DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. DVD Flick is Open Source, meaning that anyone can download and view or modify the program’s source code. It also means that it is absolutely free of charge. Several external programs are used by DVD Flick to do the dirty work like encoding and combining of video material. All of these programs are free, some are Open Source too. Supported file container formats are, amongst others, AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska and MP4. Supported codecs are amongst others, MPEG-124 (XVid, DivX, etc.), Windows Media AudioVideo. MP3, OGG Vorbis, H264, and On2 VP56. For a full list of supported container, audio and video formats, see this.
Monthly Archives: February 2007
MediaCoder 0.6.0pre1
MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.
AVI to AVI, AVI to DivX, AVI to H264, AVI to MKV, AVI to MP4, AVI to MPG, AVI to XviD, AVI to AAC, AVI to MP3, AVI to OGG, AVI to WAV, DivX to AVI, DivX to DivX, DivX to H264, DivX to MKV, DivX to MP4, DivX to MPG, DivX to XviD, DivX to AAC, DivX to MP3, OGG to MP3, OGG to OGG, OGG to WAV, RAM to AAC, RAM to MP3, RAM to OGG, RAM to WAV, WMA to AAC, WMA to MP3, WMA to OGG, WMA to WAV, WAV to AAC, WAV to MP3, WAV to OGG, WAV to WAV and more …
Tor for Windows 0.1.2.7 alpha
Tor is a toolset for organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize Web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it’s going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor’s technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against “traffic analysis,” a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
>> Tor website (downloads for Windows/MacOSX/Linux)
Miranda IM 0.6.7
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation. Continue reading
Winamp 5.33 beta
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
The Full version Plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more; Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins; Full Support for Classic and Modern Skins; Plays Videos; has a Powerful Media Library; Browse Internet Radio & TV Stations; Integrated Internet Music Videos & Songs; Bundled Visualizations; and Burn & Rip CDs. Continue reading
Miranda IM 0.6.5
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation.
Miranda IM 0.6.5 includes a new update notification system to notify you of new Miranda IM releases. Also included in this release is a fix for MSN avatar uploads along with numerous other bug fixes. If you are using Miranda IM 0.6.4 or earlier, this is a high recommended upgrade.
Windows Live Messenger 8.1
Adding more bloat with every previous release, I wonder what’s new this time 
Windows Live Messenger is the instant messaging tool from Microsoft for users of Windows. But, as always, bug fixes are a good thing. So download away!
>> Download Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (all languages)
>> Download Mess.be patch for Windows Live Messenger 8.1
XnView 1.90
XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter. It exists for Windows, MacOSX and Linux. It’s free, and beats ACDSee or other non-free software. The list of changes and new features is too long to post, but can be found here. Merci bien, Pierre, pour ce soft!