Getting a video out has always been one of the best ways to while away an evening at home. However, these days few people choose to trudge down to the video store, preferring to download a movie, or plunder the near-infinite archives on popular video sharing sites such as YouTube and Google Video. Until recently it's been impossible to obtain movies from these sites without having to stream them online. However, Vdownloader is one of a number of programs changing that, allowing you to download these videos to your computer in AVI or MPEG format.

Essentially what this means is that you don't need to wait an age for popular videos to start streaming and can keep your favourites on your hard drive to watch at any time. This application does the job as simply as you could wish for. The executable makes a very small footprint and although the interface is very barren, it makes it easy to grab videos from YouTube, Google Video, Grinvi or DailyMotion very quickly. Basically all you need to do is copy and paste the link to the video into the box provided and hit ‘download'. Alternatively, you can browse the sites themselves by selecting the portal of your choice from the drop-down menu.

In one sense, the sparseness of the interface is an advantage, as it keeps things as clean and simple as possible. In another respect we were left wanting for extra features and options to help us peruse and download the videos we want. Practically the only setting you can tweak is the via the format dialog, allowing you to specify the format of the saved video (AVI or MPEG), the size of the video and the audio bitrate. We feel that the addition of a built-in video search tool or some video compression utilities would have lifted the program from being a good program to a great one.

Add to the fact that you can't download embedded movies like the ones you find on the front page of Google Video and you can't help feel frustrated that VDownloader doesn't do quite as much as it perhaps could. Having said this, the app is still in the early stages of development and the fact that it is so lightweight makes it prefect for those who want to grab video content with the minimum of fuss.

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VCDEasy allows you to play/watch your videos (from DV camcorder, DivX, DVD,...), your pictures (from digital camera, scanner,...) and your audio files (music, audio comments,...) directly on most of the home DVD players, without having to buy a DVD Writer and DVD discs. How? VCDEasy allows you to build VideoCDs (VCD/SVCD)!

A VCD is a CD (CD-R or CD-RW, so cheap) that can contain up to 80 minutes video, up to 1980 pictures, up to 6 hours of audio (CD sound quality), or a mix of them. On a VCD, it is also possible to have menus and chapters, similiar to DVDs. You can also have simple photo album/slide shows. The same way most of the home DVD player and computers can play Audio CDs, a VCD can be played on almost all standalone DVD players (only a few persons know that!) and of course on all computers with a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive with the help of a software player.

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VideoInspector is a tool designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files. With VideoInspector you'll know why your video file has no sound or refuses to play correctly.

VideoInspector will help you install the required codec (coder/decoder software) for optimal performance. VideoInspector can also inspect your system to find which codecs are available, and it can also process multiple video files and export its result in HTML or plain text files.

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Whether you produce hundreds of titles a year or just a few, you can give your videos the recognition and visibility they deserve by promoting them on Google - for free.

The upload program lets you submit videos electronically to Google Video, as long as you own the necessary rights (including copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, and any other relevant rights for your content).

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Video GIF / AVI ThumbCell Creater is a great tool to split video file to 2x2,3x3,4x4 small animation thumb and save them to GIF or AVI formats. It helps you fast preview content for your DVD / VCD / DV. Video GIF / AVI ThumbCell Creater supports MPEG-MPG-MPA / MOV / AVI / DivX.

Step-frame capture collects video frames from a video sequence in a series of steps, capturing frames one at a time, typically from a paused video device. Step-frame capture causes the video source to pause as it collects each image. If an audio source is also selected, the capture mode rewinds the media in the video source and collects audio data as the video source plays a second time. You can perform step-frame capture manually, advancing the video source by using the controls on the video device. Video GIF/AVI ThumbCell Creater provides automatic step-frame capture for video file.

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QE SuperResolution is a tool for enhancing the quality and resolution of images. It is based upon combining image information from several similar images taken from a movie sequence, or consecutive shots from a still camera. The software automatically extracts the information about a particular region of interest from all images, and uses the information to recreate an image with higher resolution and quality, compared to any individual image of the sequence.

This software is currently optimized for video sequences from DV (digital video) camcorders. Material from other video sources can be used as well, however, the quality of the enhanced image may depend on the quality of the source.

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AviScreen is an application for capturing screen activity in the form of AVI video or bitmap images. Beside the usual options defining the capture area, AviScreen has a unique feature called "follow the cursor". Using this mode you can produce a video or image of relatively small dimensions while covering all mouse activity over the whole screen area.

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U-Broadcast allows you to make streaming videos from your PC very easily, publishing the image recorded by your webcam and letting anybody see the resultant video (in almost real-time) using Windows Media Player.

What's more, the program also lets you save the video to file and to upload it to a FTP server, leaving it available for download by anyone. It has codec support depending on what ones you have installed on your computer and has a command-line mode.

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Topaz Moment allows you to quickly and easily capture video frames and change them into high quality mega-pixel photography with up to a 2.5x resolution increase. Tired of noisy and blurry frame grabs from video? Topaz Moment uses advanced enhancement techniques to let you capture a picture that is the cleanest, sharpest, and highest in resolution. This is your tool for capturing priceless moments and turning them into photo-quality mega-pixel prints!

You can capture video frames from files in most of the common formats, such as AVI, MPG, QuickTime, RealMedia. It can also capture frames directly from mini-DV camcorder, DVD, VCD, and SVCD.

The seemingly simple software employs three advanced technologies: (1) super-resolution
that creates higher resolution images from multiple frames of video; (2) advanced noise
reduction that suppresses frame noise without loss of details; (3) edge enhancement that
sharpens the picture without increase noise or overshooting. Using these unique techniques, Topaz Moment is perfect for seemingly magically transforming those messy frame grabs into beautifully sharp photo prints!

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MultiRes works very much like a 32-bit version of the venerable Microsoft QuickRes 16-bit applet for Windows 95, with administrative scripting facilities and extended capabilities to handle refresh rates and multiple monitors. Supported resolution and refresh rates are accessible from the command-line or from a simple menu that pops up from the system tray. An optional timed confirmation prompt – enabled by default in the program About box – ensures that any changes you make can be reversed safely, without fuss. While MultiRes - unlike EnTech’s PowerStrip - does not allow you to define new display settings, it does give you quick and easy access to the ones the driver makes available – in a simple, compact and conservative package.

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It's known that two or more applications cannot use the same stream from the same webcam at the same time. If one application captures a video source, another application cannot reach it because the source is locked. Typical example: you need to give a videoconference with two friends or partners at once. If your videoconference software does not support multiple conferences, you will have to start two instances of the same software. Unfortunately, in this case you may get into trouble because one application will translate video, and the other one will not. What is the solution? It's simple - just use WebCamSplitter.

Using WebCamSplitter, you can share a video stream from your single webcam between ANY number of applications. You can plan multiple videoconferences. You can upload images from your cam and have a chat at the same time. You can broadcast your video to the world and do many other things.

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My Screen Recorder Pro is a screen recording software that lets you record your desktop screen activity for later playback. Anything that runs on your Windows PC can be recorded including applications with video and audio. You make presentations from the screen recordings by adding your own audio narration. You can demonstrate how to use a website or explain a product concept.

My Screen Recorder Pro provides you the ability to output your screen recordings to AVI, Windows Media Format (WMV) or Flash. Screen recording done in AVI are compressed using installed video and audio compressors while providing excellent quality. Both WMV and Flash makes very small recording sizes, making them perfect for distribution from your website. You can even make WMV files that are designed to be played from a streaming server and presented to large audiences over the Internet.

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No matter how small and light your video camera is, holding it steady while you walk or keeping it still over long stretches of time is no simple task. And even though many of today's camcoders are equipped with an auto stabilization feature, they don't "get" it all. Thanks to ArcSoft Video Stabilizer, there’s now a quick, simple way to repair digital video shaking right on your computer.

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PYSoft Broadcaster is a powerful tool for delivering live audio and video content in real time to client computers. You can broadcast from anything that you can plug into your audio or video card, including a Video Camera, Microphone, CD Player, or TV Tuner. Users can view your content with Microsoft Windows Media Player. If you have prerecorded audio and video you can quickly and easily convert it to Windows Media format using this program.

Ways to use:

• Monitor your home or office while you are away
• Create own internet TV or Radio Station
• Broadcast educational programs
• Show live weather conditions from web site
• Use it at your front door. You can collect videos of all your guests
• Create video presentations
• Show a video press conference or online meeting

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Elecard StreamEye tools enable the user to perform an effective in-depth analysis of video sequences. Elecard StreamEye tools comprise Elecard StreamEye application and Elecard YUV Viewer. StreamEye application provides the user with a visual representation of the encoded video features and a stream structure analysis of MPEG-1/2/4 or AVC/H.264 Video Elementary Streams, MPEG-1 System Streams, MPEG-2 Program Streams and MPEG-2 Transport Streams.

Elecard YUV Viewer is designed to view YUV data sequence in YUV video files, compare files against one another to find out if binary images match, and view the result of comparison. The application also allows the user to calculate quality metrics, such as PSNR, NQI and VQM. It has been designed and implemented for reverse engineering and analysis.

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FrameShots Video Frame Capture was created as a very simple movie screen capture program. The software takes a video screen capture from your MPEG, DivX, Xvid, WMV, AVI or any other movie file that Windows Media Player can play. You can then skip frame by frame in the movie to capture a frame of video for your thumbnail.

Download and start taking your video snapshots of WMV video files and more and save those screen caps today. This is the easy way to grab a video snapshot of wmv files and save your video thumbnails to disk. Just use it to capture a frame of video from your movie and save it to a JPEG file.

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If you need to improve the quality of your videos or solve one of the most common problems with video files – noisy video, too dark image, insufficient brightness and contrast, wrong white balance, interlaced video, blurred or purple image and others, or you want to make home videos look like an old 30s movie or very futuristic, the EnhanceMovie program is a must for you!

EnhanceMovies is an extremely simple video enhancer. The entire idea behind the software is to make it possible for any person (yes, even your grandma) to improve the quality of digital video. Plus, EnhanceMovie has several artistic filters that will make home videos look very unusual. Drag-and-Drop interface, Auto Filters and useful Tutorials available in EnhanceMovie make the video restoration process extremely fast and easy.

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Xilisoft DVD Creator is a fast, easy to use DVD maker, which can convert almost all popular video formats and burn them onto DVD (playable on a home DVD player). It allows you to specify NTSC or PAL format, adjust 4:3 or 16:9 video aspect, and burn either DVD disc or ISO file.

The DVD Creator also provides so many brilliant DVD menus for your DVD authoring, supports DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW. This DVD burner supports a very comprehensive list of video formats which means that the Internet become storehouse of your home theater. The program is easy to use and faster than ever before, just one click to make and burn DVD.

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Do you want to add your company logo to any video? Use VidLogo to modify video files and add logos and video watermarks. Use animated logo or AVI logo for videos like a TV sign in one of the corners of screen. VidLogo supports AVI, BMP, JPEG graphic formats for logos. True Alpha in video is fuly supported.

Features:

• Add bitmap (bmp, jpeg, gif) logo to video
• Add video AVI logo to video
• Convert video to AVI with different codec (recodec AVI)
• Fast conversion speed
• Supports AVI, ASF, WMV, DivX, XVid, 3ivx, MP4
• Easy to use interface

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With Video-Repairer repair damaged video files in a few clicks. After using this program you will be able to play them correctly and without any trouble. Video-Repairer also has a handy function that can skip the damaged block in the video and continue playing.

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