Daminion: Powerful Multi-User Media Management Software For Small Teams

Backed by powerful search capabilities and intuitive cataloging features, Daminion is a multi-user media management solution for people working together on collective data. Daminion takes a fresh approach to handle and organize 3 most commonly used multimedia file types, including, image, video and audio. The concept is to ensure that each supported item on your PC is secured, tagged, and available from within a unified interface. The application has been written to solve both generic and complex item cataloging issues, such as, untagged items, inefficient search and filter features, tag synchronization across all like items and so on. Daminion lays a staunch foundation for users to seamlessly organize their multimedia files without having to manually manage their files, filter media file types, input meta tags, rate files, etc. Read More

Create Array Of Videos (Video Grid) In Mac With ArrayShaker

ArrayShaker is a video grid creator for Mac OS X, designed specifically to create array of any QuickTime supported videos without requiring any extra hardware/GPU upgrades. The application is completely software-specific and has the ability to quickly transform your video into array grids with defined number of rows and columns. For those who aren’t familiar with video array tool, it allows you to watch videos on large display monitors, projection TVs, multi-screen monitor, plasma HDTVs, and so on. Using a video grid creator, you can easily transform video/animation based presentation into multi-screen presentation to show each part of presentation separately on the screen. Array Shaker lets you select video array dimensions, i.e number of columns and rows, output size, codec, quality, and audio specific options. Read More

Enable Google Talk Voice And Video Chat On Motorola Photon 4G [Guide]

Motorola Photon 4G is a high-tier Android phone that was able to score a huge fan base right after developers were able to achieve root and a custom recovery. It was, however, ironical that Google Talk version that came pre-installed on Photon 4G didn’t have video and voice chat support. Ballerx43, Senior XDA member, after spending a whole lot of time with Atrix 4G Dev community finally figured out the method to enable voice and video chat on Google Talk installed on Motorola Photon 4G. The method, for now, isn’t an easy single click one and requires the user to have ample command over ADB etc. Read More

Fix Low FPS Video Recording On Droid 3 In Low Light Conditions [Guide]

The recent Motorola Droid 3 system update was the best cure for blue tint while recording videos on the phone. However, as a “fee” for removing the tint, Motorola restricted video capture / recording capability for Motorola Droid 3 to 12 FPS in environments with low light. This means that if you were to record a party, you’ll probably end up with jittering video and low quality output. The Android development community realized this glitch and Senior XDA Member, Rotkaeqpchen, came out with a fix that restores fast FPS video capture of Droid 3 in low light conditions. The workaround discovered by above mentioned XDA member [Yes, the nick name is really hard to pronounce and spell twice] is basically a method to restore FPS settings back to what they were before you updated with phone. Read More

Restore 30 FPS Video Recording On Infuse 4G Running Gingerbread ROM [Guide]

In case you own an Infuse 4G and run a custom Gingerbread ROM, then you might have felt jittery video recording via phone’s camera. There’s nothing wrong with your hardware and its all due to FPS limitation that your videos turn up like this. Apparently Infuse 4G has a massive underground development community support at XDA and other Android forums / portals. EricNagel via Jep56, senior XDA member, has found a workaround to let your Infuse 4G capture video at 30 FPS. For those who don’t know, FPS stands for Frames Per Second and is generally associated with a video playback and capturing. More the FPS your phone’s camera has, better are chances that your video will be less jittery and good quality.

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Collect & Embed Videos From 6 Popular Sites Into One Player With Yokto

There are multiple video sharing sites that let you upload and share just about any kind of video content but when you’re more interested in sharing videos already available online but on different sites, you end up sharing several links. Yokto is a web service that allows you to create a video playlist or channel by adding videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion, Brightcove, UStream and slideshows from Slide Share. The service generates an embed code that allows you to share the video on your website, viewers can see a complete list of videos that you’ve added and view them all in a single player. Read More

MediaTab Adds Advanced Audio/Video Information Tab In File Properties

MediaTab uses MediaInfo libraries to analyze media files and extract audio/video related information. Unlike MediaInfo, which shows multimedia information in a separate window, it integrates with Windows Explorer file Properties dialog box so you can quickly view detailed information of media file in question. The application doesn’t offer a separate interface to browse media files; once installed, right-click the media file, select Properties, and switch to newly added MediaTab tab to view video and audio codecs information, default aspect ratio for video files, video resolution, bitrate, meta tag information, encoded information and lot more. Read More

Sleep Timer For Android – Set Play, Pause & Stop Timers For Multimedia

Sleep Timer is a handy little app for Android that can be utilized for automating the most commonly used controls of your multimedia application such as play, pause, next and previous through a timer mechanism. With Sleep Timer, you do not have to worry about switching off or controlling your multimedia applications manually. The app has an integrated support for Google Music and all the other multimedia applications that are installed on your Android device and has the capacity to control them with utmost ease. You can add as many multimedia applications to Sleep Timer's ‘App List’ as you want, set the timer duration for each application and specify the actions that must be performed once the timer reaches its end. Read More

Create Stop Motion Videos Using Your Webcam Or Photos With JellyCam

Whether you want to record the passing days of your first born or your depreciating car, scrapbooks or baby books are no longer the answer. It is an established fact that the only way to document anything is to do it online. Lets not forget the guy who took a picture of himself everyday for 6 years and then uploaded it on YouTube. Whether you want to create a similar memory or just want to have a little crazy video making fun, JellyCam is a web app that makes it possible, not because it’s free, but also because it’s very easy to use. Read More

DocsPal Is Online Audio, Video, Image And Document Format Converter

File format converters aren’t hard to find, whether you want to convert images, documents or media files, you’ll find a long list of free online converters and DocsPal is one such online format converter. So if the internet is already fraught with file converters, what makes DocsPal stand out from all the others? The fact that it isn’t specifically for any one kind of file; it can convert Documents, video, audio, image, ebooks, and archive file formats. On the whole, it can convert 60 different file formats. The interface isn’t something you’ll fall in love with but it gets the job done. Read More

Turn Your Family Vacation Photos Into HD Video Slideshows

Foto2AVI is a free tool to help you create video slideshows from unlimited number of photos. The converted pictures can be customized with available effects, subtitles, transitions, animations, and more. Foto2AVI supports external audio tracks for creating video slideshows with complimentary audio to add vigor to your sideshows.  Although the application's name is Foto2AVI, however, other than AVI,  the supported video formats (for creating video sideshows) also include, MKV, MP4, MPEG and FLV. Support for Dolby Surround Sound 5.1 is also available, as well as integrated audio editing. Foto2AVI also has option to create video slideshows in HD formats. Read More

Cantio – Stream Music From YouTube In A Grooveshark Like Interface

YouTube is hands down the most popular video streaming site there is but it isn’t exactly your go-to spot for listening to music since the site has videos related to just about everything from laughing babies to cruel pranks. With so much video content variety, it’s often hard to find the right song; Cantio is a simple web service that drowns out the non-music noise from YouTube by letting you search exclusively for music from its interface. You can watch the video or just listen to the audio song. The service lets you create playlists, add track favorites and has a radio mode that finds songs of similar genre to the one you’re currently listening to. Read More

Multithreaded TEncoder Video Encoder Can Hardcode Subtitles Into Video Files

Do you use Handbrake, Format Factory, or other like tools and feel intimated by the options and audio/video parameters they offer to convert videos between different formats? You can try TEncoder for your routine video encoding needs. It’s an open source video encoder that supports multi-thread technology to make multiple video conversion process not only fast but seamless as well. It has the capability of converting video between 9 different formats, including, Xvid, FLV, H264, WMV, MP4, MPEG 2, etc. Unlike many other video encoders, it uses FFMpeg and Mencoder codecs to convert videos without erupting any major conflict while converting the video formats. TEncoder comes useful for those movie junkies who love to pack ripped movies with their subtitles into single video file. If you’re among heavy video encoders, TEncoder provides you with a facility to run 8 separate encoders to convert vides in relatively less time. Read More

Create Chapters For MKV Video Files With MKV Chapterizer

I always prefer breaking movies and TV series in chapters as I find it convenient for switching between multiple segments of the movie or TV show in case I am unable to watch the complete video in a single go. Chapters also help revisit old segments of a video for connecting pieces in a mystery photoplay and for re visiting some memorable scenes. MKV Chapterizer is a simple application which allows you to add chapters to an MKV video. Since MKV is fast replacing other formats such as WMV and AVI as the preferred viewing format, therefore, this software can be handy for a large number of users who might wish to create chapters for their MKV video files. MKV files are also lightweight and high quality, therefore, MKV Chapterizer takes just a few minutes to create the chapters. Read More

Chronolapse Creates Time Lapse Video Of Your Desktop / Webcam Captures

ChronoLapse is an open source app for creating time lapses and stop motions. It is a must-have tool for users who love creating time lapse videos using either screenshots or webcam captures (or both). The application, besides having the ability to create time lapse videos of screenshots and webcam captured images, offers plentiful of features which includes, schedule time lapse job, adjust, resize, rotate saved images, annotate saved images and videos, picture-in-picture composition, encode photosets into videos, and dub audio over video files. Read More

QVIVO Media Center Automatically Organizes Your Media Collection

QVIVO is a new media center application that organizes all your media collection into beautiful libraries. The developers like to call it a social media center app. Apart from having aesthetically pleasing user interface, it gives one stop solution for managing media files of almost all types of widely popular formats. It is developed for organizing moves, music, T.V shows, and for streaming online channels with an ability to observe user-specified location(s) to automatically sync the movies, music, and T.V shows list. Leaving further details aside, suffice it to say that QVIVO is out to revolutionize yours media management experience. Read More

VideoSpec Extracts Media File Info, Checks Compatibility With iDevices

We all come across situations where we need to check whether the video file will run without any issues on our iDevice or not. In such situations, we, usually, pick a converter to change the video format in order to make it compatible with our iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. We also have a handful of videos lying around which lags on installed media players due to some inexplicable reasons. To deal with these kind of issues, VideoSpec offers a simple solution. It checks a video file compatibility with range of iDevices while telling you which media player(s) should be used to watch the video in question. It is somewhat quite similar to previously covered MediaInfo for Windows in terms of analyzing media file to extract audio and video specific information. Additionally, it has an ability to invoke default media player to watch the video on the fly while letting you evaluate the extracted information. It analyzes the selected media file to give users a detailed insight about encoding profile, resolution, audio channel, audio format, video aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio, FPS, bitrate, container and so on. Read More

How To Set a Video as Live Wallpaper on any Android Device

Video Live Wallpaper does what its name suggests – it allows you to set any video or even a bunch of videos as your Android Live Wallpaper in a way that doesn’t get any simpler. You can use videos that you recorded yourself or any videos you have downloaded, and it works smooth as silk and the best part is that it’s free! Read on for more details and download link. Read More

DVDVideoSoft FreeStudio Is Complete All-In-One Multimedia Converter And Burner

DVDVideoSoft FreeStudio packages more than 40 programs for converting and burning into one eye-candy application. You can convert YouTube videos to MP3, Audio CD to MP3, WAV, APE, and FLAC format, Video to Mp3, Flash, DVD, MKV, AVI, and MP4 format. Despite having a slew of conversion tools, it lets you burn CD/DVD and Blu-Ray discs on the fly. It offers plentiful of disc authoring tools to burn videos, DVD files, audio tracks, and to create Audio CDs from MP3 files. Features list doesn’t end here, image manipulation tools have also been included to convert and resize images, convert video files into pack of JPGs while both 3D photo and video maker are also available. It supports all Apple Devices, allowing you to convert audio and video files into supported formats for Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Apart from supporting all the formats, it has an ability to convert audio and video files into famous portable devices, gaming consoles, and other smart phone formats, including, Andriod, Blackberry, HTC phones, Motorola, Nokia, Xbox, Nintendo, and PSP. Read More