The software media players market is overcrowded with a lot of solutions, but very few actually have something to offer which makes them truly unique and quite good. Only by developing new technologies can the progress be achieved and so is the case of Neuview Pro Media Player.

The player makes use of a proprietary technology called Pixelfusion that is in charge of the quality improvement and the rendering of the video. It is a unique image resampling algorithm which is based on resolution enhancement in order to improve the video quality. An advanced playback kernel has been created from scratch to a professional level so that it could overcome the limitations of normal playback set by the DirectShow – this gives the playback seamless features like smoothness and reverse playback.

Many players have problems because of the codecs and cannot render corrupted or badly created video files – the “codec crash recovery” is the mechanism implemented with the purpose to recover the playback. The DirectShow renderers for audio and video have been replaced in Neuview Player with “Ion Media Presentation Layer”, a proprietary renderer of both visual and audio streams, which addresses the problems like video tearing and audio/video synchronizing.

While you watch your videos you can adjust the brightness, the contrast and sharpness to your liking, and you also have the noise reduction option. It can open incomplete AVI files and also these can be even bigger than 1GB is size – Neuview Player handles them with ease. Another good feature is the subtitles support – because, of course, not every computer user is a native English speaker – so you can watch your movies with subtitles in your native language too.

Applicability:
The player supports the following file formats: ac3, ape, asf, asx, avi, bmp, dat, divx, dts, gif, jpeg, jpg, m1v, m2v, mka, mkv, mp3, mp4, mpa, mpc, mpe, mpeg, mpg, ogg, part, vp6, wav, wma, wmv and xvid. So obviously it can be used also as a picture viewer and audio player.

Pro(s): I find the new technologies very attractive and interesting – they are a very straight step forward towards the evolution of next-gen software video players – from now on it doesn’t really matter much if the original video file does not have a very high quality – with the Pixelfusion technology you can enjoy it at its best. The price for a licensed version is very tempting and VERY cheap – such developers must really be encouraged – you get a lot for the $12! Only the enhanced digital clarity of a simple movie file can convince you of that. Also, the audio sounds incredibly awesome by any standard – I was very much impressed with it. Well done, QO Labs!

Con(S): The player is made up of 2 windows: the command and settings (the small one you can see in the screenshots above) and the big playback window (where the videos are rendered). I find that a bit annoying – why couldn’t it be all embedded into a single window? And not only these 2 windows are separated, but the small one cannot be moved at all to anywhere else on the screen either – it stays on the center in the upper side of the computer screen and cannot be dragged in any way whatsoever. Perhaps with the next versions this design will change for the better.

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Buy: $12 (quite acceptable!)

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