HandBrake

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HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Reasons you’ll love HandBrake are: convert video from nearly any format, it is free and open source and also multi-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux).

Features:

Built-in Device Presets:

• Get started with HandBrake in seconds by choosing a profile optimised for your device, or choose a universal profile for standard or high quality conversions. Simple, easy, fast. For those that want more choice, tweak many basic and advanced options to improve your encodes.

Supported Input Sources:

• Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection.

Outputs:

• File Containers: .MP4(.M4V) and .MKV
• Video Encoders: H.264(x264), MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 (libav), and Theora(libtheora)
• Audio Encoders: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis
• Audio Pass-thru: AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 tracks

Even more features:

• Title / Chapter selection
• Queue up multiple encodes
• Chapter Markers
• Subtitles (VobSub, Closed Captions CEA-608, SSA, SRT)
• Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
• Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
• Video Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale, Cropping and scaling
• Live Video Preview

Miro Video Converter

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Miro Video Converter provides a beautiful, simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and iPad. Batch conversion, custom sizing, and more! 100% Free and open-source.

Some of the most popular conversions:

Convert to MP4 Video

• Convert AVI to MP4
• Convert H264 to MP4
• Convert MOV to MP4
• Convert WMV to MP4
• Convert XVID to MP4
• Convert Theora to MP4
• Convert MKV to MP4
• Convert FLV to MP4

Convert to Ogg Theora Video

• Convert AVI to Ogg Theora
• Convert H264 to Ogg Theora
• Convert MOV to Ogg Theora
• Convert WMV to Ogg Theora
• Convert XVID to Ogg Theora
• Convert MP4 to Ogg Theora
• Convert MKV to Ogg Theora
• Convert FLV to Ogg Theora

Convert to WebM

• Convert AVI to WebM
• Convert H264 to WebM
• Convert MOV to WebM
• Convert WMV to WebM
• Convert XVID to WebM
• Convert Theora to WebM
• Convert MKV to WebM
• Convert FLV to WebM

Miro Video Player

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Miro is a beautiful, open-source music and video player. It is a free and open source software for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Features:

• Resume from Where You Stopped: Miro will remember where you stopped watching a video and will start at that point when you play it again.
• Play Almost Anything: Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.
• One After Another: Set your Miro preferences to either play videos one after another (in the order they appear) or to play a video then stop. If you have Miro set to play videos one after another, you can always right-click on an individual video and have it play then stop.
• Seamless BitTorrent: Miro can download individual BitTorrent files and torrents that are in feeds. When a video torrent is downloaded it will be in your channel and library ready to watch, just like any other video download.
• Video RSS: Video RSS feeds are at the core of our vision for internet TV. They provide a simple system that any publisher can use to distribute their content. Viewers can bring feeds from anywhere together into one place. Miro is compatible with more feeds than any other video app.
• Play in Separate Window: Miro now lets you watch any video in a separate window, so you can browse and download while you watch. You can play videos in a separate window individually or set a preference to always play videos in a separate window.
• Simple Disk Management: Simply tell Miro to reserve a certain amount of space on your hard drive and it will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit.
• Pause / Resume: Easily pause and resume any individual download, all downloads in one channel, or all Miro downloads.
• Mac, Windows, Linux: Miro works beautifully on all three major operating systems. We make this effort because a new model for internet television has to be accessible to everyone.
• Open Source: Miro is free, open-source software (licensed under the GPL). Anyone is free to change the source code, contribute bug fixes and features, and make new versions.

mHotspot

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mHotspot is a completely free software which converts your windows 7 & 8 laptop into a virtual wifi router and creates a secure wifi hotspot. You can share single internet connection(LAN, Ethernet, Data-Card, 3G/4G, Wif) for multiple devices like laptops, smartphones, android phones, PDAs, Ipads etc. Play Multiplayer gaming using mHotspot. No router or external hardware is required apart from your existing one.

Features :

• Connect upto 10 devices to the hotspot
• You can set your own hotspot name without any restrictions
• Application size is 400KB only
• Share any type of Internet Connection(LAN, Ethernet,3G/4G,Wifi etc)
• Android phones, ipads, PDAs, tablet-pcs and other devices can access
• See the details of the connected device(Name, Ip Address, Mac Address)
• See the network usage(Upload and Download Speed, Transfer Rates)
• Secures your wireless hotspot with WPA2 PSK password security
• Set max. number of devices that can be connected
• Extends your Wifi range(Acts as a repeater)
• In-app internet selection
• Works with Windows 7,8

Juice

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Juice is technically a "Media Aggregator," a program that allows you to select and download audio files from anywhere on the Internet to your desktop. Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your computer, so you don't have to spend a lot of time manually selecting and waiting for downloads. You can play your selected audio files using iTunes or other "jukebox" software, or load them on to your iPod or other portable digital media player to play anytime you want.

Why should I squeeze Juice?

• Juice is free
• Juice supports more than 15 languages
• Juice supports multiple media players
• Juice is free software licensed under the GPL (open source)
• Juice's primary purpose is to manage podcasts
• Juice has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds
• Juice has auto cleanup, authentication, centralized feed management and much more
• Juice is accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows version only)
• Juice is fresh!