MJ Player is a software developed to be just a lean and mean media player MJ Player is a software developed to be just a lean and mean media player.

It handles CDs and their tracks really well, and has very low resource usage. It can try to identify CDs and present the information in a window above the player.

It can get the properties of any file it is playing, and under Windows XP, these will show bitrates, and, if it's an MP3 file, the song's artist and track info. It also has an infinite loop mode, with a seamless loop point. It can play all Windows compatible formats that you have installed.

You can get codecs to play Quicktime and Realmedia file (but not stream) formats by emailing me. After you have installed them, you should be able to play .mov and .ram files on your computer with the player. If you can't, you'll need to add a couple of strings to the registry at location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionMCI Extensions.

I added strings called mov, rm, and ram, and set their strings to MPEGVideo. The player will now play these extra formats and you no longer need Quicktime player with its iPod adornments, or Real Player with its snoopy habits.

The 2 black buttons on the end can step back and forth by a fixed amount of milliseconds, which you can set as low as 1ms, so you can frame-step through video sequences, for example.

The slider control shows where you are in the current track, and you can slide it to where you want to hear from in the track, and play from there. You can record from your soundcard in all the formats your computer has codecs for.