SockPlayer

SockPlayer is a comprehensive application functioning as a media player that can open virtually all audio and video formats with ease.

Aside from the basic media player functions, such as 'Pause', 'Stop', 'Repeat', or 'Shuffle', the application also offers a number of more advanced features that allow you to enhance your movie watching and music listening experiences.

The video tools you can use include 'Rotate', 'Mirror', 'Flip', 'Equalizer' and 'Deinterlace', but also a variety of filters you can apply to your movie, such as 'Deblock', 'Add Noise', 'Add Black Borders', 'Denoise', 'Blur / Sharp'.

As for the available audio utilities, you have the option of using several 'Filters', namely 'Extrastereo', 'Karaoke' or 'Volume Normalization'; you can also change the audio channels from 'Stereo' to 'Surround', or adjust various values with the 'Audio Equalizer' component. Moreover, you can increase or decrease the audio delay with a preferred amount of milliseconds.

An interesting function of SockPlayer is its ability to capture your full desktop or a selected region for 5, 60 or 300 minutes as well as for an unlimited amount of time. You have the option of recording sounds, provided that an audio input device is present. The video is saved under an AVI format, to a folder of your choice. Such a feature can prove particularly useful if you want to record demonstration movies or tutorials from your desktop.

SockPlayer enables you to capture images from a video camera connected to your computer and save the resulting file to WMV format. Also, you can record audio files using a microphone and export the recording to an MP3. With SockPlayer you can also grab screenshots of a video playing in the main window.

SockPlayer is a multi-featured application, providing you with several functions that go beyond a simple media player, making it an interesting and useful tool for anyone looking for such a program.