Media TV Movie Radio Players Codecs & Decoders (freewares)

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Media Player Classic (freeware)
Source and download sourceforge.net

About the player

Media Player Classic Home Cinema project is based on the original "Media Player Classic" SourceForge project created by Gabest. After the original author stopped working on it the new versions came under the new project called Media Player Classic Home Cinema also hosted at SourceForge.net.

Currently about 24 developers are working on the Home Cinema project. The player supports all common video, audio and image file formats available as well as video playback (click here for all features). The MPC HC programming language is C++ and was started on 06.21.2006.

More information on the project

• Click to view the project activity statistics
• The project home page at SourceForge.net
• MPC-HC Support page
• Click to Download MPC Home Cinema Free

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VLC media player (freeware)
The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Source and Download
videolan.org

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WinAmp
https://www.winamp.com/

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Super Internet TV Free Edition (freeware)
Source and download ahusoft.com

Free program for watching and browsing thousands of TV channels and radio stations freely available on the internet.

• Watch 2000+ live Internet TV
• Listen to 5000+ live radio stations
• No special hardware required
• No spyware/adware

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Readon TV Movie Radio Player (freeware)

The program Readon TV Movie Radio Player allows you to listen to radio , watch TV broadcasts and access to latest movies on the internet. All you need is a Windows PC and an Internet connection. There is no need for a PC TV card because the TV channels are streamed through your internet connection. This is probably the best and yet free internet TV and radio you can get.

Features:

• Thousands of TV and Radio channels.
• Latest movies!
• Live sports!
• A rich variety of TV channels including movies, kids, news, general TV, music videos, etc.
• A rich variety of Radio channels including pop, jazz, classical etc.
• Able to record music from radio and MTV channels into MP3 files so that you can enjoy them in your favourite MP3 player.
• Record your favourite TV shows into asf video format.
• Adult video search engines (thousands of videos).
• Flash games search engine (thousands of games).
• Movie search engine (thousands of movies)
• Include ShoutCast, SopCast and Youtube.
• Able to set password to prevent viewing of objectionable contents.
• Automatic updating of channel lists.
• FREE!
• Much more!

Source and download readontech

It's a nice program.
Allthough it does not replace my cable-TV package because those (commercial) channels aren't in it.
Also i have yet to figure out what they mean with "Much more!".

A big pro is: it is portable so it doesn't actually install into your Windows system but just works from within the folder you have downloaded it into.

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K-Lite Codec Pack

About the K-Lite Codec Pack
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

• It is updated frequently. So it is always up-to-date with the newest and/or best components.
• All components have been carefully selected for specific purposes. It is not just a random bunch of stuff thrown together.
• It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
• Works great with Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. But also with all other DirectShow players, such as Media Player Classic, BS.Player, ZoomPlayer, and others.
• The installation is fully customizable, meaning that you are able to install just those components that you really want.
• The pack has many options, which allows you to tweak it to your own specific needs and preferences.
• Uninstallation removes everything that was installed by the pack. Including all registry keys. All changes are properly undone.
• It is extremely easy to make a fully customized unattended installation with the integrated wizard.
• It does not contain any codecs or filters that are known to be bad, buggy or unstable. In fact, the installer is able to detect and disable several known troublemakers.
• It tries to avoid potential conflicts with other codecs installed on your computer. The installer is able to detect and remove over 100 different codec and filter packs.
• The installer is able to detect broken codecs and filters on your system, and helps you to remove them.
• It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.
• The pack has options to activate thumbnail generation in Windows Explorer for several popular video file formats, which are by default not thumbnailed in Explorer.
• The pack automatically configures Media Center to recognize all common audio and video file formats, so that such files show up in your media library.
• This pack has a huge user base. This means that problems are found and resolved quickly.
• There are different variants of the pack. From very small to large.
• The pack is suitable for both novice and expert users.

VariantsThere are five variants of the K-Lite Codec Pack:

The basic variant contains everything you need to play all the common video file formats. Such as AVI, MKV, MP4, OGM, and FLV. This pack is for those who like a small no-nonsense pack.

The standard variant contains some additional features compared to the basic variant. It contains Media Player Classic, which is an excellent player for video files. It also has (better) support for playback of DVDs. This pack is recommended for the average user.

The full variant has many additional features. It supports playback of several (lossless) audio formats. It contains VFW/ACM codecs that can be used for encoding. It has playback support for a few legacy audio and video formats. This package is suitable for power users.

The corporate variant is a special version for use in a corporate environment. It is similar to the full variant, minus a few items, but almost just as powerful. It has a strong focus on open source software.

The mega variant has almost the same contents as the full variant, but additionally contains Real Alternative and some extra VFW/ACM codecs.

Source codecguide.com

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DVD en/decoders (freeware):

SUPER (Freeware)

SUPER is a 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:rn- Video format: 3gp (Nokia, Siemens, Sony, Ericson) asf, avi (DivX, Xvid, MPEG4, MSmpeg4, etc..), fli, flc, flv (used in Flash), mpg (Mpeg I or Mpeg II), mov, mp4, ogg, qt, rm, str (Play Station), swf (Flash), viv, vob, wmvrn- Audio format: ac3, amr, mp2, mp3, mp4, ogg, ra, wma. SUPER supports the conversion (encoding) to most of the above mentioned formats.
SUPER provides a variety of video codec selection with every file format conversion (encoding).
SUPER provides a variety of audio codec selection with every file format conversion (encoding).
Easy configuration of the essential video parameters (size, fps and video bitrate) during file conversion, simplifying the user's encoding process while parsing internally optimized video commands for best encoding results.
Easy configuration of the essential audio parameters (sampling rate, number of channels and audio bitrate) during file conversion, simplifying the user's encoding process while parsing internally optimized audio commands for best encoding results.
Multiple batch file processing by simple file drag and drop

Quick Media Converter (Freeware)

Quick Media Converter is a powerful and complete video and audio conversion software. In addition, this application will allow you to record videos or take pictures from your Webcam or DV Cam flux, in avi format, then convert it to any format you need.

Format Factory - Free Media File Format Converter

Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter.

Provides functions below:
- All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.

- All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.

- All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.


- Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.

- MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.

- Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.

Format Factory’s Feature:
- Support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
- Repair damaged video and audio file.
- Reducing Multimedia file size.
- Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
- Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
- DVD Ripper.
- Supports 50 languages

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Handbrake (freeware)

Details

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported Sources:
•Any DVD or Bluray-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image, real DVD or bluray (unencrypted -- removal of copy protection is not supported), and some .VOB, .TS and M2TS files
•Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:
•File format: MP4(M4V) and MKV
•Video: MPEG-4(ffmpeg), H.264(x264), or Theora(libtheora)
•Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (OS X Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-thorugh (MKV only)

Misc features:
•Chapter selection, Chapter Markers
•Subtitles
•Vobsub and Closed Captions
•SRT import and passthru
•SSA passthru or burn-in (experimental)
•Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
•Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
•Video: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Cropping and scaling
•Live Video Preview

Source handbrake.fr
Download Handbrake handbrake.fr

HandBrake » Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:26 pm

HandBrake 0.9.5 has now been released.

Release Highlights:

Core Library
* BluRay disc structure support. (No decryption support)
* Updated Libraries (x264, ffmpeg)
* SSA Subtitle support. (Including burn-in)
* MP3 audio now supported in MP4 files (Note: Limited Player compatibility)
* VOBSUB subtitle now supported in MP4 files (Note: Limited Player compatibility)
* Updated Presets for newer devices and better quality
* AC3 encoding support.
* Many Bug Fixes and other small improvements
* Improved DVD Main Feature detection (when using dvdnav)
* Universal audio downmix support (all audio types can be downmixed)
* Point*to*Point encoding (second or frame start and end times)
* Peak framerate option (Capped VFR)

All GUIs
* Updated x264 Advanced Panel
* Video Quality Slider drops % value and only shows RF for x264
* Batch Scan (Scan Multiple files at once. N.B: Does not include multiple VIDEO_TS folders / Image files)
* Many Bug fixes
* Many Tweaks to improve usability.
* Ability to edit queue jobs

Mac GUI
* New Audio Panel supporting >4 Audio Tracks
* VLC detection in /Applications and ~/Applications
* Multiple instance support
Windows GUI
* Encode Status in GUI. (CLI window is now always hidden)
* Improved Auto-Naming for Destination file name.
* Drag / Drop Video onto Main Window to scan.
Linux GUI
* Multiple instance support (run multiple copies of ghb at once)
* Many Bug fixes and UI improvements.
Notices
* Power PC (PPC) is no longer officially supported. Given limited resources and time, it simply isn’t feasible for this project to support minority platforms. For those of you still using older hardware, we recommend you stick with 0.9.4.

Source forum.handbrake.fr

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How To Rip DVDs to Play on Any Device—For Free!

There are a nearly infinite number of reasons to rip your DVD collection to more compressed, more compatible formats. Whether you want to use your Apple TV or Xbox 360 as a video jukebox with nigh-instant access to all your favorite flicks, protect your precious discs from the peanut buttery hands of your toddlers, or you just want to watch Pee Wee’s Big Adventure on your iPhone, ripping DVDs is easy and takes about a half hour—assuming you have a relatively modern computer with a multi-core CPU. Want to know more? We’ll show you exactly how to rip DVDs for playback on all your devices—Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iPhone, iPod, Zune, laptop, netbook, and PSP—the fast and easy way.

The big benefit to ripping your DVDs is that you can shrink the 4-8GB MPEG2 videos on your DVDs to much more compressed file without reducing the quality noticeably. The secret is the H.264 video codec, alternately called MPEG-4 Part 10 or simply AVC. H.264 can compress DVD-resolution video with no reduction in quality at less than half the bitrate of MPEG2. The upshot is that the video that takes up 7GB on your DVD will take 1GB-2GB or less on your iPhone or on your streaming server.

Read full article tested.com

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Split an Mkv File Into Two Parts

How to Split an Mkv File Into Two Parts

An MKV file can get pretty large if it is an HD video file. It can reach in excess of ten to twenty gigabytes. If this is the case, and the device you plan on watching the file from does not support file sizes that big, you are going to need to split the file into a few different MKV files. MKVMerge does an excellent job at this and is freeware.

Read full article: https://www.ehow.com/how_5875402_split- ... parts.html
The tool is actually called "mkvtoolnix" ... https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/
Once installed (take the setup version), it is called mkvmerge.

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VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Download sourceforge.net

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Convert wma to mp3 (askdavetaylor.com)

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Making Ringtones using Audacity: Making Ringtones (audacityteam.org)

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How to play .FLV movies on PC. (afterdawn.com)

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