My favorite and default video player SMPlayer has been updated to version 0.6.7 today. SMPlayer is the complete video player solution for both the Windows and Linux operating system. It is basically a frontend for the much acclaimed MPlayer that is included in the distribution. SMPlayer comes both as a portable video player but also [...]

Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Software, Windows

There is definitely no shortage of web browser add-ons and software programs that allow users to download videos from the video portal Youtube. We covered possibilities in the past like Youtube Download or Youtube Batch Downloader. Youtube Manager on the other hand adds to that by not only providing the means to download Youtube videos [...]

Categories: The Web, Windows

Visual Wikipedia is a visual mashup of Wikipedia information and Youtube videos. The service works much like the regular Wikipedia website with the difference that it adds additional data sources and visual information about each phrase. The entry PHP will for instance display part of the Wikipedia article on the top of the results. A [...]

Categories: The Web

Quick Media Converter is free software that can be used to convert video formats easily. It comes with an easy and expert mode to suite experienced and inexperienced users. The easy mode is basically a one-screen media converter. Users begin by picking the desired output format from a list of available ones. Options range from [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

StaxRip is an Open Source video encoding software that can turn videos into mpeg-4 format using codecs like x264, XviD and DivX. It can for instance be used to turn a video DVD into a much smaller sized video with barely any quality losses that can easily be stored on the computer. One interesting way [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The video portal Dailymotion added high definition video support back in February. High definition content is not for everybody especially not for those users who use a low bandwidth connection or hardware that is incapable of handling the load caused by the contents. That seems to have been a major concern for the developers over [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Youtube sits tightly on its spot as the number one video portal in the world. It’s extremely hard to compete Youtube, comparable to the problems that search engines have to compete with Google. One way of dealing with this challenge is to provide a specialized video service. 5Min is one of those specialized video portals. [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Video portals are immensely popular on the Internet.The sheer amount of videos makes them attractive to a large audience. The larger portals like Youtube or Dailymotion host millions of videos from daily news over music to tutorials on how to cook the perfect meal or learn a new language. While most users are perfectly happy [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

Whenever Microsoft sends out a new version of their upcoming operating system Windows 7 to their partners they can be sure that someone will post information about it soon thereafter. Many screenshots of features of the new Windows 7 client have been posted a day ago which showed some of the new features and design [...]

Categories: Windows