Is your wall cabinet overflowing with CDs and DVDs of your favorite movies or music? Are you looking to lend these to friends and would like a detailed list of them. One simple option is to create an Excel file with the name of the movie. An even better option to get hold of a software that allows you to catalog and manage your collection. Presenting to you 10 powerful movie and music managers that help you manage movies and music very easily! Ant Movie Catalog Ant Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available)…

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Facing a blank screen in your videos? Or maybe you can’t hear the audio playing? Today almost all avi movies are compressed with DivX, Xvid or similar codec packs. Here are three that I have used at different points of time. You need to pick only one. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you…

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Got that brand new music player that supports DivX files and you have the videos but in a language that, well, you need to read the subtitles. On the PC is it extremely simple as several media players have support for subtitle files. You can use AVIAddXSubs for adding the subtitles to your avi file. AVIAddXSubs is a simple to use, free program to incorporate subtitles (XSUB) from .srt (ANSI text, up to 8 srt) or idx/sub (containing up to 8 subtitles) quickly and easily to your avi files containing DivX/XVid video streams. Either use the interface above or just…

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