Wondershare Player for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By kevludwig

  Hijacks your video preferences

  I downloaded this because VLC was having trouble with some .wmv files. Wondershare played them fine and I thought I'd just found myself another great option for playing video. HOWEVER, I wanted to keep playing certain other movie types with VLC or Quicktime Player. I saw that all my movie types were now set to Wondershare Player -- no problem, I just used Get Info and changed my preferred player for those other types. But then a little while later I double-clicked a filetype I had set to open with VLC and guess what? Wondershare Player had hijacked my preferences and set itself as the default for all movie types again. I tried this a few times and Wondershare kept doing the same thing. I find this behavior inexcusable and was about to delete the program. Only after looking through the application's preferences, under "Associations," was I able to control what Wondershare would (and wouldn't) open and have it stick. I'm giving it two stars because it did play the .wmv files I couldn't otherwise have played smoothly, and I was able to stop it from hijacking my preferences, though not using the normal and accepted Windows method.

  
  
• By joesarti

  Great looking Player, but it has its issues.

  I love the look of the player it self. The transparency feature is great, the snap a picture is great too. It plays any video file which is amazing, but the bad part comes when after a while the video sound it starts to echo and i have to restart the movie. It has happend plenty of times with different videos. I hope is fixeble in an update.

  
  
• By TL2k2

  Hardware Accelaeration finally…...

  thanks for the update dev, happy to see that you guy finally add hardware accelleration but its kinda anoying to play the file first then press X to activate the hardware accell. Can you implement it on to the preferences so we can just choose to use it or not by default. Update on the review, i just found a problem with this app, problem with the audio downmix from muti channel movie files, it sound very echoing where it doesn't happen with the previous app or other app that i tested with.

  
  
• By Ajarn63

  Hijacks Preferences / Unable to Fully Uninstall

  After experiencing some of the same frustrations as other reviewers (hijacking preferences, freezing, no audio), the final insult was being unable to fully uninstall the app. After uninstalling (supposedly) every video still shows a “download” drop-down box which often gets in the way of an “X” for closing a window, or other needed options. When you click the “download” tab (hopefully to get rid of it), the webpage jumps to an error page. Very invasive and very frustrating. Be wary of any software that leaves traces on your Windows after uninstalling, especially if it affects your daily operations!

  
  

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