Play it fast. Play it safe. Play it anywhere.
The past two releases have focused on improving your ability to quickly find and download the content you want to play. With this release, the Vuze team concentrated on improving the ways you play your content – on your PC and Mac, on the other screens in your life (now including the iPad and Connected TVs), and simply by burning a DVD.
More specifically, Vuze 4.4 includes a significant upgrade to both the Vuze HD Player and Device Playback. In addition, we spent some time building three of your most requested features – DVD burning, built-in antivirus protection, and better search – as part of a new offering called Vuze Plus. Intrigued? Read on.
With today’s release, the Vuze HD Player received a significant update, including:
• Higher quality playback: Smoother playback for HD content (including 1080p)
• More formats: Improved format support (including avi, wmv, mpeg, xvid, Quicktime, and more)
• Subtitles: A very cool integration with OpenSubtitles enabling you to pull in subtitles for any content and language the OpenSubtitle community has translated
• Faster and Lighter: Significantly faster launch and lighter weight playback.
Props to both the MPlayer and OpenSubtitle.org teams for enabling us to stand on the shoulders of the giant that is open source!
Speaking of improved playback, we’ve also updated Vuze Device Playback to significantly improve the quality and speed of device transfers.
Since Vuze launched device support, more than 3 million of you have used Vuze Devices to transfer and playback more than 70 million items on your iPhone, iPod, Xbox, PS3, PSP, and Tivo. You seem to like the ability to drag-and-drop to play back on the device of your choice…
Aside from your rave reviews, we’ve also been listening to your requests to improve device transfer speeds and decrease the failure rates when files don’t successfully transfer to the device of your choice. This release updates the core infrastructure for Vuze Devices to significantly improve device transfer performance — both speed and success rates.
And one more thing on the device playback front… Vuze now supports transfer and playback on iPad and Connected TVs (with DLNA support).
Introducing Vuze Plus
Beyond improving Vuze’s core features enabling you to find, download, and play, we’ve also heard your requests for a variety of new features. Today, we’re launching a premium version called Vuze Plus that includes DVD Burn, Built-in Antivirus, and Power Search.
Finally, we have an answer for all your questions about how to burn DVDs from Vuze. We’re not talking about crude data DVDs for storage and transport. We’re talking about easily burning playable DVDs for playback on any standard DVD player. Simply drag-and-drop videos from your Vuze Library or anywhere on your desktop, organize your playlist, and click burn.
Downloading from the web can be intimidating. We’ve heard your worries about malware, viruses, and scams. To address your concerns, we’ve teamed with BitDefender to deliver a fully built-in antivirus solution that scans all the files you download with Vuze Plus to proactively protect you before problems occur.
Finally, we consistently hear that you want additional sites added to Vuze Meta Search. Power Search includes twice as many search sites to offer more comprehensive results so you quickly find what you’re looking for.
The new Vuze HD Player and Device Playback features are immediately available in Vuze 4.4 (our flagship app that’s free as always). For those of you that want a little extra spice, DVD Burning, Built-in Antivirus, and Power Search will be offered as Vuze Plus for $24.99. Offering Vuze Plus will enable us to build some of the extra features many of you have been requesting, without adding bloat to the main Vuze app you know and love. In addition, charging a nominal fee for Vuze Plus will enable us to work with leading partners like BitDefender to offer some of the cool features you’ve been requesting.
Let us know what you think!
Chris
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I JUST READ IN ONE OF THE ABOVE COMMENTS THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE CHARGING US AND THEN JUST SENDING US TO YOU. I’M WONDERING IF I WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. I JUST PAID 34.95 TO members-area-mov and then I WAS TRANSFERED TO YOU. WAS I DUPED ??
I HAVE AN EMAIL AND TELEPHONE NUMBER. I WILL LEAVE ANOTHER COMMENT IF I HAVE INFO THAT I THINK WILL HELP OTHERS.
BLESSINGS
@cher
There is no way to delete HD Player without deleting Vuze. I am not sure why you would want to do this anyway. If you want to deactivate it, you can go to Tools > Options > Plugins and deselect it in the menu.
Hey guys.
I’m having a serious problem. For the past couple days my search function hasn’t been working AT ALL. No matter what I search for, even topics that are as well-known and obvious as could be -I get only a handful of totally unrelated results. Plus there are no results anymore from I Torrent. I noticed when I went to their site that something is going on with the lawsuit that sounds like maybe the U.S. users may be getting cut off due to some judge’s recent opinion regarding copyright infringment..? Is Vuze in trouble or is it just something twisted on my end? I love Vuze, man, and I would hate to see this thing get shut down…
How do I unlock RAR files without having to subscribe to a site before I know it will in fact work?
when vuze downloads a movie it goes into my main drive,but this drive doesn,t have enough memory to handle movie downloads,so i bought an external harddrive , but now i don’t know how to set it up so vuze will directly download into this external harddrive, any suggestions
Your service is a lot better and cheaper than Graboid. I had nothing but technical problems with them. At least Vuze works well.
I have a zune, I want to know if any conversion will work with it?
I live in australia and we do not have unlimited download. If we fownload too much the speed is decreased to dial-up. As our plans are broken up into peak and off peak and the greater part of the plan usually falling on the off-peak, IS THERE A WAY OF TELLING VUSE TO ONLY DOWNLOAD ON UPLOAD BETWEEN THE HOURS OF X AND Y? OR, IS THERE A PROGRAM THAT I CAN DOWNLOAD AS A TIMER?
hello misters creators of vuze: for that we do not have English taken by the hand, it would be great to ask it also translated to the español.mas that nothing is to have information I would be grateful for a greeting.
@juan carlos: Hola! We are working on translating our web pages in Spanish (and other fine languages, like French, my native tongue). The Vuze client is already translated in 40+ languages, so we should be covered there!
Gilles.
gracias vuze son de lo mejor ke ay
Kindly show me the burn file link after downloading.
How do I disable some add-on I don’t need in VUZE. I added them on example fire-frog. I want to use the original Vuze which was saved on the desk-top and want to use the link for
burning a file I like on a CD/DVD.
nothing surpasses u guys !! u are the world to me !!
many thank-you’s….a novice such as i…..half way thru my first down load…..hmmm!!!!!…..
@Paul Schoenauer:
If You’re using a mac, download (For Free) UnRarX
Windows, Idk.
Thank u very much!!! VUZE’s Awesome!
i have a zune how do i downlaod to it?
@hk: We are looking into supporting Zune. Thanks for the note.
Gilles.
10/10 guys… This will only be the 2nd time that I have found software worthy of downloading and upgrading to the “Pro Version”! Clean, neat, simple service to use (so much so the wife now wants to learn), the BURN DVD function is awesome. nothing complicated. It just keeps getting better and better so MANY THANKS to all the team.
One question to ponder though, once the annual subscription runs out, will you look at doing something special for those of us that will renew annually? Something like a 2 year deal or a percentage off to tempt us to be loyal?
Keep up the great work!
@Wardy_au: Glad you like it, thanks! We will definitely think about ways to make Vuze Plus even better, including potential features to add.
Gilles.
@ James Gumbert: Re: Speed Scheduler is the answer.
If you want to schedule your upload and download speeds based on time and day of week. You can try installing the ‘Speed Scheduler’ from the Installation Wizard in Vuze.
To install the ‘Speed Scheduler’, follow these easy steps:
Windows:
1) Click on (Tools > Plugins > Installation Wizard)
2) Choose ‘By list from sourceforge.net’, click next.
3) Mark ‘Speed Scheduler’ from the list, click next.
4) Choose whether to install the plugin for all users or for you only.
5) Click on Finish.
6) Click on (Tools > Plugins > Installation Wizard) and create a schedule.
Mac:
1) Click on (File > Plugins > Installation Wizard)
2) Choose ‘By list from sourceforge.net’, click next.
3) Mark ‘Speed Scheduler’ from the list, click next.
4) Choose whether to install the plugin for all users or for you only.
5) Click on Finish.
6) Click on (File > Plugins > Speed Scheduler) and create a schedule.
Hope that helps mate (I’m in Oz too & hate how 60% of my plan is off peak from 2am-8am.) Speed Scheduler now allows me the ability to use ALL my off peak time effectively without killing my on peak quota.
You guys are the epitome of “the shizzle”
Vuze is the best…..its true.
Vuze is simply the best torrent downloader EVER. so many features the other clients will never be able to live up to…
keep up the good work guys
salamat vuze
won’t let me upgrade to burn more than one dvd.get error when i click on upgrade.
Thanks Vuze, great Update! Just hooked up my MacbookPro (OS10.6.3) with my brand new Samsung TV (UE32C6710) via Vuze and it works great! .ts, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .avi, in SD or HD, without conversion of files. plays back perfect, even via WLAN – no problem! Works even better than “Samsung PC Share Manager” on my PC. Only question: there no way i can pause/ffw/rew during playback, is that a problem to be solved by Vuze or Samsung-update?
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