Multi Video Player

[spankmonkey]

Hello,

I am looking for an application to play multiple videos simultaneously in a single UI.
I found a promising freeware:
http://ipivs.com/products/valt-multi-video-player/

the user interface is clean and appealing, but unfortunately the app has some real drawbacks:
- mp4 only (no avi, mkv, flv, etc.)
- audio works apparently only for first video
- adjust volume for each video individually seems not to work
- cannot play videos from folder randomly

does anybody know a similar software without those shortcomings?
Or could this been done in AHK? Maybe portable Media Player Classic could be used...

thanks.

[skwire]

http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/

[spankmonkey]

thanks skwire, I was not aware of the software.
great user interface, and it does what I was looking for.

I did some additional tests, it seems to be coded in .NET (c#).
Apparently it's not working in a VM, probably due to the GPU acceleration it's using.
The program is compressed/obfuscated, why would anyone pack a free app?
Also I was not able to find a portable version.
Seems clean according to Virustotal, though I am not sure... 

Edit: someone in comments at VT claims this is malware:
======================================
Deepviz analysis

result: #malware
accuracy: 100.0%
8 matched behavioural rules:
Gathers system data
Suspicious delay
Manipulates Internet Explorer settings
...
More info at https://sandbox.deep...4ba731d560c43101f86/

[4wd]

Also I was not able to find a portable version.

-spankmonkey (April 18, 2016, 04:10 PM)

You can extract the setup file using UniExtract (with latest innounp), you'll end up with this:

Multi Video Player

It will only run for a few seconds if it doesn't have internet access:

19/04/2016 12:53:55 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52047 | 104.72.70.25 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:55 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52046 | 104.72.70.9 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:53 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52045 | 104.27.137.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:53 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52045 | 104.27.136.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52043 | 104.27.137.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52042 | 104.27.137.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52041 | 104.27.136.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52040 | 104.27.136.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52039 | 104.27.137.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52038 | 104.27.137.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52036 | 104.27.136.35 | 80 | 6
19/04/2016 12:53:49 | 1104 | Awesome Video Player | avplayer.exe | Out | 52037 | 104.27.136.35 | 80 | 6

If you allow it internet access, it will stay open.

Looks like it only needs access on the first run, subsequent runs with blocked access worked OK - probably some hard-coded version check that's not done very well.

Any more than 6 videos made it non responsive on my system using GPU rendering, (AMD HD6850 1GB) - CPU rendering didn't work at all using the same files, (even if only 1 file).

[spankmonkey]

4wd, you are right, it works after enabling internet in the VM.

as you mentioned it connects to 104.27.136.35 (an IP address that is part of the CloudFlare)
and also 216.58.213.46 (a Google IP address).

maybe someone with Wireshark knowledge wants to have a look at, what's happening here exactly ?
for myself, I am not sure about this software, I'll probably revert to a backup before installation... 

[4wd]

4wd, you are right, it works after enabling internet in the VM.

as you mentioned it connects to 104.27.136.35 (an IP address that is part of the CloudFlare)
and also 216.58.213.46 (a Google IP address).

maybe someone with Wireshark knowledge wants to have a look at, what's happening here exactly ?
for myself, I am not sure about this software, I'll probably revert to a backup before installation... 

-spankmonkey (April 19, 2016, 04:45 PM)

Knock yourself out

It's just analytics and a check for latest version, (I've removed the gzip encoded stuff from below):

Code: Text [Select]

1. GET http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/analytics/ HTTP/1.1
2. Accept: */*
3. Accept-Language: en-AU
4. Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
5. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
6. Host: www.awesomevideoplayer.com
7. Connection: Keep-Alive
8.  
9.  
10. HTTP/1.1 200 OK
11. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:40:52 GMT
12. Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
13. Transfer-Encoding: chunked
14. Connection: keep-alive
15. Set-Cookie: __cfduid=dfdbc4432660f3b0be7cef0ff8f1947c81461116451; expires=Thu, 20-Apr-17 01:40:51 GMT; path=/; domain=.awesomevideoplayer.com; HttpOnly
16. Last-Modified: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 05:38:28 GMT
17. ngpass_ngall: 1
18. Server: cloudflare-nginx
19. CF-RAY: 2964e3feddb61d4a-MEL
20. Content-Encoding: gzip
21.  
22.  
23. ------------------------------------------------------------------
24.  
25. GET http://ajax.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/nexp/dok3v=e982913d31/cloudflare.min.js HTTP/1.1
26. Accept: */*
27. Referer: http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/analytics/
28. Accept-Language: en-AU
29. Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
30. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
31. Host: ajax.cloudflare.com
32. Connection: Keep-Alive
33.  
34.  
35. HTTP/1.1 200 OK
36. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:40:53 GMT
37. Content-Type: text/javascript
38. Transfer-Encoding: chunked
39. Connection: keep-alive
40. Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d11f2ab2067415fb718c4092f802dd1341461116453; expires=Thu, 20-Apr-17 01:40:53 GMT; path=/; domain=.cloudflare.com; HttpOnly
41. Last-Modified: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:10:30 GMT
42. Expires: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 01:40:53 GMT
43. Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
44. Server: cloudflare-nginx
45. CF-RAY: 2964e40828e71d74-MEL
46. Content-Encoding: gzip
47.  
48.  
49. ------------------------------------------------------------------
50.  
51. GET http://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js HTTP/1.1
52. Accept: */*
53. Referer: http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/analytics/
54. Accept-Language: en-AU
55. Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
56. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
57. Host: www.google-analytics.com
58. Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
59.  
60.  
61. HTTP/1.1 502 Fiddler - DNS Lookup Failed
62. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:40:54 GMT
63. Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
64. Connection: close
65. Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
66. Timestamp: 11:40:54.235
67.  
68. [Fiddler] DNS Lookup for "www.google-analytics.com" failed. System.Net.Sockets.SocketException The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
69.  
70. ------------------------------------------------------------------
71.  
72. GET http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js HTTP/1.1
73. Accept: */*
74. Referer: http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/analytics/
75. Accept-Language: en-AU
76. Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
77. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
78. Host: www.google-analytics.com
79. Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
80.  
81.  
82. HTTP/1.1 502 Fiddler - DNS Lookup Failed
83. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:40:54 GMT
84. Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
85. Connection: close
86. Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
87. Timestamp: 11:40:54.272
88.  
89. [Fiddler] DNS Lookup for "www.google-analytics.com" failed. System.Net.Sockets.SocketException The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
90.  
91. ------------------------------------------------------------------
92.  
93. GET http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/cdn-cgi/pe/bag2?r[]=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.awesomevideoplayer.com%2Fcdn-cgi%2Fnexp%2Fdok3v%3D1613a3a185%2Fcloudflare%2Fjson.js HTTP/1.1
94. Accept: */*
95. PE-Token: 2cf8c89dd81ac9464f7fe5c324fd7134fad534a7-1461116452-1800
96. Referer: http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/analytics/
97. Accept-Language: en-au
98. Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
99. User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
100. Host: www.awesomevideoplayer.com
101. Connection: Keep-Alive
102. Cookie: __cfduid=dfdbc4432660f3b0be7cef0ff8f1947c81461116451
103.  
104.  
105. HTTP/1.1 200 OK
106. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:40:54 GMT
107. Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="z6=nMcx'sZoInoqQ_gvt"
108. Transfer-Encoding: chunked
109. Connection: keep-alive
110. Server: cloudflare-nginx
111. CF-RAY: 2964e40a5dff1d4a-MEL
112. Content-Encoding: gzip
113.  
114. ------------------------------------------------------------------
115.  
116. GET http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/download/latest.xml HTTP/1.1
117. Host: www.awesomevideoplayer.com
118. Cache-Control: no-store,no-cache
119. Pragma: no-cache
120. Connection: Keep-Alive
121.  
122.  
123. HTTP/1.1 200 OK
124. Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:40:55 GMT
125. Content-Type: application/xml
126. Content-Length: 228
127. Connection: keep-alive
128. Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d36596fe11bad42cf3291653396c0caf61461116455; expires=Thu, 20-Apr-17 01:40:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.awesomevideoplayer.com; HttpOnly
129. Last-Modified: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 06:26:12 GMT
130. Expires: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:41:04 GMT
131. Cache-Control: max-age=604800
132. ngpass_ngstatic: 1
133. Accept-Ranges: bytes
134. Server: cloudflare-nginx
135. CF-RAY: 2964e4151e521d4a-MEL
136.  
137. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
138. <item>
139. <title>An Update for the Awesome Video Player is Available</title>
140. <version>1.0.5.1</version>
141. <changelog>http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/download/changelog.html</changelog>
142. </item>
143.  
144. ------------------------------------------------------------------

[spankmonkey]

cheers 4wd

malware analysis report

[spankmonkey]

instead of installing any malware I took another approach with AHK.
running multiple VLC sessions then tiling the windows with

[Select]

PostMessage, 0x111, 405, 0,, ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd

mostly does what I was looking for. There are better player than VLC,
but VLC has some good switches and the playlist feature is quite nice too. 

[Rockets]

http://www.awesomevideoplayer.com/

-skwire (April 16, 2016, 08:09 PM)

it has global play, pause. Love it. 8 videos with no problem on my notebook with HD4000. Love u 2, skwire, u are the one of the most valuable members here.