Playr 4+
Video playback simplified
Bitfield AB
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- $8.99
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Description
Playr was made solely to focus on your video viewing experience. It's not crammed with extra features for organizing files or to make playlists. You don't need to install any extras or plug-ins to watch your favorite movies, it just works. Playr has been carefully developed using the latest available technologies with a meticulous attention to details. It's user interface is clean, stylish and simple to use. Hope you'll enjoy it!
Main features
- Play almost any video file without the need for extra system extensions or plug-ins.
- Hardware decoding on the GPU for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) video tracks.
- Hardware decoding supports other containers like .MKV (matroska).
- Hardware decoding saves battery life and CPU cycles.
- Easily plays 4K video when hardware decoding is available.
- Automatically loads and displays embedded subtitles or subtitles from external files.
- Smart built-in subtitle search engine... find your movie or tv show subtitles in a breeze.
- Supports all the major subtitle formats.
- Supports styling tags in subtitle files like italic, bold and underlined.
- Fully customizable subtitle display (font, size, color, shadows, etc).
- Retina resolution subtitles.
- Export subtitle tracks into file in many popular formats like SRT, STL and WebVTT.
- Convenient metadata inspector that automatically pulls info from the net... with links to IMDb.
- Detailed movie inspector for all those nitty gritty details.
- Color controls.
- Fullscreen player built-in (of course).
- Touch Bar support.
- 64-bit native for Intel and Apple Silicon.
NOTE! Playr can't play movies purchased in the iTunes store due to Apple DRM protection.
Please report any problems/bugs to support@bitfield.se or use the built-in feedback feature and I will get back to you.
What’s New
Version 2.7
- Hardware decoding on the GPU for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) video tracks.
- Hardware decoding also works for containers like .MKV (Matroska)
- Hardware decoding saves battery life and CPU cycles.
- Easily plays 4K video when hardware decoding is available.
- FFmpeg version 4.4 "Rao".
- Other minor fixes and tweaks.
Ratings and Reviews
See AllI Love its interface, but it needs some improvements.
The application is really great, especially its simple and beautiful interface. But it uses too much CPU, so my laptop gets very hot and the fans never stop working until I quit this app. Also, it crushes sometimes. I noticed the crush when a video was playing and I wanted to fast-forward it. Hope the developer would solve these problems as soon as possible!
Developer Response ,
Glad to hear that you like Playr! The CPU load should be lower now and the crash which could happen when scrubbing or a fast-forward is fixed. I would love to hear what you think of the latest version.
Good Player
Good video player overall, simple UI and functions on just about all video files I’ve played so far (AVI, MP4, MKV) Only issue, I’ve had with some MKV files is that they crash after playing for a few mins, could be corrupt files on my end but I have converted and redownloaded others to have the same issue. Does not happen to all MKV files, but not sure how to fix the issue. Still worth the 4 stars.
terriblle waist of money
didnt work, all i can say
Developer Response ,
Works just fine is all I can say ;-)
App Privacy
The developer, Bitfield AB, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Bitfield AB
- Size
- 21.6 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Bitfield AB
- Price
- $8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.