Features

These days, it's an app that attempts to be all things to all people - play DVDs, organize music, catalog photos, convert video, interact with social networking sites, browse internet multimedia....there's no end to what RealPlayer offers to its users. Even so, it's not an out-and-out success...

Usability

For a start, installation of RealPlayer is annoying - it takes a while, requires lots of "nexts" and tries to install and enable several features that users don't really need. Finally, when it starts, you're offered a chance to upgrade to paid versions of RealPlayer before you have to register yourself with Real Networks. If all this messing around doesn't appeal, check out a slimline app like UMPlayer.

When you're up and running, RealPlayer features a wide interface where you will notice ads and videos recommended by Real Networks. This looks cluttered and messy, and it's hard to know what the app actually offers. In reality, RealPlayer is ideal for playing and sharing video with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter and it works easily with BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone and other game systems. The new video converter allows you to copy online video to your iPod, Xbox, PS3 and other devices. Unfortunately, you can't rip DVDs with RealPlayer, although this is available as a feature if you upgrade to RealPlayer Plus.

Most recently, RealPlayer has been updated with far better mobile and social networking integration. You can now copy your favorite videos to an iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and dozens of other popular devices automatically. Downloading internet videos is faster, and for those of you with something to hide, RealPlayer offers a new Private folder. Social media has also been bumped up, with direct access to Facebook videos and usefully, a built-in feature to transfer videos to your mobile devices.

Quality

That said, RealPlayer isn't bad at all. It's comparable to Windows Media Player 12 as they both have some impressive ways of organizing your music. For me, the best feature is the CD burner which is something I've used from the early days of RealPlayer. The sheer quality of some of the media only available in Real formats makes RealPlayer an essential item in the toolkit of any fan of internet video and audio.

Conclusion

There's no shortage of media players theses days, and RealPlayer is by no means a bad option. It offers lots of features, good options and is a high-quality player that will do justice to your media. The only problem is that despite its modern features, it feels like a bit of a dinosaur. It's heavy and slow, looks chunky and takes an age to respond to clicks, and for many people - especially those who have experience of lighter options - it's just not the most comfortable player.

RealPlayer is a media player that, although powerful, has suffered from serious feature-creep over the years.

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Most user will never need to use K-Lite Codec Pack Full. It contains the same set of codecs that exist in K-Lite Codec Pack Standard, but also add the ability for users to encode their own videos.

K-Lite Codec Pack Full is best utilized by users who understand bitrates, frames per second, and resolution aspect ratios. Even though K-Lite Codec Pack Full is a great codec pack, it is not recommended for users who will not be creating and encoding their own videos.

The playback capability of K-Lite Codec Pack Full is like K-Lite Codec Pack Standard. The tests playing various file formats showed the same quality and function with the AVI, WMV, MKV, and MP4 videos. All played with no problems and K-Lite Codec Pack Full also contains subtitle support. K-Lite Codec Pack Full along with K-Lite Codec Pack Standard can re-time subtitles so if a user had issues with subtitle playback, it can be customized.

Using K-Lite Codec Pack Full as an encoder is the bulk of the purpose of the program. Since it layers more functions on top of K-Lite Codec Pack Standard, it is possible to view the exact specific audio and video codecs are being used, how they are utilized, and how they interact with the hardware they are running on. It is interesting information for the curious, but unnecessary for standard playback.

K-Lite Codec Pack Full is a great starting point for novice users who want to understand how media formats work and a good tool for working with different media types for customization.

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With support for WinXP, Vista, and Win7 as the popular operating systems, Final Media Player is all you will need to watch video and play audio.

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NextGen Media Player remains one of video players that is light on system resources and handles DVDs as well as most video formats flawlessly. The app supports the majority of media formats, including AAF, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, H261, H263, H263I, H264, MOV, VOB, GIF, ASF, AVCHD, AVI, CAM, DAT, DSH, FLV, M1V, MKV, M2V, FLA, FLR, SOL, M4V, MATROSKA, WRAP, MNG, MPG, QUICKTIME, MPEG, MPEG-4, MP4, MP4V, MXF, ROQ, NSV, OGG, RM, SVI, SMI, SWF, WMV.

All in all, thanks to its extensive support for media files, playlists and multiple customization's, NextGen Media Player can easily become the player of choice for many users.

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Formatted SD Card Recovery Pro provides you an exclusive feature for recovery of lost photos, songs, videos, movies, and other multimedia files. Furthermore, it can perform safe optical media recovery to rescue all the seemingly lost files from severely damaged or incorrectly burnt optical discs. The software's interface is lucid and user-friendly providing clear instructions to safely carry out each phase of the recovery process.

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With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you get a complete collection of all the codecs you need to play most video and audio files you find on the Internet – up to 99% of them, according to the developer.

Windows Essentials Codec Pack includes filters and codecs for many formats, though only one of them per format to reduce the risk of conflicts and errors. The pack also includes codec configuration tools and a copy of Media Player Classic.

The pack is very easy to install. Simply launch the executable file and follow the instructions. During the installation process Windows Essentials Codec Pack will let you select which codecs you want to install and which you don't need. Also, as the pack includes a special update utility, you'll always have the latest version on your PC.

Windows Essentials Codec Pack includes all the codecs you need to play most audio and video files on your system. The pack includes a media player and is updated automatically.

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One of the most frustrating things about video playback is when you don't have the right codecs installed. SMPlayer attempts to do away with this problem completely by attempting to play videos regardless of the codecs they need.

SMPlayer uses the MPlayer engine, which the developers claim can play almost all video formats. In reality, this is not always the case. What you may find is that if you're trying to play a WMV file protected by DRM for example, you will see snippets of the film but not the whole thing.

However, SMPlayer has many other great features that make it an interesting proposition. One of the most useful is the way it remembers most of the settings of files that you play a bit like a DVD Player. If you turn off a film because you're a bit tired, when you open it later in SMPlayer, it will start from exactly the same point where you left it with all the original settings including subtitles and audio.

Another area where SMPlayer excels is in subtitles. SMPlayer allows you to choose subtitles in a variety of formats allowing you to choose the font, size, and even colors.

There are many other great aspects to SMPlayer - audio track switching, mouse scrolling and multiple speed playback - that on top of it's codec free playback, make it an excellent choice.

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Support videos shot by iPhone 4/iPhone 4S, other smart phones and DVs Convert HD and SD video formats Convert between audio formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC and so on Convert video to iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Xbox, mobile phone, MP4 players

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Debut Video Capture 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 in Debut Video Capture 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.

Debut Video Capture is a basic video recorder for your PC, and while it's not perfect, it will allow you to capture screencasts and incoming video

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The program features a simple interface, but don’t let it fool you; it’s a powerful program that works with many different formats and includes a bunch of settings to configure video conversion up to the smallest detail. XMedia Recode also features a built-in video player to preview the videos you’re about to convert.

XMedia Recode is also very easy to use. Just open the files you want to convert, select the output format, tweak settings according to your needs and likes and you’re good to go. Just bear in mind that you need to add the file to the queue (the Add job button) before you can start the conversion – I must admit it took me a while to figure this out.

Other than that, there’s not much else to say about XMedia Recode. Conversion takes a while, but the program can work with several files simultaneously and the results are great.

XMedia Recode is a simple yet powerful converter with which you can convert video files from almost any format to another.

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The program works for NTSC and PAL video format and create automatically chapters. Multiple audio tracks are supported. and burn them to a DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RW. With this software, you can create VCD, SVCD discs that can be played on any compatible player. The user-friendly and easy-to-use interface lets you set begin-time/end-time for each video and batch convert. Very quick in conversion speed and no quality is lost!

Suitable for home users and company users to convert create and burn VCD from popular video formats.

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Screen Recording Suite records from a number of sources including your own internal audio and external devices such as a microphone or musical instrument. Screen Recording Suite naturally also records from your screen and webcam although it saves files in WMV format which isn't the most convenient file for working with in an external edit suite. A built-in video editor however allows you to crop, trim, convert and compress video and output to different video formats, such as AVI, MKV, MP4, SWF, FLV and 3GP etc.

In particular, there are useful profiles setup for Apple, Android and Sony device in Screen Recording Suite which makes exporting for different platforms very easy. To take a screencast, simply click the red Start button in the top left hand corner and Screen Recording Suite will countdown from 3 to 0. To record yourself playing a game or put yourself in the video, just click the webcam icon and Screen Recording Suite instantly switches to picture-in-picture mode.

Screen Recording Suite is perfect tool for making professional screen recordings or screencasts.

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Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is video capture software that will allow you to record your computer’s screen or audio. With only a few simple tools you can decide which parts of your computer are captured and converted. Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is a great piece of software for screencasts, screenshots, and audio.

Features

With Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder you can record your desktop, take screenshots, or record audio. With the screen record option you can select from recording the entire screen, specific regions, focus around the mouse, or take web cam input. For audio you can pick to record desktop sounds, speak through your microphone, or combine both. Default formats for video is WMV, and for audio MP3, OGG, WMA, or WAV can be selected.

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder can also set up tasks that automatically record for you. You may schedule a certain time of day, the duration of your recording or specific stop date, and if you are capturing video (including regions) or audio. You can also set if your computer shutdowns automatically after Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder finishes.

Usability

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder has a very basic yet intuitive design. When the app is first opened and no files are in the output folder the file window will be hidden. After your first recording this window will expand, causing Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder to become larger in size. Each button has a simple drop down menu to adjust settings. There are rarely any detailed settings windows, except when scheduling tasks. One annoying aspect of Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder's UI are false buttons that you might expect to open new options and menus. Instead these are just fancy links to Apowersoft’s website placed in deceptive locations.

If you select region recording, an overlay will cover the screen, allowing you drag a desired rectangle sized space. If you’re unhappy with the rectangle size you can move it around, adjust pixel width and height, or select a preset from a drop down menu. Before recordings you can set up a countdown to prepare your screen, as well as audio beeps when a recording starts and stops.

Quality

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder has a very minimal appearance, often times you may forget it is even open. When not recording it simply looks like a black and off-white bar. The miniature design works well as you rarely want a large abrasive UI while recording. You can also choose to hide most all of Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder’s toolbars to further increase its stealth.

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder doesn’t cause any obvious slow down while it records, allowing you a smooth capture session as you open other programs and web pages. Quality of finished recordings is generally high and files are compressed to low sizes. There can be visual problems when using the area around mouse option, but only if you select a resolution under 640x480.

Conclusion

Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder is a great way to capture your screen for screencasts and audio. It only supports WMVs, but the quality of recordings is good with compact file sizes. Apowersoft Free Screen Recorder can set up captures at specific dates and automate shut downs, making handy for daily recording. Just remember that several buttons are links and not options.

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FSS Video Converter has several advantages: - Fast video conversion - Ready-to-use video presets - Advanced video settings - Intuitive interface - Completely free

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Easy to use - Just two clicks, everyone can become the master of FLV 3GP Converter; Automatically shutdown the computer after conversion; High speed - Provide >300% converting speed by multithreading.

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Besides, AnyMP4 MTS Converter has multiple editing functions to customize the video to be perfect. Specific speaking, users can adjust the video effect like brightness, saturation, contrast, hue and volume; trim the video length to cut off the unwanted part of the video; crop the video frame to remove the black edges or other unwanted edges; add text/image watermark to the video; and merge various video clips into a new single file. In addition, this Video Converter allows users to define the output settings like video resolution, video bitrate, frame rate, video encoder, aspect ratio, and audio channels, sample rate, audio encoder, audio bitrate.

AnyMP4 MTS Converter supports multiple output video/audio formats and compatible with any mainstream portable device and Video Editing Software. It owns the intuitive and user-friendly interface, which can help users easily convert and edit video/audio files. Besides, it highly supports the batch conversion and output various video/audio formats at one time with super high converting speed and quality. What’s more, users can capture the favorite image when previewing the video.

All multi-media users, video/audio zealots, and the users who have the compatibility problem in playing the video on portable device and the limitation in importing MTS, M2TS file to Video Editing software can use this Video Converter software.

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1. Join several video files or different segments into a complete one. 2. Reset the video size by cropping off those black bars. 3. Trim videos into parts so you can convert the very part you want. 4. Tune video brightness, contrast and saturation or even add special effects. 5. Set image or text watermark to make it personalized and unique. 6. Change your output setting parameters and values all by yourself. 7. Take snapshot from the video and save it as JPG or BMP format.

1. iSkysoft Video Converter supports all popular video formats including WMV, AVI, MPEG, DivX, MP4, MOV, XviD, 3GP, VOB, FLV, etc. 2. Extract the audio track from your video files to popular audio formats such as MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, M4A, etc. with high sound quality. 3. Convert videos for iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Creative Zen, Archos, and other Video players and audio players.

iSkysoft Video Converter for Windows could convert between all sorts of video files such as AVI to MPEG, WMV to MPEG, WMV to MP4, XviD, H.264, MKV, etc.

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Besides, this DVD Creator can help users create personalized DVD with multiple editing functions. Firstly, users can click Edit Menu button to open the Edit Menu window, and then choose desired menu templates from the Menu drop-down list; choose ideal menu Frame, Button; and edit video title as you like. Then, this DVD Maker software enables users to add background music, background picture and make an opening film for the DVD. In addition, it allows users to add/edit DVD subtitle and audio track, like adjusting the Audio Volume, Latency, Encoder, Bitrate and Channels when adding audio track; or adjusting font, size, color, display position for each subtitle.

With this versatile DVD Burner software, users are allowed to customize video to be perfect. Specifically speaking, users can adjust the video effect like Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue and Volume; trim video length to cut off the unwanted part; crop video frame to remove the black edges; and add text/image watermark to the video, etc. Also users can capture the favorite image when previewing video in the built-in player.

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