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Content Protection madness on Vista

Content Protection madness on VistaBlu-Ray Deserves To FailI agree and am with you 100%. DRM will go away when consumers vote with their wallets. We have already seen some of this with the music industry.Blu-Ray/Sony = EPIC FAILBlu-Ray can kiss my DVD-Loving butt :)I would love to see...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, digital-rights management, Content Protection, Microsoft Windows Vista, HDCP, mplayer, DVD, DRM IS

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty FawnInstall Mplayer or VLC instead ...It has built in codec support for Quicktime 7 files. There is also a graphical front end that's included. Mplayer will also allow you to capture network streams and do conversion with mencoder, but it's on the command line...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Apple QuickTime, Ubuntu, VLC Player, mplayer, Automatix, Mplayer, DVD

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

K-Lite ends media format madness

K-Lite ends media format madness"borking"?To bork is, as I understand it, to raise a significant number of meaningless but vaguely negative issues in order to discredit someone. Named after a Supreme Court nominee of impeccable character and qualifications who was defeated by innuendo.(Not a political question, so I'll add...

Tags: Mplayer, codec, K-lite

Discussion threads 2006-05-15

MPlayer (CygMP) (exe)

This is an unofficial MPlayer packages based on Cygwin. These packages are made from CVS copies of MPlayer with a custom patchset applied. Primary features of MPlayer: DVD player; independance from third party codecs (no need to download from DivX.com to watch DivX movies); supports the same wide variety of...

Tags: Package, MPlayer, Linux, DVD, UNIX, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2006-03-29

Mplayer (zip)

MPlayerOSX is binary distribution of MPlayer The Movie Player for Linux that comes with native GUI in Mac OS X. After installation you can simply by drag and drop play almost all 3ivx, DivX 3,4,5, and other codecs files in the window or full screen mode. Rendering of very nice...

Tags: Movie, Codec, MPlayerOSX, MPlayer

Software downloads 2005-07-26

Linux companies hit play on Real's software

Linux companies hit play on Real's softwareLet's hope it remains unobtrusive in linuxLet's hope it remains unobtrusive in linux. Otherwise it will not be used there either.HopefullySeeing as it is open source people will be able to inspect the code and no spyware or cropup cr@p will be added...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Digital music, software, Linux, mplayer, spyware

Discussion threads 2004-06-28

Additional Resources

Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon system

Hammering a dual quad-core Xeon systemexcept those MPEG-2 still take up 2-3 times more HD space...as the MPEG-4 for the same quality... if you are actually going to take the time to rip all your DVDs... for me it was about 400 DVDs, you might at well take the time...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Digital video, Digital media, Media players, Digital music, quad-core, Try Super, Archos, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1

Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1Great! Some multimedia tips.In the sequel you might find it handy to include the swiftest way to add the missing restricted multimedia-codecs, plus a new thing on Sun Java (new since 8.04):- establish internet connection- Applications - Add/Remove- Show: all available...

Tags: open source, OpenOffice Draw, multimedia, Medibuntu, Linux, w32codec, Click Apply, plug-in

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time

My 10 favorite Windows programs of all timeHow does Windows Photo Gallerycompare to iPhoto. I tried Photo Story, and it is ok, I do not take a lot of pictures, nor do a lot, so this is first time I heard of Windows Photo.My mom uses iPhoto for about fifty...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Web browsers, Google Notebook, Microsoft Windows, favorite Windows program, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Windows Program, FeedDemon

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Death encounters with Vista SP1 RTM

Death encounters with Vista SP1 RTMFlash in IE7I am unable to use IE7 with Adobe Flash player, also. IE7 shuts down at least three times a day with Flash installed. Firefox has been working fine with Flash player though.George, let's hope the in this case that it is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Opera Software, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, SP1

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

SMPlayer (exe)

SMPlayer is a new multimedia player. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as engine, so it's able to play the most known video & audio formats without the need of external codecs: avi, mkv, ogm, mpeg, vob, 3gp, asf, mov, wmv, mp3, ogg. You can also play DVD discs and Internet...

Tags: Multimedia, Audio, Movie, SMPlayer, DVD, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2007-12-18

Unreal Media Server (zip)

Unreal Media Server is a streaming server for Windows platforms, designed to provide multimedia delivery over LAN and Internet. Supported file formats: AVI(DivX, XVid, any encoding), MPEG-1/2/4, WMV/WMA, ASF, MP3, QuickTime. Playlist functionality allows to automatically play all the files of server's virtual folder in a loop mode. Live media...

Tags: Media Server, Codec, Server, Video, Unreal Media Server, Playlist Functionality, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Digital Video, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-12-11

Linux is like ice cream -- too many flavors to choose

Linux is like ice cream -- too many flavors to chooseLove them pollsAfter at least one vote, the total is still zero.Go figure.Anyway, the "favorite distro" and "best for EdIT" are two different questions.AgreedWay too many flavors. It's been said before, and let's say it again:Lots of different versions is...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Linux, LINUX IS, ice cream

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

One-year-old QuickTime bug comes back to bite Firefox

One-year-old QuickTime bug comes back to bite FirefoxPeople are still using Quicktime?I don't remember the last time I watched an online video or listened to an MP3 using Quicktime. Is it still popular? If there is a video that you must see that is in Quicktime, couldn't you...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Web browsers, Apple QuickTime, rep, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

What happens to network performance on Linux/Mac when you play audio?

What happens to network performance on Linux/Mac when you play audio?Doesn't look like audio playback affects network performance on a macYou've posted this at an opportune time! I'm currently copying 42Gb from a Mac OS X server (an old G4) to a MacBook Pro. Both computers have Gigabit Ethernet. Unfortunately...

Tags: Desktops, Ethernet, Operating systems, NETWORKING, Apple Macintosh, network, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, network performance, Mb/s

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

How to fully de-gunk a PC of Crapware

How to fully de-gunk a PC of CrapwareApple Troll keeps on his topic - NTNTUse X-Lite Mega pack to avoid installing QT and iTunesUse X-Lite Mega pack to avoid installing QT and iTunes or Real Player. Real Player is the most horrible application I've ever seen in the way...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, TCP/IP, Apple QuickTime, TCP Optimizer, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Crapware, Quick Time, PC

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

DivX Free Codec (exe)

DivX Free Codec includes DirectVobSub vsfilter, AC3Filter, and FFDSHOW. DirectVobSub is a tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle file should have the same filename as your video file and should be in the same folder as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players. AC3Filter...

Tags: DivXNetworks, Codec, MPEG-4, Video, DivX Free Codec, DirectVobSub, AC3Filter, FFDSHOW, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-06-09

NMC player (msi)

NMC player is a multi purpose graphical media player written in C#2.0 using "MPlayer - The Movie Player" as core engine. Requires no other codec installation, and not conflicts with any other application or codec. Plays almost every known video or audio format. Fully Vista Aero Glass compatible. Note: There...

Tags: Patches, codec, patch management, media player, movie, video

Software downloads 2007-05-31

MacVCD X (zip)

Easy to use video media player for Mac OS X. MacVCD X plays VCD, SVCD, XVCD, SXVCD, AVI, DivX, xVID, MPEG, WMV, iMovie, video, Quicktime movies and more. Use the screen display you prefer--full screen display, small screen display floating or regular window, or show on your TV.Version 4.7.1 adds...

Tags: Screen, Video, Mireth Technology, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Apple Mac OS, Digital Media, Digital Music, Marketing, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2007-05-16

Mobile minitablets still grounded despite new tech

Mobile minitablets still grounded despite new techAlready moving...This is not a new idea. Nokia has the N800. With a high resolution touchscreen (800x420), WiFi, and bluetooth, running a custom version of Debian Linux. Nokia sponsors an open source project called Maemo which is a great group of devs who have...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Tablets, Wi-Fi, mobile, N800, Nokia Corp., ultramobile PC, minitablet PC

Discussion threads 2007-04-30