Haihaisoft Universal Player

Haihaisoft Universal Player is an application designed for playing music and movies, but you can also view images. It supports many formats, including WMA, MPEG, DVD, MP3, AIFF, OGG, MKV, MOV, and DVD.

The installation process takes place in quick steps, and the user-friendly interface is modern (it looks a lot like Windows Media Player). Unfortunately, you cannot add files by using the drag and drop method (only by using the program's file explorer), but you can, however, create a playlist.

The software comes with its own codecs, but for some formats, you have to manually install them (in our case, for RM files).

You can view the media library, an embedded browser, configure file associations, assign hotkeys, enable a built-in audio switcher filter, and add external filters.

You can customize subtitles (including their position), move in the video frame by frame, add and organize favorites, change the interface's skin, apply shaders (which were not available in our case), and more.

Unfortunately, the program does not contain a help file. First-time users will probably limit themselves to movie-viewing purposes only, in lack of a proper documentation, while expert users can play with the various settings.

Haihaisoft Universal Player manages to play sharp sound and display clear images (whether we are talking about videos or pictures) while using a moderate amount of system resources. We have not encountered any major problems during its testing. The bottom line is that is more user-friendly than most media players.