May 18, 2011
KMPlayer is a free media player for Windows. The original KMPlayer natively supports a myriad of audio and video formats, meaning the regular user will never have to worry about codecs. In addition, it offers many advanced features, is extremely customizable, and is available in multiple languages. If you are looking for a versatile multimedia player, KMPlayer may be just the one.
February 3, 2011
I bet this has happened to you! Trying to watch a movie, you ran into issues and then you frantically queried Google for a way to access it. You would think that with a common file format such as .avi this wouldn’t happen. Well, to be honest with you, this is not necessarily about finding the [...]
November 25, 2010
The VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia program, developed by the VideoLAN project. It’s available for all common operating systems, plus a few more. The website boldly states that “It plays everything!” and suggests you don’t need additional codecs. Well, is that so? Sure enough, testing the most common file [...]
August 17, 2010
Digital video is admittedly much easier to transfer between formats than old-fashioned video kept on big, bulky tapes, but that doesn’t mean that changing formats is a pain-free process. It can be particularly difficult on Windows computers because the available free movie maker software – Windows Movie Maker - doesn’t offer that large a selection of output [...]
July 10, 2009
There are many reasons why one would want to convert their videos. More so if we’re talking about DVDs. Sure, they’re the favourite food of your DVD player, but they’ve got a huge filesize and are impractically subdivided. To be honest, the only reason we’re still using the format is because everyone keeps buying DVD [...]
May 19, 2009
Have you ever watched a video on YouTube or another online site that you wanted to grab and save? And I bet you wanted it in a popular format like say, AVI or MPG right? Well then do I have a web tool for you! Using Grab Tube’s Web Converter you can convert any online [...]
April 22, 2009
Our lives have turned into a big media center. Each of us likely have our own set of desktops, laptops, mobile phones, portable media players, handheld consoles, and MP3 players. The many video formats needed to run our gadgets just add more stress to our already media-entangled lives. With so many video formats and too [...]
January 17, 2009
So you downloaded the latest Futurama movie or your friend gave you a copy of last night’s Nip/Tuck episode and it does not play. You could be getting unexpected playback results, the file just won’t play or your player is saying that your file is corrupted. What do you do? Weep openly? Seek help? Or [...]
December 27, 2008
There are all sorts of reasons you would want to rip your DVD’s to AVI files. In my case it is getting rid of my space killing DVD collection. I am going to be packing ‘em up and putting them away for storage. But that shouldn’t mean I can’t have access to any movie I [...]
September 20, 2008
xVideoServiceThief is an open source online video downloader designed specifically for just downloading videos from Youtube and alike video sharing websites. I know there are dozens if not more Youtube downloaders out there but this one is really different. Let’s quickly go over some of its features. 1. Cross Platform The program is available for [...]
