Win8 brings a new experience mode, so that thousands of users deeply feel the charm of Windows upgrade, and the traditional features of Windows that Win8 inherits, including Windows software, Theme, start menu, and more. So what is the compatibility of the software on the traditional Windows platform, how is it compatible with the new Win8? The ZOL software channel will launch a test article for the Windows 8 software compatibility series, hoping to distinguish it by testing the software compatibility one by one. There are some incompatibilities in the software.
Software to be tested software category software name media player class
TVAnts TV ant boiling point network TV Mplayer movie player audio and video pioneer audio and video star swf player software. Since Windows Media before Windows Me has always referred to Windows Media Player as a media player, the media player has become synonymous with Windows Media Player among old computer users. However, with the continuous development of the software industry, third-party media players have also grown, let's take a look at the compatibility of these third-party media players in Windows 8.
TVAnts TV Ant /Boiling Network TV
First to test the Win8 compatibility performance of TVAnts TV Ant and Boiling Network TV two network players.
TVants is a new kind of streaming media playback software. Her core technology is similar to the now popular P2P (PEER TO PEER), that is, a playback node exchanges (provides or requests) data with several playback nodes at the same time. Maximize bandwidth usage for the smoothest playback.
Boiler Network TV is a free, high-speed network TV software created by the boiling point product team. It provides free NBA, movies, TV, games, animation, and other services related to the introduction, search, and preview of the program. Live programs such as sports events; users can easily use this software to watch more than 400 novel TV stations, TV series, movies and variety shows channels for free, with more than 1000 wonderful programs.
TVants prompts users to update the version
Test, when we select "Yes" is "update", the interface jumps to a web page, but we can not open the new interface to download TVants update Version, and the version is not working properly on Windows 8 systems.
Boiling network TV tips have software updates
Win8 pop-up problem window closes after clicking update
Adjusting the compatibility of boiling-point network TV to other operating system problems
Test Player Software Name Compatibility TVAnts TV Ants
Incompatible Boiling Network TV
Incompatible
After testing, we have seen TVAnts TV Ant, Boiling Network TV two products are not working properly in Windows 8 operating system. One of the fuses is that both products encounter software updates, but in Windows 8 mode, the software itself cannot be updated, or it is impossible to jump to the updated page to download the update software.
Mplayer Movie Player/Video Pioneer
MPlayer is an open source multimedia player released under the GNU General Public License. This software can be used in all major operating systems, such as Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft's Windows system and Apple's Mac OS X system. MPlayer is built on a command line interface, and you can choose to install different graphical interfaces in each operating system.
Video Pioneer is a software that can play video and audio online. Supports a variety of streaming media protocols such as HTTP and MMS, and smoothly broadcasts a variety of audio and video formats such as WMV/asf/MP3/WMA/SWf. Online play MP3 supports 10-band equalizer adjustment. It adopts DirectShow and DirectSound playback technology, supports DirectShow video stream and DirectSound audio stream output, and has the advantages of low resource consumption, high operating efficiency and wide support format.
Mplayer is perfectly compatible with Windows 8
About Mplayer
Mplayer is perfect for playing video
In Windows 8, the overall response of MPlayer software is fast and sensitive. It can perfectly play video files in various formats.
(But it does not affect the use of the software itself)
Video Sounder Perfect Play Video
Test Player Software Name Compatibility Mplayer Movie Player
Compatible Video Pioneer
Compatible
Mplayer The compatibility of the two products of the movie player and video pioneer is perfect in Windows 8. Whether it is from the corresponding speed of the software itself or the playback of various formats of video, the playback effect is acceptable.
Video Star/Flash Player
Audio and video files and streaming media. In addition, the video star has also added a blocking function for the malicious advertising pop-up window in the movie, and the fans have a clear world.
We usually say that the swf player is actually the Flash Player software developed by ADOBE. It is a high-end client runtime player that can be applied to various browsers, operating systems and mobile devices.
The difference between the flash player plugin and the flash player: it is a web page ActiveX control, and the flash player is an exe executable program. The former is used to play flash animations in web pages, while the latter is used to play local swf format files.
Software name compatibility audio and video star
compatible with Flash player
not compatible
Everyone knows that Flash player and Flash plugin are two different software applications. In Windows 8, there is no doubt that it is perfectly compatible with the Flash plug-in function, because it is easy to detect from the perfect performance of watching online video using IE10 in Win8; and the Flash player (such as SWF player) is The tests in Win8 are not well compatible with the Windows 8 operating system.