RIA-Media Viewer

RIA-Media Viewer is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you view media files in a clutter-free interface.

Supported file formats

The program comes with support for various file formats, such as BMP, ICO, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, PSP, RAW, SGI, TGA, TIF, MP3, WAV, WMA, AVI, MPG, MOV, HTML, XML, XSL, MDB, SWF, FLV, PDF, and DBF.

User interface and viewing options

RIA-Media Viewer reveals a clean feature lineup. It doesn’t come with support for a help manual. However, the GUI looks easy to work with, so you can set up the entire process in no time.
The tool employs an Explorer-like panel that allows you to browse throughout the content of your files and folders. What’s more, the utility shows a thumbnail preview of the selected items and reveals the content of a file in the main window. Only a few options are implemented for helping you view images, as you may zoom in or out of them.

Where it falls short

RIA-Media Viewer doesn’t come packed with advanced options for helping you flip or rotate the pictures to different angles, create playlists, organize files in custom categories, tag items, rate files, edit metadata, and make file conversions, just to name a few suggestions.

Bottom line

All things considered, RIA-Media Viewer comes with support for only basic features for helping you view media files. It provides limited options so it needs functionality improvements. It hasn’t been updated for a long time, so it may cause compatibility issues and errors on newer operating systems. We have tested it on Windows 8.1 Pro and come across several crashes.