As computers become more and more media-orientated, more and more free multimedia programs are released on the Internet. Here's a selection.
This is a powerful media converter that supports many file types. It uses the 'LAME' encoder to create high-quality mp3 files and you can download plugins for all other major file types. It is easy to use, has a lot of features (including auto-CDDB info retrieval), and works pretty quickly.
dbPowerAMP dMC v10 installer
dbPowerAMP codec plugins
If you have to do work with movies, this is easily one of the best freeware utilities available.
MPC is a no-nonsense media player with an intuitive interface and powerful features; it's perfectly suited to playing movies.
Media Player Classic download page
This utility enables you to 'chop up' mp3 files into smaller ones, or save sections of a track as a separate mp3.
Click here to download.
As far as media players go, I have found none better than Quintessential Player (QCD for short).
It is fully customisable, supports a variety of plugins and skins, plays all the major file formats, includes a graphical equalizer, has options to keep the player in the system tray, and much more. It's also not a strain on your PC; it never takes up more than a small fraction of CPU resources.
Quintessential Player website
QCD plugins | QCD skins
There are dozens of video formats around these days - DivX, XVid, MPEG4, WMV, MOV, the list goes on and on... So what do you do when you need to convert between these formats (for example, when uploading to YouTube)? The answer is VirtualDub, a one-stop shop for converting between any kind of video formats you want.
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