Annot Player 0.1.5.5

Annot Player is a free and open source utility that allows you to share annotations while playing movies, music, pictures, and games (esp. Japanese AVG).

All annotations are saved onto the Cloud at http://annot.me.

Video site such as Youtube and Youku are also supported for playing online video together with annotations.

Annot Player is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Here are some key features of "Annot Player":

Annot Cloud:
· Annotate Video/Audio/Picture/Galgame
· Annotations saved to the Cloud
· Express opinion/feelings/subtitle with annot
· Share annotations with others

Online Media and Annots:
· Play video online together with shared Annotations
· Import and share annotations with Nicovideo, AcFun and Bilibili: Youtube, AcFun.tv, Bilibili.tv, Nicovideo, Youku, Sina

Support Most Multimedia Formats - Play most media formats using VLC engine:
· DVD, CD and disc image -- iso/mdf
· Blu-ray Discs
· Flash video from Youtube -- flv/mp4/rmvb/webm
· HD video with subtitles -- mkv/mp4/ssa
· Lossless CD image -- ape/tta/flac/cue
· Music -- mp3/m4a/wma
· Photo and comics -- png/bmp/jpg

Ad-hoc Game Translation:
· Translate Galgame text using Bing Translator to English/Japanese/Chinese/Korean
· Translations rendered as subtitles in game

Free and Open-source:
· Free, no installation required on Windows/Mac
· Self-contained with all codecs and plugins
· Platform independent, and open-source (Google Code)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Add water ripple effect to render windows (conflicts with Aero effect, Mac/WinXP only).
· Show meta info (e.g. user,date) after annotations.
· Show loading progress in Browser's address bar.
· When the download option is off, try to use MMS protocal instead of HTTP to stream remote video.
· Include Youtube, and any other video which is less than 6 minutes.
· Currently, parted remote video and those require authentification (such as Nicovideo) do not support MMS mode.
· Fix a bug when resolve Youtube video on Windows.
· Fix an encoding bug when resolve Tudou video.
· Fix a bug that might result in unsaved download tasks when downloading multiple videos.