Useful Programs

[Gemini37]

DVDVideoSoft is an independent developer of multimedia software programs for video, audio, photo and image processing. The company offers 40+ safe, reliable and functional applications to download videos from YouTube and convert to mp3, upload to YouTube and Facebook, edit and convert audio and video files between different formats, burn CD, DVD discs, create DVDs, convert DVDs to video files, convert and resize images, record screen activities and make screenshots, convert video to playback on different devices, make 3D pictures and videos.

Free Studio version 5.3.5 [68.57 mb]
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm
Requirements: Windows XP SP3, Vista, Windows 7 and .Net Framework 2 SP2

Or download only the ones you are interested in.
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd...e-download.htm

All highly recommended !
- GEM

[Roger Allott]

The codec pack I like is K-Lite-Mega, which includes the latest versions of MediaPlayer Classic and my preferred player, Media Player Classic HomeCinema. See http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm for details and downloading.

[lds17pl]

Share Me Not

blocks automatical tracking by Facebook & Co. - you are tracked by implemented "Like" or similar buttons (note: neither access nor membership necessary!)

http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

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Do Not Track Plus

blocks tracking by more than 600 companies interested in what you do at web

http://www.abine.com/dntdetail.php?

note: if you use Adblock Plus deactivate at this page and reload page if demo clip not works

Adblock Plus here http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...6&postcount=38

[lds17pl]

later: IMPORTANT - copy & past link - if you click you will redirected to foreign site

remove redirection and click-tracking in Google search results

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98394

important note: please read "How do I use this?" (link below "Install" button right above) before any action.

[Trip]

Just a note about the latest software update for VLC from videolan.org....

First, I noticed the screenshots/grabs/snapshots tool is located
in a different location, under the video pull-down.
Ok, not a problem.

Secondly I got encoder errors which, for me, is a first time deal using VLC.
Using multiple sample video formats, I tested out the feature at least 4 times.

Bit of a problem there, as many of you know VLC is a great freeware tool,
and screen grabbing being one of the best features.
(You can specify file type and location from their default .PNG in MyPictures)

Surely there is a way to solve the problem and re-configure this to get
around the encoder errors, maybe such as installing another codec.
For now I rolled back to my old version 1.1.11, and this is good enough for me.

Back to the previous excellent quality:


Just a head's up if you use and love VLC.
Cheers mates.

[cicciobuki]

Originally Posted by Threadbanger

Hi
My PC had to have a HD reformat and reinstall of Windows 7 a couple of weeks ago and I have been trying to put back all the programs and add ons that I use regularly.
(...)

Wanted to mention that in case of starting over from scratch, Ninite is a very useful tool/site:

http://ninite.com/

Basically it installs everything for you. (well, not everything but quite a lot)

Select all the programs you wish to install, click 'Get Installer', run the downloaded small install tool, and it will do it all for you (and leave out all the unwanted extras and toolbars)

[Numerous One]

Let me present a nice piece of coding craftsmanship, that goes by the name of Mipony.

http://www.mipony.net

Latest version 1.6.3.

It's freeware.

Basically, it's a download manager that automates file downloading from free host sites such as Rapidshare, Depostifiles, Mediafire...

It's similar to US Downloader (which is pretty old; the author stopped developing it long ago, but it still works) and JDownloader, functionality wise. From my experience, it works much faster than JDownlader, and while it may lack some of the features JDownloader offers, it compensates it with other unique features, that I find more essential and useful, BTW.
JDownloader requires Java Runtime Environment to run (as far as I remember, I haven't installed it lately, so pardon me if I am wrong), MiPONY doesn't, which is, IMHO, the main reason it works faster on my machine, since most of the Java based applications take a terrible amount of time to load/start and operate on my mighty vintage PC.

From Mipony website:

Mipony is a download manager specially designed to automate the downloading of files of free host sites such as Rapidshare, Depositfiles, Mediafire and many others.
With this download manager you will enjoy comfortable features when it comes to downloading files by avoiding host sites inconveniences. Mipony is in charge of everything, it accesses the web where the file is hosted, it waits the required time and starts downloading them one by one.

Put the addresses of the files in Mipony and the program will be in charge of everything to have the files downloaded as fast as possible.

Mipony also checks every link to see if the file has been deleted from the server or if it is available to be downloaded.

Mipony works with both premium and free accounts.

- Control how many files can be downloaded simultaneously from each server..

- Many of the files hosted in free servers are divided into parts, Mipony has the option to join the downloaded files (HJSplit).

- Mipony can capture from the clipboard individual links or any text that contains any number of links.

-Download attempts.
If by any chance the file shows an error during the download, Mipony will be in charge of performing the necessary attempts automatically until the file is downloaded.

-Browser.
It has an embedded browser from where the download links are detected.

- Automatic update of the data base with the sites supported. Mipony updates automatically to keep working with files download sites and it is constantly adding new sites to the supported websites.

- Mipony can analyze full sites looking for links, indicating if they are still available in the server to be downloaded or if they have been erased.

- It allows the configuration of Flashgot to send links to Mipony

- Plug-in in a bar format to launch downloads from Firefox and Explorer directly to Mipony or to open the site that is being viewed in the browser of Mipony.

- Remote control. Mipony has a web interface to control it remotely. With the web interface you can view the downloads and manipulate them, and also you can enter the captcha codes remotely. The web interface design is adapted for both desktops and mobile clients.

-Captcha Trader Plugin. With this plugin, you will have access to the captchas decoding system developed by captchatrader.com. CaptchaTrader solve captchas for you so you don’t have to. If you earn credits by solving captchas then you can spend them later when you need them.

-We have developed an Android remote client to control Mipony remotely. With this application you can manage downloads, enter captchas and be alert when you have to write one, add downloads, clean completed downloads and download files in your mobile phone.

The list of supported hosts is quite exhaustive, so I won't post it here (check the app site), but it covers all the major ones: Rapidshare, Depositfiles, Mediafire, Gigasize, Filefactory, Uploading, 4shared, Oron, Filepost...

Few screenshots (sorry about the quality, I acquired them from the official site; I've just reinstalled OS (due to a crash), didn't have the time to install a screen capturing software, and "Print Screen + MS Paint" isn't much of an improvement):

DOWNLOAD SCREEN:

In the download screen you can see the files added to the download list, their status, the file size, the download status bar, the download speed,...

"ADD LINKS" SCREEN:

To manually add links, you have to copy the links on the top part.
It has one awesome feature: you can copy and paste any text, let's say, the whole web page, and if the option "detect links" is on (it is on by default), MiPONY will automatically recognize them, check their status, and in the lower part of the screen you can manipulate with them according to your needs (set the download location, set the priority, delete the unneeded ones, etc.)

BROWSER SCREEN:

Mipony includes a browser that allows you to navigate over the Internet. The advantage is that it can detect the links to download files so, in just a click you will be able to add the links to your download list.
I don't use this very often, but built-in browser is another awesome feature.

OPTIONS SCREEN:

Here you can modify the language options, download speed limit, number of simultaneous downloads, schedule...

"JOIN FILES" SCREEN:

Just like the JDownloader, when a downloaded file is divided in different files, with this option you can join those files to create the original. I don't use this option. I most usually live it running over night, and more than once it has devoured all my available storage capacity, due to my practice of comparing the extracted files to the archived ones, prior to deleting the downloaded rar's/zip's, hence I'd never turn on the option of automated deletion of the archives after the extraction.

PLUG-IN SCREEN:

Plug-in to launch downloads directly from Firefox and Explorer (by transferring links to Mipony) or transferring web page to the Mipony built-in browser.

REMOTE CONTROL:

Mipony has a web interface to control it remotely. You can enter "captcha's" from your mobile device. I don't use it, but this is an amazing feature.

ANDROID APP:



This just covers the basics. I find this software quite handy. It works in a more simple way than JDownloader. Let me give you just one example: in JDownloader you'd have to set the priority for the files to control their downloading order. In Mypony you have that option, if it suits your needs better, but you are given the option of controlling the order by simply moving the files up and down the list. And it works faster.

If something goes wrong with the download process, simple right click on the corrupted file/interrupted download process, then "Download it again" and it does just what it's meant to do, download it again.

With the options "capture" and "detect links" turned on (they are set "on" by default), you don't have to copy the link, minimize your browser, maximize Mipony window and manually paste it. It's enough to "right click > copy" the link, Mipony will automatically do the rest.

If you find it attractive, try it out. It's definitely worthy of some attention.
I hope someone would find it useful.
Cheers!

[chaosAD]

Pixdownloader: Free Image Downloader



No more endless clicking and right clicking to save images just follow a link and download multiple images all at the click of a button.

Features...

* Upto 100 simultaneous connections
* Cookie authentication support
* Advanced keyword search
* Batch File support. builtin GUI Batch Script Creator

download links

Latest build 0.3.5

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3a1m92nzxdyumv2

tested on vintage-erotica-forum and works perfectly

[frankbol]

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer + MKV is the best AVI+MKV trimmer/cutter I've ever used, better than Avidemux. It's freeware.

Features

• Based on SolveigMM Video Editing Engine
• Supports any video content - DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, MPEG-4, etc.
• Supports any audio content - MPEG-1,2 Layer I, II, III; AC3, etc
• Allows trimming AVI files contained VBR audio without synchronization loss
• Supports AVI files of the size more then 2 and 4 GB
• Supports Matrosska files
• Supports the OpenDML AVI file format extension
• K frame/ GOP accuracy
• Cutting off several portions of a movie at one time is allowed. You can get rid of all commercials in your movie in a couple of simple steps.
• Multilingual interface. Chinese, Danish, English, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish and more other

Here is link about the software :

http://www.solveigmm.com/en/products/avi-trimmer-mkv/

And here is download link :

http://www.solveigmm.com/download/SolveigMM_AVI_Trimmer_MKV.exe

[bigben22]

a fantastic media player which has so many functions that the others do not.

It will cut and edit any video , grab images , in fact it does so much that i can list all its features.

Flip video , change speed , change hue /brightness , contrast . crop .

I have had many media players over the years but this is without doubt the most feature laden , and yes, you can grab any scrrenshot from a video , just track thru one frame at a a time to find the frame you want and grab it.

http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4094