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If you want to back up copies of your DVD movie collections or want to convert DVD movies in to another formats like VCD, SVCD,MPEG, iPod, PSP, 3GP or Pocket PC, A-One DVD tools is the perfect choice. A-One DVD Tools is a special discount package available for download, which includes A-One DVD Copy and A-one DVD Ripper.
A-one DVD copy is the most efficient way to create backup copies of your DVD movie collections and get disc protection with no loss of playback quality. It is easy and simple to use, without any basic DVD movie knowledge.
Key features:

• Just takes 30 minutes to backup a DVD Disc
• Backup DVD movies onto your hard disk -- great for laptops
• Burn DVD movies to DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) Disc.
• Support copying DVD-5/DVD-9 type DVD movies to DVD-9(Dual Layer) disc.
• Support compressing DVD-5/DVD-9 type DVD movies to DVD-5 disc.
• Keep or remove audio-tracks or sub-titles of original DVD movies.
• With latest industry standard compression technology to ensure the DVD disc you create with best quality.

A-One DVD Ripper is professional DVD software, providing a fast and easy way to convert your DVD movies or just the parts of the movie that you want. It allows you to watch your favorite movies on your iPod / PSP / mobile phone / laptop /PDA anytime anywhere.
Key features:

• Convert DVD to AVI,DivX,XviD.
• Convert DVD to VCD,SVCD,MPEG by custom file size.
• Convert DVD to iPod, PSP, 3GP, Pocket PC.
• Support choosing subtitle and Audio track to rip.
• Support Setting Beginning and Ending point to rip.
• Support Ripping region protected DVD movies.
• Support Ripping Macrovision Protected DVD movies.
• Support Automatically Shutingdown your computer after long time conversion.

A-One DVD Tools costs $ 51.95 to buy, however Giveawayoftheday.com provides this tool for free a day only, you need to install it in the same day.
For those who lost this opportunity here is the FREE registration key (given by Giveawayoftheday.com with the downloaded application). Download the application from here / here.
Install the software – just run the exe and follow the instruction, both the application installs simultaneously - and unlock the program by using the key given below.
A-one DVD copy:
Registration name: Giveawayoftheday
Registration keys: 40BA3A129AC04A2D892D8C2830EEC68F3DA9069911C130A1
A-one DVD ripper:
Registration name: Giveawayoftheday
Registration keys: 6B8325570F92D8586023669619EB40BB1AC7647486D6BF47
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VideoGet is a very useful and efficient tool to download video from over 100 of streaming websites. Some of them are YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, VSocial, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Aol and many others.
Most of these videos are in flv format and VideoGet also offers the opportunity to convert each video in another format such as AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 or can directly load Video in an iPod, iPhone, PSP and other mobile devices.In addition, you can also set the quality of audio and video, the frame rate. We can also schedule download and create a list of all videos downloaded. The application has also a plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows, in case of disconnection, to resume downloading a video from where it left off.
If you like this software download VideoGet from here and use the license key -D4CA27A8-5DDE-4517-B6D2 -to unlock 20 day trial (This key is from Giveawayoftheday.com to use without time limits)
The software is tested and found to be working perfectly and you may require an internet connection while installing, just for updating.
[Via – Geekissimo]
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FLV Play is an application based on Adobe AIR that allows us to explore and play You Tube videos without using a browser.FLV Play allows searching for videos on You Tube by keywords or user name. It also gives the ability to sort the video according to their relevance, popularity, date of publication or qualification, etc and includes a function to save the videos on our computer in SWF format.
You can download You Tube video directly by clicking the folder icon in the video Meta details area. To install this player you required installed Adobe AIR on your computer
[via – Genbeta / Freshairapps]
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Movavi online video converter is another cool service to convert video online and as it supports many output formats - AVI, MPEG, iPod, 3GP, PSP, etc. you can save your favorite video from video- sharing sites to your desired device or computer in different file formats.You can either copy and paste the URL of a movie clip from sites like You Tube or upload files from your computer for convertion. Upload is limited to 5 files and the single file is limited to 100MB or 10 minute length movie.
You can then choose an output format to convert and provide your email address; Movavi will notify you when your files are ready.
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ProgDVB is a free application for watching digital TV and listen to radio channels. It is fully compatible with DVB-S (satellite), DVB-S2, DVB-C (cable), DVB-T and IPTV and is able to playback from sources or from a file. It is also possible to record TV channels locally to your hard drive.Main functions of this software are

• Record TV and Radio channels
• Support EPG, Teletext, subtitles
• Advanced OSD and remote control support (from 5.x version)
• Skins for OSD and GUI (from 5.x version)
• Broadcast channels to network.

Supports - Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows 2000
Requirements - DirectX v.8.0 or higher, Mpeg2 video DirectShow codec(Installer of ProgDVB include Elecard shareware codes), H.264/AVC codec if you like DVB-S2 or HD channels and Windows .NET Framework2.
Also you will need ProgDVB compatible DVB cards and Sat-Dish of enough size installed and tuned on current satellite for DVB-S/DVB-S2.
File size: 2.5Mb / source
Downlod / Homepage
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Ashampoo clip finder is a free application for Windows that allows you to search, watch and download videos from sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Ifilm etc.Features of this application includes

• Finds online videos which fit a search word
• Supports the popular video portals YouTube, VideU, MyVideo, ClipFish, Google Video, sevenload, Dailymotion, MySpace, Metacafe, Veoh, Livevideo.com, blip.tv, Yahoo! Video and iFilm
• Preview of all hit videos directly in the program window
• Shows the length, assessment and name of the videos
• Playing the videos directly in the Ashampoo ClipFinder
• Download of the videos in the FLV format on your own hard drive

• Your own favorite videos will be taken over in a separate favorites file
• Skins change the looks of the Ashampoo ClipFinders

File size: 2.6Mb / Download / Free License key / Home page
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MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC which allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV, watch your photos or see as slideshow with different transitions and much moreWith extra plug-ins and skins you can customize your Media center in a way that looks and feel you better. As Open Source software licensed under the GNU/GPL you get MediaPortal for free. Minimum System Requirements for this application are:
1 – Window XP SP2, 2 – Microsoft .Net frame work 2, 3- Media player 10, 4 – Direct x 9.0c, 5 – CPU – 1.4Gz or more, 6 - RAM 256Mb, 7 – TV cards (Full details here)
Main Features of this application are
1 - Play any movie your PC has a codec for (divx, mpeg, matroska, etc), internal DVD player with menu's, 2 - Supports analog TV, DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S and ATSC, HDTV and AC3, 3 - Support for multiple tuners. Record, watch, and time shift Live TV, 4 - Watch your pictures/photos, Slideshow support with nice transitions, 5 - Sort your music in many ways like tracks, genre, filesize, artists, album, etc, Utilize Winamp, Foobar or iTunes plugins for music playback, 6 - Listen to your favorite radio stations (FM, DVB or internet stream), 7 - Show the latest weather information. (Full features here)File size – 26.6Mb / Download /Home page
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Super (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) is an application for Windows that can convert just about anything to anything and it's totally free. It supports a wide variety of input/source file format to play or encode without any additional third party software.Supported input source file formats are:
Video format: 3gp/3g2, asf, avi (DivX,H263,H263+,H264,XviD,MPEG4,MSmpeg4 etc..), dat, fli, flc, flv ,mkv, mpg , mov(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4 etc..), mp4(H263,H263+,H264,MPEG4), ogg, qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str (Play Station), swf (Flash), ts (HDTV), viv, vob, wmv
Audio format: aac, ac3, amr, mmf, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma
AviSynth Script Files: avs. Let you specify advanced encoding commands using AviSynth scripts. SUPER supports the conversion (encoding both ways, to & from ) of all the listed formats.Full details here
As SUPER is a simple GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn, the quality of the rendered files or the played files DOES NOT depend on SUPER. The speed, rendered quality or the variety of the codec selection are the result of the great work achieved by the respective authors of ffmpeg , MEncoder , Mplayer , x264 , ffmpeg2theora , MusePack (mpc) ,libavcodec library (compiled inside ffmpeg and MEncoder) & the theora/vorbis RealProducer's plugIn.
License: Free / File size: 25.6Mb / Download
-Requirements: Minimum 1800 MHz Intel Pentium4 processor or equivalent. (64-bit CPU not supported)
- 512MB of RAM or more.
- 20GB of free Hard disk space or more.
-1024 x 768 video resolution or larger.
- 32,000-color video or more.
-IE 5.5 or later.
-Internet connection.
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Video Flip and Rotate is a free ware for windows that allows you to rotate or flip video with one mouse click.You will simply need to select the video file that you need to rotate, choose the angle and the output location, then click Rotate, thats all. You have 7 predefined presets to rotate or flip your video:

• rotate video 90 CW;
• rotate video 180;
• rotate video 90 CCW;
• flip video horizontal;
• flip video vertical;
• flip video vertical and rotate 90 CW;
• flip video vertical and rotate 90 CCW.

License: Free / File size: 9.7 Mb / Download
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WwiTV is a new site that allows you to connect to hundreds of radio and TV channels all over the world without having to download and install any software, except of course for media players to see the flow of data.You can connect to the TV and radio to more than 130 countries around the world, to discover new content, no need to go here and there to find live TV channels or radio stations. On the right side of the screen, you will find a menu that categorizes channels from all over the world in different category(via)
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Pinnacle, the well-known company specialized in Video Editing program has introduced a free version of video editing software- VideoSpin for Windows. The software is 100% free and is a good alternative to Windows Movie maker, but with much more functionality.

The main features of the program are:

• Mixing between videos, photos and music
• Add titles and transitions
• Load your video on the web in a matter of minutes
• Direct upload to YouTube and Flash supported
• And it is totally free

The software supports following formats

Import:
• Video –AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DIVIX, WMV
• Audio – MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, AVI

Export:

• Video - AVI, MJPEG, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, Flash, Divix (Optional)
• Audio – Dolby 2Channel, MPEG1, MP3, AAC

File size: 150MP

More details and Download

[License: Free]

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MotionDSP is a great application that dramatically improves quality of video or photos taken by a range of sources, including mobile phones, digital cameras, and security cameras.
See the example below, which shows images that have been taken with low quality, which after having gone through MotionDSP greatly improves their quality and resolution (just move the mouse over the image). The software is able to perform the task like enriches the color, repairing some lost details, correct lines, etc.

The company offers its multi-frame video enhancement in software products for video forensics, and a scalable web service for carriers and social networking sites which can process tens of thousands of user-generated videos per day.
More details available here
More examples here
Track - Incubaweb
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SciVee is about the free and widespread dissemination and comprehension of science. It allows scientists to communicate their work as a multimedia presentation incorporated with the content of their published article. Other scientists can freely view uploaded presentations and engage in virtual discussions with the author and other viewers. SciVee also facilitates the creation of communities around specific articles and keywords. Use this medium to meet peers and future collaborators that share your particular research interests.

Track - Momb

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Handbrake is a great, open source application that can convert DVDs in to whatever format you want. You can convert DVD in to MP4 with ACC audio for mobile phone, H264 video with ACC-LC audio for IPOD, Xvid etc.

Handbrake on the Windows Platform does not decrypt commercial DVDs. For that you have to require using programs like DVDShrink or AnyDVD to rip your DVD first. Then handbrake re-encodes it to a format of your choice.

Using this program is very simple.

>Select a DVD file by clicking on ‘browse’ button (for ISO image or mpeg file, select ‘File’ radio button).

>Select a title and chapter for encode or leave it ‘auto’.

>Select a destination path to save the encoded video.

>Select an encoder type for video and audio or preset encoder from the preset menu that will do all the required settings.

> ‘Croping’ menu lets you crop the image to get rid of the black bars that will reduce the file size further.

> It also lets you choose options as to how you want it encoded from the Picture setting option.

License: GPL, File size: 3.2MP

Requirements: .Net framework 2, Windows 2000 and XP

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Miro is a free, open source, application that turns your Computer in to an internet TV and video player. You can play virtually any type of video file-WMV, XVID, AVI, FLV, QuickTime, MPEG and more. Miro allows search, watch internet TV and download video from sites like You Tube. It gives you access to more free HD content than any other video player.

Formerly known as Democracy Player, Miro has the following features

1. Play virtually any video file -WMV, XVID, AVI, FLV, QuickTime, MPEG, etc

2. Download YouTube video - Search, download and save video from You Tube, Google Video, Daily Motion etc

3. Download any Bittorrent file fast and watch that video in the same application.

4. Free Internet TV - Subscribe to any video RSS feed, podcast, or video blog. Explore and subscribe to over 1,500 free channels with the built-in Channel Guide.

5. HD video - Miro gives you access to more HD content than any other video player
License - GPL; File size - 22Mb
Download for Windows, Linux, Mac
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KidVideos is a video sharing site just like YouTube which provides only kids related contents like cartoon and educational videos. KidVideos presented with many features, where kids and parents can watch, create, and share their movies and videos and allows commenting and rating.

The important thing about KidVideos is that it allows only kid-safe, kid-friendly videos to upload.

The site describes “KidVideos is an online video streaming platform, devoted to providing a kid-safe, kid-friendly, and kid-unique environment, where kids and parents can watch, create, and share their movies and videos. We are able to ensure such an environment by following the FTC's COPPA guidelines, reviewing all uploaded material with the intentions of filtering out all potentially harmful and unsuitable content, monitoring the website's activity, which includes reviewing posted comments, and continuing to make the functions and features of the site fun and easy to use”.

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Imvite is all about entertainment. You can enjoy watching and listening to over 6500 TV and Radio channels from 100s of countries. You can search for millions of video clips and games from all over the Internet from this site.

One of the main attractions of Imvite is that we can easily search and find music, video or TV cannel to our taste. Even if thousands of TV and Radio channels available, you can select any category like sports, music, news, fiancé, and different countries, all makes convenient for selecting stuff.

In addition, you can share the excitement with your friends with TV Messenger that allows you to watch multiple channels at once and chat with your friends in the main networks at the same time (AOL, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ). Free video chat, free audio chat, and free encrypted messages. All the pro features others are charging for are free at Imvite!

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YouTubeX.com allows you to save and download YouTube videos easily using only your IE or Firefox browser. It also supports Myspace Video, Ifilm, and Metacafe etc.

Browse for the videos at YouTube.com. Copy and Paste the URL of the YouTube video into the form above. Click "DOWNLOAD" to save the YouTube file to your PC. Rename the YouTube file with .flv extension if necessary.

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Vconverter allows you convert an Online Video like 'YouTube videos' to more popular formats like wmv, mov, mp4, mp3, 3gp etc. When you submit a url, it will download the file to server and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.

The service is similar to Vixy.net and Flvix.

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Converting your photos and video to AVI, FLV and MPEG is easy with Foto2Avi software. It is ideal for Youtube videos or presentation videos.

It is a freeware basic video/photo converter and also a video editor too and has special effects like-transitions, basic effects like brightness/noise/fade in/fade out, advanced effects like distort, ripple, animations, subtitles and logos. All effects are highly customizable. It support external audio sounds [mp3/ogg/wav] and you can edit your sounds synchronize them with your videos. You can save your work in ‘.f2a’ project files so you cannot lose your work and reload them later.

Input Files: AVI, DivX, JPG, MP3, OGG/OGM, PNG, WAV, XviD

Output Video Files: AVI, FLV, MPG and XviD

How to use the software?

àAfter installation, press the 'Settings' button to choose your video settings (input and output) and save.

à Click on ‘new’ button. Select your photos or videos that you want to add on your clip from the left pane window. Then select files by dragging and then click on ‘right arrow’ button.

àSelect the sounds that you want to add on your clip (if any).

àSelect individual file (or all files) to give effects likes transition, logo, sub title, animation etc. by click on ‘edit selected’ button.

à Press the 'Generate' button in order to preview your result and press the 'Gear' button to produce your video.

File size 10Mb. Publisher:Trustfm

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