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Playr for Mac

Video playback simplified.

$8.99
In English
Version 2.7
3.2
Based on 7 user rates

Playr overview

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 don't need to install any extras or plug-ins to view your favorite movies, it just works.

Playr has been carefully developed using the latest available technologies with a meticulous attention to detail. Its user interface is clean, stylish, and simple to use. Hope you'll enjoy it!

Features
  • Play almost any video file without the need for extra system extensions or plug-ins
  • Doesn't depend on QuickTime or AVFoundation for playback
  • Hardware decoding for H.264 video to reduce CPU pressure
  • 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 underline
  • Fully customizable subtitle display (font, size, color, shadows, etc.)
  • Convenient metadata inspector that automatically pulls info from the net... with links to IMDb
  • Detailed movie inspector for all those nitty-gritty details
  • Retina graphics user interface
  • Retina resolution subtitles on your Retina MacBook Pro
  • Fullscreen player built-in (of course)
  • Works just fine with OS X 10.10 Yosemite and 10.9 Mavericks
  • 64-bit native

What’s new in version 2.7

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.

Playr for Mac

$8.99
In English
Version 2.7
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3.2

(7 Reviews of Playr)

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  • User Ratings

Alenz
Alenz
Mar 22 2018
2.3
5.0
Mar 22 2018
5.0
Version: 2.3
Simply great: nice, essential interface, very reasonable price and best of all: immediate and effective support. I had problems with the subtitles of one of my files, contacted Bitfield, got an answer within minutes and a solution within a couple of hours. Quality both in the product and in the service. I made now Playr my default movie application.
Morlo
Morlo
Sep 25 2017
2.2.4
4.5
Sep 25 2017
4.5
Version: 2.2.4
great player and scrubs faster than all others out there, even the pro ones.. great UI.. i wish it could trim and export videos and take quick screenshots (with automatic scaling options for the screenshot and automatic saving to a folder).. won't give it a 5 star because it crashes a lot when scrubbing through video.. Please keep up the good work.
pablomelo
pablomelo
Jan 30 2016
2.1.3
0.0
Jan 30 2016
0.0
Version: 2.1.3
I just would like to see some keyboard shortcuts to Push / Pull Audio and Subtitles, and Back / Forward 10 secs, or 1 minute, as we have on “Movist” and “VLC". With that it would be perfect!
JBX
JBX
Jul 20 2015
2.0.1
3.0
Jul 20 2015
3.0
Version: 2.0.1
Just started using this... so far a very nice player. Only 1 complaint, it dose not remember the volume setting. Have to re-adjust it for every file I open.
HRazakee
HRazakee
Jun 18 2015
2.0.1
3.0
Jun 18 2015
3.0
Version: 2.0.1
Just signup to leave a request for Playr developer: 1. Is there any shortcut for seeking 10 sec using Left or Right keyboard? 2. If there are none, I would really welcome this feature in next update. :-)
jorgenisaksson
jorgenisaksson
Dec 24 2021
2.7
5.0
Dec 24 2021
5.0
Version: 2.7
Alenz
Alenz
Mar 22 2018
5.0
Mar 22 2018
5.0
Version: null
Morlo
Morlo
Sep 25 2017
4.5
Sep 25 2017
4.5
Version: null
Mt-Saint-Michel-+-Saint-Michaels-Mount
Feb 15 2017
0.5
Version: null
JBX
JBX
Jul 20 2015
3.0
Jul 20 2015
3.0
Version: null
HRazakee
HRazakee
Jun 18 2015
3.0
Jun 18 2015
3.0
Version: null
TCalhau
TCalhau
Apr 21 2015
4.0
Apr 21 2015
4.0
Version: null