Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files.

Features

Format factory is able to convert:

• All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
• All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
• All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
• Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
• MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
• Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.

Here are some of its features:

1. Support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
2. Repair damaged video and audio file.
3. Reducing Multimedia file size.
4. Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
5. Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
6. DVD Ripper.
7. Supports 50 languages

The quality of the output files are really great, I was impressed with all its features and performance. You don’t get many free softwares that do the same job as the paid ones. Enjoy one of a kind media converter for free.

Just embed it into your website and script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or from Flickr photostream.

This is the pimpliest and easiest tool for web galleries for HTML, WordPress, Joomla and any other CMS systems.

You don’t need any technicals or programming background to create stunning and presentations and slideshows.

Simply download the software, install and start creating unlimited slideshows.

Features

• easy installation (no programming skills required)
• forms slideshow automatically (scans specified folder for images, creates thumbnails and uses filenames for titles)
• supports Flickr photostream
• customizable design
• fully resizable
• fullscreen option
• autostart option
• and of course, it’s free…

All Real Media formats (*.rm, *.ra, *.rmvb) are supported. The software was tested for viruses and spywares, and it was clean.

Some key feature from the author site:

• It’s clean and free, without any adware or spyware.
• It’s stable and fast.
• Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface helps you setup converting process easily.
• It uses up-to-date and high quality libraries.
• ID3 Tag can be derived from the input files automatically.
• Batch Processing is supported, it can process an unlimited number of files at one time.
• Detailed HTML help file is included.
• The installing and uninstalling process is very easy.

Download RM to MP3 converter.

I stumbled upon a great way to copy an entire DVD movie with just a single click. There are many online tutorials to guide you through the process but sometimes they really don’t work or very complicated.

But with VLC media player, you can record and rip an entire DVD with no hassles or even knowledge of softwares.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols

Lets Start ….

1. First download and install VLC media player, ( Its free I promise)
2. Run the software > Go to View > Advanced Controls.
3. You will notice a record button near the play and pause buttons.
4. Start the DVD > Hit Play Then > Click Record.

5. After the movie is finished the recorded video is in MPEG format and stored them in the Documents folder labeled as VLC Record with the date and time.

This is a great way to record and save specific scenes only, you don’t have to record the entire movie if you don’t want to. Just pick the scene then click record.

GOM Media Player is simply one of the most powerful free media players I have ever used beucase it comes with popular video and audio codecs built-in. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF. Users don’t have to install codecs separately.

I was really impressed with GOM performance, its not heavy on slow computer and the quality is just perfect. Once you install the sotware, you will be asked to setup the system based on your computer performance. so if you have a slow computer then you probably need to choose the normal mode.

The great thing about GOM is the capability of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. Also It can also play locked or partially downloaded files.

The video and audio equalizer is very easy to use and access, all the setting are in one window. As you can see from the image above, you can capture images from movies and save them locally on your hard drive.

According to the author site, Super plays files that cannot be played with WMP or even other libavcodec-based players like MPC and VLC.
SUPER also can plays and saves Internet Media Streams of different protocols ( mms:// rtsp:// http://).

As I mentioned in the title, Super is not only a media player, its also and encoder that encode full length movies to any other format without any time or function limitation.

One of the software features I liked is that you can exctract the sound from a video and convert it to any extention you like such as mp3, wav wma and many others.

Note: the software is virus and spyware FREE and its a freeware application.

Download link “available at the bottom of the page” – Via Download squad