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- DestroY MediaPlay (exe)
- Playback of avi, asf, asx, wav, wma, wmv, ogg, mpg, mpeg, mp1, mp2, mp3, mid, rmi, mo3, it, xm, s3m, mtm, umx, aif, aifc, aiff, au, and snd. Playback of video DVD, audio CD with CDDB support, streaming (SHOUTcast/Icecast supported). Great modern looking design, association to media files, m3u &...
- Tags: Playback, DestroY Software, Digital Video, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-11
- SmartScore X Pro Demo (msi)
- SmartScore has fully integrated music scoring, MIDI sequencing and music scanning with the world's most advanced music scanning technology. SmartScore X is also one of the friendliest scorewriters available anywhere. Whether for editing scanned music or creating new scores from scratch, SmartScore is fast, easy and, well, smart! Playback is...
- Tags: Playback, Music, SmartScore X, SmartScore
- Software downloads 2008-01-28
- Microsoft Expression Media Encoder Preview (msi)
- Microsoft Expression Media Encoder is an advanced and essential tool for getting your edited video project to the Web for playback in Microsoft Silverlight scenarios. Expression Media Encoder is an advanced video encoding tool especially suited for generating content that takes full advantage of the rich graphic and interactive capability...
- Tags: Playback, Microsoft Silverlight, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Expression Media Encoder, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-01-24
- If you hate Microsoft you'll really hate this: Patent app calls for "enforcing" ad playback within downloaded multimedia files
- From my read of a Microsoft Patent application just published today, technology is being proposed that will make it impossible for users who download multimedia files to play these files unless advertising messages inserted within these files are viewed. In other words, no...
- Tags: Playback, Multimedia, Advertisement, Media, Microsoft Corp., Insertion Engine, Playback Engine, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Audio glitching - Common under Vista, not so bad under other OSes
- The Windows Vista Team blog has an interesting post by Steve Ball, Senior Program Manager for Sound in Windows Vista, on why sound in Windows sometimes glitches. I'm still left with one question though - Why is Vista so badly affected by glitching while Mac OS X and Linux...
- Tags: Playback, Audio, Apple Macintosh, PC, Operating System, Article, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Any Time (zip)
- Any Time lets you independently take control of the time, the pitch, and the sample rate of an audio recording - do time stretching change playback time without changing pitch, pitch scaling (change pitch without changing playback time - formant correction optional), and/or sample rate conversion (change sample rate without...
- Tags: Playback, Pitch
- Software downloads 2007-10-08
- EasyFLV FLV Converter (exe)
- EasyFLV FLV Converter converts your video files to FLV format for web streaming. The supported source formats are MPEG, AVI, WMV, ASF, MOV etc . The other unique featue is that it can watermark your video file as well with a text while doing the conversion. The FLV Converter also...
- Tags: Playback, Video, EasyFLV FLV Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Marketing, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- Express Scribe (exe)
- Express Scribe is a transcriber that features variable speed playback, foot pedal operation, speech recognition, file management and more. Ideal for playing dictation. Features include ability to play compressed wav or dct files, variable speed constant pitch playback, ability to control playback with foot pedals or system wide hot keys,...
- Tags: Playback, Word-processor, Express Scribe, Speech Recognition, Word Processors, Emerging Technologies, Software
- Software downloads 2007-08-30
- Delayed & buggy integrated graphics drivers dog Intel and AMD
- More than a year after the launch of the Intel G965 integrated-graphics chipset and closing in on the launch of the G35 replacement chipset, Intel has finally released production non-BETA Vertex Shader enabled drivers that support half-way decent medium-resolution gaming. These new drivers are only for Windows XP but Vista...
- Tags: Chipset, Playback, Graphics Driver, Problem, Driver, Video, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., DVD, HQV, HDV, HD, AMD 690, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Thoughts on Mark Russinovich's response to Vista network slowdown
- Several ZDNet readers have asked for my thoughts on Mark Russinovich's response to Vista network slowdown issue.Overall, I feel that Mark's response is both thorough, clear and accurate. However, his blog post on the matter raises some interesting questions about the Windows Vista development process and how Microsoft approached the...
- Tags: Playback, Multimedia, Network, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., CPU, commentary:rnThe MMCSS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Elecard MPEG Player (zip)
- Elecard MPEG Player allows software-only playback of mpeg1/2/4 format of any type. It supports DivX, ripped VOB's, MPEG4, 3GP, DVB, SVCD, Transport Streams. Audio supports AAC, AC3, MP2, MP3 inputs, and SPDIF output. DirectShow compatible. Features: fast forward/backward playback, next/previous frame, grab frame, play list, trim file, playback DivX files,...
- Tags: Playback, DivXNetworks, Elecard MPEG Player, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2007-03-14
- Claudio (exe)
- Claudio offers wide range of sound quality parameters for recording (11-192 kHz, 8/16-bit, mono/stereo). It comes with a track editor for making cut-outs and splitting, transcription playback mode, mouse wheel support, endless loop playback, two-track mixer, pre-amplifier, some interesting playback effects (echo, equalizer, flanger, and pitch), support for unattended scheduled...
- Tags: Playback, Keyboards, Mice, E-mail, Branding, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-03-08
- Chords (exe)
- Free MIDI playback and sheet music notation editor. Oriented for guitars, it shows chord and scale diagrams. It also allows adding chords and scales to sheet music. It supports multiple track playback.
- Tags: Playback
- Software downloads 2006-10-30
- CyberLink PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC Edition (exe)
- CyberLink PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC Edition is a video capturing and file conversion application for converting video into high-quality compressed files using the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) standard. Playback is supported via a plug-in for PowerDVD 6 or Windows Media Player (on machines installed with PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC). Video quality and advanced...
- Tags: Playback, MPEG-4, Video, CyberLink PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC Edition, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2006-10-26
- GSPlayer (zip)
- GSPlayer is a simple audio player for PocketPC. Features include MP3 playback using the MAD 0.15.0b, Ogg Vorbis playback, WAV playback, HTTP streaming playback, SHOUTcast streaming playback, ID3 v1/v1.1 support, PLS/M3U playlist support, a 10-band equalizer, surround and bassboost effects, reverb and echo effects, skin support, hardware button mapping, noiseless...
- Tags: Playback, GSPlayer, Pocket PC, Media Players, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software
- Software downloads 2006-04-21
- Flash 8 Cookbook: Building Preloaders
- Flash movies begin playback as soon as the first frame is loaded. This default behavior generally works well with compact Flash vector graphics. However, when one uses other kinds of assets - notably, bitmap graphics, sound, video, and/or Flash components - Flash's default behavior can lead to stuttered, delayed, and...
- Tags: Playback, O'Reilly Media Inc., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Book chapters 2006-04-01
- Dialgo VOIP TAPI DLL SDK (zip)
- Dialgo VOIP TAPI DLL ActiveX SDK features caller ID extraction, digit monitor and playback, wave file playback and phone line recording. You may also save your wave file in more than 20 audio formats. CCITT u-Law compressed wave files can be set on inputs for playback.
- Tags: Playback, United Research Labs, Telephony, VOIP, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2005-11-02
- Subhash VCD Player (zip)
- Subhash VCDPlayer is a media player with support for VCD playback and image capture. Captured images can be stored in bitmap BMP files and instantaneously previewed as the desktop wallpaper. The player also has special function keys that can be used to adjust playback when working from other programs. The...
- Tags: Playback, Subhash VCDPlayer, Desktops, Media Players, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-10-29
- ThinkingTunes (msi)
- ThinkingTunes allows users to control the playback of songs by combining most input methods: speech recognition, keyboard, mouse, game controller, TCP/IP, and Pocket PC. Also it favors voice synthesizing and sound file playback over visual cues for feedback. This combination makes it practical for situations where a display is absent...
- Tags: Playback, ThinkingTunes, Speech Recognition, Pocket PC, Games, Tcp/Ip, Keyboards, Mice, Emerging Technologies, Handhelds, Hardware, Personal Technology, Networking, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2005-08-29
- PC Windows Wave HiFi Player (rar)
- In normal sound work we use three speakers to playback high, middle, and low frequency sound signal. We use persistence and pole brace. Now we have different way to separate sound signal. Use a PC to get wave file data by a computer program. And then process science calculation to...
- Tags: Playback, PC, Microsoft Windows, Audio Card, Pole, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2005-08-24
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