5KPlayer is a free multimedia player offering a lot of other services like downloading videos from YouTube, DLNA streamer and AirPlay mirroring recorder as well.
It’s hard to find a media player who not only is a multimedia player but also offers cool stuff like downloading videos from YouTube, DLNA streamer and also offering mirror recording through Apple’s AirPlay. The video player offers hardware acceleration based on the Nvidia CUDA, AMD, and Intel Hardware Computing SDK. This allows the user to play videos up to 8K without stutter, choke or glitch.
5KPlayer is not Your Average Media Player
Sure, VLC media player is great and is one of the most used multimedia around the globe but sometimes it struggles to play videos perfectly and has issues playing videos of 4K resolution or higher. People are switching to resolutions to 4K from 1080p and it’s safe to assume in coming 5-10 years. 4K will become the generic common resolution used by people so it’s important to find media player which will be able to handle 4K or high-resolution videos and 5KPlayers just is the perfect media player for that. Following are some of the brilliant features which 5KPlayers offers to its users for free
AirPlay and DLNA Wireless Stream
If you’re not familiar with wireless stream it’s a software for instant screen mirroring. It helps render the whole screen of iPhone/iPad to computer and Mac/PC to Apple TV in a flash for clearer visuals. Associated with Mirroring, there is also a screen recording utility that allows up to 4K video records.
What is DLNA service?
It’s a service formed in 2003 which is used for streaming local video, audio and picture files to people who are on your network. You can stream videos from your server and your smartphone acts as a remote from where you can play any video, audio or open any picture from your device and others can watch it on other devices connected to the server. The app also provides a blend of DLNA controller, DLNA renderer and DLNA server.
It’s a cover-all video downloader
One of the things I loved about the app is that it provides support for downloading videos from more than 300 video websites like YouTube, Vevo, Vimeo, Facebook, etc. You can download MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, VR 360° in 4K 5K 8K Ultra HD or 1080p HD videos. Here are some websites from where you can download videos:
- Yahoo
- DailyMotion
- Vimeo
- Vevo
- Metacafe
- Myspace
- Vine
- UStream
- MTV
- Bliptv
- LiveLeak
- CBS SlideShare
- and many more.
There’s more, the app also lets you convert the downloaded videos to independent soundtracks. It’s honestly unbelievable how many features this app offers for free. I’ve tried downloading videos from some of the popular websites mentioned above with even 4K resolutions and it worked flawlessly. The media player also played the video without any hassle which is sweet as I was looking for a media player to watch high res videos on my system.
Create your own decent library
I can’t say for others but I do want a decent library management system in my multimedia player which not surprisingly this video player provides. From here on out, you can access and manage the YouTube videos and playlists, sort out your favorite audios/videos, and create a new classified playlist(s) in the Library of 5KPlayer as you please.
Pros and Cons of 5KPlayer
Let’s conclude the review with the pros and cons of 5KPlayer
Pros
- A free multimedia player with several brilliant features
- Download videos from more than 300 websites
- Video converter
- AirPlay supported
- DLNA wireless stream
- Create and manage decent library
- Open-source software
- Hardware accelerated video/audio player
- Supports resolutions up to 8K
Cons
- Outdated UI
- Software feels too much cramped
- Video/Audio player feels old fashioned.
I haven’t encountered any bugs/glitches with the software. Everything I’ve tried worked flawlessly and I believe the cons will not even feel like cons when you will get used to it. Definitely recommended multimedia player with bonus features that feel like icing on the cake.
Download Link
Interested in downloading the software? Download it from the link down below.
Download 5KPlayer for Microsoft Windows
Download 5KPlayer for Apple Mac
For more info visit 5KPlayer’s official website.