WIN8 Media Player compatibility test

WIN8 's new experience model gives thousands of insights into the glamour of Windows upgrades, while Win8 legacy features of Windows, including Windows software, themes, start menus, and so on. What about the compatibility of Jade software with a new Win8 on a traditional Windows platform? The Zol software channel will launch a test article for the Windows 8 Software Compatibility series, in the hope of distinguishing among other software incompatibilities by testing each software classification compatibility.

Software details to be tested
Software category	Software name
Media playback class	TvAnts TV Ant
Boiling Point Network TV
MPlayer Movie Player
Audio-visual pioneer
The Star of AV
SWF player

A media player is a playback software used in a computer to play a multimedia device. Because Windows Media Player is always referred to as a media player by Windows Me before Windows Me, the media Player is synonymous with Windows Media Player among old computer users. However, as the software industry continues to evolve and Third-party media players have grown, we'll take a look at the compatibility performance of these Third-party media players in Windows 8.

TvAnts TV ant/Boiling point Network TV

First to test the tvants TV ant and boiling point Network TV two network player WIN8 compatibility performance.

TvAnts is a new streaming media playback software, her core technology is similar to the current very popular peer-to-peer (PEER to PEER), that is, a playback node and a number of playback nodes to exchange (provide or obtain) data, so that the maximum bandwidth consumption, to achieve the most smooth playback effect.

Boiling point Network TV is the boiling point of the product team to create a free, high-speed network TV software, with the boiling point of the official website on the introduction of the program, search, notice and other services, to provide free NBA, film, television, games, animation, sports events live broadcast and other programs; Users can easily use the software for free to watch more than 400 channels of novel TV, TV, film and variety show channel, a total of more than 1000 wonderful programs.

TvAnts prompts the user to update the version

In the test, when we select "Yes" for the update, the interface jumps to a Web page, but we cannot open the new interface to download the updated version of TvAnts, and the version cannot function properly in the Windows 8 system.

Boiling point Network TV prompts for a software update

Click the update after WIN8 Auto popup problem window close Program

Adjust the boiling point Network TV compatibility properties to other operating systems the problem is still

Test player
Software name	Compatibility
TvAnts TV Ant	Not compatible
Boiling Point Network TV	Not compatible

After testing, we see tvants TV ants, boiling point Network TV two products are not normal operation in the Windows 8 operating system. One of the triggers is that two products are experiencing the need to update the software, but in Windows 8 mode, the software itself can not be updated, or can not jump to the updated page download the update software.

MPlayer movie player/AV pioneer

MPlayer is an open-source multimedia player, published under the GNU General Public License. This software can be used in various mainstream operating systems, such as Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft's Windows and Mac OS x systems of Apple computers. MPlayer is based on the command line interface, in each operating system can choose to install a different graphical interface.

AV Pioneer is a software that can play video and audio online. Support HTTP, MMS and other streaming media protocols, smooth playback wmv/asf/mp3/wma/swf and other audio-visual formats. Online playback MP3 supports 10-band equalizer adjustment. Using the DirectShow and DirectSound playback technology, it supports DirectShow video stream and DirectSound audio stream output, which has the advantages of low resource occupancy, high running efficiency and wide support format.

MPlayer perfectly compatible with Windows 8

About MPlayer Introduction

MPlayer Perfect Playback Video

In Windows 8, the MPlayer software as a whole reflects fast and sensitive. And can be a perfect playback of the various formats of video files.

Audio-visual pioneer installation Instant pop-up prompt box

Audio-visual pioneer in the installation of the Instant Pop-up prompts dialog box, prompting the final installation of the program, there is a registered entry has not been successfully executed. (but does not affect the use of the software itself)

Audio-visual pioneer perfect playback video

Test player
Software name	Compatibility
MPlayer Movie Player	Compatible
Audio-visual pioneer	Compatible

MPlayer movie player, AV pioneer two products in Windows 8 compatibility performance is perfect, whether it is from the software itself operating the corresponding speed, or in various formats of video playback, playback effect is fair.

AV star/flash player

AV Star is a pure green software universal Audio-visual player, will not give users the installation of unnecessary plug-ins and advertising troubles, hundred support the current mainstream format of the audio and video files and streaming media. In addition, Av star also added to the film with a malicious advertising window blocking function, fans are a clear world.

Our usual SWF player is the Flash Player software developed by Adobe, an Advanced Client runtime player that can be applied to a variety of browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices.

Flash Player plug-in and Flash Player difference: is a Web page ActiveX control, and Flash Player is an EXE executable program. The former is used to play Flash animations in a Web page, which is used to play local SWF format files.

Audio-visual stars play video perfectly in Win8

Flash Player error while running in Win8

Program Compatibility Assistant prompts the program for proper operation

Test player
Software name	Compatibility
The Star of AV	Compatible
Flash Player	Not compatible

As you know, Flash Player and Flash plugin are two different software applications. In Windows 8, there is no doubt that it is perfectly compatible with the Flash plug-in feature, as it is easy to detect the perfect performance of online video from using Win8 IE10, and flash players (such as SWF players) The tests in WIN8 are not well compatible with the Windows 8 operating system.