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April 2003
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Tim Hoke is the Sr. Pastor at Faith Presbyterian Church, a long-time member of Alamo PC and an avid computer user who loves to try out new programs, especially shareware and freeware. He gets excited about a good deal. More than that, he enjoys sharing good deals with others. Why not send him a note about your favorite shareware or freeware programs. |
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Commercial DVD media is getting more affordable every day. Not to be
outdone, shareware and freeware makers also have a lot of products available
for DVD lovers. Below I include a sampling of these.
DirectDVD 4.48 is a full-featured digital DVD player and software
decoder for Windows that brings the most powerful DVD movie capabilities
to your PC. With DirectDVD's Software Decoder, you are able to watch all
your favorite DVD movies on multiple CPUs, regions, graphic controllers,
and DVD drives. DirectDVD includes advanced theater-quality audio such
as TruSurround XT, Dolby Digital, Dolby Headphones and it is the first
DVD player to offer Circle Surround II from SRS Labs! Unique features inside
include, DVD to MP3, proprietary de-interlacing algorithms for reduction
of motion effect on VGA monitors, and CSS software support for playback
of all your favorite movies or other encrypted content. Change the playback
view of your DVD using letterbox, pan, and crop technology. The skins package
allows the user to easily change DirectDVD's look and feel and easily take
full control with amazing realistic overlays directly inside the interface.
Update 4.48 adds SRS Surround Plug-ins, New Control Panel, Web Plug-ins
for DVD. You can try it for free but must shell out $40 if you want it
for keeps. I should add that DirectDVD 4.48 is the current ZDNet popular
pick.
With Surfsecret DVD2CDR 1.4 you can make perfect copies of your DVD
movies - and you don't even need a DVD recorder! All you need is a DVD-Player
drive in your computer, and a CD-R drive to burn the movie to. You will
be able to create perfect copies of your DVDs to a disc that can be played
in DVD players, your computer, or portable DVD player, anywhere! Now you
can keep backup copies of your own movies in an easy to use format. If
your movies ever get lost, stolen, or scratched, you still have a backup
copy! All it takes is 3 easy steps. Free to try for 30 days.
Hero DVD Player 3.0 is a powerful DVD player software that offers
advanced video and audio playing entertainment on the PC. It can deliver
the highest quality viewing and listening experience. As well, Hero DVD
Player 3.0 offers feature-rich navigation controls, background playing
mode, local zoom in function, excellent crash disk correcting, caption
processing capability and other DVD experience. Some of its features are:
Drag/drop sound box technology, background playing mode, digital zoom,
caption process, 2-channel surround technology, SPDIF output technology,
optimized varied CPU instruction set, DVD correcting technology, double
screen VGA cards.
EASY COPY DVD TO MPEG 2.1.2 enables you to copy DVD to MPEG or
AVI files on your PC, includes DVD to VCD/SVCD, DVD copy software, provides
a powerful tool to backup DVD movies to VCD/SVCD with just one click on
your PC. It also lets you copy DVD movies to CD-R discs and convert DVD
to VCD / SVCD.
1st DVD Ripper 2.1 enables you to rip DVD to mpeg
files, copy DVD to VCD, dup DVD to cd, Copy DVD to SVCD, dup DVD to cd,
Convert DVD to DIVX, DVD to AVI files converter. It also provides great
video audio quality to dup dvd copy, and backup DVD copy.
The Core Media Player 4.0RC1 features an advanced DirectShow
based Core that is easily extendable by simply installing new DirectShow
Audio and Video filters. Managing files could not be easier with our XML/DTD
based Playlist and Media Manager. This allows you to set properties for
each Playlist/Library file entry. TCMP also Supports both Winamp(tm) 2.xx
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) plug-ins as well as Winamp Visualization
(VIS) plug-ins. Advanced users will like the builtin Graphedit Server for
manipulating audio and video streams, Multithreaded capable for optimized
speed, Console mode with Full Command Line Interface Features, Easily customizable
hotkey support, Player database statistics.
Copy DVD to CD-R 6.0.2 enables you to copy DVD is a DVD conversion
application that converts DVD to VCD/SVCD/AVI. It also burns VCD/SVCD directly.
You can view the movie in the VCD player. The application will automatically
burn more than one VCD. You can view the status of conversion any time
and stop it. So you can copy small parts from the beginning by pressing
Stop. You can make various settings from the Settings dialog. The attached
Driver Configure application is useful to detect supported drives for your
CD-writer device. Developer Changes: Copy DVD is a DVD conversion application
that converts DVD to VCD/SVCD/AVI. Support different languages. It is shareware.
True to its name Power DVD 2.0 is indeed a powerful DVD copier
makes identical copies from an original DVD in true DVD format including
the same menus, same features and you can even play the DVD on any DVD
player that is DVD-R/RW compatible or on PCs. This version is now compatible
with virtually any DVD Burner and has a very easy to handle self explaining
interface. Easy enough for beginners yet powerful enough to suit advanced
needs. This is shareware.
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