Multimedia Software
updated Jan. 23, 2010
| CD Burners and Rippers |
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Audacity An Open Source Audio editor and recorder with plug-ins.
CDBurnerXP Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs..
DVD Shrink • DVD ripping and backup utility. Author: http://www.dvdshrink.org/
InfraRecorder • A popular CD/DVD burning utility. Open Source software.
ISO Recorder Burn CD and DVD images. Copy disks. Make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs. Create ISO images from the content of a disk folder.
| Digital Imaging and Manipulation |
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GIMP for Windows: a very popular GNU image manipulation program for photo retouching, image compisition, and image authoring. GIMP has tons of features with awesome plug-ins. An Open Source software.
Jing Snap picture of your screen. Record video of onscreen action. Share instantly over the web, email, or IM.
Kodak EasyShare Software for Windows and Mac: find. organize, create and share with free Kodak easyShare.
Paint.NET for Windows XP SP-2 or later. Features a simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface with lots of features, and hundreds of plug-ins. Paint.NET It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it.
Photofiltre PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks.
Photoscape for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista. A free image manipulation program with tons of features: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, batch rename, and raw converter. NOTE: though the software is very good, beware all the Google ads.
Picasa 3 for Windows XP and Vista, by Google. Very easy software and excellent interface with your Google account. Picassa has very basic image editing functions, it is primarily photo organizing software.
| Media Players |
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Cliprex DVD Player Professional is the free solution for playing DVDs on the PC. Will handle playback of both commercial and consumer-created DVDs. Beside DVD video it supports most well known video standard formats, like DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, ASF, Video CD, Super Video CD and any other videofile you have the codec installed for.
DivX for Windows: create and play high-quality DivX videos on your PC and beyond.
FlvPlayer4Free allows you to easily play FLV files from your PC, or from internet.
iTunes by Apple. iTunes is a free multimedia organizer application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And you can add to your collection anytime, 24/7.
Media Player Classic • Excellent media player with DVD decoder. Open Source.
Quicktime Player for Windows, by Apple
VLC Media Player Video-LAN media player and streaming server.
Windows Media Player 11 by Microsoft, for Windows XP and Vista | Validation Required.
Zune Software for PC, by Microsoft. Includes Quickplay, Smart DJ, Mini Mode, Mixview, and Zune Marketplace.
| Other Multimedia Software |
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AutoRun Creator • Easily create auto-run CD's. Author: http://www.x-lair.com/myprograms/autoc.html
AutoRun Pro • INF file creator to autorun CD's and apps.
DFX Audio Enhancement DFX enhances the sound of all the best media players.
Fresh View • Organize images, audio and video files. Use it to watch movies, listen to music, view graphics in a slide show, print, create an HTML album, etc. Author: http://www.freshdevices.com/freshview.html
LightScribe System Software This is required for proper operation of your LightScribe system.
LightScribe Template Labeler Requires a LightScribe compatible disc burner and LightScribe System Software (above). Very easy to use. Produces fantastic looking discs.
LightScribe Template Gallery Requires LightScribe Template Labeler and LightScribe System Software (above). Very easy to use. Produces fantastic looking discs. Must have LightScribe compatible PC hardware.
Virtual CD-ROM for Windows XP • Copy the entire contents of a CD-ROM to your hard disk and run the programs or access the files without the need for the original CD.
webcamXP is a powerful webcams and network cameras monitoring, recording and streaming software for private and professional use.
WebCam Viewer is a small tool that allows you to monitor web cams from all over the world.
