mp3DirectCut is a small tool for editing MP3 files directly, without any quality loss to the original file. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to several new files. All without the need to decompress your MP3 into a PCM format. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions!

Trim your CD grabbings or directly to MP3 recorded vinyls or tapes. Cut favourit songs from long MP3 radio or live recordings. Make multiple cuts and fades. mp3DirectCut is very fast and gives you extensive control over your MP3s.

- Several prelisten functions
- MP3 visualisation and VU meter
- Easy navigation
- Fading, volume setting and normalizing
- Records MP3 direct to disk (ACM and Lame encoder supported)
- Layer 2 support
- ID3 Tag support (only v1 editable)
- Supports Cue Sheets

VirtualDub is an extremely efficient video capture and processing program. Applications of it are almost unlimited.

You can use it to, for example, compress an MJPEG AVI file to MPEG-4 video with MP3 audio, capture video without worrying about the 2GB barrier, or just multiplex audio and video into a single AVI stream.

A must-have piece of software for everyone! Upgrade is recommended to users of previous versions.

VirtualDub is free, copylefted software, with full source code available for use in GNU GPL programs.

Please notice that due to pressure from Microsoft corporation ASF support had to be removed from this version. Support is still present in version 1.3c.

K-Lite Codec Pack Full is a free software bundle which contains everything you need to play the most popular audio and video formats. It also has a encoding support for some of the formats.

Bundle includes following software:
Media Player Classic
DivX Pro
XviD
Windows Media 9 VCM
Windows Media
On2 VP3
On2 VP6 [Decoding]
On2 VP6 [Encoding]
Ligos Indeo XP
Intel Indeo
Intel I.263
huffyuv
MS MPEG-4
DivX ;) MPEG-4 Low and Fast motion
Cyberlink DVD decoder
Elecard MPEG-2 demuxer
MainConcept MPEG-2 demuxer
Ligos MPEG-2 decoder
Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder
MainConcept MPEG-2 decoder
Fraunhofer MP3 DirectShow decoder
WMA DirectShow decoder
AC3 DirectShow decoder
AC3 ACM decoder
Ogg Vorbis DirectShow decoder (CoreVorbis)
AAC DirectShow decoder (CoreAAC)
3ivX Pro
Nero Digital MPEG-1/2 decoder
MusePack DirectShow decoder
Voxware DirectShow decoder
Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder
DivX ;) Audio
LAME MP3 Encoder
Ogg DirectShow splitter
Matroska DirectShow splitter
Matroska DirectShow muxer
DirectVobSub (vsfilter)
Matrix Mixer
SHOUTcast Source
Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher
DivX Anti-Freeze
GSpot Codec Information Appliance
FourCC Changer
Bitrate Calculator

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AC3Filter is an open source AC3 decoding filter that allows you to watch videos with AC3-encoded surround audio.

After you install the filter, all video players, including Microsoft's Windows Media Player, that use DirectShow, should be able to play AC3 audio correctly. Filter also supports ProLogicII audio as well.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

The address bar of the browser serves multiple purposes - you can use it to enter an address as usual, search your page history, do web searches and much more.

When you open a new tab you are presented with thumbnails of your favourite pages for quick access.

Read more about the browser at Google's introduction page.

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CloneDVD is an easy to use, wizard-driven DVD-9 to DVDR backup software. It is capable of backing up either the complete DVD including all the chapters, extras, and menus, or just the selected titles. If necessary, CloneDVD will compress the video content to fit a single, 4.3 gigabyte DVD-R.

The software also includes a basic ISO/UDF and IFO/VOB writer, using which pre-authored DVD content can be burned on DVD.

You'd probably like to read our CloneDVD guide from here.

Folder2Iso can create an ISO image from any kind of folder (with the subfolders). Actually its a GUI of mkisofs. There''s no need for installation, just run the exe and your ready to go.

Using DVD Decrypter and Folder2Iso together you can have totally freeware burning kit for all kinds of avi/ogm/mkv.

If you wish to know how to use Folder2Iso with DVD Decrypter, please read this guide.