Experience for yourself, download and install Elecard MPEG Player today! Elecard MPEG Player is DirectShow® compatible software providing high resolution, full quality decoding of MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 SP/ASP, H.264/AVC*, 3GP. With its decoder optimized for the most efficient CPU usage, Elecard MPEG Player is a great choice for those who strive for high performance and robustness using low power hardware. Reliable support of a number of common multimedia formats such as AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV, and others greatly benefits all Elecard MPEG Player consumers by bringing all the richness and excitement of HD DVD into their homes.

DXVA support in the Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder significantly decreases CPU usage and provides substantial performance gains.

Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder incorporated in the media player is Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible.

Features

Standard Features

- Displays correct aspect ratio

- Full Screen mode

- Video frame capturing (pixel-by-pixel, aspect ratio or user defined) and saving in bmp/jpeg/gif format

- DirectShow and ActiveMovie compliance

- Audio MPEG-1 Layer (I, II, III)

- Play list function

- Sound control

- Multiple Instances - enables using one or several player instances

- Compatible with the video card supporting the YUV overlay

- Always on top - provides player position over other windows

- Playback of all of the well-known and widespread multimedia formats such as: AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV

Experience for yourself, download and install Elecard MPEG Player today! Elecard MPEG Player is DirectShow® compatible software providing high resolution, full quality decoding of MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 SP/ASP, H.264/AVC*, 3GP. With its decoder optimized for the most efficient CPU usage, Elecard MPEG Player is a great choice for those who strive for high performance and robustness using low power hardware. Reliable support of a number of common multimedia formats such as AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV, and others greatly benefits all Elecard MPEG Player consumers by bringing all the richness and excitement of HD DVD into their homes.

DXVA support in the Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder significantly decreases CPU usage and provides substantial performance gains.

Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder incorporated in the media player is Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible.

Features

Standard Features

# Displays correct aspect ratio

# Full Screen mode

# Video frame capturing (pixel-by-pixel, aspect ratio or user defined) and saving in bmp/jpeg/gif format

# DirectShow and ActiveMovie compliance

# Audio MPEG-1 Layer (I, II, III)

# Play list function

# Sound control

# Multiple Instances - enables using one or several player instances

# Compatible with the video card supporting the YUV overlay

# Always on top - provides player position over other windows

# Playback of all of the well-known and widespread multimedia formats such as: AVI, WAV, MP3, MOV

Exclusive Features

# High definition video playback/decoding

# Real-time, high resolution video playback at D1 720x480 at 30fps for NTSC and 720x576 at 25fps for PAL playback on Pentium II 450 MHz with DirectX

# Brightness control

# Deinterlace vertical filter

# Deinterlace field interpolation

# Seek forward and Seek backward options - provide the ability to look through a movie by step. You can define step size as an interval of time (1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30 seconds) or as a number of frames

# Quarter resolution playback (Preview mode)

# Detailed stream information from the video sequence and system headers and from the audio sample headers, statistics from the decoders and renderers.

# Opens URL for playback

# Raw Data trimming

# Playback can be started in Full Screen mode at startup. This mode is switched off after movie ends

# Audio stream output statistics (from Audio Renderer)

# MPEG-2 Audio, including unofficial MPEG-2.5 format

# MPEG-4 support

# MP4 System support

# 3GPP2 support

# DXVA hardware acceleration support

Exclusive Features

If you have encountered issues with Elecard MPEG Player 2.3.2 and lower, caused by Elecard Demultiplexer (as specified on Microsoft Online Crash Analysis website), please uninstall all versions of Elecard player below 4.0.2 then download, unzip and run Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer Patch installation to fix the issue.

To download the patch click here...

Standard Features

Supported Formats

* MPEG-1 System Stream including VideoCD-compliant

* MPEG-1 Video Only

* MPEG-1 Audio (Layer I, II, III)

* MPEG-2 Program Stream including DVD-compliant (VOB) and SuperVCD-compliant (SVCD)

* MPEG-2 Video Only

* MPEG-2 Transport Stream

* MPEG-2 HDTV (including ATSC)

* PIM2 (AVI including MPEG-2 format)

* All 18 ATSC formats

* AVC/H.264*

* MP4 System

* 3GPP2

* MPEG-4 SP-ASP (ISO/IEC 14496-2)

* - H.264/AVC support is available only with AVC Plug-in installed.

Audio

* MPEG-1 Audio Layer (I, II, III) (ISO/IEC 11172-3)

* MPEG-2 Audio, including unofficial MPEG-2.5 format

* LPCM Linear PCM (an audio standard for DVD)

* AAC*

* - AAC support is available only with AVC Plug-in installed.

System Requirements

Requirements to hardware

* MMX-enhanced CPU (Intel® Pentium III, Celeron, AMD® Athlon, Opteron etc.)

* 128 MB RAM

* Any VGA card

* About 15 MB of free disk space

Requirements to software

* Windows® 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Installation

1. Download the Elecard MPEG Player installation file from the Elecard download page or its mirrors.

2. Unzip the delivery pack and run the Elecard MPEG Player 4.0.1 Setup (Elecard MPEG Player X.X.exe), follow the onscreen instructions

3. When setup has finished installing all of the necessary files on your computer, the Elecard MPEG Player has been successfully installed dialog box will appear, and the program is ready to run. You do not need to reboot your computer.

Activation

1. Run the Elecard Registrator. Click Start->Programs->Elecard -> Elecard MPEG Player X.X->Registrator

2. Select Elecard MPEG Player from the product list and press the Activate button.

3. Use your Serial number to complete the activation process (Serial Number is provided in your purchase confirmation email).

Uninstallation

1. Click Start->Programs->Elecard->Elecard MPEG Player X.X->Uninstall Elecard MPEG Player X.X.

2. Select Uninstall Elecard MPEG Player option.

3. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the removal of Elecard MPEG Player.

Note

* Product version 4.5 was certified for Windows Vista. Please use new MPEG Player version 5.5

* Elecard MPEG Player v.5.5 is undergoing certification testing by Dolby Laboratories and will be available with AC3 support soon. All users of MPEG Player v.5.5 will receive a free update to the new version including AC3.