en-us http://www.productwiki.com/media-software/ Featured content from ProductWiki. Hottest products, active discussions, recent articles, and hot links. http://www.productwiki.com/itunes/ iTunes is a digital media player application that is used to organize and play digital music and video files while also interacting with the popular iPod and iPhone devices. iTunes also functions as a portal app for the iTunes Store via the the Internet to download and purchase music, music videos, television shows, iPod game, audiobooks, podcasts, films, movie rentals, and select college lectures. iTunes was originally released on January 9, 2001 and is available for free download for Mac OS X, and Windows Vista/XP. iTunes cannot be run natively on a Linux-based O/S, however, it can be run using Wine... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:56:34 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/itunes/ http://www.productwiki.com/vlc-media-player/ VLC media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. It is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client", but that meaning is deprecated. It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Windows CE, and is widely used with... Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:51:38 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/vlc-media-player/ http://www.productwiki.com/windows-media-player/ WMP (Windows Media Player) is Microsoft's offering for media playback. WMP is able to acquire (download) codecs as needed, and plays back most Audio & Video sources. The software is flexible and has all the features you would expect from a large company offering with very little limitations in its functionality. WMP also works with online music stores, to allow purchasing of music with DRM through the players interface. Last but not least is the ability to work with Portable Media Hardware (MP3 Players, etc.) by transferring and updating though a standard interface. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:50:55 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/windows-media-player/ http://www.productwiki.com/winamp/ Winamp is a popular media player developed by Nullsoft that was first released by Justin Frankel in 1996. Version 5.5 was released on October 10th, 2007 marking the 10th anniversary of the software and includes many upgrades includes a new Bento skin. Winamp first gained popularity in 1997 when the new mp3 format of compressed digital music first made its appearance on the Internet. Winamp 1.0 - the classic look Features audio formats: MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis MIDI, MOD, MP1, MP2, M4A, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, WMA, Chiptunes, and more video formats: AVI, MPEG, NSV (Nullsoft Streaming Video) includes many visualizations... Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:45:02 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/winamp/ http://www.productwiki.com/google-picasa/ Picasa is a free photo editing application from Google, running natively on the platforms Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and MacOS X. For Linux, Google bundles the Windows version of Picasa with Wine. Picasa offers basic photo editing such as red eye reduction, cropping, manipulation of color and sharpness, creating collages, etc. It also features meta-data editing for time stamps, keyword tagging, and geo-tagging, and can show pictures on a timeline or show their location in Google Earth. Local folders can be easily uploaded and kept synchronized with Picasa Web Albums (PWA). Other plugins for easy photo uploading exist for Picasa, e.g.... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:45 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/google-picasa/ http://www.productwiki.com/foobar2000/ Foobar2000 is a highly customizable and lightweight media player designed for Windows. The user interface can be customized and modified to act like almost any other media player. A variety of innovative features are included. Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:06:04 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/foobar2000/ http://www.productwiki.com/zune-player/ Zune is a digital media player application that is used to organize and play digital music and video files and used to sync music, videos etc onto the Zune players. This also comes with a store call Zune Marketplace that can be used to buy music or videos. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:39:51 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/zune-player/ http://www.productwiki.com/drum-machine/ Drum Machine is a Windows application that allows you to use your Rock Band drum kit as a real electronic drums. Drum Machine uses the Xbox 360 USB drum set controller as input into the program and plays customizable .WAV samples associated with each of the four drum pads and kick pedal. The software was developed by Toronto-based game developer Andrew Rudson as a side-project initially developed in only 5 days, and is available as a free download from andrewrudson.com. You can play, record, and save your drumming to a file. The software has been very well-received, because it allows for... Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:05:59 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/drum-machine/ http://www.productwiki.com/avid-media-composer/ Media Composer, is a non-linear editing system. It is the flagship product of Avid Technology. It was first released in 1989 on the Macintosh II as an offline editing system. Currently Avid allows film editing, uncompressed standard definition (SD) video and high definition (HD) editing and finishing. Since the early 1990s, Media Composer has been the dominant non-linear editing system in the film and television industry on first Mac and then also on Windows. Avid's main competitor is Final Cut Pro but in the high end of the market, Avid's market share has not been noticeably affected, and is still used... Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:59:30 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/avid-media-composer/ http://www.productwiki.com/audacity/ Audacity is a free cross-platform digital audio editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is a multi-track audio editor with many features found in commercial software. Audacity was originally written, and currently maintained by Dominic Mazzoni, now a Google employee, while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. The current stable version is 1.2.6 released on November 15th, 2006 and is currently one of top 10 most popular downloads from SourceForge.net. Features free, open-source cross-platform, with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux recording and playback of sound files multi-tracking editing file formats:... Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:04:57 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/audacity/ http://www.productwiki.com/mediamonkey/ MediaMonkey is free software that will play, rip, synchronize and organize your music collection. Features: Audio / Music Manager Media Player (play MP3, OGG, WMA etc.) Equalizer / DSP Effects / Volume Leveler Party Mode & Auto-DJ CD Ripper: Encode MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC Audio Converter Auto Renamer / File Organizer Auto Tag Editor with Album Art Lookup Find Duplicate Tracks and Missing Tags Playlist Manager (auto music mixes) Generate reports and statistics Customization via scripts iPod and MP3 Player Synchronization Integrated CD/DVD Burner (Audio & Data) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:24:05 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/mediamonkey/ http://www.productwiki.com/media-player-classic/ Media Player Classic (MPC) is a compact free software media player for Microsoft Windows. The application mimics the look and feel of the old, light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4 and uses a completely different codebase, integrating many options and features found in modern media players. Media Player Classic was created and is currently maintained by a programmer named "Gabest". Gabest originally developed Media Player Classic as a closed-source application, but later decided to make it open source. Media Player Classic is licensed under the GPL and has its own SourceForge.net project called Guliverkli. A large number of the codecs, readers, and... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:52:56 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/media-player-classic/ http://www.productwiki.com/mediacoder/ MediaCoder is free batch media transcoder distributed under a GNU License capable of transcoding audio and video files to most of the popular formats. Marketed as the "Swiss army knife" of media transcoding, MediaCoder makes a valid attempt at fulfilling the typical user's transcoding needs in a simple interface. Typical Uses convert to and from popular video/audio compression formats reduce file sizes and improve compression convert media for playback on mobile devices (PSP, iPhone, etc.) ripping audio/video discs repairing corrupt media files extracting audio from video files Support file formats MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+v2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, WMA, RealAudio, mp3PRO*... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:58:26 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/mediacoder/ http://www.productwiki.com/badaboom/ Badaboom is an inexpensive audio/video transcoder that utilizes Nvidia's new CUDA GPGPU-acceleration platform. Utilizing any Nvidia 8000-series graphics card or newer, users can utilize their GPU to accelerate the transcoding process by many times. Introduced in November 2008, version 1.1 is due in mid-December with a number of upgraded features. Badaboom costs $29.99. Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:55:50 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/badaboom/ http://www.productwiki.com/adobe-audition/ Adobe Audition is an audio editing program and is the successor to the formerly popular Cool Edit Pro. The current version is v3 with support for both non-destructive and destructive audio editing. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:22:33 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/adobe-audition/ http://www.productwiki.com/exact-audio-copy/ Exact Audio Copy is an "audio grabber" program which allows you to accurately rip your CD collection to your PC. You can have the files ripped and converted into different lossless and lossy formats. There are many ways to adjust your conversion settings for faster or more accurate results and you can customize ID3 tags as well. If EAC comes accross an error while ripping it will attempt to correct it, but if that is not possible, EAC will show you in detail where on the track the error occurs. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:30:30 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/exact-audio-copy/ http://www.productwiki.com/songbird/ Hitting 1.0 on December 2nd 2008, Songbird is a cross-platform media player based on the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Focusing specifically the power of the Internet Songbird features an internal tabbed browser and multiple cool extensions for expanding the player to include things such as lyrics, concerts etc... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:09:48 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/songbird/ http://www.productwiki.com/formatfactory/ FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below: All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF. All to MP3//WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV. All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/.... Rip DVD to video file. MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format. Source files support RMVB. FormatFactory's Feature: 1 support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others. 2 Repair damaged video and audio file. 3 Reducing Multimedia file size. 4 Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats. 5 Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags. 6 DVD Ripper. 7 Supports 30 languages Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:28:47 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/formatfactory/ http://www.productwiki.com/miro/ Originally known as Democracy Player, Miro is an open source Internet TV and video player. Users can subscribe to various channels and download freely available content from around the world. Miro also includes library management features such as expiring old videos and not downloading new content until current content has been watched or removed. Miro can be downloaded from http://www.getmiro.com. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:43:27 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/miro/ http://www.productwiki.com/divx-player/ The DivX player is specifically designed to work with DivX, DivX Advanced, and DivX Ultra video files. It allows for burning of DivX media for certified players, including the new rental Divx by download for registered players (built in profiles) using windows ASPI or Goldenhawk disk access. The player will work with most video formats with few exceptions. Advanced and Ultra features give access to subtitles and multiple audio tracks as well as multiple movies and chapter points (much like a normal DVD).   Video Format's Supported: MPG/MPEG VOB M1V - M2V TS TP WMV AVI AVS MP4 MOV DIVX ASF Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:21:40 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/divx-player/ http://www.productwiki.com/avivo-video-converter/ The Avivo video converter is a free piece of software that will demonstrate the GPU computation abilities of the AMD/ATI platform. Supported on all AMD/ATI 4000 series graphics cards and newer, the Avivo video converter will be included with the December release of AMD/ATI's graphics drivers (8.12). Featuring GPGPU-accelerated transcoding of MPEG-2 and 1080p H.264 in a variety of quality/resolutions, early benchmarks illustrate a dramatic reduction in time required for transcoding - from 3 hours with a Phenom CPU to just 12 minutes with a Radeon HD 4850. Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:48:54 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/avivo-video-converter/ http://www.productwiki.com/divx-author/ DivX Author is recommended for editing video files into DivX format; Resizing, converting, editing as well as being able to create the new Advanced and Ultra features of DivX movies (Multiple: Movies, Subtitles, Audio Tracks, Chapters & Chapter Points). It is the next step in the evolution of the original DivX Converter (Dr. DivX).   Features: Compiles DivX & AVI files through the Pro Codec to meet media size (or a custom size) Enables Ultra Features for DivX Ultra DVD Players Able to edit, transcode, encode: DIVX, AVI, MPG, MPEG, VOB1, MOV, QT, WMF, WMV, ASF Audio Import: MP3, MP2, WMA, AC3,... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:46:14 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/divx-author/ http://www.productwiki.com/bonkenc/ BonkEnc is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular audio formats. It can rip to and transcode between MP3, MP4/AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV and supports Winamp input plugins to allow decoding of more formats. BonkEnc also integrates freedb queries and supports writing ID3v2, Vorbis Comment and MP4 Metadata tags. It comes with a multilingual user interface available in dozens of languages. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:36:32 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/bonkenc/ http://www.productwiki.com/ulead-mediastudio-pro/ This product is a professional level video editing software that features multiple video and audio tracks, fading, mixing, and time based editing to a frame level. Using almost any video input source or format, and outputting to DV I/II or AVI MPG using any encoder on your system. With Video Editing, Audio Editing and mixers (Dolby included), as well as a CGI editor to create titles anyone with enough time can create professional looking movies.     Features: HDV, DV, 24p, D8 and Analog signal inputs Input file format based on codec translation (IE: Codecs on the computer) Mix and match input... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:58:23 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/ulead-mediastudio-pro/ http://www.productwiki.com/super-c/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:15:08 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/super-c/ http://www.productwiki.com/kantaris-media-player/ Haven't used it, but here it is  http://www.kantaris.org/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:48:15 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/kantaris-media-player/ http://www.productwiki.com/zoom-player/ Zoom Player is a music and video playing software program that works on Windows operating systems. The player can play any software that is able to play on a PC so long as the appropriate codecs are installed. Since Zoom Player is so customizable, many home theater enthusiasts have found it useful and appreciate the modular aspect. You must obtain codecs from third-party developers, which can make the player intimidating for newer users. Thu, 15 May 2008 17:22:58 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/zoom-player/ http://www.productwiki.com/slimserver-aka-squeezecenter/ The SlimServer (AKA SqueezeCenter) is a streaming audio server supported by Slim Devices, developed in particular to support their range of digital audio receivers. It is open source software. * copied from Wikipedia Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:44:54 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/slimserver-aka-squeezecenter/ http://www.productwiki.com/jing/ Jing instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere. Snap a picture of anything on your desktop. Record video of what you do, or what you see. Instantly uploaded. Share in email, IM, or blogs.   Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:00:37 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/jing/ http://www.productwiki.com/realplayer/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:56:07 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/realplayer/ http://www.productwiki.com/floola/ Sat, 09 May 2009 03:11:59 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/floola/ http://www.productwiki.com/apple-quicktime/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:24:25 -0500 http://www.productwiki.com/apple-quicktime/ http://www.productwiki.com/snagit/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:59:36 -0400 http://www.productwiki.com/snagit/