Adobe Media Player is a next-generation desktop media player, providing high-quality video playback of streamed, downloaded or locally stored Internet TV shows and video podcasts.

Using the simple, intuitive interface of Adobe Media Player, you can subscribe to Internet television shows and other online video content and watch them on demand. Adobe Media Player will also enable you to manage your own library of downloaded content.

Adobe® Media Player software no longer contains third-party content in the default catalog. As part of Adobe's initiative to focus on and streamline business priorities, the decision was made to refocus efforts away from content aggregation.

Moving forward, the Adobe Media Player catalog will be provided by Adobe TV, which includes demos, training, and tips for Adobe products and services, as well as shows tailored for the Adobe community of designers, photographers, video professionals, and developers. Users can also still subscribe to content from publishers who offer compatible video RSS feeds, and play local video files that are in compatible formats.

We understand that this shift in strategy affects both viewers and content publishers and have put together the following information to explain the options moving forward.

Features:

Catalog
Discover new Internet TV shows and video podcasts from leading media companies.

Personal Videos
Stream, download, manage, and play your personal collection of rich meda videos right from your desktop.

My Favorites
Automatically download new episodes of your favorite shows and video podcasts.

New Episodes
Quickly manage and play new episodes from your favorite shows and video podcasts when and in whatever order you choose.

Hardware-accelerated full-screen support
Play back full-screen videos with improved performance.

Channel preview
More control over your viewing experience. Enjoy new video scaling options (full window/full screen, actual size, scale up), keyboard controls (play, pause, fast forward, rewind), and a resume play option that starts playback where you last stopped the video.

Ability to customize your environment
Set your Adobe Media Player preferences, along with new episode default settings that govern playback of newly downloaded shows, in the Options area.

Catalog search
Quickly and easily find the shows you want to see using keywords or tags.

Continuous play
Have your own marathon of all the episodes of your favorite show with one click of the play button.