow doesn't have a codec, the program will automatically search for and download one. We were especially impressed with some of the program's other features, including its bookmarking function; users can create bookmarks, with descriptions, at any point in a video, making it easy to return to your favorite part over and over again. Videos that have caption files can also be viewed with the captions on or off, and the program has a variety of features for fast forwarding, rewinding, repeating segments, capturing audio, and more. The Screen menu contains plenty of options for customizing the program's view, including a screen capture function. The program's Help file is well-written and thorough. Overall, we found ALShow to be quite simple and useful.
ALShow is free. The program installs politely but leaves a Start menu item and folder behind upon removal. We recommend this program to all users.
Publisher's description
From ESTsoft :This free media player plays DVD, VOB, IFO, AVI and over 30 media formats. Player also supports FLV files like Youtube video downloads through its online codec center. The codec center helps to automatically download missing codecs. For sharing favorite scenes with friends and family this media player supports audio and video capturing to create small audio and video clips. Taking movie screen shots for still pictures is also supported. Clips can later be imported into a video editor to quickly create video mashups and montages.
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- All versions: 4.0 starsout of 9 votes
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- Current version: 3.7 starsout of 3 votes
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3 stars
Version: ALShow 1.91
"easy to use, slows the computer down"
Pros: has a friendly user interface
Cons: IT slows the computer a lot
Summary: it has a very good user interface but it sometimes freezes the computer and slows it down so i found a better one called (dvd player) on http://audio-video.ws it's for free
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4 stars
Version: ALShow 1.91
"Easy to use and well-equipped with necessary features."
Pros: Well equipped with codecs.
Cons: No significant shortcomings.
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4 stars
Version: ALShow 1.91
"This product surprised me in a likely way!"
Pros: Smooth running on a Win7 Pro 64bit system.
Large number of formats supported
Separate icons depending of file extensionCons: none found
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