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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

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VLC Media Player Portable 1.0.3 (Windows)

Portable VLC media player is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. VLC initially VideoLAN Client is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Multimedia, Audio, Microsoft Windows, Video, PortableApps.com, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Networking, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-01

VLC Media Player 1.0.3 (Mac)

VLC initially VideoLAN Client is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, VideoLAN Project, Digital Video, Digital Media, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-01

VLC Media Player 1.0.3 (Windows)

VLC initially VideoLAN Client is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Multimedia, Microsoft Windows, VideoLAN Project, Digital Video, Digital Media, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goals

RE: Ubuntu 9.10 advances Canonical's cloud, enterprise goalsSabayon Linux is a better linux and no one ever talks about it. You get up and running right after installing Sabayon Unlike Ubuntu. All of your plugin's are already in place and running from the jump. It's really good for people who...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, Linux, Ubuntu, desktop, distro, Sabayon Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

FairMount 1.0.5 (Mac)

FairMount is a companion to VLC Media Player. It uses VLC to mount encrypted DVDs as decrypted disk images. Their content can then be accessed transparently by any applications.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, FairMount

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

Vista is still alive here..."Vista definitely improved"Vista-preinstalled SP1/SP2 Just Works, so I have no immediate plans to upgrade to Windows 7. Right now, I don't want to tempt fate.I don't see why people get all emo over Vista's UAC. It doesn't bother me.Yes, everyone says that Windows 7 is better...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-24

Media Indexer 2.0 (Windows)

Media Indexer is a super light application to index, search, find and play your media files. With its unique web style interface finding media on your computer was never this easy. Ultra light application : Weighing only at 1.5 MB, Media Indexer is one most lightest media indexing applications available....

Tags: Media, Microsoft Windows, Superscalar, Media File, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-24

xCode Parallel Encoder 1.0.0.111 (Windows)

xCode is a video encoding program. You can use xCode to convert DvDs you own into compressed avi files which can be played back on a computer using suitable video playback software such as Media Player or Video Lan VLC. Compressed files are encoding using x.264 to ensure quality. Unlike...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Apple Xcode, Computer, Superscalar, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-08

TV Everywhere: We're not just ready; we're already doing it

LCD TV'sWith the LCD TV's taking over of the market its making the transition even easier. I need no other equipment than a laptop with RGB and even better S-Video to hook up to my LCD and play movies over my wireless connection from my home server using VLC...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TV, LCD

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Samsung P2570HD

Great AlternativeFirst Impression on the p2570HD:The great: Samsung?s SyncMaster P2570HD offers plenty of inputs, a descent HDTV monitor, basic speakers, and a remote control with all necessary features. Also, great style and very good performance are included in a panel less than 2? deep.The bad: No VGA cable, no...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., monitor, TV

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Jason, F/OSS, Stallman, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Netgear introduces latest Digital Entertainer Live networked media player

An old laptop plus VLC softwareVLC media player / converter is free and cross platform. http://www.videolan.org/It provides way more functionality, and you don't have to pony up the $149 or the additional $39.99 to get Netflix.Netgear needs to catch up with the times. EVA2000 sounds like a...

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Netgear Inc., media player

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

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

Can VLC 1.0 change the world?

VLC media player is everything the copyright industries have fought against for over a decade -- open source, wide-open access, free, streaming, Linux. VLC ignores all the agendas that have hampered Apple QuickTime, the Real Player, and Windows Media Server over the years. Now, will it change the media landscape,...

Tags: Industry, VLC, Digital Music, Digital Media, Linux, Strategy, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Kantaris Media Player 0.5.8 (Windows)

Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it: AVI (DivX, Xvid, H264), MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV, MP3, WMA, and OGG files. Kantaris can also play DVD and audio CD. The player also displays beautiful visualizations for music. Kantaris is an all new media player based on...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Video, Christofer Persson, Kantaris Media Player 0.5.8, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-09

IOGear Wireless Audio/Video Kit

It's no secret we're inching ever closer toward ditching our cable or satellite television services in favor of Internet-only content consumption. With services such as Hulu and YouTube, the computer has become the video entertainment hub of the home. Getting that computer's desktop screen onto your television seems like...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, PRODUCTIVITY, Corporate communications, TV, IOGEAR, computer, video, USB, adapter

Product reviews 2009-06-29

Songbird 1.2.0 (Windows)

Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox, VLC Player, and SQLite. Songbird is open source and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Version 1.2 can auto-organize your music library, two-way iTunes import/export, Last.fm support, and a 10-band equalizer.

Tags: Songbird, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-06-18

Songbird 1.2 (Mac)

Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox, VLC Player, and SQLite. Songbird is open source and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Support for PowerPC-compatible Songbird ended with version 0.7. Version 1.0.0 features improved audio/playback functionality using GStreamer, UI experience improvements including new keyboard shortcuts, refining the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Playlist, Songbird, Keyboards, Web Browsers, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet, Semiconductors, Components

Software downloads 2009-06-18

DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!

DTV Transition? Done. Now Make My DVD Problem Go Away!Could you share more details on your Linux experiences?I've been planning to build a Linux based media center but I haven't planned out my plans on dealing with Direct TV. What did you find to be lacking on the Linux media...

Tags: Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVD, DVD Problem, DTV Transition, digital television, CD

Discussion threads 2009-06-15