MegaView

MegaView is a lightweight image viewer and media player that comes with support for various file formats, such as WMA, MP3, AVI, and MPEG. Plus, it allows you to open text documents, create photo slideshows, generate auto-playing slideshow for CDs and DVDs, convert and edit pictures, as well as design thumbnails.

The program comes packed with lots of options for managing photos, songs, and videos so it may be a good idea to reserve some of your extra time in order to understand how it works. You can also access a help manual in case you want to find out more details about the configuration process.

MegaView implements an Explorer-like panel in the main window which allows you to browse throughout the files and folders stored on your system. You may also create a list with your favorite files so you can quickly access them.

The application offers you the possibility to play, pause, or stop the current audio/video selection, seek for a position in the video/audio streams, adjust the volume or mute it, and replay the file when it completes the playback.

Basic file management features are integrated for helping you rename, copy, move, or delete files. Plus, you can email or print items, create new folders, generate password-protected ZIP archives, and design a new blank image.

What’s more, you can make an animated GIF file by creating a list with frames (e.g. JPG, BMP, ICO, PNG), inserting, appending, or deleting frames, as well as setting up GIF parameters, like colors, transparency, background color, and delay time. You may also preview the animation directly in a dedicated panel.

Other important options worth being mentioned enable you to filter the files revealed in the main window by image, video, sound, Windows, or text items, sort files in a specific order using different criteria (e.g. filename, size, type, creation date), and look for files in a certain location on the disk.

MegaView lets you zoom in or out of photos, enable a full screen display, rotate and flip images, resize and crop pictures, remove red eye effects, add borders, shadow effects, or frames, embed text/image watermarks, apply automatic color enhancements, and sharpen the photo or use grayscale effects.

Batch conversion actions can be employed for processing multiple images at the same time. You are offered the freedom to resize, rotate, flip, edit, and convert multiple pictures to JPEG, GIF, PCX, PNG, TGA, BMP, TIFF, or other file formats.

MegaView helps you preview photos with the aid of a slideshow (with custom background music, image motion effects, transition effects, and loop mode) and set the current photo as your wallpaper. The integrated text editor comes with support for basic features, like printing options, clipboard actions (cut, copy, paste), and text customization functions (font style, color, size, and alignment).

Other extra tools included in the package enable you to create thumbnails, generate a CD/DVD slideshow which is automatically displayed when you insert the disk into your computer, and make a thumbnail index of your files to upload to a website.

Tests have shown that MegaView executes tasks quickly and offers very good output results. It is not a resource hog so you do not have to worry that it hampers the overall performance of your computer.

MegaView comes with a comprehensive suite of features for helping you access image, video, audio, and text files. However, the abundance of tools may seem a bit overwhelming especially for less experienced users.