lack of an ability to tune keyboard shortcuts.almost total absence of audio and video settings.Secondly, there is a set of predefined pleylists of the music Charts ( BBC Radio, Billboard, Last.fm) and video pleylists of YouTube and Twitch.Īac, ac3, aif, aifc, aiff, alac, amr, au, caf, flac, m4a, m4b, m4p, m4r, mka, mp1, mp2, mp3, ogg, oma, ra, voc, wav, wma, wv Videoģg2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, amv, asf, avi, divx, dv, evo, f4v, flv, hdmov, m1v, m2p, m2v, m4v, mkv, mov, mp2v, mp4, mp4v, mpe, mpeg, mpg, mpv2, mpv4, ogm, ogv, pva, qt, ram, rm, rmm, rmvb, rpm, rv, vob, webm, wm, wmp, wmv PlaylistsĪlong with the conclusive advantages comparing with other media players, there are also significant shortcomings: First of all it is divided into two audio and video parts and need to say that there is no differences in displaying local files and links to web content (absence of the visual notification could be considered as shortcoming). The structure of the playlist in CherryPlayer is unique too.For example, for YouTube it is not possible to see all the available playlists, there is no way to like videos or dislike, put comments. Need to note that at the moment of the release 2.2.11 version of the player there were realized only basic functions to work with account on the mentioned services. CherryPlayer provides an ability to log in to account and view its contents in the same way as in browser. YouTube, Twitch and VKontakte are supported with the native API of these sites.One of the key features of CherryPlayer is support of such.However, everybody knows that online video services like ( YouTube, Vimeo and so on) do not provide an ability to control video setting except timeline and quality, but that doesn't prevent them to be one of the most popular services on the web.
But posts about necessity of adding basic settings to CherryPlayer appear very often. From the one side it was a desire of developers to minimize Interface and rid users from excessive controls which they almost always use with the default settings, and to focus on playing online media files, especially as main changes in the latest releases were concerned to playback online content. Almost the complete absence of the setting in the CherryPlayer became an object of the critics from the very beginning.very low CPU and memory usage and minimum system overloading.
support hardware acceleration DXVA1 ( Windows XP) and DXVA2 ( Windows Vista and later).support of external subtitles, playlists, audio tracks.support of various audio and video online content providers (e.g., YouTube, 4shared, Twitch and so on), as well as search by them.local and streaming media files playback of almost all the file formats and types.
A distinctive feature of the player is the minimum number of settings (which initially gave rise to compare it in this regard with the browser Chrome) and the ability to play almost any streaming video and audio broadcasts, including live ones and radio. It supports almost all the popular audio and video file formats, streaming protocols, subtitle files and playlists. CherryPlayer is a freeware closed-source media player of streaming media, audio and video files for the Microsoft Windows operating systems.