Ghost1982
01-02-2005, 14:14
http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AIW-Player_1.png
Star Media Center is designed to be a fast and smart tool that enables you to do pretty much everything with your audio-video hardware. At the moment Star Media Center has 5 main functions:
1. A very low resource demanding video player with tons of features. Refer to the howto section.
2. A TV viewing program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card with wdm drivers installed. It should work with every card out there as long as it's drivers are fully compatible with DirectX9.
3. A FM tuning program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card (or a specialized radio capture card) with wdm drivers installed.
4. A DVD player. Star Media Center is capable of DVD playback as long as you have proper decoder installed in your system.
5. A video broadcasting server. This means that you can use your TV-card to broadcast (share) your favorite TV programs with your LAN friends and even on the Internet. When in broadcasting mode Star Media Center becomes a chat server and users can connect to it with Star Remote Chat to chat about, get and set channels. Also, Star Media Center supports broadcasting from video files on your harddrive and directly from your desktop.
Star Media Center offers interconnected features - for example when watching a movie and you want to quickly tune to a news station for just a few minutes you may simply do that and when you're done you can quickly resume your movie with only one click - no more changing from software to software, overlay conflicts and so on... For more info about the Star Media Center features please refer to the howto section.
Star Media Center system requirements:
Operating system: Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP/2003.
CPU: In order to play most video files you will need a Celeron @ 466 MHZ or more powerful. Note, that for broadcasting you will need a more powerful processor - Pentium III @ 733 or higher. For tv-card viewing the minimum processor requirement is Pentium @ 233 MHZ.
RAM: 48 Megabytes.
Video card: For maximum quality output you will need a video card with overlay and VMR9 support (any Radeon or GeForce class video card). Minimum requirement: any DirectX comptatible video card.
TV-Card: Optional. Any capture device with appropriate WDM drivers installed.
HDD: Star Media Center is so small that you can run the program directly from your browser, or a floppy disk.
Network: Optional. For broadcasting mode you will need at least a 56 kbps modem. The quality will increase proportionally to your connection speed.
Other requirements: DirectX9c installed. You will also need Windows Media Format 9. Star Media Center is a directshow based application - therefore directshow codecs are needed. To decode most multimedia files you will need to download SMC Components (included in the Star Media Center Full Package).
Limitations: None
What's New in This Release:
Project AIW Player has been renamed to Star Media Center. The version numbering system will remain the same.
Added features:
- Added the multiview feature (you can view 2 videos on the same video window - for example you can view a video file and a tv channel at the same time. You can also use transparancy effects).
- Completley rewritten the chat communication module. Now Star Media Center works with Star Remote Chat 0.34 or newer and supports both win32 or linux versions of Star Remote Chat.
- Broadcasting mode no longer creates an empty 0 bytes file. Also, you can start and stop saving the broadcast content to the harddisk by pressing Play or Stop when in broadcasting mode.
- Broadcasting mode now displays the size of the file beeing saved on the harddisk.
- Broadcasting menuitem is now always visible.
- Better Windows XP graphical interface support.
- Added the autodesktop feature (the program will automatically start in desktop mode if this is checked).
- Added the Auto Hide Subtitles feature (Star Media Center will automatically hide subtitles if this option is checked).
Fixed bugs:
- Greatly optimized the memory handling module.
- Enhanced the debugging mode. Now Star Media Center outputs 2 files when this mode is activated (dev.txt and graph.log).
- Fixed long broadcasting mode shutdowns and freezes.
- Fixed paus and stop when in Custom mode.
- Fixed some issues with the keyboard shortcuts.
- Fixed some issues with the autorun and updated it to the new SMC Components version.
- Fixed an issue that occured when double clicking the system tray icon.
- Fixed some issues with the Control Panel.
- Fixed an issue with the volume beeing pushed up to maximum when starting TV mode.
- Fixed some issues related to the Star Media Center startup.
- Fixed the "Playing "" integer issue.
- Moved some OK buttons that were in place of the Cancel buttons.
- Redesigned the about window.
- Optimized the tv-card initialization module.
Freeware, WinALL 13,6M
Rating: Very Good (4.4/5)
Download
External Mirror 1
-http://fightersoft.openvision.ro/smcenter-067-full.exe
External Mirror 2 - Full package (11.8.2 MB)
-http://fightersoft.gxc.ro/smcenter-067-full.exe
http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AIW-Catalog_1.png
Star Media Catalog 0.25
Star Media Catalog is a freeware application that allows you to create a list (catalog) of your entire movie collection so that you can have all of your data regarding your movie collection centralized in one place.
Star Media Catalog main features are:
- automatically extracts detailed information from video files such as compressor, fourcc, resolution, duration, audio format, sample rate and number of audio channels.
- automatically communicates with the imdb.com server to get detailed movie information such as year, country, genre, rating, plot outline and cast.
- automatically downloads the poster of the movie if available on imdb.com.
- support for television series.
- the data is saved in xml format for easy handling.
What's New in This Release:
· fixed the invalid file name issue
Freeware WinALL 0,53M
Rating: Excellent (5.0/5)
Download
-http://fightersoft.openvision.ro/smcatalog025.exe
or
-http://fightersoft.gxc.ro/smcatalog025.exe
Star Media Center is designed to be a fast and smart tool that enables you to do pretty much everything with your audio-video hardware. At the moment Star Media Center has 5 main functions:
1. A very low resource demanding video player with tons of features. Refer to the howto section.
2. A TV viewing program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card with wdm drivers installed. It should work with every card out there as long as it's drivers are fully compatible with DirectX9.
3. A FM tuning program. Star Media Center requires a TV-card (or a specialized radio capture card) with wdm drivers installed.
4. A DVD player. Star Media Center is capable of DVD playback as long as you have proper decoder installed in your system.
5. A video broadcasting server. This means that you can use your TV-card to broadcast (share) your favorite TV programs with your LAN friends and even on the Internet. When in broadcasting mode Star Media Center becomes a chat server and users can connect to it with Star Remote Chat to chat about, get and set channels. Also, Star Media Center supports broadcasting from video files on your harddrive and directly from your desktop.
Star Media Center offers interconnected features - for example when watching a movie and you want to quickly tune to a news station for just a few minutes you may simply do that and when you're done you can quickly resume your movie with only one click - no more changing from software to software, overlay conflicts and so on... For more info about the Star Media Center features please refer to the howto section.
Star Media Center system requirements:
Operating system: Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP/2003.
CPU: In order to play most video files you will need a Celeron @ 466 MHZ or more powerful. Note, that for broadcasting you will need a more powerful processor - Pentium III @ 733 or higher. For tv-card viewing the minimum processor requirement is Pentium @ 233 MHZ.
RAM: 48 Megabytes.
Video card: For maximum quality output you will need a video card with overlay and VMR9 support (any Radeon or GeForce class video card). Minimum requirement: any DirectX comptatible video card.
TV-Card: Optional. Any capture device with appropriate WDM drivers installed.
HDD: Star Media Center is so small that you can run the program directly from your browser, or a floppy disk.
Network: Optional. For broadcasting mode you will need at least a 56 kbps modem. The quality will increase proportionally to your connection speed.
Other requirements: DirectX9c installed. You will also need Windows Media Format 9. Star Media Center is a directshow based application - therefore directshow codecs are needed. To decode most multimedia files you will need to download SMC Components (included in the Star Media Center Full Package).
Limitations: None
What's New in This Release:
Project AIW Player has been renamed to Star Media Center. The version numbering system will remain the same.
Added features:
- Added the multiview feature (you can view 2 videos on the same video window - for example you can view a video file and a tv channel at the same time. You can also use transparancy effects).
- Completley rewritten the chat communication module. Now Star Media Center works with Star Remote Chat 0.34 or newer and supports both win32 or linux versions of Star Remote Chat.
- Broadcasting mode no longer creates an empty 0 bytes file. Also, you can start and stop saving the broadcast content to the harddisk by pressing Play or Stop when in broadcasting mode.
- Broadcasting mode now displays the size of the file beeing saved on the harddisk.
- Broadcasting menuitem is now always visible.
- Better Windows XP graphical interface support.
- Added the autodesktop feature (the program will automatically start in desktop mode if this is checked).
- Added the Auto Hide Subtitles feature (Star Media Center will automatically hide subtitles if this option is checked).
Fixed bugs:
- Greatly optimized the memory handling module.
- Enhanced the debugging mode. Now Star Media Center outputs 2 files when this mode is activated (dev.txt and graph.log).
- Fixed long broadcasting mode shutdowns and freezes.
- Fixed paus and stop when in Custom mode.
- Fixed some issues with the keyboard shortcuts.
- Fixed some issues with the autorun and updated it to the new SMC Components version.
- Fixed an issue that occured when double clicking the system tray icon.
- Fixed some issues with the Control Panel.
- Fixed an issue with the volume beeing pushed up to maximum when starting TV mode.
- Fixed some issues related to the Star Media Center startup.
- Fixed the "Playing "" integer issue.
- Moved some OK buttons that were in place of the Cancel buttons.
- Redesigned the about window.
- Optimized the tv-card initialization module.
Freeware, WinALL 13,6M
Rating: Very Good (4.4/5)
Download
External Mirror 1
-http://fightersoft.openvision.ro/smcenter-067-full.exe
External Mirror 2 - Full package (11.8.2 MB)
-http://fightersoft.gxc.ro/smcenter-067-full.exe
http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AIW-Catalog_1.png
Star Media Catalog 0.25
Star Media Catalog is a freeware application that allows you to create a list (catalog) of your entire movie collection so that you can have all of your data regarding your movie collection centralized in one place.
Star Media Catalog main features are:
- automatically extracts detailed information from video files such as compressor, fourcc, resolution, duration, audio format, sample rate and number of audio channels.
- automatically communicates with the imdb.com server to get detailed movie information such as year, country, genre, rating, plot outline and cast.
- automatically downloads the poster of the movie if available on imdb.com.
- support for television series.
- the data is saved in xml format for easy handling.
What's New in This Release:
· fixed the invalid file name issue
Freeware WinALL 0,53M
Rating: Excellent (5.0/5)
Download
-http://fightersoft.openvision.ro/smcatalog025.exe
or
-http://fightersoft.gxc.ro/smcatalog025.exe