- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Nag screen); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
- Date added: March 22, 2006
- Total Downloads: 862,580
- Downloads last week: 1,040
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A newer version of Crystal Player Professional is available.
(Download doesn't provide access to previous versions of this program.)
- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 28 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This video player includes features that justify the epithet Professional in its name, but some interface quirks take getting used to. The player installs easily and lets you associate it with a variety of video-file types. A row of tiny icons occupies the top of Crystal Player's frame, with each leading to an impressive array of features. The subtitle features let you do things such as add shadows to them, make them transparent, or move them off the screen. The View menu lets you adjust brightness, saturation, and contrast as well as take captures and zoom. One oddity is the View menu entry for Effects, which lets you control whether to display a volume bar and other control features. What other applications refer to as effects are located under the Options menu as Video Filters. The Options menu includes an impressive array of professional features, such as video post-processing, buffer-size settings, an equalizer, and overlay controls. Crystal Player has all the features you could want, but finding them is sometimes difficult. For example, it does have a time line, but you need to hold the cursor over the bottom part of the screen for it to appear. Crystal Player works well and offers a complete set of features, but the interface could use some work.Publisher's description
From CrystalReality :Crystal Player Professional is a video player that includes a wide variety of audio and video filters, equalizer, internal post processing, volume customizing, autodownloading of required codecs, dynamic XML skins, friendly zooming, pan scanning, dragging, subtitle support (SRT, SMI, SUB, JS, DKS, MPL, RT, SMIL, and SSA), external audio files, OSD with antialiasing and blend effects, and screenshots (JPEG, BMP). It also offers a wide variety of delicate options for the player's kernel (overlays, buffering, audio restrictions, preloading, caching of the data), customs and corrections for special files, OSD brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and sharpness.
Version 1.97 brings Stabilization work and major fixes and speed-ups in Crystal MPEG2 decoder, minor bugfixes in MPEG splitter, new CMEA decoder, providing better quality on the same bitrate for mobile video.
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User reviews of Crystal Player Professional 1.97
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 28 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Crystal Player Professional 1.97
Pros: Yeah, as I said in the review entry's title, in my opinion Crystal Player is certainly one of the best multimedia players out there. It is a reliable program full of features that can be most of them customized in great details (btw., I especially like the "Speed troubleshooting" one), and above all it's completely free.
Cons: There are no cons that I could think of at the moment.
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Version: Crystal Player Professional 1.97
"For that price, it has to be good"
Pros: Bunch of appliable effects, processing types and filters brings video watching to a new level.
Cons: Interface is ugly. Unlike many other fine players, this one has a nice price attached to it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Crystal Player Professional 1.97
"most reliable nd clear player to watch movies"
Pros: the player is of light version dowsn't use any system resources.
Cons: why the new version is not released yet.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Crystal Player Professional 1.97
"My choice for playing video files"
Pros: Really nice filters, that are actually usable. The autolevel feature is a boon while watching videos that have a lot of dark scenes.
Equiliser is good.
Loads of features
Cons: Not yet (v1.97) compatible with Windows Vista.
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Version: Crystal Player Professional 1.97
Pros: It is the best video plyer,I ever tried.
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