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Here I am writing a review for one of the best video converter software I have ever tried.

Look & Feel

The software has got very nice look and feel. the way they’ve worked on the buttons and other graphics are simply incredible. One look at the software and we are a fan of it. The Video Preview window, the button to start the conversion, the option for selecting the presets and the button for customizing the presets, etc everything is arranged very neatly and in a proper way. Overall its very easy on the eyes too.

Feature Sets

First of all I will have to write about the extensive file type support they are having. I would say they support almost all possible file types one person would ever use. AVI, MPEG-1,2, MP4, WMV, ASF, 3GP (3GPP), 3G2 (3GPP2), MOV (QT), MKV, FLV, DVD (VOB, IFO), MOD, DAT, M2T (MTS), VRO, HTML5 (WebM, OGV), MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, FLAC, Monkey’s Audio, etc to name a few.

It has lots of other feature sets such as capturing any frame, converting an entire dvd or a group of files, converting through command line, sharing online, uploading to psp, adding water mark to the videos etc. Along with these options this video converter do have all those options which are common to almost all the other converters. For example, cropping, increasing brightness etc.

There are lots of predefined presets for converting the videos. These number of presets are large enough to include almost all standard video resolutions, and almost all standard devices such as ipad, ipod touch, iphone, microsoft zune, all android devices, samsung, PSP, Nokia, BlackBerry, etc.

This application has one added advantage of making use of the graphics adapter of our system to speed up the whole conversion process. As of now this feature support only for nvidia powered systems. I hope they will add their support also to the other manufactures’ graphics adapters soon. For now I say I am quite more than just satisfied for these options.

There is also an option to add the converted videos or audios directly to the itunes library using this application.

Overall Verdict

The application developers have done a very good job in my opinion. They have created a masterpiece with almost all the options one could include in a video converter. For now they are providng this tool for free as a 30 day trial version. I hope you download this video converter and check it out.

The one thing that lacks in Linux when compared to windows is the media players. In windows we have lots and lots of choices for media player and that even with high quality. But in Linux the number is very less for a quality media player. But still there are options which are ok kind of. So here goes a list of some nice media players.

1. Amarok

Amarok is a great music player for Linux and Unix. Amarok’s interface is very intuitive. It’s a free music player for GNU/Linux and works with UNIX as well. Right now, Amarok is the most popular audio player for Linux.

Get it in ubuntu by typing – sudo apt-get install amarok

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2. XMMS

XMMS (X MultiMedia System) is a great multimedia player which works on almost all systems but it has some special items which only works inLinux. XMMS can play media files such as MP3, MOD’s, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. It’s a free software audio player very similar to Winamp,‭ ‬that runs on many Unix-like operatingsystems.

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3. RhythmBox

Rhythmbox is an great audio application for linux. It’s free of cost and it can play and organize digial music easily. It’s inspiration comes from Apple iTunes and it worked pretty amazing under the GNOME Desktop while using the GStreamer media framework.‭

Official Rythmbox Website
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4. Audacious

Audacious is a free media player for Linux or Linux based systems. Supporting immense portion of its features to plugins, including all codecs. With Audacious, On most systems, a useful set of plugins is installed by default, giving you the ability toplay MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files etc.

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5. Exaile

Exaile is a free software audio player for Unix-like operating systems that aims to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but based on the GTK+ toolkit instead of the Qt toolkit Amarok uses.

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Official Website

6. Banshee

Banshee is an free audio player for GNU/Linux operating systems which uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platforms to play, ‬encode,‭ ‬and decode Oggs,‭ ‬MP3s,‭ ‬and other formats.You can play and import audio CDs, play and synchronize music with iPods and share your music easily.‭ Banshee also have the capability of reporting played songs to a user’s Last.fm playlist.‭ Another cool feature of Banshee is that it can Rip CD’s, support podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, burn audio and MP3 cd’s and much more!

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7. Beep Media Player

BMP is also known as beep media player. BMP is a free audio player based on XMMS multimedia player (Mentioned above). It looks like Winamp and also supports it’s skins, including XMMS’s. BMP supports most of the audio formats that XMMS does, main difference is between plugins that these both players use.

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Guns N’ Roses song leaker sentenced and the probe is still continuing as this guy told from where he managed to get the songs before it is released.

Kevin Cogill, the man who pleaded guilty to leaking nine tracks from the then unreleased Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy,” was sentenced to 1 year probation and 2 months of home confinement.

Cogill is lucky not to be headed to jail. Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian recommended to the judge that Cogill spend some time behind bars, but the judge ignored it.

“I wanted to send a strong message to people who might consider committing these kinds of crimes in the future,”

Missakian said.

Cogill pleaded guilty for uploading the songs to his personal Web site before they went on sale. As part of Cogill’s sentence he must make a public service message for the Recording Industry Association of America. A spokesman for the RIAA declined to comment.

The case may not be over. What likely contributed to Cogill’s light sentence is that he has told authorities how he came into possession of the songs. Could other arrests be made?

“I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation,”

Missakian said.