VidMasta is a platform-independent and freely distributed application designed to be used by anyone who wants to quickly and easily get detailed information about their favorite movies or the latest TV shows.
Supports a wide variety of video formats
It supports the standard 720p and 1080p/1080i HD (High-Definition) video formats, as well as the classic HQ (High-Quality) DVD and TV 4:3 or 16:9/16:10 formats. In addition, you can whitelist or blacklist certain video file extensions, such as AVI, MKV, VOB, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, MOV, M2TS, ISO, BIN, or RAR.
The graphical user interface is easy-to-use, allowing users to use profiles, set default download size, manage proxies, set default results per search, connection timeout settings, language, country, web browser start notification, as well as new HQ movies on startup.
Supports subtitles, TV show plots and IMDb ratings
The application includes support for downloading subtitle files for videos, watch trailers of selected titles, view movie or TV show plots, view IMDb ratings and release dates of titles, as well as to order search results by popularity (fully automatic).
Under the hood
Under the hood, we can report that the application is written in the Java programming language, which means that it is available on the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
On Linux, the application is available for download as a JAR archive, which can be used to install the application on your computer using a graphical installer that can be fired up from the command-line using the java -jar vidmasta-setup-xx.x.jar command (where xx.x is the version number e.g. 17.3).
You can delete the JAR archive after the application has been successfully installed. The program will be automatically opened by the installer, allowing users to immediately use the application to watch or download TV shows or movies.
Bottom line
All in all, VidMasta is an interesting application that lets users to search movies and TV shows, view trailers, as well as to download or watch them in a web browser. It is stable, reliable and provides users with a consistent user interface on all supported platforms.
What is new in this release:
- Fixed subtitle downloading connection issue causing subtitles to not be found
- Added find functionality (ctrl+f) to playlist
- Prevented always-on-top windows from hiding modal dialogs
What is new in version 20.4:
- Improved performance of play and download link searches
What is new in version 19.7:
- Removed unnecessary connection error message that is sometimes shown
What is new in version 19.6:
- Added watch on device popup menu item to watch movies and TV shows on PS3, Xbox, TV, mobile, tablet, and more
What is new in version 19.0:
- Improved play and download performance
What is new in version 18.8:
- CHANGE: UI | Added new playlist setting to show/hide non-video items (e.g. images) that hides by default
- CHANGE: UI | Improved progress reporting when playing a playlist item
- CHANGE: UI | Moved all playlist settings to new playlist menu
- CHANGE: UI | Improved opening, closing, and positioning of windows
- CHANGE: UI | Refocused VidMasta's main window when there is an attempt to re-open VidMasta while already open
- CHANGE: UI | Zero-padded minute of date shown when downloading proxies
- CHANGE: UI | Improved save filename for torrents
- CHANGE: UI | Added uninstaller to Programs/Uninstall window for Windows
What is new in version 18.6:
- CHANGE: UI | Added new playlist setting to show/hide non-video items (e.g. images) that hides by default
- CHANGE: UI | Improved progress reporting when playing a playlist item
- CHANGE: UI | Moved all playlist settings to new playlist menu
- CHANGE: UI | Improved opening, closing, and positioning of windows
- CHANGE: UI | Refocused VidMasta's main window when there is an attempt to re-open VidMasta while already open
- CHANGE: UI | Zero-padded minute of date shown when downloading proxies
- CHANGE: UI | Improved save filename for torrents
- CHANGE: UI | Added uninstaller to Programs/Uninstall window for Windows
What is new in version 18.5:
- CHANGE: CORE | Fixed bug that sometimes prevents restoring playlist between restarts of VidMasta
- CHANGE: CORE | Remembered playlist auto-open preference
- CHANGE: UI | Improved progress reporting when stopping a playlist item
- CHANGE: UI | Added keyboard shortcuts for playlist item remove and play/stop actions
- CHANGE: UI | Added ability to double-click a playlist item to play/stop it
- CHANGE: UI | Showed tip about watching/streaming playlist items to a television or other device
- CHANGE: UI | Improved message shown when a download link or watch source is not found for a video
- CHANGE: UI | Improved format of date shown when downloading proxies
- CHANGE: UI | Fixed hyperlinks for Mac
What is new in version 17.8:
- Show previous episode in summary in addition to next/current episode that is already shown for TV shows
- Fixed bug in which next episode in summary for TV shows is sometimes too far in the future
- Fixed minor bug in which cancellation message is sometimes shown when emailing all links is cancelled
- Added ability to reset a profile before clearing it
- Added some tooltip messages
What is new in version 17.7:
- Set default download link timeout to 0 for instantaneous opening of download links when auto-downloading is enabled
- Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches
- Improved error recovery and reporting when opening/saving download links
- Added ability to email and copy download links, stream links, and trailer links. Added ability to copy subtitle links
- Improved sorting of title, year, and rating table columns by conversion from formatted text to plain text, from text to whole number, and from text to rational number respectively prior to sorting
- Improved positioning and timing of windows
- Fixed bug preventing copying of discontiguous table rows
What is new in version 17.4:
- Removed inaccurate and no longer necessary (since version 17.0) blocked port and bad IP filtering checks that may be incorrectly triggered when a download link is not found
- Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered
- Improved formatting of download link name shown in message dialogs
- Made first country and language selections visible without the need to scroll
What is new in version 17.3:
- Improved download link performance by improved caching
- Added download link timeout selection to connection timeout dialog for finer control
Requirements:
- Oracle Java Standard Edition Runtime Environment
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