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MilesAhead:
http://mirillis.com/en/products/splash.html

I would really love this player if they would include PGS subtitle support.

The main thing distinguishing it from many other players is the ability to seek in .mkv video with impunity.  I don't know how many players just go away when I move the slider while watching an .mkv file.

It would really put this on top if they supported more than text subtitles.
I harass them periodically on their forum, along with a few other users, but to no apparent effect. :(

MerleOne:
I do like splash a lot, because on my 5-years old PC it plays HD content without hiccups but I miss one simple feature : the ability to close a file !  When I sort some video file in order to delete the already seen, I open them with Splash, then decide to keep it or not.  If I want to delete the current file, I have either to close Splash or to open another file, but then I lose the file selection in explorer.

MilesAhead:
I would post that on their forum. That type of stuff they seem willing to fix. otoh any time I or other users bitch about the lousy subtitle support it's just ignored.  Not even "it's on the to do list" .. just null response.

MilesAhead:
Looks like the free version will never have PGS subs support:

http://www.mirillis.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=338

superboyac:
I like the Splash line of players.  It's a good design, elegant, with great picture quality, and for some reason it has an easier time playing full HD files than any other player.  My complaint with the program is with what I see the business strategy is looking like.  First, they have WAAAY too many versions of the program planned to come out.  See here:
http://mirillis.com/en/products/splashpro_features.html

Why does that bother me?  Well...it's just a freaking video player.  Most of the time, companies who do this kind of thing do it as a gimmick to make more money somehow.  i don't quite understand the strategy, but it's very common for those enterprise type software that nobody knows what they do, but they have like 15 versions all distinguished with vague jargon and other nonsense.  Oracle products are the best example of this.

What kind of scientific research do they think a customer is going to do when buying a video player??  "Hmm, I'm interested in playing videos.  This Splash player seems good.  Whoa!  Wait!  Do I need the HD-CAm version or the Pro?  What the hell is avchd?"

So, that makes me suspicious of the direction this program is going.  My suspicion is that they're going to draw people in with the program's eye-candy and speed, and then a few years down the line the expected improvements to the program won't be all that impressive.  Meaning, the things we like right now about the program...well, that's it.  I don't think the program will develop into what users would like it to develop.

not only that, but as miles mentioned, they don't respond to mildly controversial topics, rather than responding and just saying clearly what their intentions are.  So those are all signs of a company trying to bank in on a gimmick rather than pleasing users.

Now, the makemkv forum is a different story, just to compare two programs in similar stages.  They have a very active forum, they answer all questions, and it's clear their goal is to satisfy as many of the user requests as they can handle.

So, that's my prediction.

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