VidLizard is a small program that allows you to playback the most common audio and video formats. To play a file you need to click on the Eject button and browse your computer to load the file, but also you can drag and drop a file from Windows Explorer onto the player, and associate different files to be opened with this program automatically.
The program has all the regular buttons required to play media files: play, stop, next track, volume, shuffle, balance channels, and more. Besides, you can create and save playlists; you can increase the playback speed, use direct show filters, zoom, change the aspect ratio; change the brightness, contrast and saturation. It supports sub, srt, txt, ssa, smi subtitle files.
In the configuration window you can adjust video and audio parameters. You can adjust the fast forward speed, the full screen mode resolution, aspect ratio, the sound output frequency, change the font and color for subtitles, and more. You can also assign keyboard keys to execute many options.
Among the media formats supported are: vlp, skn, m3u, asf, avi, mpeg, vcd, svcd, divx, enc, m1v, m2v, qt, vob, wma, aif, au, mid, mp3, wav, ifo, cda, and more. The trial version can be used only for 30 days.
Pros
- You can increase the playback speed, use direct show filters, zoom, change the aspect ratio; change the brightness, contrast and saturation. You can also assign keyboard keys to execute many options
Cons
- There are only few features in comparison with the Windows Media Player which is included with Windows at no cost