Multimedia Applications
From IT Jalakam - Unofficial IT syllabus for grade 10 students
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Klite Megacodec Pack and Media Player Classic
Klite megacodec pack and Media Player classic are freeware, not open source. It can play many audio and video formats, including video DVD. It is available only for the Windows operating system.
MPlayer
Mplayer is an open source, free software media player available for Windows and Linux. It can play many audio and video formats, including video DVD. Along with the w32codec pack, it can play almost any video file, including real player format.
VLC Media Player
VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Sharp Zaurus, and is widely used with over 100 million downloads for version 0.8.6.VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.
iTunes
Whenever it comes to Managing Personal Media there comes nothing better than iTunes . it is the simplest and fastest way to add songs to Apple iPods . Also it is the gateway to the fantastic iTunes Store . You can download this Software from Apple's Website .The Genius feature, introduced in iTunes 8, automatically generates a playlist of songs from the user's library which are similar to the selected song. Genius playlists are created by the ratings system and collaborative filtering.
It Also Lets You listen to Internet Radio , Create or Listen to Podcast or Manage Applications on iPod.
Workshop : Making Ringtones from MP3 Sound Files
Many Of You wanted to make an mp3 ringtone for your mobile ? obviously those SMS services are not worth subscribing or downloading ring tones. but when we directly paste the mp3 file on the phone it plays from beginning . we need to chop the files smaller to only keep the time we want .
There are many software available but MP3 Cutter is a Free to use, Simple, and fast way to get the job done .
So lets Start making ringtones :
Step 1 : Download MP3 Cutter Plus From http://www.asoftwareplus.com/mp3-cutter-download.html
Step 2 : Follow the Installation and then you will see the icon on the desktop .
Step 3 : Click Open To Open the File
Step 4 : Click Play
Step 5 : Listen Until you want to start then click mark start
Step 6 : Listen Until you want to keep the file then click mark end
Step 7 : Click Save
Step 8 : Choose file name and Copy to phone
Step 9 : Enjoy!!
VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a free, open source software which can be used for cutting and encoding video files, besides joining, watermarking, dubbing and other things. It is available only for the Windows operating system.
Avidemux
Avidemux is a free, open source software which can be used for cutting and encoding video files, besides joining, watermarking, dubbing and other things. It is available for both Linux and Windows operating systems.
