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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Other features: DVD support. CD support. The option to preview images from webcams, DV or any other video source such as TV tuner. Two monitors or monitor and TV support. Support for Dolby Surround, SPDIF and 3D audio. PlayList - searching for all movies or music in a specified folder or drive and putting them into a playlist. Ability to choose any audio output, including SPDIF, allowing lossless digital transmission of sound to an amplifier. Subtitles support in all known formats (hh:mm:ss, ASS - Advanced SubStation, SSA - SubStation Alpha, SubRip. SubViewer (1 & 2), MicroDVD, MPL2 , SRT, SMI etc.). DivX Muxer - creates a DivX/XviD file with subtitles in it. Ability to display subtitles under the picture.

Unlike most players, ALLPlayer is not merely an overlay for MediaPlayer, and it uses DirectX, which makes it possible to play any movie. The program is also integrated with a speech synthesizer application, allowing you to watch movies with subtitles with a reader (dubbing). Most popular formats such as DivX, XviD, MP3, and AVI, FLV, MP4, 3GP, MKV, M2TS, MPG, MPEG, RMVB, WMV, QuickTime, MOV, FLAC, APE, and many more less known formats can be played thanks to liveupdate codecs downloader.

This is for all users watching movies on their computers a specially for those who need subtitles

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Using VDownloader is really simple. Just paste a video URL into the interface and click the download button. The latest version of VDownloader has increased its download and conversion speed, which makes it even a more interesting tool.

You can also search for videos about a specific topic with the program's built-in search tool. The good thing about VDownloader is that you can use it with virtually any video sharing website, just by entering the video URL.

VDownloader features a number of output conversion profiles, so you can make the downloaded videos compatible with your portable device or media player. Alternatively, you can download the files in original format. Bear in mind though that if you choose this option, you won’t be able to convert the file afterwards.

To save you time, VDownloader will batch download up to ten videos at once and features a scheduler so it can be set to download files whenever is most convenient for you. The program includes other extra features, but sadly they’re only available in the Pro version of the program.

VDownloader is a handy, effective video downloader and converter that works with all popular video sharing sites.

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In this day and age, it's easy to download virtually anything you want off the web. There are a slew of download managers that let you grab web content in no time flat. Megavideo Video Downloader is just one of the myriad.

In that way, Ilivid Download Manager is really no different. Like other tools of its kind, Ilivid Download Manager lets you download web content to your Windows PC without much ado. Computers can get clogged up quickly with unwanted files though. What if you want to preview the content before actually downloading it?

That's what Ilivid Download Manager will let you do. With a simple cut and paste approach, you can grab content from all over the web. If you want to watch a video from YouTube, for example, just type the video's URL into the Ilivid Download Manager interface and you can watch. If you like what you see, the option to download is just a few short clicks away.

The convenient thing about this tool is not only that you can preview web content before actually downloading but also that you can share your finds with friends on Twitter and Facebook. Now, friends and family can also see what you're seeing almost the instant you discover it, all thanks to Ilivid Download Manager.

Unfortunately, Ilivid Download Manager's may look clean and straightforward, but it might take time for some users to really get the hang of using all of its features. There are times when the content you've selected doesn't play either.

Overall, Ilivid Download Manager is a unique concept that lets you preview content before downloading.

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VLC media player nightly supports partially encrypted Blu-ray discs and brings a more polished look and enhancements to the options and codecs in this flexible player. VLC media player nightly is more visually striking with a new sidebar allowing quick access to your playlist, media folders or online streams. The final version will also include a search tool so you can find missing media much more easily than before.

Blu-ray support

The most important feature in VLC media player nightly however is Blu-ray support. However, for legal reasons, it will only open partially encrypted Blu-ray discs. It can also now output audio to Android and iOS devices. Note that it can also be quite unstable as this is effectively a beta release of VLC media player.

VLC media player nightly is an exciting glimpse at how VLC media player will look and finally supports Blu-ray discs.

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VLC media player nightly supports partially encrypted Blu-ray discs and brings a more polished look and enhancements to the options and codecs in this flexible player. VLC media player nightly is more visually striking with a new sidebar allowing quick access to your playlist, media folders or online streams. The final version will also include a search tool so you can find missing media much more easily than before.

Blu-ray support

The most important feature in VLC media player nightly however is Blu-ray support. However, for legal reasons, it will only open partially encrypted Blu-ray discs. It can also now output audio to Android and iOS devices. Note that it can also be quite unstable as this is effectively a beta release of VLC media player.

VLC media player nightly is an exciting glimpse at how VLC media player will look and finally supports Blu-ray discs.

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Free YouTube Download is a simple tool that downloads YouTube videos to your hard drive, featuring several formats namely AVI, 3GP, MP4 and the online native Flash video format, FLV.

Using Free YouTube Download, you can take your favorite videos with you on your iPod, phone or any other portable device and and watch them while on the move. The app is not only simple in design, but also in functionality. Just enter the URL of the video you want to download, select your preferred format and let Free YouTube Download take care of the rest.

The download process only takes a few minutes and you can then enjoy your YouTube videos locally straight away. Free YouTube Download also supports batch downloading so you can create a queue of files to be converted while you do other things. On the downside, you have to copy and paste the video URL addresses manually – it would be nice to have some kind of browser or clipboard integration.

With Free YouTube Download you can download any YouTube video to your hard drive and save it in several different formats.

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Videomizer Highlights

Automatic object recognition: manipulates only those frame parts, which help optimize the overall impression!
Fully automatic re-adjustment of tonality, re-sharpening and contrast optimization!
Touching-up of images through higher definition and re-sharpening of matt colours!
Fully automatic system for hue control and saturation, white balance and bright/dark correction.
Elimination of fog and other weather influences and undesired colour casts.
Adjustment options for resolution, bit rate and frame rate as well as audio attributes (channels, bit rate, sample rate)
Picture size optimization to eliminate black bars, among others Stretch and Pan & Scan
High-quality scaling filters, among them Lanczos and the extremely efficient ODU
Video cut and real time preview (dual view for direct comparison)
Supported input formats: DVD-Video, AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MPG, TS and more
Supported output formats: AVI, MPG, MP4 and WMV, among others with profiles for iPod, iPad, Android, PlayStation Portable and other devices.
Fully automatic batch mode for automated manipulation of several videos in a row!
Additional option for manual optimization!
The HDR-simulator helps to create amazingly HDR-similar modifications. HDR is known from photography and serves for creating high dynamic range images. You require, however, three images of the same subject with three different exposures. The VideoMizer creates a similar effect for your videos although it has to do with just one image per unit of time.
The scaling optimization, another distinctive feature of the program, guarantees that your videos are most efficiently shown on a certain display. If for example you have a portable media player like the Apple iPod, your videos are automatically adjusted to its display attributes for full screen mode - without disturbing black bars!

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Appearance

In terms of appearance, Nightingale is attractive, but not very innovative. It's got a nice slick and easy-to-use interface, and can be customized with feathers - Nightingale's equivalent of skins. These must be downloaded separately,and there aren't very many of them, but the job is made easy thanks to the app's built-in browser.

Options

Unfortunately, Nightingale doesn't seem to get very far in the options race. Although it supports music and video, it has a hard time with anything else. It can't handle podcasts or streaming media natively, for example, and has a limited selection of tools for customizing or modifying your music. When you compare it to an app like VLC, for example, Nightingale looks really bare.

Extras

One area where Nightingale does stand out, however, is extras. Given the built-in browser, it's really easy to get extra content for the app, from album artwork to skins and add-ons. There's not a huge number of any of these (3 skins, about 26 add-ons), but they add some nice functionality, like Icecast and Last.fm support.

Overall impression

Nightingale looks good, but relies on add-ons for almost all functionality beyond basic music and video playback. If it's your first dealing with a media player, you might well be impressed with its slick looks and ease of use, but for the rest of us - and we're the majority - it just feels like Nightingale is all style and no substance.

Nightingale is a good-looking player, but in terms of functionality, falls well short of the mark.

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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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VLC DVD Ripper is a competent DVD ripping software capable of converting DVD movies to numerous popular video and audio formats at high speed and high quality. The program can be used by anyone no matter the prior experience with such applications and supports AVI, WMV, MPEG, FLV, PSP, MP4, 3GP formats.

Our website offers a powerful dvd ripping application anyone can use to convert their collection of DVDs to numerous digital formats with great speed and in great quality. Once converted you can transfer them to any desired portable device to enjoy a

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Movavi Video Converter is a powerful video converter with which you can convert your favorite video clips and movies in a snap.

Movavi Video Converter features a nicely designed interface with a large built-in player that lets you preview the video on the spot. Movavi Video Converter supports not only the most popular video formats, but can also optimize conversions for specific portable devices (iPod, iPhone, Sony PSP, Blackberry, Microsoft Zune, Creative Zen and many more), rip your favorite DVDs and download and convert online videos as well. Conversions are fast and smooth, but to be honest, I had some issues when trying to convert DVD video tracks – probably due to copy restrictions though.

The best thing about Movavi Video Converter is that it's easy enough for the newbie – who can simply choose a target device and leave all settings with their default values – and also as complex as more experienced users like their programs to be, with plenty of conversion settings to tweak.

The built-in editor in Movavi Video Converter works great for video preview. You can play the movie from beginning to end and also go frame by frame. It also includes some special tools that let you crop or rotate the image, adjust brightness and contrast, save a specific frame and even add a watermark.

Movavi Video Converter also installs a standalone media player with support for a plethora of formats – including DVD and online videos. It comes in really handy to watch your videos once you've converted them.

In all, Movavi Video Converter is an excellent video conversion tool. The only drawback, if any, is the lack of a proper Help section. You'll need to search their online Help section or download the Help file separately.

Movavi Video Converter is an attractive, feature-rich tool to easily convert video files from one format to another.

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

XMedia Recode Portable 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 – it took us a little while to figure this out.

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

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

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With a simplistic appearance, GiliSoft Movie DVD Creator is a relatively easy program to learn to use. The settings are also very simple, so users of any experience level should be able to convert their very first video to DVD in short order.

Simply choose a video on your PC that you'd like to burn to a DVD. You can even integrate more than one video per DVD. Before you burn the video to DVD, there are two additional functions GiliSoft Movie DVD Creator can help you out with. First, you can edit each individual video, either by dividing it into segments or by adding a watermark to it. Second, you can create the menu that shows up on the DVD before the video plays. This gives your video a more professional and personalized look. GiliSoft Movie DVD Creator has several colorful templates to choose from in this regard.

GiliSoft Movie DVD Creator lets you convert all the major and most popular video formats, including AVI, MPEG, DivX, DV, VOB, WMV, and MOV to a format that is compatible with the vast majority of DVD players. You can also burn DVD folders and ISO files with GiliSoft Movie DVD Creator as an added bonus.

Unfortunately, this program isn't appropriate for people who want a more advanced set of movie editing features. It lets you do basic editing and personalizing of your movie, but the main focus remains video to DVD conversion.

GiliSoft Movie DVD Creator is a competent DVD burner that converts videos from a variety of different formats.

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Formats and profiles

One of the great things about this app is that it supports so many formats, as both input and output. Whether you need Sothink Free Video Converter to convert videos for use on a cellphone or other mobile device, compress the file to make it easier to fit on a disk, or even just rip audio from a video file, this app can help you out.

Just bear in mind, however, that although Sothink Free Video Converter has oodles of options on the program interface, only some of them are available in the free version. The ones not available are marked with a little black 'Pro' icon. That said, the options you do get with Sothink Free Video Converter are varied and more than enough for most users' needs.

Advanced or simple

Using Sothink Free Video Converter is very comfortable. Just add your videos using the Add Files option, check the ones you want to convert (the app supports batch operations), choose the conversion profile from the left-hand panel and hit convert. You can pause conversions, and even set the app to automatically shut the computer down when it has finished. Unfortunately, you can't queue jobs with different specifications.

If you want to get a little more fancy with Sothink Free Video Converter, you'll be able to. By looking under the Advanced section, you can trim the start and end time of videos, as well as changing specifications like frame rate and video and audio codecs. If none of this interests you, feel free to simply pick a preset profile from the drop-down menu under Encoding Settings, and Sothink Free Video Converter will do all the work for you.

Sothink Free Video Converter is a surprisingly complete free video converter.

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With aTube Catcher you can not only save online videos on your hard drive, but also convert videos from one format to another, capture streaming videos, record your screen, and even create custom DVDs in a few clicks. It's a simple, no-nonsense application that gets the job done.

aTube Catcher allows you to do everything from within the same interface: a tabbed window with specific areas for each function. The program can read the content of the Windows Clipboard and also supports drag and drop. What's more, aTube Catcher works with all popular video formats.

All in all, aTube Catcher is a brilliant tool for quickly grabbing cool online movies, converting videos, recording the screen and creating DVDs – all hassle-free!

aTube Catcher is a handy, easy-to-use online video downloader and converter.

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