ProgDVB is a piece of software which allows you to watch SAT-Television and listen to Radio channels directly from satellite by using DVB-PCI cards with hardware decoders on the board, SAT-dish, and personal x86-compatible computers. ProgDVB has options for working with network broadcasting and Audio/Video recording of the stream to different digital-media formats.

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Online TV free edition allows you to watch hundreds of television channels from around the world ranging in content from sports to films.

The program works with a TV screen on the left and a channel manager on the right. The channel manager not only includes the channels you can watch, but also multimedia material stored on your hard drive. You can minimise the player into a "mini player" which plays in the top right of your screen so you can watch TV while using other applications. Whatsmore, you can even view photos via Online TV although this seems a bit pointless - the viewer is poor and it's unlikely that anyone would want to view photos in a TV Viewing app. There are two major downsides with the whole application though. One is that many of the TV channel links seem dead or at least, don't work properly. The other problem is that the streaming time can be very long - you can be waiting more than a few minutes for a channel to start with no indication of what status the streaming is at.

The number of channels is impressive but the functionality of them sadly is not.

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There are probably hundreds of great movie scenes you'd like to capture forever and maybe publish to your site. Want to know how?

Simply grab a copy of VidimageSplitter and let it do the hard work for you. This program lets you save complete movies - or one particular scene from it – as still images in several different graphic formats. You can load the movie and look for the scene you're interested in with the progress bar or just let the program take screenshots automatically every certain number of seconds or frames.

I'm not sure about how much it would take to complete a longer movie, but the 3-minute trailer I used during my tests took about 10 seconds to produce almost two hundred screenshots (one each second) which is quite amazing.

On the downside, the program needs an embedded player for a much easier scene selection. The progress bar makes it really hard, especially when you want to capture one frame in particular.

VidImage enables you to take screenshots from any movie, but requires also an extraordinary mouse precision in order to select a particular scene or frame.

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SlingPlayer installs on your PC or Mobile device, and lets you watch and control your Slingbox. The software incorporates the company's SlingStream technology to provide the best possible viewing experience over any network, and you don't have to touch a thing - it just streams as well as your network allows!

SlingPlayer is also very easy to use. A simple "TV Window" appears, and inside, voila, there's your TV. Want to change the channel? No problem, because right next to the TV Window is the SlingRemote window, which displays a graphical "virtual" remote. The SlingRemote has support for over 5000 different devices, including the latest cable boxes and DVRs, and often displays a realistic-looking remote that looks just like the one you left on your couch (it's under the pillows). The SlingPlayer encompasses several innovative features to bring your entire living room experience to your laptop, desktop, PDA, or smartphone (minus the couch potato).

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If you'ver got lots of memories or footage on VHS or Betamax and are still using Windows 98, usually there aren't many options to transfer footage. However, Bao TV allows you to do this even though it takes quite a bit of configuring and setting up before your captures are performed properly.

Firstly, you'll need an AverMedia Phone98 card and a video codec such as DivX or Microsoft's V8 codec. You may find that on installation, it warns you that certain drivers or files are missing namely Istrmdll.zip, drmclien.dll, mfc42.dll or Wmaudsdk.dll. You can find links to them on the developer website however. Once started, you don't need to open the AverMedia Phone98 program anymore as BaoTV initialises the hardware on its own. In Options/AVI Capture Options toy can choose the Frame Rate which should be set top a low number if you have a slow processor.

Once you've selected "Set Capture File" and select a directory for the capture files, you're ready to go. The sound takes a lot of configuration however and you'll have to experiment until you find the right bitrate to achieve decent quality captures.

For Windows 98 users, this is a rare and satisfactory capture program that allows you to rescue VHS and Beta tapes in digital format.

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ZD Soft Screen Recorder is a high performance program which can record screen activities to a video file for presentation or demonstration purpose.

It is the best free choice if you want to:

• Answer questions with screen recording video explaining how to use software, websites and other applications.
• Ask for help with screen recording video showing how software bugs, errors and problems occur.
• Demonstrate features, new versions of software, websites and other applications.
• Record videos while playing your favorite computer games and share it with your friends.
• Create screen demo, tutorial and training videos, and distribute them to as many people as you want electronically over the internet.

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This application enables you to record video from any image source on your PC, be it the screen itself or a USB video device connected to your computer, such as a digital video camera or a webcam.

Debut Video Capture is very easy to use: its interface offers a preview of what will be recorded, although in the case of screen recording, this is pretty confusing as the image repeats itself ad finitum. Besides that, everything is controlled with three simple buttons (record, pause and stop) so that gives you an idea about the simplicity of the program.

Recordings can be done in a variety of formats, and each one has its own configuration settings. An interesting option is the possibility to download related programs from the same developer. Debut Video Capture also enables you to email the videos or upload them to an FTP server right after recording them. However, we did miss an embedded player with which to revise our recordings.

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GB-PVR is a fully featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR), allowing you to schedule TV recordings and view and pause live TV. In additional to this PVR functionality, it also acts as a media center allowing you to watch movies, listen to music, view pictures and listen to FM radio.

GB-PVR also supports specialist hardware decoders including Sigma Designs XCard, Hauppauge PVR350 and Hauppauge MediaMVP. GB-PVR also supports multiple tuners, allowing you to record more multiple channels at one time.

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Have you ever wanted to save your favourite film image and use it on your desktop? iMeXoR can help you do exactly that by extracting and displaying images of MPEG, AVI and WMV files.
The interface is remarkably easy. In the left part you can previsualise the video and on the right you can select exactly where you want to save the image you've chosen. Beneath this, there are progress bars - much like you get on a video editor - where you can mark the start and end of the capture. Simply click "Begin" to start and in a few seconds, you'll have your image saved on the hard drive.

The only problems you might have are with your codecs. If you have too many codecs installed, the previsual image might not run properly. It's also a shame you can't save images from DivX since most of my films are in this format. It would also help if the output image was in the smaller JPG format although this can be solved with a converter. Nevertheless, you should have plenty of fun selecting your favourite film scenes with this.

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ImageGrab is a nice utility aimed at extracting images from all kind of videos, also from Video CDs or SVCDs, and even from live video streams which are delivered to the computer by a webcam, a camcorder or an analog video capture card.

It includes a multimedia player able to play the video even in full screen, to seek precisely in the video, frame by frame, to catch pictures from the video either in bmp or jpeg format. The image may be easily corrected, in order to respect an aspect ratio of 4x3 or 16x9. ImageGrab is able to catch automatically a series of images at a scheduled interval.

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Kastor!TV is free and is fully functional based on P2P technology to bring you hundreds of TV channels.

You just need to have TV watching hardware installed on your computer such as a TV card. K!TV is now compatible with most TV-PC hardware.

K!TV uses Electronic Program Guide (EPG) technology to make your life simpler. Thanks to the integrated nxtvepg software, at any time you can view information about TV shows, read summaries of films you are viewing etc.

Every time you switch channel, K!TV gives you the name and time of the actual show you are viewing. Try it today!

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Turk.TV allows you to recieve up to 750 streaming channels from hundreds of countries around the world. There is no need for a PC TV card because the channels are streamed through your internet connection and the developers claim it even works with a 56K dialup connection. However, you'll only get decent picture and sound quality on a broadband connection.

You can watch in regular or full screen mode and there's no subscription required to watch any of the channels. It also features automatic TV station updates so it never goes out of date.

If you are interested in alternative programming, learning languages, foreign cultures, entertainment, games, sports or news, then you'll find Turk.TV for you.

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Broadcaster's StudioPRO allows you to capture any video playing on your screen including live streaming video and pre-recorded video clips playing on any media player. StudioPRO allows you to play video files or live streams through your web camera output while allowing you to split your camera output into multiple outputs. With StudioPRO you can broadcast simultaneously on multiple camera chat sites including Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger, and Skype.

Capture and Record

If it can play on your computer, you can capture and record it. StudioPro lets you capture any video file on your hard drive or any live streaming video playing in an Internet browser or media player. StudioPro then lets you record and save from those sources in a variety of file formats and compression qualities.

Broadcast

StudioPro uses your webcam output to enable you to play virtually any file over your webcam chat programs such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Skype. You can build play lists from video files you have stored on your hard drive and then simply play those files to everyone viewing your webcam.

Camera Splitting

Up until now, you could only use you webcam on one service or chat program at a time. StudioPRO let's you split your webcam output to multiple services and chat programs simultaneously in real time.

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Downtube Mini is, as the name suggests, a lighter version of Downtube for downloading videos for YouTube.

Thanks to its "Video Manager" you can download and view files at a later stage and if the video won't download exactly when you want it, you can set Downtube Mini to keep trying until it does.

You can also convert into other video formats although for that you will have to register. Download your favourite clips now before they are all removed!

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Stoik Capturer allows you to capture video from DV camcorder through IEEE 1394 FireWire interface or any analog video source such as TV tuner card, video card, webcam etc.

This is what Stoik Capturer has to offer:

• Capture to AVI or WMV with selected codec or profile
• Option to capture through temporary file to avoid drop frames during recompression.
• Split capture file by size to override filesize limitations.
• Ability to control your DV camera
• Preview window
• Ability to output DV AVI to DV camcorder

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TiVo Desktop is a useful application to transfer all your TiVo media onto your computer. It has the following features:

• Take your favorite shows with you on your laptop or burn them to DVD.
• Automatic transfers deliver last night's recordings to your PC by morning.
• Sync and watch shows on your Microsoft Windows Mobile or Portable Media Center device.
• Browse and listen to your PC's MP3 library from your TiVo box.
• Watch full-screen slide shows of your digital photos on your TV.

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Solway's Internet TV and Radio Player allows you to listen to over a thousand free radio and TV stations online over the Internet. You can actually listen to, or watch stations directly, without having to visit web sites and put up with their slow-loading pages and pop-up ads.

This is what this application has to offer:

• Record straight to MP3
• No additional hardware is required
• Watch video in full-screen if you wish
• Supports both Windows Media and Real Video

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oRipa Screen Recorder is a handy tool to record your Windows desktop activities in real time and save it as a video file. oRipa Screen Recorder also captures anything you can hear on your PC, such as, music and talking through the PC's microphone. The program makes it easy to take audio grabbings and is especially useful for those who need to design tutoral programs for applications.

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DScaler 4 is a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor. DScaler implements highly sophisticated algorithms that work in real-time to provide PC owners with image quality matched only by very expensive equipment.

DScaler performs a variety of functions:

• Grabbing video from a DVD player, game console, laserdisc, or VCR in a reliable fashion, in either analog or digital form
• Deinterlacing video source, such as sports and news produced with a video camera, as well as console games
• Detecting and removing 2:2 pulldown (PAL) and 3:2 pulldown (NTSC) for movies and filmed television programs
• Reducing video noise on analog sources
• Automatically calibrating video capture cards for optimal brightness, contrast and color
• Manipulating video through gamma, sharpness and other filters
• Viewing still images
• Reducing judder and other video timing anomalies
• Presenting all of the above in the desired resolution and aspect ratio

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FreeGuide is a TV listings viewer that works offline. It downloads listings information from the Internet and stores it for later viewing. The viewer allows the user to view television listings and create customised TV guides by selecting programmes and by building up a favourites list.

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