If there is one disease that I have, and it is my need for using different software for different purposes. This is especially true in the case of multimedia, i.e. audio and video players.
Currently I have several players installed or their portable versions stored on my laptop. These are my favorite five.
Media Player Classic
Media Player [...]
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
VLC media player comes with tonnes of features. The best feature is that you do not need to have [...]
You have this whole stack of movies safely stored on DVDs. You could run into two issues.
The DVD gets scratched and you lose your precious movie
The DVD is for a specific region and your player doesn’t support it
If you have sufficient hard disk space, then you can store the DVD on your disc and always [...]
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If you are using a Premier Edition of Google Apps for your organization, then you have good news.
You can now share videos via Google Video for Google Apps.
The main features of Google Video:
Share rich video information – Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings and corporate announcements more personal, engaging and effective.
Keep videos secure [...]
This week on Multimedia Monday, we cover a rather small but handy tool.
Audio/Video to Exe converts audio/video files to other audio/video formats or selfplaying-executables.
The following formats can be converted into exe:
3gp, aac, ac3, aiff, asf, avi, exe, flac, flv, gif, m1v, m2v, m4v, mka, mkv, mov, mp2, mp3,
mp4, mpc, mpg, nut, ogg, ra, rm, swf, [...]
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Skuld iPod Converter helps you convert your video files of almost all popular video formats to iPod videos.
You can even set the start point and length of the clips you want to convert.
Features
Completely free software.
Support source video clips of almost all popular video formats.
Support adjust output video/audio parameters.
Support conversion of video clips with customized starting [...]
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Have you ever opened up a video file only to get an error that it cannot be played. Or maybe you can at least hear the audio but see a blank screen.
Well, in all probability you have the required codecs missing. Short for compressor/decompressor, a codec is any technology for compressing and decompressing data.
There are [...]
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MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats.
The best feature of MediaCoder is the ability to transcode files in batch format. If you’re looking [...]
When you’re talking media players, one name that always comes to mind is Winamp.
I’ve been using Winamp right from its 2.x versions which is to say from quite a few years and have always used it as my primary player when playing long playlists of music spread over a several day period.
Winamp has progressed from [...]
Prism Video Converter is a free video file format converter for Windows.
It can convert video files from avi, mpg, vob, wmv (Windows Media Video formats) and more into avi, asf or wmv files.
You will need to have the appropriate codecs installed in order to run the conversion.
Features:
Converts avi, mpg, vob, asf, wmv, mp4, ogm [...]
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