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DVD Flick

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:01:05 +0000

DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice.

Its main features include the following: Burn near any video file to DVD; Support for over 45 file formats; Support for over 60 video codecs; Support for over 40 audio codecs; Add your own subtitles; Easy to use interface; Burn your project to disc after encoding; Completely free without any adware, spyware or limitations and more.

InfraRecorder

admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:48:27 +0000

InfraRecorder is a CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

Some of its core features are as follows:

Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.

Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.

Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.

Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).

Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).

Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.

Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.

Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.

Display disc information.

Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

HandBrake

admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:39:17 +0000

HandBrake is a multi-platform, multi-threaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. udes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilingual interface.

Some of its main features are as follows: chapter selection; basic subtitle support (burned into the picture); integrated bitrate calculator; picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling; grayscale encoding.

MediaCoder

admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:27:28 +0000

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 support for new devices.

Some of its core features are as follows:

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

Strong decoding capability for partial or corrupted content.

Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPhone/iPod)

Fully standalone, no dependance on system codecs/splitters

Extension (scripting language) infrastructure to expand user interfaces and improve user experience