PowerXtreme Pro has quirks but is Excellent Overall – PlayerXtreme Media Player PRO Review

PowerXtreme Pro is a great tool for reviewing lectures quickly. The videos can be played back at faster than normal speed, which can greatly add to the interest level of a lecture. It would be better if the speed increments were smaller than 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 etc. but you can get used to listening at 1.5 x normal speed. Another truly great feature is that you can skip, or repeat parts of the video by amounts which are fully controlled by swiping backwards or forwards. Such a great feature. The sound and brightness are also controlled by swiping up or down with either one or two fingers. That isn’t perfect, but it works. Another great feature, is that the software can find the downloaded video that a user has placed in the iPad’s home video folder. That seems to be a obvious feature, but other major software players omit that capability. Weird but true. So why is it quirky, you might ask? Oddly enough, on my iPad at least, the videos always start to play upside down, even when Apple’s TV app played them the right way up. Is that weird, or what? It is easy to correct the problem by clicking the screen rotate icon, but why does should any video player do that? The other feature that I do not like is that the files in the folder are sorted alphabetically, and not first numerically and then alphabetically. That means that the files 1abc, 2abc, 3abc, 11abc, 12abc are listed as 1abc, 11abc, 12abc, 2abc, 3abc, whereas Apple’s Tv app lists them in the correct order. That may seem like a minor detail until you try to find a video that comes as part of a sequence, such as a course. Then it is a pain to deal with, but not impossible. So why did I give them 5 stars? Because the things that the app does well, easily overcome the weird parts.
Review by Miffed-886 on PlayerXtreme Media Player PRO.