Telestream Switch 5 Plus for macOS (Download, Upgrade from Switch 5 Player)

Telestream Switch 5 Plus is a multiformat media player for macOS with video and audio inspection capabilities for a variety of file formats that provides basic playback tools. You can play back files, navigate through them with tools like jump forward/reverse, play back embedded captions, audio meters, added playback file format support, access file properties, and more. The Player can export your files in the efficient MP4 file format. Switch 5 Plus has been updated with performance improvements, native support for Metal on macOS, and reduced frame decoding so UHD 4K playback is smooth on all systems.

This license is only for purchase for those who wish to upgrade Switch 5 Player and do not have Premium Support, and a license code will be required for upgrade.

Note:

Telestream Premium Support Mandatory First Year for Switch Plus (# TESWPROMS00) is required to be purchased along with Switch Plus. Proof of purchase of the support plan will be requested from you when activating Switch Plus.

Switch 5 Plus

Switch 5 Plus adds improved performance and Reduced Frame Decoding for UHD 4K.

Play Professional File Formats

Switch provides frame-accurate playback of all your professional media files, including embedded captions and subtitles. Multi-format playback support includes MXF, IMF, GXF, MPEG-2 Program Streams and Transport Streams, and formats such as MOV, MP4, WMV, and more.

Playback Controls

Switch has all the playback control features you d expect in a professional player such as JKL navigation, fast forward and rewind, and slow motion as well as single-frame forward and back. " Jump To" allows you to jump to a specific timecode, frame, or time in your video.

Full Caption Support

Switch will play back embedded CEA-608 & CEA-708 captions as well as SCC, DVB, TTML (iTT and SMPTE-TT captions) and WebVTT, SRT and STL subtitle files. Switch is the only software player with full support for CEA-708 caption decoding, including advanced 708-only features like Unicode character support. Switch will also decode captions from virtually all wrappers and formats, so you can verify captions within your MXF or Transport Stream file.

Inspect all the Properties of your Media Files

Check video and audio properties such as audio channels, speaker labels, aspect ratio, clean aperture, bitrate, frame rate, metadata, encoding formats, and more.

Add Secondary Files

You can also load secondary audio or closed caption files to check sync.

Audio Meters

Use the Audio Meters to solo or mute audio channels, and inspect true peaks and momentarily loudness values. Switch Pro adds a loudness panel that calculates gated (BS.1770-3) or ungated (BS.1770-2) loudness levels.

File Information

Switch displays all the relevant media information about your file in an intuitive interface.

Make Changes to Your File and Export

By switching to edit mode, users can modify settings and export a new file. Switch lets you specify a new file format a new video or audio codec trim, scale, or crop the video add metadata (Pro only), and much more. Export to Windows Media, H264, MPEG-2 Video, MP4, MPEG-2 program streams, and transport streams.

Rewrap Files

Switch includes the ability to pass-through audio and video on export, or omit the video and export as an audio only file.

Audio Editing

In the audio tab, you can split or join different audio tracks, rearrange audio tracks, then change speaker assignments and change the audio format and sample rate. Switch also supports downmixing: take a file with eight channels and mix it down to stereo.

More Publishing Options

Export your video directly to Vimeo, YouTube, or Facebook from within Switch. Select export, choose your destination, and Switch will publish directly to your destination and save a local copy on your computer. Switch will create the appropriate files for your destination, taking the guesswork out of encoding and submitting content.

WMV and WMA Playback

All levels of Switch are able to decode and play back Windows Media Video and Audio (WMV and WMA).

Convert Windows Media to MP4

Switch Player is able to convert and export Windows Media content into an MP4 file using H.264 video and AAC audio. Once converted, these files will be natively supported on all devices without the need for a third-party tool.

Export to Windows Media

Switch Plus is able to convert and export other media formats into Windows Media files. These files will be natively supported on Windows but will require third-party software to be compatible with macOS computers.

QuickTime Video Codec Support

Switch supports all of the commonly used QuickTime video codecs, plus adds support for additional containers and codecs not used in the QuickTime media framework.

Media Inspection

Inspection of media properties, metadata, and encoding with greater detail than is possible in QuickTime Player X.

Captioning and Subtitles

Full caption and subtitle support for all professional video formats.

MOV Metadata Inspection

Switch can display the same QuickTime metadata found within MOV files as QuickTime Player, plus includes greater detail and additional inspection capabilities.