Peter's Player is a simple, yet highly-optimized QuickTime movie player that is designed to play movies as smoothly as possible:
-It is "Accelerated For Power Macintosh," running at maximum possible speed on either 68k or Power Macintoshes.
-If there is enough RAM, it will load the entire movie before playing it, for the fastest-possible playback.
-It can detect the best dit depth to display a movie at and set your monitor appropriately, which yields smoother playback and better-looking movies.
-It can play movies without showing the standard movie controller, which can be distracting, and slows down playback.
-It supports keyboard shortcuts with the controller showing or hidden (the arrow keys step forward and back frames, the space bar plays or pauses, etc...).
-It can play every frame in a QuickTime movie, no matter how large (in this mode it will never play frames back faster than intended, but it may play them back slower, and any soundtrack there is will be ignored).
-It plays movies against a black background, and you can even hide the menu bar, so (a) you're not distracted by the desktop, (b) you can dump smaller-than-full-screen movies to video tape, and (c) you can play movies that have custom color tables without screwing up the rest of the colors on-screen.
Peter's Player is free for individual use, with a US $20 fee requested to support development of future versions (and for automatic notice of upgrades).
If you experience any difficulties using the program, please refer to the "Troubleshooting" section of the manual. There's some cool stuff in the "Shortcuts" section, too.
