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Can VLC 1.0 change the world?

Can VLC 1.0 change the world?But VLC has been around for years . . And my favorite player. Plays everything, no need to DL codecs or hack your media player. Why the big deal now?Answering your question[i]Now, will it change the media world, or will the media industry work to...

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, Mplayer, VLC, VLC 1.0

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

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) 20050113 (Windows)

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, Joey Parrish, MPlayer, Linux, DVD, Media Players, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2006-03-29

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

MPlayer OSX Extended rev12 (Mac)

MPlayer OSX Extended is an unofficial extension of the MPlayer OSX user interface. Development on the official MPlayer OSX frontend has been slow in recent years and MPlayer OSX Extended tries to change that. The project is focused on a steady pace and aimed at making MPlayer OSX what...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, MPlayer OSX Extended, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-18

VideoSpec 0.8.1 (Mac)

VideoSpec is a free AppleScript studio App (Xcode 3.0 on Leopard) making use of MediaInfo CLI, MPlayer, FFmpeg, qt_tools and AtomicParsley binaries to display detailed informations on video files. Compatibility of analyzed media file with QuickTime Player v.7.6 is provided with indication on the installation status of the displayed QuickTime...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple QuickTime, QuickTime Player, Video, VideoSpec, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Digital Music, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-15

Jubler 4.1.3 (Mac)

Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. Some of its key features are subtitle preview, smooth cooperation with MPlayer, full subtitle editing, and ASpell support.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tool, Panayotis Katsaloulis, Jubler, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-06-20

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time

The June 2009 (2009.06) release of OpenSolaris provides a solid Open Source GNOME desktop experience like that of a modern Linux distribution combined with the scalability and stability of UNIX. Over the weekend, I had the chance to take a look at Sun...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-07

Future of netbooks, laptops unfolds at Computex

Future of netbooks, laptops unfolds at ComputexRealPlayer a good thing?Seriously? RealPlayer is a terrible audio/video platform.MPlayer already works, and works well with many codecs.The only advantage RP might have is any licenses for codecs it might have already paid for. And for an app as historically trashy as...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Digital music, Digital media, Corporate communications, RealNetworks RealPlayer, netbook, HTML 5, video, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Tanbee iRiver Converter 3.8.90 (Windows)

Tanbee iRiver Converter is a professional and practical video converter for iRiver users. Almost all common video files like AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, MOV, VOB, MPEG, ASF, RM, RMVB, MKV, FLV can be converted to iRiver AVI WMV format so that they can be played on iRiver Mplayer, Volcano, T...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, iRiver, Tanbee, iRiver Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Marketing, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-04-14

PS3 Media Server 1.10.5 (Mac)

PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server for the PS3, written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. It's backed up with the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg packages. Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Media Server, Sony PlayStation 3, PS3 Media Server, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-03-07

iOrgSoft iRiver Video Converter 3.1.8 (Windows)

iRiver Video Converter is a professional and practical video converter for iRiver users. Almost all regular video files like AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, MOV, VOB, MPG, ASF, RM, RMVB, MKV, FLV, etc can be converted to iRiver AVI WMV format so that they can be played on iRiver Mplayer, Volcano,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, iRiver, Doremisoft, iRiver Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-03-02

SUPER 2009.build.35 (Windows)

SUPER Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. A GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. SUPER supports a wide variety of input/source file format to play or encode (to & from) without any additional third party software: - Video format: 3gp (Nokia,Siemens,Sony,Ericson) asf, avi (DivX, Xvid,...

Tags: Video Codec, MPEG, Codec, OGG, Microsoft Windows, Video, Conversion, eRightSoft, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-01-06

MPlayerGUI 0.5.17 (Windows)

MPlayerGUI is a GUI Graphical User Interface front-end for MPlayer. MPlayerGUI depends on MPlayer. The program can play AVI, MPEG, ASF/WMV, QuickTime/MOV, RealMedia RM/RMVB, MPEG4, WMA, MP3, WAV files and doesn't need to install any codecs to the system. You can threat MPlayer as the kernel and MPlayerGUI as the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GUI, Jason Yang, MPlayerGUI, Digital Media, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-12-11

XviD 1.2.1 (Windows)

Xvid is an open-source research project focusing on video compression and is a collaborative development effort. All code is released under the terms of the GNU GPL license. The Xvid video codec implements MPEG-4 Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile standards. It permits compressing and decompressing digital video in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, XviD, Xvid Solutions, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-12-05

Apple retail stores to match prices

Apple retail stores to match pricesNot the first time Apple has screwed their authorized resellersApple faced a huge lawsuit years ago when the first Apple stores started popping up. Turns out that when an Apple store went up, authorized resellers in the area would be told that certain items were...

Tags: Retail, VOIP, Apple Inc., Starlight, Apple Store, retail company

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in development

StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in developmentdeleteddeletedRE: StarLight for Mac enters alpha; iPhone client in developmentFrom the Developer:Thank you for the super write up on StarLight. We are working hard on StarLight 1.1.0a which will include native quicktime audio as an option an alternative to the built-in mplayer...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Starlight, iPhone client, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

SMPlayer 0.6.5.1 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, SMPlayer, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-11-14