DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs.

You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

DVD Shrink will also burn your backup DVD, if you have installed the latest version of Nero or if you download Copytodvd

You can also download a demo version of Nero here. If you already possess alternative burning software and prefer to stick with it, then you can still use DVD Shrink.

The output from DVD Shrink can be saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn with software of your choice.

DVD Shrink is free software. You should never pay for DVD Shrink.

Specifications: DVD Shrink - DVD Ripping and Backup
Latest Version - 3.2.0.15
Operating System Support - Windows 9x/2000/XP
License - Freeware

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Easy Video Downloader

Download videos from Youtube, Google Video and save as AVI, MPEG4 (iPod, PSP)

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Media-Convert advantages :

More secure because you do not have to install software on your computer, which can contain viruses, spywares, etc.

Access from everywhere in the world through Internet. You can use Media-Convert at the office, in a cybercafé, or with the PC of a friend, and then download the result quietly to your mp3 reader, cell phone or any other hardware.
Many formats are supported. The main formats are :

Raw text, HTML, XHTML, Microsoft Word, RTF, PDF, PS, Open Office, Star Writer, Pocket Word, Word Perfect
CSV, dBase, Microsoft Excel, Pocket Excel, Lotus 123, Quattro Pro, Star Calc, Open Office spreadsheet
MathML, Star Math, Open Office math, Microsoft Powerpoint, Star Impress, Open Office presentations.

GOM Player - We are offering you the world's best media player!

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in.

Features:
GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken index, or that are still being downloaded.
GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle.
GOM Player supports playlist formats such as M3U, PLS, ASX. You can include different media types on a playlist
GOM Supports different Media Types
Screen capture allows you to take a screenshot of your video directly from GOM Player.
There are other endless number of advanced features. Customize brightness, contrast and saturation. Sharpen and add noise to your video and much, much more!

DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs

The main DVDStyler features are:

* you can drag and drop MPEG files directly
* you can create NTSC/PAL menus
* you can import image file for background
* you can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen
* you can change font/color
* you can put buttons, change font and colors
* you can copy and paste any menu object
* you can set chapters for each movie
* you can change post command for each movie

It is Free software distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)

A Great Webpage Clipping Tool: Highlighted portions of any webpage are clipped and collected centrally, which can be shared and searched.
An All-in-One Bookmarking Tool: Bookmark webpages to Diigo, local folder, del.icio.us , Simpy, Furl, Spurl... and make them permanently cached and full-text searchable.
A Powerful Blogging Platform: Annotate webpages and quickly turn them into blogs with a built-in blog editor or enhanced linkrolls.
A Great Collaborative Platform: Share and interact on online findings, complete with highlights and sticky notes, with group of colleagues, classmates, or anyone who share similar interests.
The Most Customizable Search Tool: Like Google's toolbar, but far more customizable, so you can access any search service with one-click --- music, maps, references, local library, New York Times, ...
Unique Content Selection Menu: Interact with any word on a webpage just by selecting it, no click needed! - highlight, search, look up - whatever you want!

Find the features overwhelming?
Don't worry - it only takes a minute to get started, and everything is customizable, so you can make it work the way you want!

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software

Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. On the download page you can view a sample Flash tutorial created by Wink.

Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
Audio: Record: voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better.
Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.
Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).
Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web.

It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features!

Screen2EXE - Create instant screen demos with the highest compression ratio in the world.

Record onscreen changes to a self-played EXE file - An EXE file can be used on any Windows system, it has the best compatibility.

Record mouse movement and clicking - The movement and click of mouse can be saved and replay to help illustrate better,
Record speech from microphone - You can record your voice with the screen synchronized.
Support partial recording - You can select a rectangle as a region for recording.
Get smallest movie file for fast sharing - Based on advanced, special designed SSCV2 codec, SCREEN2EXE may have the highest compression ratio in the world. The output file size is far smaller than other screen recorders - a smaller file is very important when you want to share your demo via internet.

Best quality and Scalable settings - SCREEN2EXE allow you set quality from lossless true color mode to lossy grayscale mode, which help get best trade-off between quality and file-size. In default, the output quality of SCREEN2EXE, especially for those photos on screen, is the best compare to other screen recorder which only output 256 colors.

Besides the above, it is fast and efficient, occupies less system resources. And the most important, It is Free!

If you are looking for a free screen recorder which supports AVI, SCREEN2EXE is not your choice - try WINK instead (above) But if you are looking for a free screen recorder which can compress screen video more, SCREEN2EXE is the only choice of you!

Ardour is a digital audio workstation. (Linux/Mac only)

You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.

Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor ..... and more!

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

MediaMonkey - Get Your Music Collection in Order!

Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface.
Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata.
Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down.
Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume.
Record CDs into OGG, MP3, FLAC and WMA files.
Convert MP3s, OGG, FLAC and WMA files into other formats with the Audio Converter.
Create playlists and music mixes quickly and easily to suit any occasion.
Synchronize with iPods / MP3 players effortlessly and convert tracks on-the-fly.
Plus much more!

ScreenCoder is a tool for streaming and archiving video screen captures.

It is robust and flexible enough to suit a broad variety of needs.

For instance, its first use was to stream live video from university TA sessions and maintain archives of these videos. Since then, it has grown to include several output methods (record to file, push and archive to a Windows Media streaming server, stream directly from the encoding machine) and myriad niceties for managing screen captures.

While you could achieve identical results using the vanilla Windows Media Encoder, it would require far more work, to the point of being impractical. - we know this from experience!

In fact, based on our research, the best software for comparison is Camtasia, a high-quality (and high-price) screen capture suite. ScreenCoder provides much of the functionality of Camtasia, and it's completely free. Moreover, it provides archive management and other Windows Media-specific technologies that Camtasia does not implement.

So try it out before paying money for other software that may not fit your needs. You have nothing to lose because ScreenCoder is completely free!

This program was designed and implemented entirely by Jacob Klint (me) for the UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio.
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
* Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
* And more much, much! - See the complete list of features on the Audacity website!

Winamp - The ultimate media player!

10th Anniversary Edition - packed with new features, the latest edition of Winamp is available now!

Here's a sampling of some of the great new Winamp features:
* A completely redesigned interface, including Album Art
* Multiple device support, including Apple iPods
* Access and Share your Music and Videos with Winamp Remote
* Play and Playlist the Best Music on the Web with Media Monitor
* Enjoy Dynamic Song Recommendations
* Experience MP3 Surround Sound Support
* Access to Thousands of Online Radio Stations, Videos and More!
* 50 Free MP3 Music downloads compliments of eMusic's 2-week Trial
* Auto-Tagger provides automatic updates to file information
* Control Winamp from your browser with a the Winamp Toolbar

VLC Media Player

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, FLV, ogg, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

If Windows Media Player and Quicktime went "?????" when you tried to play that video file - trust me - VLC will play it!

Quintessential Player

Quintessential Player 4.50 has arrived! This new version brings you closer to your music then ever before. Stop letting your media player push you around, take control with Quintessential's new and improved arsenal of features.

QCD is still all about you. With its new extended freeform skinning engine and plethora of feature extending plugins Quintessential Player can be whatever you want it to be.

Most importantly you can take control of your listening experience for FREE. How is this possible you ask? It just is. Don't let the price fool you, there are no Pro versions, cripples, nags or spyware. Quintessential is here to be enjoyed without any catches

ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software

ZS4 Video editor aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one or more output files.

ZS4 Video Editor can be used like an object oriented photo-manipulation program with a timeline: things that can be manipulated in a photo (workshop) program can be manipulated in ZS4 using parameters which alter over time.

ZS4 Video Editor is worth using when...

the final output is a combination of more than 2 media sources rendered simultaneously. (like nine talking heads separately filmed, but later arranged in a 3x3 video wall combination)
every aspect of the compositing process needs to be 'tweened with an adjustable interpolation algorithm, from rotation angles to audio volume and chroma key sensitivity etc...
it becomes necessary to create custom effects and imaging processes by combining any number of effects using a highly flexible and infinitely variable toolbox of imaging "primitives".
the user likes to be limited by their own imagination instead of the software-makers ideas of the "desirable".

The ZS4 design therefore favours...

* choice over clarity.
* uniqueness over "standard".
* chaos over order.
* flexibility over simplicity.

t@b Media Converter is an audio and video converter/encoder utility which provides a graphical front end for Mencoder, Sox and potentially other non-t@b software. This program is currently available for OS X, Linux and Windows.

This utility will convert a great variety of video and audio formats into files which ZS4 (featured above) can read/import.

It is available for OS X, Linux and Windows. The Source code is available from the same site as the executables.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). We use it primarily for AVI processing under windows.

It will easily re-encode an mjpg avi into an indeo avi which can be understood more easily by microsoft programs.

Juice - the cross platform podcast receiver - So what is it?
Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.

Juice is free!
Juice supports more than 15 languages
Juice supports multiple media players
Juice is free software licensed under the GPL (open source)
Juice's primary purpose is to manage podcasts
Juice has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds
Juice has auto cleanup, authentication, centralized feed management and much more
Juice is accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows version only)
Juice is fresh!

mp3DirectCut - All you need to cut your mp3s!

mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files (e.g. to wav format) for audio editing. This saves encoding time and preserves the original quality, because nothing will be re-encoded. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files.

Free CD to MP3 Converter is an easy-to-use free CD ripper software that allows you to extract audio files from a CD and convert them to MP3, Wav, Ogg or Wma format. It can automatically retrieve title information from the CDDB database, normalize the output files and supports additional LAME options. You can also use the software to record to MP3 with your microphone, or to convert WAV files to MP3, Ogg or Wma format.

Supports ID3 tag edit.

CamStudio - Free Streaming Video Software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

* You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
* Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
* You can create video tutorials for school or college class
* CamStudio can be learned in a matter of minutes and comes with a comprehensive built-in helpfile, so if you do manage to get stuck, you can simply hit "Help" and get the answers you need.
* You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
* You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

Ares P2P - Filesharing made easy!

AresUltra is the latest version of Ares. It was developed in mid 2006 and is tuned specifically for downloading MP3s. Special features include automatic filtering of corrupt MP3 files, and an integrated playlist with shuffle mode, along with a full technical support staff.

150% faster downloads than Kazaa - Powerful mp3 and movie library - full featured mp3 and movie player - thousands of search reults!

The best P2P Software... PC Magazine Editors Choice. 'An incredible piece of software' - CNN

Songbird will do practically anything iTunes can do, and then some. Sync your iPod, connect to a stand alone music device like the Squeezebox, or perhaps discover new, unsigned bands using Songbird's unique music browsing capabilities. Songbird is the only music player out there that allows you to "browser music" as you surf a webpage, linking to an audio file for a particular band. It's pretty powerful stuff.

Unlike iTunes, Windows Media Player or amaroK, Songbird works on all three major platforms. And because it is based on Firefox technology, the user can add any number of extensions to further the functionality of this already powerful music player.

SUPER © does for FREE what other players and encoders CAN'T do for money!

If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need.

It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

SUPER © does NOT require any additional external codec to be installed, absolutely nothing. Necessary codecs are built in!

SUPER © is compatible with most Windows® platforms

Hint: The webpage is quite 'busy' and disorganised - find the download link almost at the very bottom of the page on the left

It is a realtime converter because it does not manage Real Time Streaming Protocol(tm) (RTSP) directly so the needed time to convert a media will be greater or equal to the time of the mediaAV/MP3 format.

Here are some key features of "Real7ime Converter":

· A cool user friendly GUI
· A preview using DirectX 8.1 or later (no preview sound definitively because R7C is not a player)
· A MP3 encoder
· The last but not the least, a URL Fetcher which can get all

Requirements:

· RealPlayer(tm) installed (RealPlayer Basic or RealOne Player)
· 256 MB at least
· A fast PC and connection to get the best result
· DirectX 8.1 or later for fast preview
· 'Nimo Codec Pack' for all needed codecs