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What do you think about this player?

Do you like HQ-Player 2.0

  • Yes, I like it

  • No, I don't like it (design or function)

Results are only viewable after voting.
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DGX

Junior Member
Hi everyone,

I created this player by myself. The HQ-Player 2.0 :biggrin:

I'd like to share it with the world. You have to know, I'm disabled and that's a try to find some recognition in the world of programmers.

Enough about me! Please download it and try it:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hqplayer20/

Let me know what you think about it. (please check the blog on sourceforge and the context menu in the player)

Greets from germany
alex-DGX
 
I would have tried it if it was a Video player. But thanks anyway. Wish you luck.
 
Thanks fabler,

I thought about an update to a video player. Gonna do it, in the net time!

Greets
 
It is interesting and cool to see a single person develop this. I just don't see how I would need to use it, unfortunately. It only has 3 audio formats (no FLAC support) and no video playing ability.

Good luck to your efforts.
 
Hey Dude,

Well, let me say it that way:

I'm not far from release of HQ-Player 3.0 with video support. The test-version ist almost running! 🙂
 
I don't run Windows, so I haven't tried it, but it's kind of meh from what I've seen and read. Closed source, and very limited codec selection. If it were me, I'd add streaming support, and go full on retro with tube radio appearance. Bundle some online OTR streams with it. The stereo choice you made just looks old, not cool and vintage.

Those are my thoughts, but I don't enjoy crapping on your project. You made it, and that's more than I've done, so take it for what it's worth.
 
I would vote, but it is a public poll...

Edit: I voted "No, I don't like it."

There are much better video players. There goes a few minutes of my life 🙄
 
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What the heck that's awesome, the only criticisms visible addressed with the kinds of features that most developers would drag their feet implementing. Kudos! I can barely hack a hello world app.
 
Hi,

what do you think I can do better?

I don't really get what you mean with:
"the only criticisms visible addressed with the kinds of features that most developers would drag their feet implementing." 🙄

Greets,
DGX
 
DGX said:
Hi,

what do you think I can do better?

I don't really get what you mean with:
"the only criticisms visible addressed with the kinds of features that most developers would drag their feet implementing." 🙄

Greets,
DGX
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Ahhh sorry I was referencing the posts above. I mean, someone wanted video capability and boom you had it in there 🙂
 
The good: It works fine.

The bad: We are already knee-deep in excellent media players, so a new one seems like a waste. You are obviously talented, why not join one of the open source teams? VLC for instance.
 
Thank you all for your coments :biggrin:

The idea was just to do something different than the old-known "window-style". I hope this one becomes a little more popular and reaches the people who like "other" styles 🙄

Please tell me, if you find a bug or something doesn't work (like a file or something). Maybe I'll try one more style.

Did I already say 😕: With a double-click on the video (in video-mode) you can enlarge to full-screen and the main-console has a context-menu for options.

If there is a question, feel free to ask!

Greets,
DGX

PS:maybe could someone write a review on sourceforge 🙄, please?
 
I used to not like it, but once the update came it allowed me to use it with the videos I had sitting on my computer that were previously incompatible.
 
Soundmanred said:
Another vote for "reinventing the wheel".
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Something like that.

To be completely honest I can only think of two reasons why you wouldn't use foobar2000.
1.) You're not using Windows (or you think all closed source software is evil).
2.) You've never heard of foobar2000.

For video you have the choice of three open source players, two of which I think are good, MPC-HC (via CCCP) and mpv, the latter even runs on things that aren't Windows. Can't say I've ever used mpv but from what I understand they do things "the right way(tm)." VLC works and actually isn't as terrible as it used to be but I think the first two are the better choices.

It's hard to justify using anything but the things listed above because they already do things properly and work very well. Was the motivation for this project to learn how to write such a program? I also don't get the packaging, what's with the codec stuff? What are you installing dshow filters?
 
@Sattern: Thank you guy, I'm glad you enjoy it 😉

@TheRyuu: The motivation for this project was, all other players are always jumping around online! That was always something that pissed me off. I want my musicplayer just to play my music and nothing else! That's it.

The codec packs are for windows to expand the filesupport (audio and video).

Greets,
DGX
 
DGX said:
I want my musicplayer just to play my music and nothing else! That's it.
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It may be worth mentioning Boom as well, written by the foobar2000 author it's basically a dead simple no frill's no install music player.

DGX said:
The codec packs are for windows to expand the filesupport (audio and video).
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Yes, but what does it install (e.g. why does it need privileged access)? Did I miss something, are they provided by Microsoft? If they were just shared lib's (like ffmpeg/libav) couldn't they just be distributed with the program itself?
 
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