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Macgo Free Mac Media Player Commented by CNET as Powerful Media Player on Mac

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As we all know that there are plenty of audio, video and image formats, however, despite the amount of available media formats people have already developed, it is not always easy to find one perfect media player for all the formats you want to play on Mac. Macgo Free Mac Media Player has been well received by CNET editors as a powerful media player on Mac recently, and this review has been reproduced on Yahoo News. To verify that Free Mac Media Player is a great media player for Mac users, here’s a comparison among Free Mac Media Player from Macgo and three media players of Apple Mac.

1. Macgo Free Mac Media Player V2.11.1

Since being introduced several years ago, Mac Media Player works as all-in-one media player software for almost all media categories and formats. It has offered a solution for those who want to open several media files in a single, streamlined interface. Although iTunes can play almost everything that you have downloaded, it can be clunky and will add that content to your library, also QuickTime can’t play all media file types.

2. QuickTime V7.7.6

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of video, picture, sound. QuickTime features advanced video compression technology called H.264 to deliver brilliant, crisp HD video using less bandwidth and storage. Bundled with OS X, it offers a simple user interface with basic buttons. Also you can preview the video content when you drag the mouse pointer along the progress bar.

3. iTunes V12.0.1

iTunes acts as a front end for Apple’s QuickTime media player. It is designed to play, download, and organize digital audio and video on personal computers running the OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Through the iTunes Store, you can purchase and download music, MVs, TV shows, movies, and movie rentals in some countries, and ringtones, available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

4. Apple DVD Player V5.7

Apple’s DVD Player is the default option for viewing DVD movies in OS X, and is set up in the “CDs and DVDs” section of the system preferences to automatically launch when a video DVD is mounted and recognized by the system. It is fully compatible with DVDs authored by iDVD and DVD Studio Pro. With DVD Player, users can watch DVD movies right on their Macs and get the same controls they’d find on a DVD player remote control.

 

Name

Macgo Free Mac Media Player

QuickTime

 

 iTunes Apple DVD Player
Pros

 
  • Compatible with hardware acceleration.
  • Quick to play media files on your hard drive.
  • You can set certain file types as default, next time you open them, they will be played automatically.
  • Support an external drive or USB stick with a disc image for playback
  • An user-friendly interface
  • Pro version can edit and convert video
  • Play video in a webpage
  • QuickTime Windows version was developed
  • An simple way to connect and synchronize an iOS device and a computer
  • iTunes store makes buying and downloading media files easier, like music, movies, podcast, etc.
  • Comes bundled in Mac machines and is totally free
  • Support all the standard DVD features

 
Cons:
  • occasionally slow loading menus

 
  • Doesn’t support some some common video formats
  • Need many extra codecs
  • Must add another $29.99 for Pro features
  • Take a while to launch

 
  • It’s difficult to stream music wirelessly to non-Apple devices.
  • Doesn’t support WMA files (though it can convert ones which aren’t copy-protected into other formats).
  • Doesn’t keep track of songs or videos that you move, rename or delete from your computer.
  • You need to have a built in optical drive or external Apple USB SuperDrive that comes with a DVD Player.
  • Enforce most restrictive measures of DVD technology, such as region-restrictive encodings and user-inhibited operations (“disabled actions”).
  • Force Apple’s Grab (screen-grabbing) program to cease functioning through the Finder interface until the DVD Player application is quit to prevent the user from taking screen captures of visual DVD content.

 

To find the perfect media player for Mac certainly is hard. Equipped with H.264 video compression technology QuickTime supports its special streaming video format MOV. iTunes is more like a powerful music organizer and only supports several video formats. Apple DVD Player, as we can see from its name, is mainly designed for DVD and requires an internal DVD drive due to licensing restrictions of the DVD decoding technology. And formats like AVI and MKV cannot be well supported by players of Apple Mac, while Free Mac Media Player has already solve this problem, besides these two, it can play almost any media formats like DVD, VideoCD, MOV, FLV, WMV, MP4, MPEG, RMVB, MP3, WMA, AAC, AC3,etc.

Featuring 1080p HD playback, DTS5.1 audio system and handy operation, Macgo Free Mac Media Player can be the best media player on Mac OS X to offer users unprecedented audio-visual experience. Nothing is perfect. This powerful media player can support almost every media formats except for Blu-ray, but there is always another choice for you, have a try of Mac Blu-ray Player that can play any formats supported by Free Mac Media Player.

6 thoughts on “Macgo Free Mac Media Player Commented by CNET as Powerful Media Player on Mac”

  1. It would be great if you could have support for programmable remotes in the Windows version like Cyberlink. I use a Harmony remote with my HTPC. I can use “Sticky Keys” in Windows to pause your program with my remote but cannot program a 3-key combination for things like fast forward.

    • Dear,

      Thanks so much for using Macgo software.

      As to your suggestion, I will forward to our tech-department.
      Our engineers will consider the feasibility in the future versions.

      Best wishes!

  2. Macgo (paid version) was working perfectly until I upgraded to Yosemite and now I can’t get it to work. Very frustrating!!!

  3. Liked the Free Mac Player, tried the Blue Ray Player. My version of the Pros and Cons table is like this: Pros for Mac Media Player: works out of the box without any adjustments and has the best acceleration. Cons for VLC: crashes after playing media on a USB drive; Cons for MPlayerX: does not play linked MKV files; Cons for Mac Media Player: does not play H.265 video – codec undefined. Verdict: the player zoo persists, no purchase of the Mac Blue Ray Player at this time.

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