- J2K-Codec: Size Matters — There is an image-compression standard named JPEG, which is quite good, but rather old. And there is a new, modern and progressive successor — JPEG2000. Respectively to JPEG, the new standard gives a smaller file size and better image quality, and some new possibilities, such as transparency and translucency (alpha-channel). With J2K-Codec any developer can easily add JPEG2000 support to his/her application. If you are a game…
- Grab&Burn, Full Cycle — No boastful words are necessary here. The Grub&Burn software (as you can assume by its title) is an ultimate combine of the multimedia disks «grabbing» (extracting the data) and burning. The really *full cycle* of the disk operations is now available within one lightweight software suite Moreover, all that can be done in a single «gesture» — Grab&Burn provides the handy wizard mode for actions like…
- OlmiChess 2.63, Plug and Play! — Chess is an intellectual pair game the humanity has known for thousands of years. But during the last 15 or 20 years, it seems, chess sometimes becomes a «solo» game with the second partner being soulless machine with playing abilities based on the «smart calculation» only, not on the intuition, complex associations or vivid imagination (like every chess master has). Thanks to the progress, computers and computer…
- Unreal Media Server 5.0, Media to Universe — Unreal Media Server is an almost-universal highly-customizable media streaming solution. It can be used with the equal ease either inside a LAN or for the Internet, in an on-demand or live modes, with any level of interactivity and any media format. On the server side, Unreal Media Server supports a huge multitude of media formats (for ex., sound: WMV, MP3, OGG, video: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Apple mp4…), and…
- MidWavi Pro 2.98, What Can Be Done with Media Files? — «What can be done with media files?» — The question in the title is not rhetoric. I really want you to think about it: you have got multimedia data (CD-Audio, sounds as WAV and MP3, video in a multitude of formats, pictures in even a greater number of formats); now, what do you want to do with this media? The reason I am asking that is because MidWavi Pro can do really…
- MultiExtractor 2.70a, Media from Deep Internals — How often do you think «I’d like to have an icon set of this program for my use? I like the picture; may I extract it, please? The sound in presentation is cool, I want to get it,» and so on? Let’s ask more concrete question: do you want to have an ability to extract media (animations, pictures, sounds) from almost any complex format containing them such…
- MP4 Converter for Windows, Media Conversion Combine — MP4 is a modern and popular format for media; MP4 is a container format that can store video and audio data (mp4, m4p, m4a). MP4 is in your iPod, in your iPhone, Playstation, Zune, Xbox… Have you ever thought of creating your own MP4 files from existing video and audio files with different formats( AVI, MP3) ? Or, maybe, you are thinking about backwards conversion — how to push files from Zune or iPod into…
- VH Player — These days, the number of popular video codecs is so large that even the most experienced of us find it hard to tell whether the file that has just been downloaded from the Internet will play normally in any of the players installed in the system. The only way out is to keep downloading new codec packs and hope that they contain the right library. Fortunately, there are players out there that solve most of these problems and play…
- Flash Player Pro, Watch It Online, Watch It Locally — Even the simplest, most basic flash movie or animation gives a lot more excitement than the most sophisticated static document. The only trouble about this awesome technology is that all those exciting movies that can be watched online can hardly be saved to a local disk, so that we — or others — could watch them later. Flash Player Pro completely eliminates the problem of saving flash animations to disk; with…
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