TotalMedia Theatre
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TotalMedia Theatre is a commercial media player for Microsoft Windows
,it supports Windows 7 32/64, Vista 32/64, XP 32. The product is distributed via download from the ArcSoft
website. Older versions of the software support Windows x64.
3D
movies, DVD
, Blu-ray Disc
& HD DVD
playback is supported.
All-in-one media player
for videos, Blu-ray, DVD
s, and AVCHD
Plays 2D DVDs, videos, and photo slideshows in 3D
Online video playback, download and sharing
SimHD Advanced: Convert standard-definition multimedia files and DVDs to high-definition, offering a sharper and more vivid picture in real time.
Sim3D: Convert 2D movies and photos to 3D.
Magic View: Provide an intuitive media management panel to help to add and manage various media files.
Inter Video: YouTube videos can be downloaded and played directly.
Smart Menu for easy chapter searching and online information:TotalMedia Theatres unique Smart Menu automatically creates a popup menu similar to Blu-ray menus for DVD or video based content. Access movie info, chapters, and bookmarks or change audio and subtitle tracks all without ever needing to interrupt playback of the movie.
Magic View provides an elegant way to browse your media:Magic View allows you to browse media files faster and thumbnails can be arranged in different sizes, viewing more at one glance.
Advanced SimHD brings DVD video resolution to high definition:TotalMedia Theatres improved SimHD algorithms bring DVDs and low-resolution videos, even YouTube videos, up to near high-resolution quality while also offering dynamic lighting, denoise and smoothness enhancements.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
,it supports Windows 7 32/64, Vista 32/64, XP 32. The product is distributed via download from the ArcSoft
ArcSoft
ArcSoft, Inc. is a computer software development company that makes multimedia technologies and applications across desktop and embedded platforms. ArcSoft works primarily with original equipment manufacturers and offers digital imaging and video solutions...
website. Older versions of the software support Windows x64.
3D
Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. Both of these 2-D offset images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3-D depth...
movies, DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
& HD DVD
HD DVD
HD DVD is a discontinued high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video.Supported principally by Toshiba, HD DVD was envisioned to be the successor to the standard DVD format...
playback is supported.
Functions
All-in-one media player
Media player
Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. While many media players can play both audio and video, others focus only on one media type or the other...
for videos, Blu-ray, DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s, and AVCHD
AVCHD
AVCHD is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video....
Plays 2D DVDs, videos, and photo slideshows in 3D
3D
3D or 3-D may refer to:*Three-dimensional space, the physical universe*Stereoscopy, any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image-Music:*3D...
Online video playback, download and sharing
Key features
BD & 3D Playback: Play 3D movies and video files including Blu-ray 3D movies.SimHD Advanced: Convert standard-definition multimedia files and DVDs to high-definition, offering a sharper and more vivid picture in real time.
Sim3D: Convert 2D movies and photos to 3D.
Magic View: Provide an intuitive media management panel to help to add and manage various media files.
Inter Video: YouTube videos can be downloaded and played directly.
New features
Play any 3D and 2D videos and photos in 3D style:TotalMedia Theatre gives you all you need to enjoy 3D movies. Beyond that, it allows viewing standard 2D photo slideshows and DVD movies in 3D with Sim3D. Various 3D encoding formats and 3D TV display formats are supported. Typically complex 3D setup is automated and simplified so you can enjoy your 3D movies without hassle.Smart Menu for easy chapter searching and online information:TotalMedia Theatres unique Smart Menu automatically creates a popup menu similar to Blu-ray menus for DVD or video based content. Access movie info, chapters, and bookmarks or change audio and subtitle tracks all without ever needing to interrupt playback of the movie.
Magic View provides an elegant way to browse your media:Magic View allows you to browse media files faster and thumbnails can be arranged in different sizes, viewing more at one glance.
Advanced SimHD brings DVD video resolution to high definition:TotalMedia Theatres improved SimHD algorithms bring DVDs and low-resolution videos, even YouTube videos, up to near high-resolution quality while also offering dynamic lighting, denoise and smoothness enhancements.
Supported audio formats/codecs
- MP3MP3MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
- WAVWAVWaveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...
- WMA
- AACAACAAC refers to Advanced Audio Coding, an audio compression format successor to the MP3 format.AAC may also refer to:-Aviation:* AAC, IATA airport code for El Arish International Airport, Egypt...
- OggOggOgg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex...
- FLACFLACFLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...
Supported video formats/codecs
- MPEG-1 video files (*.M1V)
- MPEG-2 TV recorded files (*.TS;*.TTS;*.TP;*.TRP)
- MPEG-2 transport stream (*.M2TS;*.M2T;*.MTSMTS- Organizations :* Machine and Tractor Station, a state enterprise of agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union* Manitoba Teachers' Society, 1919-present, a Manitoba, Canada teacher union...
) - MPEG-4 video files (*.MP4;*.DIV;*.DIVXDIVXDIVX was an unsuccessful attempt by Circuit City and the entertainment law firm Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca and Fischer to create an alternative to video rental in the United States.-Format:...
) - MPEG-4 AVC files (*.264;*.26L;*.H264;*.AVCH.264/MPEG-4 AVCH.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC is a standard for video compression, and is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video...
;*.MOV;*.JSV;*.JVT;*.MVC;*.M4VM4VM4V is a file container format used by Apple's iTunes application. The M4V file format is a video file format developed by Apple and is very close to MP4 format...
) - MPEG video files (*.MPG;*.MPEG;*.MPE;*.MPA;*.MPVMinivanMinivan is a type of van designed for personal use. Minivans are typically either two-box or one box designs for maximum interior volume – and are taller than a sedan, hatchback, or a station wagon....
;*.M2P;*.EVOEnhanced VOBAn EVO file is a container format contained in HD DVD video media. It contains the actual video, audio, subtitle and menu contents in stream form. It is an extension to VOB, which is an extension to MPEG program stream...
) - Windows media files (*.ASFAdvanced Systems FormatAdvanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media...
;*.WMWindows MediaWindows Media is a multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit with several application programming interfaces and a number of prebuilt technologies, and is the replacement of NetShow technologies.The Windows Media SDK...
;*.WMV;*.ASXASXASX may refer to:* Australian Securities Exchange, the primary stock exchange of Australia* Advanced Stream Redirector, a computer file format listing Windows Media files * Armstrong Siddeley ASX, a British experimental turbojet* John F...
) - JVC MPEG2 files (*.TOD;*.MODMOD (file format)MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.MOD” file extension, except on the Amiga where the original trackers instead use a “mod.” prefix scheme, e.g. “mod.echoing”...
) - MCE recorded files(*.DVR-MSDVR-MSDVR-MS is a proprietary video and audio file container format, developed by Microsoft used for storing TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7....
;*.WTVWindows Media CenterWindows Media Center is a digital video recorder and media player developed by Microsoft. It is an application that allows users to view and record live television, as well as organize and play music and videos...
) - Video for Windows files (*.AVIAudio Video InterleaveAudio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...
) - Video CD files (*.DAT)
- DVD video object files (*.VOBVOBA VOB file is a container format in DVD-Video media. VOB can contain video, audio, subtitle, menu and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. VOB is based on the MPEG program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams...
) - FLV files (*.FLVFLVFlash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–11. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats known as Flash Video: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files...
;*.F4V) - 3GP files (*.3GP3GP3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones....
;*.3G2) - MKV files (*.MKVMatroskaThe Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows...
) - DV recorded files (*.DVDVDV is a format for the digital recording and playing back of digital video. The DV codec was launched in 1995 with joint efforts of leading producers of video camcorders....
) - QuickTime files (*.MOV;*QT)
- VC1 files (*.VC1VC-1VC-1 is the informal name of the SMPTE 421M video codec standard, which was initially developed as a proprietary video format by Microsoft before it was released as a formal SMPTE standard video format on April 3, 2006...
)
Supported subtitle types
- SRT
- SSASubStation AlphaSubStation Alpha , abbreviated SSA, is a subtitle file format created by CS Low that allows for more advanced subtitles than the conventional SRT and similar formats. This format can be rendered with VSFilter in conjunction with a DirectShow-aware video player , or MPlayer with the SSA/ASS library...
- IDX
- SUB