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Originally published at Internet.comMultimedia Xplorer is a free one-of-a-kind, all-in-one multimedia viewer. Whereas in the past you would need a separate application in order to view each type of image, sound, movie, icon, etc. file that you download from the web or receive from a friend, now all you need is Multimedia
Extensive Support for Most Major Multimedia Formats
The client provides an easy to use click 'n' view interface with support for a wide range of image (JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, EMF, TGA, ICO, and PCX), video (AVI, MPEG, MOV), sound (WAV, MID, RMI, AIFF, AU, SND, MP2), and cursor (CUR and animated cursors, ANI) formats. The Xplorer can additionally extract icons for you from ICO, ICL, DLL and EXE files.
Multimedia Xplorer offers a built-in file manager for quickly locating multimedia files, and if you need a little more help than the file manager offers, you can put the client's Multimedia Detective to use. The detective searches through your hard drive and folders for multimedia and image files and then displays the results for you. Accessing any file from the detective is one simple mouse click away.
The Logo Changer and Additional Features
Multimedia Xplorer also offers a whole lot more than just viewing capabilities. A Logo Changer option allows you to change the default startup and shutdown logos for Windows 95/NT. The unique QuickPicker and Destinations features allow you to save your most often used folders for quick access.
Additional features in Multimedia Xplorer include a File Filter (for showing only files of a certain type), batch conversion capabilities, drag 'n' drop support from the Windows Explorer, a built-in slide show editor, manual or automatic slide show capabilities, and the ability to set any image as your desktop wallpaper.
Features Lacking Relative to the Competition
At only $25, this is one application that you'll definitely want to try out and, more than likely, continue to use on a regular basis. However, there are a couple of features currently absent from the client that would make Multimedia Xplorer even better.
First, a plug-in version would help distance the Xplorer from its closest competition, Thumbs Plus, and would also make the app an invaluable partner to your favorite Web browser. Perhaps even more importantly, it would allow you to get rid of some excess applications by consolidating your collection of plug-ins. Also, an integrated screen capture client for bringing desktop images and movies into the Xplorer would be extremely useful.
The Final Word
Overall, with support for more multimedia types than Thumbs Plus and a less expensive price tag ($25 compared to $50), Multimedia Xplorer is unquestionably the best application currently available for handling nearly every single media type encountered on the Web. You heard it here first - this may well be the multimedia answer to Quick View Plus!
Author: Forrest Stroud
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