Technological Guide.

Winamp 5.62 Full (Freeware)

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Winamp is a popular medial player which supports many media formats and has many skins available for the player. Everyone knows Winamp as the necessary popular media player. Winamp now comes with latest version 5.62 with a full set of advanced and useful features.

Features

  • File Types: AAC, AIF, AMF, AVI, FLV, M2V, MPE, M4A, MDZ, MID, MIDI, M4V, VOC, MP1, MP2, MP3, M3U, MP4, MPEG, MPG, OGG, RMI, SND, WAV, WMA, WMV and many more…
  • Android Wifi & USB sync support
  • Purchase tickets, find lyrics & download music directly from your media player
  • WebM (vp8) Support
  • Windows 7 Compliant
  • Winamp OrglerTM lets you track, chart and share your Winamp listening history
  • Find & manage Add-ons directly in your media player
  • Improved iPod Sync Support
  • New iTunes Library Import
  • Online Services Gallery
  • Now Playing: Discover Artist Songs, Video, Radio and Photos
  • AOL Radio Powered by CBS Radio
  • Expanded Flash video support
  • Media Monitor: Playing music on the web just got even better
  • Multi-channel MP3 Surround Support
  • Updated Podcast Directory and Download Manager
  • New Visualizer Plug-in - Milkdrop 2
  • Full Support for Classic Skins
  • Full Support for Modern Skinsk
  • 50 Free MP3 Downloads compliments of eMusic
  • for a list of filetypes supported and all features, please visit: http://www.winamp.com/help/Player_Features

Winamp is available for download in 4 different versions Pro (commercial for $19.95), Bundle (Free), Full (Free) and Lite (Free). You can download Winamp Full from Winamp or FileHippo.com.

For more information, visit: http://www.winamp.com/

Miro (Open Source) Free HD Video Player

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Miro is a free HD video player which has the capability to play almost any video file. Miro is popular for its free internet TV shows and video podcasts. Miro has simple and user friendly interface which is designed for fullscreen HD video.

Features

  • Miro can play almost all formats MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, H.264, DivX, Windows Media, Flash Video and other major video formats
  • You can resume your video from where you stopped as Miro will remember where yous topped watching a video.
  • You can set Miro preferences to either play videos one after another or to play a video then stop.
  • Miro comes Keyboard shortcuts for all the key playback commands
  • Miro comes with beautiful interface for user friendly usage
  • You can add all your favorite videos into a playlist by drag them one by one or select a few and right click to add to a playlist
  • If ever you run out of space, Miro can move your video collection to any location on your system such as an external hard drive
  • You can group your feeds by topic by creating folders.
  • Miro will automatically create a thumbnail for any video that doesn’t have thumbnail.
  • Miro can download individual BitTorrent files and torrents that are in feeds.
  • Miro lets you watch any video in a separate window (Miro preferences setting)
  • You can set a certain amount of space for Miro which will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit
  • Whenever you watch a video on a channel, Miro will stick around for a few days and then delete itself. You can choose to keep it permanently if you like and can save every video.
  • Video RSS feeds are at the core of Miro’s vision for internet TV which provide a simple system that any publisher can use to distribute their content.
  • Miro now works with audio podcasts as well as video
  • and many more at Miro-Features.

Miro is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. You can download Miro from Miro-Download.

For more information, visit: http://www.getmiro.com/

Any Video Converter (Freeware)

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Any Video Converter is a free video converter useful for converting video files between various formats, including AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, FLV, SWF, 3GP, DVD, WebM, MP3, etc for iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android, PSP, Tablets. Any Video Converter is a popular freeware conversion tool widely used.

Features

  • Any Video Converter is free to use with its great features.
  • Compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7 and its even compatible to use on 64-bit machines
  • User Interfaces are available in 20 languages
  • You can convert all kinds of video formats including high-definition videos
  • You can convert videos to AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV, SWF, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
  • You can extract only audio from any videos and save as MP3/WMA for your mp3 player or to listen on PC.
  • You can take snapshot from any videos and build your own picture collection (cool feature :))
  • It supports high-definition for both input and output media.
  • You can convert videos in a batch by adding all the videos to the batch.
  • You can customize output parameters completely as you prefer.
  • It comes with a built-in YouTube video downloader and converter at which you can choose video quality levels.
  • You can merge several video files into a single and long one (multiplex feature)
  • You can clip a video into segments.
  • You can crop frame size to remove black bars and retain what you want to see in the video.
  • You can adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation etc. for videos if they need lighting adjustments.
  • You can rotate or flip video clips and can add noise / sharpen effects.
  • You can add your own subtitles to the video clips.
  • and many more features…

You can download from any-video-converter.

For more information, visit: http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

KMPlayer 3.0.0.1441 (Freeware)

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

KMPlayer is a popular Korian Media player which can play media formats VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, QuickTime, MP3 etc. KMPlayer is able to show sutitles and allows you to capture audio, video and screenshots in many ways. KMPlayer is a freeware software from KMPlayer.com.

The above screenshot was taken from my pc while I was listening to MP3 song using KMPlayer. Both internal and external filters are provided in KMPlayer with full control related to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers.

Features

  • HTTP Streaming
  • Directshow playback
  • Mplayer Engine Support
  • Compressed Audio Album Support
  • DVD Playback
  • while playing AVI files, it can skip damaged frames to continue playing
  • support for many popular media codecs like MPEG4 (Divx/Xvid, ffmpeg/xvid), MPEG1/2 (ffmpeg/libmpeg), AC3, DTS, LPCM, MPG, MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA, etc
  • support for plugins like Winamp Input plugins, winamp DSP plugins, winamp visual plugins, etc

New Features in this release

  • MP3 file processing buffer overflow vulnerability (fixed)
  • Support DEP and ASLR
  • Improved Halli’s Video renderer compatibility
  • SPX file support
  • Ability to modify Advanced Playback Information
  • Stuff / Separate download removed
  • Advanced Menu

You can download from KMPlayer.com or FileHippo.com.

For more information, visit http://www.kmplayer.com/

YouTube Video Downloader (Freeware)

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Download YouTube, Facebook, Megavideo, MTV, Vimeo, Tubeplus and 50+ sites using YouTube Video Downloader from Freemake. You can extract audio from YouTube, convert online videos to AVI, MKV, Mp3, iPhone, iPod, PSP, Android with YouTube video downloader. Don’t worry, its free only :)

Features

  • Freeware from Freemake which is absolutely free
  • You can extract original audio from YouTube with its original music quality
  • You can download from 50+ sites: YouTube, Vimeo, Megavideo, Metacafe, LiveLeak, Vevo, MTV, TubePlus, DailyMotion, Veoh, etc.
  • You can download with one click
  • Plugins will be embedded to your browsers (installed) using which you can click “download” to your hard disk from the video you watch online
  • you can download Facebook video in any resolution
  • You can convert video during download process directly to AVI, MKV, 3GP, MP3, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Android.
  • You can download YouTube videos without ads.

You can download from Freemake.

For more information, visit: http://www.freemake.com/free_video_downloader/

Freemake Free Video Converter 2.2.0

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Freemake Video Converter 2.2.0 is a free converter software used to convert videos into AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, FLV, SWF, 3GP, DVD, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android formats. Its also used to rip & burn DVD, convert online videos from 50+ sites, burn Blu-ray, and upload to YouTube. Freemake Video Converter is a free software to use.

Features

  • 200+ Input formats: AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, FLV, TOD, AVCHD, MOV, DV, RM, QT, TS, MTS, etc. Import music (MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV), and photos (JPG, BMP, PNG,GIF) to turn them into video for free.
  • Convert online videos directly from 50+ sites: Freemake is the only free video converter that rips online videos through direct URL copypaste from YouTube, Facebook, MTV, Vimeo, Dailymotion, ComedyCentral, 50 more sites
  • Output to AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, FLV, SWF, 3GP, MP3: Convert video free to the most popular video formats. Rip DVD movie (unprotected) to AVI, WMV, MP4, MPEG, MKV, FLV, SWF, 3GP. Convert video to Flash and embed it directly to your web page. Convert video and audio files to MP3 with our free video converter.
  • Convert Free to iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, PS3, Android: Optimize videos for Apple, Sony, and Android devices. Convert videos free to iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod 5G, iPhone, convert to iPad, Sony PSP, PS2, PS3, BlackBerry, Xbox, Apple TV, Android mobile devices, smartphones, etc.
  • Burn Blu-ray Video: Convert your movies to video Blu-ray format and burn high-quality BDs for free. Create Blu-ray discs out of any input content: video, audio, photos, URLs. Burn multiple Blu-ray copies and save the resulted Blu-ray video to HDD as an ISO image or Blu-ray folder.
  • Free Video Converter with Subtitles Support: Convert DVD, MKV, MOV with embedded subtitles to any video format or device for free. Add SSA/SRT/ASS external subtitles to any video with our free video converter.
  • Advanced Preset Editor: Take total control of the output result by customizing conversion parameters. Create your own presets by establishing video and audio codecs, frame size, etc. Choose an icon, and save you custom preset for further usage with our free video converter.
  • Fastest Video Converter with CUDA and DXVA: Freemake is the only free video converter that features integrated both CUDA and DXVA technologies for the fastest ever video conversion and less CPU usage. The software automatically detects the optimal conversion parameters and switches on/off CUDA and DXVA for better conversion results.
  • Upload Photos and MP3 to YouTube: Upload videos, photo slideshows, MP3 to YouTube with our free video converter. Upload AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, JPG, BMP, GIF, MP3 to YouTube. The program will cut videos (if required) into 15-minute parts and insert them into one YouTube playlist.
  • Make Slideshows and Visualizations: Turn photos and MP3 into slideshows with background music for free. Edit your slideshow: add, delete, and shuffle photos, enable panorama effect. Create music visualizations and upload photos to YouTube for free!
  • Cut, Join, Rotate, Limit size, Adjust to aspect ratio: Cut video parts from your file. Flip or rotate video. Join several videos into one file, add transitions between parts. Fit the output file size to any limit (e.g. 700 Mb, 1.4 Gb, 4.7 Gb).  Adjust output video to the established aspect ratio: add black bars, stretch, zoom, auto-adjust.

You can download from Freemake.com.

For more information, visit: http://www.freemake.com/

K-Lite Codec Pack 7.20 (Full) Free

Monday, June 20th, 2011

K-Lite codec pack is famous and free pack useful to play video & audio files of many popular movie formats. K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

  • It always stays up-to-date as its updated frequently.
  • It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
  • Works great with Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. But also with all other DirectShow players, such as Media Player Classic, BS.Player, ZoomPlayer, and others.
  • The installation is fully customizable, meaning that you are able to install just those components that you really want.
  • The pack has many options, which allows you to tweak it to your own specific needs and preferences.
  • Uninstallation removes everything that was installed by the pack. Including all registry keys. All changes are properly undone.
  • It is extremely easy to make a fully customized unattended installation with the integrated wizard.
  • It does not contain any codecs or filters that are known to be bad, buggy or unstable. In fact, the installer is able to detect and disable several known troublemakers.
  • It tries to avoid potential conflicts with other codecs installed on your computer. The installer is able to detect and remove over 100 different codec and filter packs.
  • The installer is able to detect broken codecs and filters on your system, and helps you to remove them.
  • It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.
  • The pack has options to activate thumbnail generation in Windows Explorer for several popular video file formats, which are by default not thumbnailed in Explorer.
  • The pack automatically configures Media Center to recognize all common audio and video file formats, so that such files show up in your media library.
  • This pack has a huge user base. This means that problems are found and resolved quickly.
  • There are different variants of the pack. From very small to large.
  • The pack is suitable for both novice and expert users.

You can download K-Lite Codec Pack 7.20 from codecguide.com.

For more information, visit http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm