gHacks technology news » newsreader http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Stream Videos from Usenet http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/27/stream-videos-from-usenet/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/27/stream-videos-from-usenet/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:57:50 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/27/stream-videos-from-usenet/ When you normally download a video from the Usenet you do the following. You fire up your Newsreader, download the files, unpack them and watch the movie in your favorite movie player. NZB Player offers a different solution which is great especially for small nzb files that point to a video file directly. The player streams nzb files that you load into it from the Usenet directly which is nice for preview reasons and if you want to use a shortcut to view the video.

Even compressed videos such as rar files which is the dominant format on Usenet these days can be viewed when the first rar files are downloaded to your hard drive. No need to wait to download the complete rar set to start watching the movie.

The video will be saved on the hard drive which means that you can watch the video again and do not need to download it again from the Usenet.

NZB Player uses so called nzb files, which contain the information about the location of the file on the Usenet, to show the videos. A rule of thumb is that you can only use nzb files that point to one video which means that you can’t use nzbs that contain a movie on two cds for instance.

It is however possible to use nzb search engines to split these and create two nzb files which would work fine with NZB Player. Uncompressed MPG files will not play as well while compressed ones work fine. NZB Player can play avi files, vcd and svcd movies and several other files.

I especially like the feature that it streams the movie while you are downloading it which is great for preview reasons. Great software.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/27/stream-videos-from-usenet/feed/ 5 Pan Newsreader http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/pan-newsreader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/pan-newsreader/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:46:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/pan-newsreader/ I have been trying several newsreaders for the Usenet until I finally found the one and only newsreader Newsbin. I purchased it years ago and can only recommend it to everyone else who is serious about the Usenet. I do know however that some users prefer free software and that is why I took a look at the Pan newsreader which is available for Windows, Mac and Unix.

Pan Newsreader is offering a lot of features that commercial Usenet readers such as Newsbin are offering as well. It does support download binaries of course offering single-click encoding, multiple connections and simultaneous downloads and image previews of downloaded images.

I have to admit that Newsbin is not the perfect newsreader for reading and writing news. Pan seems to be able to handle this task better which is definitely a good thing. It does however lack a few essential features that I do not want to miss. The most important feature in my opinion is the SSL encryption.

As far as I can tell Pan does not offer SSL encryption which is a feature that I do not want to miss anymore. I’m not sure about nzb support but I could not get it to work either.

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This leads to the following question. Which newsreader are you using ?

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