AK-Player 7 is a free media player which you can use in order to watch movies, and also listen to music. It supports a wide range of audio as well as video formats.
Interesting thing about this free media player is that it allows you to watch multiple videos at the same time, and you can also use it to scan web browser cache folders and watch videos that you have been watching which were cached.
Interface of AK-Player 7 is very unusual, as you can see from the screenshot above. Futuristic would be the best word to describe what you’ll see after running this free media player for the first time, after seeing its control panel. All the options are spread out around the edges of the wheel. Open File is located all the way at the top, volume adjustment to the left, offline search for audio and video from both the browser cache and the rest of your hard drive is located all the way at the bottom.
Key Features of this Free Media Player for Windows are:
- Allows you to play videos that you’ve watched online and are stored in your browser cache.
- Supported browsers are Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
- Good format support: FLV, AVI, WMA, JPEG, GIF, MKV, WAV, FLAC, etc.
- Search tool for quickly finding all available media on your computer.
- Comes with 2 different media rendering engines, quick switching.
- Unlimited zoom is available, zoom without any kind of restrictions.
- Playlists to load all of your multimedia in playlists.
- Modern looking interface, easy to understand and setup.
You’re probably now wondering to what exactly are we referring to when we say that AK-Player 7 offers two media engines. The two of them are offering different codecs and different formats can be played. Think of it as if you have two media players installed on your computer, they are just rolled up in one application. Here are few tips to help you get started.
How to Watch Movies and listen to Music with AK-Player 7?
Click on Open and then using the standard open file menu navigate to the video files that you want to open up and select it. From what we’ve discovered, engine number 1 plays majority of video files, so make sure it’s selected.
Video should start playing right away in a new window. Now to use the built-in browser cache player, you need to click on the Offline Search button which is available at the bottom of the interface.
Window will pop-up where you can select the browsers who’s cache you want this free media player to scan and once you do that, click the Offline Search button. Found videos will be imported to the playlist and they should start playing right away.
Conclusion:
AK-Player 7 is a very powerful media player, which plays a lot of video and audio formats. Cache video viewer will help out a lot if you want to access videos that you’ve viewed on your web browser, which can’t be viewed the same way again without having a working Internet connection. Very lightweight, videos and music play smoothly. Download it for free.
You may also try some very popular media players reviewed by us like: VLC Media Player, Real Player, and JetAudio Media Player.
