Playr

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 and such. You...

Commercial
Mac OS X

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play almost any video file without the need for extra system extensions or plugins. doesn't depend on quicktime for playback. automatically loads and displays embedded subtitles or subtitles from external files. smart builtin 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. 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 builtin (of course). touch bar support. 64bit native.

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