Debut Video Capture is a free video recording software that can capture video and audio from any USB device, and can also record anything that is displayed on-screen such as a video that is playing or a user’s visible on-screen activity. Supports a wide variety of →
Four Mini Reviews: SimplyZip, DP MediaInfo, IndexMaker, and UPXG
this posting will provide a number of mini-reviews for freeware programs written by the amazing Dirk Paehl: SimplyZip, DP MediaInfo, IndexMaker, and UPXG. I received an email from reader Christ T (CT) which had insightful things to say about a number of freeware titles written by →
The KMPlayer: one media player to rule them all
The KM Player is a free media player that supports a comprehensive range of media format, including broad DVD support using all internal filters and codecs. It is extremely feature-rich, offering a range of features such as applying filters during playback (sharpening, denoise, color effects, etc), →
BitRipper: convert DVDs to AVI or Mpeg with a single click
BitRipper is an integrated DVD ripping and conversion program that provides AVI or Mpeg creation from DVDs in a single step. I’ve been making terrific conversions of DVDs into video files using all freeware tools for a long time, my programs of choice in this regard being →
Adobe Media player delivers streaming video into your desktop
Adobe Media Player is a free video streaming application that runs on the Adobe Air platform. What it is is a desktop content delivery vehicle for “Adobe TV”, which comprises a number of licensed networks and channels offers content creators the opportunity publish their videos. Content →
Extract audio and video files from FLVs with FLV Extract
FLV Extract is a free program that can save video and audio files from FLV files in their original formats without decompressing or re-compressing. If you weren’t aware of it, FLV files are containers that house audio and video files which may be encoded in any →
Collect and Share videos from the desktop with uvLayer
uvLayer is an Adobe Air application that allows you to watch, collect, and share videos from a cool desktop-based interface. It can also log into your Facebook account and allow you to share videos with your Facebook friends simply by dragging and dropping them on your →
F-ab is an online flash animation/video channel browser
F-ab is a player for online videos and other flash animations where, instead of a URL, you literally ’tune into’ channels that are broadcast over the internet in the manner of a radio dial. It offers more than 1200 such channels as of this writing, with the →
Shrink DVDs down to size with Amok DVD Shrinker
Amok DVD Shrinker is a free program that can compress decrypted DVDs to smaller, user-defined disk sizes without any noticeable reduction in quality. It is designed to enable the copying of commercial DVDs stored on nonstandard media in order to fit them on a standard 4.7 gig →
DVD Slideshow GUI easily creates spectacular slideshows and exports them to DVD
DVD Slideshow GUI is a powerful freeware program that can create slideshows consisting of images as well as videos, add subtitles, set to music then export them to .ISO format or DVD folder ready to be burned onto a DVD or any of a number of →
CodecInstaller
CondecInstaller can display a list of all audio and video codecs installed on your system as well as analyse media files to identify the codecs needed to play them. It can also download codecs from the author’s website for easy installation. [Note: this is an updated →
