Movie Time: Simple Fullscreen Movie Player

Posted by Nick Yassen on 02/4/07 in Applications, Video

As you know, QuickTime can’t play videos in fullscreen without the Pro version. That’s why there’s plenty of other video players in the market like VLC, MPlayer, NicePlayer, and the list goes on and on. What if you just want a simple, powerful, and customizable fullscreen movie player to enjoy you movies with? That’s why Sanswork created Movie Time.

Movie Time is a fullscreen movie player, with powerful features such as support for subtitles, simple keyboard controls, customizable appearance and advanced volume control.

Using Movie Time is simple. When you open a movie, Movie Time starts playing it automatically in fullscreen. Movie Time also saves any position of an unfinished movie, so when you open the application next time, it will automatically start from the position the movie was playing, before it quit. This can be turned off in the preferences, too.

The keyboard shortcuts make it easy to control your movie. Whether you want to play/pause, rewind/fast forward, control the volume or the movie size, it’s all reachable from the keyboard. If you forget a certain key combination, you can press Command+? and you’ll get a nice little window with all the keyboard shortcuts.

When you trigger an action with the keyboard controls, Movie Time gives you visual feedback, with little window showing a piece of information about the action performed. You can also have a traditional controller to use with the mouse, if you can’t get used to the keyboard shortcuts. You can also control Movie Time with an Apple Remote.

The main window and the overlays, including subtitles, can be customized. Movie Time also supports customizable encoding, so subtitles with another languages can be displayed properly.

Movie Time also received a brand new shiny icon in version 0.4.

The best of all? Movie Time is free. That’s right, free, however I’m sure a donation would be appreciated. Download it here.

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wph said on

February 4th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

QT Pro is the biggest rip off in Apple history, second maybe to $1.99 for the n router. Good thing there are so many great alternatives.

Smaran said on

February 4th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Sounds like a useful little app that almost every new Mac user should download if they haven’t heard of VLC. I know that I was totally shocked by the fact that QuickTime didn’t allow me to play full screen movies when I bought my Mac, even though Front Row did! I already knew QuickTime for Windows had this restriction, but I expected the Mac version wouldn’t, since it is the default video player bundled with OS X. Apple really needs to kill of QuickTime Pro, lest they start receiving flak for it as the Mac’s market share increases.

shadownight said on

February 4th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

Thanks for pointing out this app, it looks pretty cool. I’ll check it out.

Rennervater said on

February 4th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

Your not wrong there wph

Andre said on

February 4th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

I just use FrontRow’s video player for full screen videos. Works just fine.

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Sherb said on

February 4th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

I like the fact that it will save where you were in the movie if you decide to quit. Other than that I would probably just use front row, but this is great if you don’t have access to a new mac with front row and the remote.

Koven said on

February 5th, 2007 at 3:16 pm

In case you don’t know already, you can write a short script in OSX that will play quicktime in fullscreen without having to pay for Quicktime Pro. Check it here http://www.techpwn.com/?p=78.

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Janice Lo said on

February 5th, 2007 at 4:59 pm

i like niceplayer a lot more - will play ogm too!

Loweded Wookie said on

February 5th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

For all the naysayers saying QT Pro is a rip off then I suggest that you get your heads out your bungholes and think about what QT Pro is.

You’re not paying for a fullscreen player, you’re paying for a very powerful editing app.

The fact QT can’t play fullscreen is moot because you have FrontRow and iTunes for that who incidentally both use QT so think before you speak. There are reasons why iTunes and FrontRow are better options than QT for this which I won’t get into.

Needless to say that QT Pro allows you to capture video and audio (NONE of the other PLAYERS do this).

Killing off QT Pro is a retard idea coming from people who don’t actually understand the full potential of QT Pro. Is it worth paying $55(NZ) for QT Pro just to play fullscreen? No it’s not but then once again why pay for QT Pro when you have iTunes and/or FrontRow? Is it worth paying $55(NZ) for video/audio recording and video/audio conversion? ABSOLUTELY.

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Poopcake said on

February 5th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

Hello I am 14 and have acne, can I blog too?

Heyoka said on

February 8th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

I didn’t pay for QT Pro just to watch movies in full screen it was for it’s video and audio compression and codec’s it possesses. That is the power behind QT Pro.
QT Pro was a deal.

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