You think you're a good multitasker? You've got 20 Firefox tabs open (or IE) and you're watching a YouTube video while reading email. Bet you're proud of yourself huh? Well, have a cool piece of software for you! It's called TeVeStream OctoMediaPlayer, a new multiple view video player for Windows that allows the viewing of eight videos simultaneously.
With the standard Windows Media Player, only one video can be viewed at a time, making it impossible to compare videos, or to search multiple videos quickly. With OctoMediaPlayer, Created by Arcosoft, up to eight videos can be viewed, as seen here:
Of course, simultaneously watching & listening to 8 videos is impossible for the human brain to decipher. Star Trek's Data could do it though. In one episode he even had several pieces of classical music playing in his quarters. When the time traveler & gadget stealer Berlinghoff Rasmussen (played by Matt Frewer) arrives in Data's quarters, he asks Data to reduce the number of songs playing since it was giving him a headache.
According to Memory Alpha, two of the pieces of classical music simultaneously listened to by Data in this episode were heard again in later Trek episodes. The Third Brandenburg Concerto was later played by Captain Picard on his Ressikan flute and La donna è mobile was regularly sung by The Doctor.
In any event, OctoMediaPlayer runs on Windows Vista, XP, and 2003 and it priced at $29 USD, and an evaluation download is also available.
With the standard Windows Media Player, only one video can be viewed at a time, making it impossible to compare videos, or to search multiple videos quickly. With OctoMediaPlayer, Created by Arcosoft, up to eight videos can be viewed, as seen here:
Of course, simultaneously watching & listening to 8 videos is impossible for the human brain to decipher. Star Trek's Data could do it though. In one episode he even had several pieces of classical music playing in his quarters. When the time traveler & gadget stealer Berlinghoff Rasmussen (played by Matt Frewer) arrives in Data's quarters, he asks Data to reduce the number of songs playing since it was giving him a headache.According to Memory Alpha, two of the pieces of classical music simultaneously listened to by Data in this episode were heard again in later Trek episodes. The Third Brandenburg Concerto was later played by Captain Picard on his Ressikan flute and La donna è mobile was regularly sung by The Doctor.
In any event, OctoMediaPlayer runs on Windows Vista, XP, and 2003 and it priced at $29 USD, and an evaluation download is also available.
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While I agree watching 8 video files simultaneously is impossible for the human brain to decipher, there's a bigger picture here than what is described in this article. I can think of several reasons why the OctoMediaPlayer has serious value.
What if you had a facility with survelance cameras for security, and you needed to review several video files to find where a vandal broke in? With OctoMediaPlayer, you could load up all of the video files, and 'scan' them simultaneously until you found where, and in which video, a vandal broke in. Then, easily open that one particular video in 'Full Screen' to view it alone.
Ever watch those Ghost Hunting shows? What if you had to watch hundreds of hours of video looking for something out of the ordinary? With OctoMediaPlayer not only could you review several videos at once, but you could also see where all the rest of the investigation team was at the particular time the event occured!
How about making your own home movies and DVDs? If you have several video files from your vacation, wouldn't it be nice to see all of them simultaneously to find the best scenes to transfer to a DVD? Even just finding that clip from when you fell in the water, or when something else funny happened, so you can show friends and family.
While simultaneously comprehending all the details of 8 video sources at once is impossible, when looking for something specific, or for differences between video files, this program is excellent. I've already purchased two copies for similar purposes, one for a laptop, and one for a PC, and have had fantastic customer service. It's an excellent product for the price, and I see it saving me countless hours of video review.