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Ares P2P  is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. You may now easily publish your files through the Ares decentralized network. As a member of the virtual community, you can search and download just about any file shared by other users. With Ares you can also join chat rooms or host your channel and meet new friends.

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many video file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

CamStudio records activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files and can also convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) using its built-in SWF Producer

CDex This free software is a CD-Ripper, extractions digital audio from Audio CD. This application supports many audio formats like: MP2, MP3, VQF, ACC.

Codec Pack All in 1  6.03.0 This collection of software includes DivX 6.1.1 and all codecs that you need to see DivX movies: DivX, Xvid, AC3, ...

CoolPlayer This Audio Player is Freeware and supports many audio formats like MP1, MP2, MP3, M3U.  This audio player can by used to convert MP3 to WAV audio file format.

dBpowerAMP Music Converter  is a CD riper with some conversion capability supporting some audio format like: MP3, MP4, M4a, WMA, Ogg Vobis, ..

dBpowerAMP Audio Player is a free Audio Player supporting many audio format like:  MP3, MP4, M4a, WMA, Real Audio,  Ogg Vobis, MIDI, ... .

DC++ (dcplusplus) is an open source client for the Direct Connect network (P2P application). DC++ allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. The DC++ client use functionality like multi-hub connections, auto-connections and resuming of downloads and is free of advertisements. (emule).

Dr. DivX is an open source application which is portable and capable of transcoding as many video formats as possible to DivX. Dr. DivX is able to convert most input files formats like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, Fraps  to DivX. This video application has many features for converting and manipulating video files and  uses any available DivX encoder for encoding. When Dr. Divx is instaled many codecs are passed to Windows Media Player.

DVD Flick aims to be a tool to convert various PC video formats to a DVD that can be played on pretty much any standalone DVD player.

DVDx allows you to convert DVD to VCD2.0 or SCVD1.0 or DiVX (AVI) or Windows Media (WMV) in one step (including multiplexing, splitting). It produces very good quality movies in AVI / MPEG1 / MPEG2 / WMV9 format you don't need to have 5GB or more free on your conversion.

eMule - This free P2P application is used to download music, video, games, software application, documentation files, CD image files, DVD image files and a lot of files shared by other user on the web.

eMule is one of the best P2P application and one of most used for downloading and sharing any type of files or any type of CD or DVD image files (ISO, NRG, BIN, ...). This P2P client as some useful features like: corruption control, auto priorities, Boolean search, .... Bowlfish was the pioneer portuguese eMule MOD client that allowed the major portuguese ISP's clients to circunvent the download quotas imposed by such ISP.

This freeware is better then Limeware and is freeware.

If you are using eMule try to use one of this server IP address:

193.138.205.25; 85.17.52.92; 72.51.37.237; 72.51.37.109; 62.241.53.16; 72.51.37.107; 72.51.37.108; 62.241.53.2; 62.241.53.51; 81.84.97.64; 81.84.34.67; 66.199.250.170; 66.241.53.16

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FFDShow MPEG-4 is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD (MPEG-4), WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies.

Foobar2000 is and advanced audio player for Windows that suport many audio formats like : MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vobis, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, WMA, ...

GSpot This utility is used to identify codecs installed on Windows Media Player and the codec needed to play file in video format like: MPEG, AVI, ....

Kazaa  This P2P application is used to download music, video, application, documentation, CD image and a lot of files shared by other user on the web. This application needs some precaution to not download SPAM and advertising. You can clear all SPAM with Ad-Aware SE Personal (don not stop kazaa when running Ad-Aware). Alternately, kazaa-lite it's available, this version don't download SPAM and advertising.

MediaCoder is a free universal audio/video batch transcoder, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. This free software gives information about audio and video file like: Author, album, date, duration, Audio codec, video codec and supports many Video and Audio formats.

Pencil is a cross-platform open-source 2D animation software. Its first aim is to make traditional animations (cel, cartoons, etc). It features bitmap and vector drawing tools, layers, cameras. Animations made with Pencil can be exported as QuickTime or as Flash Movie or as a sequence of PNG images.

Traverso DAW (digital audio workstation) is an easy to use, open source multitrack audio recording and editing suite with a great user interface. By supplying many common tools in one package, you don't have to learn how to use lots of applications with different user interfaces.  This considerably lowers the learning curve, letting you get your audio processing work done faster! Traverso uses both the mouse and the keyboard together for precision and speed.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Winamp is a excellent audio player for files with audio and video format like : MP3, MPEG, WMV, AVI and other.

Xilisoft Video Converter is powerful, universal AVI MPEG video converter which can convert video file between all popular video formats such as converting WMV to AVI, WMV to MPEG, AVI to 3GP, converting H.264 video. It supports convert video files between DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, h264, MP4, ASF, etc. In addition, the Video Converter provides a powerful way to convert video files to popular audio files, including MP2, MP3, AC3, RA, M4A, OGG, AAC etc. It supports APE, CUE decoding and audio CD ripping. All conversion processes are very easy and fast with excellent quality.

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack for playing audio and video formats. Can be used with Windows Media Player in Windows XP.

YouTube Downloader It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube and many others and convert them to other video formats.

You Tube Video Catcher Application to download videos from YouTube and convert to other formats such as WMV, MPG, MP4, PSP, 3GP, 3G2, etc.