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Quintessential Player (a.k.a. QCD) is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QCD is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.

QCD performs CD Ripping and Encoding, streams Internet Radio, and can Clean and Tag all your audio files. QCD uses Gracenote for the best music recognition. QCD even plays videos. These great features are just scratching the surface.

QCD is Freeware. Free of cost and free of any bundled secrets.

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MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution.

With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

Features In Brief

* Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats in batches
* Full control over transcoding parameters, you can learn about audio/video encoding and play with various codecs

From author's site:

SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer.A GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc,
ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugin.

If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need.

It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

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MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.

You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.

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WinMorph™ is a high performance morphing and warping software. Developed and distributed as a freeware, the focus is on providing both high speed and high quality
warping/morphing tools for both home users and amateur/professional video editors.
WinMorph can work in two modes - as a standalone application using which you can do image warping/morphing effects, and as a "Plug-in" with many video editors to leverage more functionality for video warping/morphing and other complex effects.

Currently supported video editors are Adobe® Premiere®, Vegas Video® and Wax™ (Wax, also from DebugMode, is available at http://www.debugmode.com/wax/).

-Intuitive shape-based morphing for both ease of use and high degree of freedom.

There is open source software to perform almost every task for video conversion. But if you are one of these windows users who are looking for an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, Any Video Converter provides just that, allowing you to effortlessly convert video files between many formats, for FREE!

Foto2Avi is a freeware video/photo converter to avi/mpeg/flv. It is a video editor too with special effects like ...

Transitions (Flippage,Swirl...)
Basic Effects (Brightness/Noise/Fade in/Fade out)
Advanced Effects (Distort, Ripple)
Animations
Subtitles
Logos

Each effect is highly customizable.You have thousands of effects right out of the box! The only limit is your imagination...

Foto2Avi supports external audio formats [mp3/ogg/wav]
Foto2avi can trim audio video streams with millisecond precision so you can edit your sounds and synchronize them with your videos.

You can save your work as .f2a project files. Foto2Avi is easy to use. After just a couple of minutes using it, you will understand it and be able to produce your films ! Foto2Avi is fast if used correctly!

VAMP is an easy-to-use multimedia dashboard for all your creative needs.

-Organize your media
-Create image galleries
-Create playlists
-Share & Publish Photos
-Add Effects Add Effects
-Fix your photos
-Enhance images
-Design new creations
-Create Slides Create Slides
-Create a photo-show
-Send greetings & e-cards
-Build screen savers
-Make Clips Instantly

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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

* You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
* Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
* You can create video tutorials for school or college class
* You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
* You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell

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Slide Show Movie Maker is a free program that can create an AVI-file from a series of .bmp or .jpg images. Images can have professional-looking fade-in and fade-out effects, plus attractive text overlays.

The program's clean-looking interface is logically laid out; you should become productive within just a few minutes of running it. Keep in mind that .avi files can become quite large and take a long time to render. However, Slide Show Maker lets you choose to save output using any one of your system's installed .avi codecs, so the file size and generation time will vary depending upon which one you choose.

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Powerful tool for content producers who want to take advantage of the many innovations in Windows Media 9 Series including high-quality multichannel sound, high-definition video quality, new support for mixed-mode voice and music content, and more.

ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).

ZS4 Video Editor can be used like an object oriented photo-manipulation program with a timeline: things that can be manipulated in a photo (workshop) program can be manipulated in ZS4 using parameters which alter over time.

ZS4 Video Editor is worth using when...

* the final output is a combination of more than 2 media sources rendered simultaneously. (like nine talking heads separately filmed, but later arranged in a 3x3 video wall combination)

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ZionWorx is a powerful, professional yet easy-to-use song display program, designed to meet the needs of churches that want to use multimedia in worship. Now includes an integrated bible feature and also the facility to connect to www.BibleGateway.com online bibles.

Many churches today, from all denominations, are experiencing the benefits that technology can bring when it is applied to worship in a sensitive and unobtrusive way - and this is where ZionWorx might be able to help you.

Unlike similar commercial worship software, ZionWorx is absolutely free. You can even download the latest version right now and check it out for yourself!

Project lyrics in two different languages at the same time. Play Audio File or Video Background and Live Feed from an attached Camcorder along with the lyrics. Alternatively you can use Easislide's slide backgrounds, gradients or your own images.

Easislides is packed full of features, more than what you may find in a lot of paid worship projection software. Visit the site for all the features!

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of VFW/ACM codecs, DirectShow filters and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

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TrakAx empowers you to create professional music and video mixes in an easy-to-use and fun environment. Whether you are creating a music track for your MySpace page or a video for YouTube, TrakAxPC is the most powerful FREE application on the web.