Video Freeware

• AVI Repair  DivFix++ Repair or fix broken AVI file streams by re-building index part of file. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Capture  Debut allows you to capture anything you can see or hear and with USB input devices, snapshots from video, images, audio, add captions, time stamps, adjust frame rate, resolution, color settings, video effects, burn to CD, email, and more. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Catalog  Data Crow is the ultimate media cataloger and media organizer. Data Crow allows you to create a huge database containing all your collected items. Audio, software, book, movie and photo collection cataloger. You can use the excellent online services to retrieve the information instead of typing all the information yourself. Retrieve information from services like Amazon.com, Imdb.com, Softpedia and MusicBrainz. Platform independent and completely portable. Requires Java. FOSS.
• Codecs  CodecInstaller detects the Audio and Video codecs installed on your system, analyzes your audio and video files to understand which codecs they require and suggests you to install them. Supports avi, mpeg, wmv, wma, ogg, flac, mpc, mp3, mp4, wav, wx and will show technical data such as width/height and ratio, length, video codec, framerate, size, bitrate, total frames, quality factor and metadata such as title, album, and year. It can also be used to distribute video files on a CD, to be sure that who receives the CD will have all the necessary codecs installed. With a single tool he will be able to check if the codecs are already installed and up-to-date. CodecInstaller contains a Movie Launcher that displays information about the distributed video file (author, plot, director...) along with a screenshot and a 'Play' button. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Codecs  GSpot Provides you with detailed information about the codec needed for audio and video files. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Codecs  K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Converter  iWisoft Free Video Converter can easily convert video/audio between all popular formats. It can convert video/audio from one format to another, rip audio from video, convert video to image series, animated gif. You can adjust codec, bit rate, frame rate, video size, audio channel, sample rate, audio volume etc. for an output format. Convert all popular video formats, including HD video. Rip audio from video. Convert video to animated GIF. Optimized profiles for many digital devices. Adjust format parameters. Merge video. Trim video. Crop video. Add watermark on video. Support .srt subtitle. Size: 8.7MB. Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/7.
• Converter  Format Factory Multifunctional media converter support converting all popular video, audio, picture formats to others. Repair damaged video and audio file. Reducing Multimedia file size. Support iPhone, iPod multimedia file formats. Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags. DVD Ripper. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Downloader  TubeMaster++ is a powerful tool which can capture multimedia files you are watching or listening from your internet browser (FLV,MP3,MP4). Captured files can be saved directly on your computer or converted to other popular video or audio formats (AVI, MPEG, MP3, MP4, IPod, PSP ...). Websites examples : YouTube, DailyMotion, MySpace, Google Videos, LastFM, Deezer, Jiwa, Songza, and many others. Powerful search engines are also integrated to find videos or audio (mp3) files directly from the software. Requires Java Runtime Environment and WinPcap both included in the installation. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7. 32/64bit.
• Downloader Audio/Video  FreeMake Video Downloader is able download any online video from thousands of websites (except Hulu, MTV Network, Netflix and YouTube RTMP and on-demand videos). Now Freemake Video Downloader has become an all-in-one solution to get any streaming video no matter whether it's embedded into a site or hosted by popular video sharing platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, TubePlus, Dailymotion, Veoh, Megavideo, and 10,000 others. Freemake Video Downloader keeps download history and allows you to search downloaded videos and music by title, format, source. Users also have the option to resume all broken or interrupted downloads. It offers extensions for IE, Firefox, and Chrome which run in the extensions tray with which upon playing a video you wish to record, simply click the extension icon to start the download. This program also captures the file and not the stream so it is very fast. Size: 32.6MB. Requires .NET 4.0. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Downloader Audio/Video  Free Video Catcher is a powerful tool which can capture multimedia files you are watching or listening from your internet browser. Free Video Catcher detects automatically files as FLV, MP3, MP4, but also WebM (new google video format) or Ogg/Theora video files. Size: 5MB. Win All 32/64 bit
• Downloader and Manager  OrbitDownloader File and media downloader that supports many protocols, as well as P2P technology. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Download Manager  FreeDownloadManager is a powerful download manager to Increase your download speed and resume broken downloads, Flash video download, HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent support, and allows you to adjust traffic usage, organize and schedule downloads, download video from video sites, download whole web sites with HTML Spider, operate the program remotely, via the internet, and more. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Editor  Cinefx the Jahshaka project has been reinvented as Cinefx and is getting back to its roots and goal of building the high end visual effects tools it set out to deliver! Cinefx is a suite of open source, cross platform digital content creation tools. Cineplay is a multimedia player to view all of your videos offline. Cineplay has freed millions of video viewers from the restraints of video codec limitations. It’s simple drag and drop feature makes it one of the easiest multiple format media players on the market, Cinecode is an offline encoding tool that allows you to convert virtually any file format to flash on your desktop. Just drag and drop any video file into the CineCode application and CineCode will convert the file to flash, and Cinefx an offline playback, editing, encoding, animation and visual effects tool based on the Jahshaka technology that allows you to create professional digital media on your desktop. Use the tools that Hollywood uses to create blockbuster films and special effects. Recommended for intermediate+ users. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7
• Editor  Lightworks an Academy and Emmy award winning professional-grade movie editor (digital non-linear editing) with over 20 years of history in the film and broadcast industry. Having cut hundreds of films such as Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Centurion and Shutter Island, it includes a full feature set of editorial tools, from advanced trimming and media management, to stereoscopic support and real-time effects including multiple secondary color correctors. Lightworks has an advanced effects pipeline, utilizing the power of your GPU. And with support for up to 2K workflows with real-time effects, it is the most advanced editing application available. Win XP/Vista/7 32/64bit.
• Editor  Windows Live Movie Maker creates movies and slide shows from your photos and videos, and easily share them with YouTube your friends or family. This is a great easy to use application and the results are very professional. The only freeware editor that does blends that I know of. The best thing to do is watch the video presentation. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Editor/Converter/Upload  Freemake Video Converter accepts virtually any video file you can dream of as an input: AVI, MP4, MKV, WMV, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, SWF, FLV, TOD, MOV, DV, RM, QT, TS, MTS, and many more. Convert video to the most popular video formats. Rip unprotected DVDs. Use Freemake Video Converter as AVI converter or 3GP converter. Convert video and audio files to MP3. Import music (MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV), and photos (JPG, BMP, PNG,GIF) to turn them into video. Convert to iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, PS3, Android. Upload Video, Photos, MP3 to YouTube. Burn DVD - up to 40 hours! Make Slideshows and Visualizations. Cut, Join, Rotate, Limit output size, and more. Requires .NET 4.0. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Editor  AviSynth is a powerful tool for video post-production. It provides ways of editing and processing videos. AviSynth works as a frameserver, providing instant editing without the need for temporary files. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Editor  Avidemux is a video and audio editor used for simple cutting, filtering and encoding. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Editor  VirtualDub Amazingly easy to split, join, and capture AVI video with high quality results. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Editor  Easy Video Joiner Join multiple AVI, MPEG (MPG), RM or WMV/ASF files into one large movie file. Add an unlimited number of video files to the list and easily rearrange their order. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Editor  Easy Video Splitter Split large AVI/DivX or MPEG(MPG) file into smaller video clips. Easy Video Splitter works very fast and without any quality loss. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Editor  Free Video Dub Video editing software that lets you delete unwanted parts from video files without re-encoding. This is the only freeware I know of that cuts to frames. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Flash Editor  Clipyard WYSIWYG editor that enables you to quickly and easily combine FlaX, Astro, Pixifex and other Flash material into one SWF file. Additionally, Jpeg, Bmp, Gif and Mp3 files can be converted into Flash format, and used in the newly compiled SWF file. Win NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Flash Metadata Injector  flvmdi FLV MetaData Injector is a Win32 console (command line) application that can add 'onMetaData' AMF data to FLV files. (There's also a GUI frontend FLVMDIGUI). FLVMDI optionally saves an XML version of the injected data, and can add an additional string data or save the onMetaData data to an XML file. FLVMDI has some unique functionality.
• IPod  iPod Media Encoder converts video into an iPod-compatible format, the easy way. The profiles should be easy enough to figure, keeping in mind that slower encoding also means better video quality. The new video files are created by default in the same folder as iPodME. Features: small (4 MB), no setup, only 1 exe to put where you want, no codecs needed, based on ffmpeg, really easy to use and straightforward, easy batch encoding, just select multiple files by clicking on the add files button or drag’n drop them into the list, you can add new files to the batch during encoding, run in background without disturbing your work (with the default priority option), 6 profiles adapted to most usage : 3 encoding speed, each optimized for file size or video quality, possibility to customize the encoding options, support soft-subtitles, and multiple subtitles per video, support multiple CPU cores automatically, and can shut down your computer after encoding. Size: 4 MB. Requires .NET 2.0. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• JPG To AVI  PhotoLapse is a freeware jpg to avi convertor. It will convert a jpg sequence into a, by codec compressed, movie. I created it for making time lapse movies of large sequences of jpg stills and couldn't find any freeware programs to do the trick the way i wanted it. PhotoLapse needs no installing nor does it modify your registry, just one executable. Portable. Size: 152 KB. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Movie Calculator  MovieCal is a simple calculator/converter for film- and videolength with many options. It converts timecodes (24, 25, 30fps, etcũ, lenghts (feet, meter, etcũ and framecounts and calculates size and volume of data. MovieCal contains four calculators: film and videolength converter, film and videolength calculator, file size/dpi calculator, and volume of data calculation. Size: 1.40MB. MovieCal is freeware and available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
• Movie Database  Coollector is a huge encyclopedia of movies and series, that you can search in all possible ways, and personalize by rating all the movies you've seen. You can also manage your video collection. Your DVD, your Blu-ray, your VHS, whatever. Even the video files on your computer disk, which you can conveniently scan and play. Also, the database of existing videos will simplify the input of your owned videos. And thanks to the up-to-date shopping information, you can grow your collection at the best price. Size: 107MB. Portable setup option. Win XP/Vista/7 32/64 bit.
• Player  PotPlayer is an intuitive and a powerful Multimedia player published by Daum written by the same author as The KMPlayer. It's feature packed, easy to use and provides awesome video and audio quality. Some may call it KMPlayerRedux with more stability and versatility. It feels similar to that of the KMPlayer having the same roots, but it is in active development, releasing a beta version almost every 2 weeks. PotPlayer is now my video player of choice, usurping VLC, Media Player Classic, KMPlayer, and GOM player. Portable Version. Size: 13.5MB. Win 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. 32/64 bit. (Download from the link above, then go to www.dvbsupport.net and download the update.)
• Podcast  Miro Publish your podcast and watch free internet video channels and play any video file. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Screen Mask  Zorro is a utility to completely blank the screen except for a rectangular area selected by the user. This is especially useful for watching videos on your computer without being distracted by other programs. Also Portable. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Screen Recorder  Screen2exe Excellent tool to capture desktop activity with voice and save it as a self-playing .exe file. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Screen/Video Capture  Jing is designed to quickly capture a screen shot of what you see on your screen and add text, or video capture (5 minutes max) with sound by selecting a window or region and Jing will record everything that appears in that area. Point to things with your mouse, scroll, flip through photos, click around in a website or application and Jing captures it, and automatically uploads your screenshots and videos to TechSmith's www.Screencast.com site (or Flickr, Twitter or Facebook) for instant sharing (and places the link on your clipboard.) With your free www.Screencast.com account, you get 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth per month where you can manage your files. After installation, watch the demo and see how fast and easy it is. Excellent for quickly sharing screen shots or videos with sound you make of your desktop. It places a small transparent orange half moon icon docked to the side or top/bottom of your screen for instant access. Broadband recommended. Requires .NET. Size: 10.7MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Screen Recorder  Wink will capture anything on screen, edit it and play it back as a presentation. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Slide Show  DVD slideshow GUIEasy way to make a slideshow DVD iso and burn it to DVD. Animate, add video, music, backgrounds, borders and subtitles. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Slide Show  Photostage Slideshow enables you to create multimedia slideshows from your images and share them with family and friends as video files or on CD/DVD. You can add transition effects, audio narration or background music, create zoom effects, adjust image settings, crop and rotate your photos, add text captions, insert video clips and more. The finished slideshow can be converted to several formats for computer and mobile devices (iPod, phones, PSP etc.), or burned to CD or DVD media. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Slide Show  Flash Slideshow Maker is a Flash album creator to make animated photo slide show with SWF file as the output format. It transforms your digital photo collection to Macromedia Flash file format ( SWF ) which you can share your memorial moments with your family or friends on your own homepage, post on your Blog or upload to your own website. Size: 16.1MB. Windows 2000, XP, Vista.
• Specs  VideoInspector Investigate codec-related problems easily. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP
• Steganography/Watermark  Puff is Advanced Steganography & Watermarking - Image/Audio/Video (codec independent)/Flash support - Multiple carriers chains (up to 512MB hidden stream) - Random per-chain-512bit-cryptography-algorhythms - Data whitening - Adaptive LSB + Bits selection level. It's an evolution for advanced users of traditional steganography tools. Steganography is a smart way to hide data into other files, called carriers. Modified carriers will look like the original ones, without perceptible changes. Best carriers are videos, images and audio files, since everybody can send/receive/download them without suspects. Watermarking is here stated as the action of signing a file with your copyright mark. This program does it in a steganographic way, applied to videos, images and audio files. Your copyright mark will be invisible. Portable. Size: 226 KB. Win All.
• Streaming  Air Video can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. You don't need to copy your videos to the device just to watch them. If the videos in your collection are not in format supported by iPhone or iPad, Air Video will convert them on fly*. You don't need to wait until the entire video is converted. You can start watching it almost immediately! Adjust quality, zoom and resolution for each video individually. Air Video Server requires Bonjour to be installed. If you have iTunes installed, you already have Bonjour so you do not need to download it. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Subtitle Editor  Jubler is a tool to edit text-based subtitles. It can be used as an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct and refine existing subtitles. The most popular subtitle formats can be used. Preview of the subtitles in real-time or in design time, spell checking, translation mode and styles editing are some of the main features. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• SubTitle Editor  Subtitle Edit is a free editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor. With SE you can easily create or adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video. There is Google translation built in. Spell checking via Open Office dictionaries. Size: 734 KB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Transcoder  MediaCoderBatch media transcoder, which integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Transcoder  EncodeHD is a an application to re-encode all types of video files for use on your home media player or on-the-go device. It aims to provide a simple interface with no fuss, and give you the best speed possible without compromising on quality. The following output device types are supported: Apple TV, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPod, Nokia E71, Playstation 3, PSP, T-Mobile G1, Western Digital TV, X-Box 360, YouTube HD, and Zune. Requires .NET Framework 2.0. Size: 5,603 KB. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Transcoder  GX::Transcoder Universal audio and video file transcoder with a cue cutter, supports streaming audio and video and tags, and a dbPlayer. Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Transcoder  Satsuki All2DVD Easily take any video file convert it to DVD. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Trimmer  SolveigAVItrimmer Trim any size AVI file without loss or synchronization problems (remove commercials, etc). Win 98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• TV Guide  TV Browser is a digital TV guide that gets the daily TV program from the internet and shows it clearly aranged - like a printed TV guide. An internet connection is only necessary during the data update. Note:You can not use TV-Browser to watch TV. Requires Java runtime, minimum version 5.0. Size: 3MB. Platform independent. Portable available. Size: 1.5MB. Win All.
• Video Card  GPU-Z Information about your video card and GPU. Supports NVIDIA and ATI cards. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Video Screenshot  Scenegrabber is an easy way to create scene shots from movies. You can grab manual or automatic frames from a movie and join then in a single JPG image. Furthermore you can add to the single JPG image info like movie name, resolution, codec info, movie length and time of scene shot creation. Win XP/Vista/7. 32/64Bit.
• Video To DVD  DVDFlick Easily turn your video files into a quality DVD which you can add audio and subtitles to. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Video To DVD  Sothink DVD authoring software for you to convert video to DVD. Win XP/Vista/2008/7.
• Web Cam Capture  iSpy uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services. iSpy can be setup to run on multiple computers simultaneously. Connect and monitor as many cameras and microphones as you like. Time lapse recording, scheduled recording, support for multiple camera and microphones, automatic AVI to FLV conversion and more. Run any program or send an email or SMS alert when movement or sound is detected. Run any program or send an email or SMS alert when movement or sound is not detected (monitor machinery or staff activity). Receive email movement alerts with attached frame grab images from your webcams. Periodically receive image grabs via email from your webcams. iSpy also offers an optional (paid) service that allows you to access your camera stream from the password protected iSpy website and receive SMS or email notifications when alerts are triggered. Size: 9.7MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• Web Cam Capture  ContaCam is a CCTV Security Surveillance and Live Webcam solution. Security surveillance with motion detection and 24 hours digital video recording (DVR). Motion detection events presented as animated thumbnails in web browser. Motion detection actions like FTP upload, send email with attached movement file or run an external program. Live webcam with possibility of history tracking. Integrated web server with password protection (internet or intranet). Supports WDM, VfW, DV and Network cameras. Unlimited parallel cameras setup. Can be started as a windows service. Has all the FreeVimager features for snapshots editing and avi files recompression. Size: 5.5MB. Win 2000 - 7.
• WebCam Extender  ManyCam is a virtual webcam driver that enables you to use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously. You can also add special effects to your video stream, or replace your webcam video with a still image, content from a movie file or stream your desktop in real-time. It offers a variety of effects that allow you to add face accessories (cartoon eyes, glasses, beards, hats etc.), dynamic CGI animations (fire, snow), artificial background images and other effects to your webcam video. You can also add a text overlay or the current date and time. Other features include support for custom effects, color adjustments, picture slideshows and more. ManyCam works with most popular video messengers including Live Messenger, Yahoo and many others. Size: 16 MB. Win XP/Vista/7.
• WebCam Server  YawCam Yet Another WebCAM software, Video streaming, Image snapshots, Built-in web server, Motion detection, Ftp-upload, Text and image overlays, Password protection, and Scheduler for online time. Win 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.
• WebCam Remote  HomeCamera The easiest-to-use Internet home surveillance camera system. Remotely view your webcam from any Internet connection anywhere. Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/7.

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