DSPlayer

'DSPlayeris a digital media player application for Windows developed by an international team of developers directed by the founder Dipl.-Inf. Martin Offenwanger. The name has been made of DirectShow Player.DSPlayer''s support of media file formats is only limited by installed DirectShow codecs - it plays MP3, OGG, WAV audio and AVI - DivX, Xvid, WMV, DVD video. It also plays Shoutcast internet streaming radio.

Complete features list

  • Support for all popular media formats
  • DVD features
DVD Front-End navigation using any DirectShow compatible combination of DVD Decoder filters
DVD playback from HDD
Preferred DVD Menu Language selection
Preferred DVD Subtitle selection
Chapters support
DVD Autoload
Multiple playback speeds
  • Fast forward and fast rewind option
  • Fully skinnable user interface with transprency support
  • Multilingual
English,
German,
Czech,
Russian
  • Playlist
sort by filename / path and filename
list reverse
shuffle
  • Equalizer
10 bands
save, load, on/off
  • Shoutcast radio
Stations search
Extended info on playing stream
Stream recorder
Prebuffer & buffer settings
  • Stereo balance
  • Drag'n'Drop
  • Audio Crossfader
  • Screensaver and Standby control
  • Custom key binding
  • Support for multiple audio streams
  • DirectShow Filters (codecs) support
  • Selectable Audio Output to any supported sound device
  • Three different rendering modes (DirectDraw, VMR 9 Direct 3D, DSPlayer RGB32 Renderer)
  • Brightness, CONTRAST, Saturation and Hue control
  • Custom video aspect ratios
  • Track repeat
  • Audio wave visualization

Technical requirements

  • OS Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
  • PC with at least 300Mhz CPU. 2 GHz Pentium CPU or higher is recommended for video playback.
  • Direct X© 8 (or higher) Sound card
  • Direct X© 8 (or higher) compatible Video card
  • 100 MB of free HDD space
  • 64 MB of RAM memory
  • DVD ROM and 3rd party DVD codec to enable DVD playback

History

  • 2002 - Martin Offenwanger who invented DSPlayer was accompanied by Jan Červený (graphics & web) to form the first team structure.
  • 2010 - Kuldeep Shah (app developer) and Kruti Agarwal (website developer) joined the team

Technology insight

DSPlayer is developed in Delphi programming language. It has its own skinning system that covers all the main windows - equalizer, playlist and the main window.

Side projects

Wide variety of application components were developed and released to the public during the DSPlayer development. These includes:

  • BTMemoryModule - a dynamic link library (DLL) which can be loaded from memory (with Delphi and Lazarus) without storing it on the hard-disk first. BTMemoryModule is a Pascal port of Joachim Bauch's C / C++ Memory Module.
  • LAME DirectShow Interface for Delphi,
  • DSPlayer Popupmenu Designer 1.0 - a tool for DSPlayer skins designers that helps find and tweak the right color scheme for the skin they are designing,
  • DirectShow AudioCD reader - AudioCD Reader which enables AudioCD playback for every DirectShow based player,
  • MP3 ID3 Tag Editor 0.12 (MP3 read/write information tool) - an editor for ID3 v1.0 and v1.1 MP3 tags.
  • Audio/Video AES encryption SDK - SDK to protect Audio/Video files - includes a DirectShow Filter for on the fly decryption, and an encrypter.

Contributors

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