VideoLAN main goals is MPEG streaming on a network, but it also features a standalone multimedia player. The VideoLAN Server can stream video read from a hard disk, a DVD player, a satellite card or an MPEG 2 compression card, and unicast or multicast it on a network.

A collection of codecs for playing DivX movies. All you need to see DivX movies: DivX, XviD, AC3...

AutoGK comes with almost all that you'll need to create excellent quality backups of your DVDs.

This program puts the VOB files onto your hard drive, and in the process breaks the encryption and Macrovision protection which DVDs have, and which is illegal in many countries. You'll have to get it and install it yourself.

Nero CD-DVD Speed 3.00 has been released! CD-DVD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD- and/or DVD-ROM drive. It performs Transfer Rate Test, Random, 1/3 and full seek test, CPU utilization test, Burst rate test, DAE quality, spinup/spindown time, ect.

New features include: Disc Quality test (PI/PO/Jitter - C1/C2), DVD Overburning test, improved Disc Info feature, support for external drives on systems without ASPI, minor improvements and bugfixes.

FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.

Download: VideoLAN Client for Windows 0.7.2 test 3

SavageNews reports that Hardware Sensors Monitor has been updated to version 4.1.4.2. Hmonitor has much more functions than MotherBoard Monitor, for example, including thermocontrol features and COM/PerfMon API support

Thanks to our bro over at BenchmarkHQ for the heads up!

VIA has released the VIA AES Benchmark tool. This is a synthetic AES (short for Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption benchmark for calculating AES encryption speeds through software as well as hardware, although it has to be noted that only computers equipped with a VIA processor based on the C5P core, will be able to utilize the Hardware Encryption benchmark testing. You will need to be running Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP

It is a DirectShow AC3 Decoder filter used to playback AVI files with AC3 sound tracks and DVDs. Features Multichannel and S/PDIF support. Focused at flexible controls during playback: gains, mixer, stream information, levels and other.

Download AC3Filter 1.01a RC1

AutoPatcher XP is an installation package designed to get your Windows XP system up to date quick and easily. This update package features a slick looking GUI and and can be customized to install as much or as little as you please!

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and decode (play) audio and video. There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: The basic version, who fits on a single floppy disk, contains only the most essential codecs and related tools. The standard version contains everything what is needed to play all the commonly used formats. The full version contains even more codecs and also has encoding support.

Turns your Mac into an anytime, anywhere recording studio packed with hundreds of instruments and a recording engineer or two for good measure. It?s the easiest way to create, perform and record your own music whether you?re an accomplished player or just wish you were a rock star. And GarageBand is the newest member of the iLife family, so you can add your original music to your slideshows, your DVD menus, burn it to CDs or score your iMovie projects.

MemTest86+ 1.15 has been released! New in this version: Bit Fade Test, support for A64 'NewCastle' core, support for Athlon 64 on Socket 939, support for Celeron Prescott, support for Pentium M with E75xx, bugfixes, etc.

Many OpenGL extensions, as well as extensions to related APIs like GLU, GLX, and WGL, have been defined by vendors and groups of vendors.The extension registry is maintained by SGI and contains specifications for all known extensions, written as modifications to the appropriate specification documents.

ICQ Lite is pure messaging: It includes only the most popular features of ICQ, such as instant messaging, file transfer, SMS and meeting people, for super-quick communication. Because it's so small and has everything good about the full-featured ICQ made easy, it's the perfect version to send to your friends and get them on ICQ. It is a new experimental version of the ICQ software.

The Core Media Player (TCMP) is the successor to the popular PowerDivX NextGen multimedia player. The Core Media Player is a complete multimedia player that is capable of playing virtually every multi-media audio and video format under the sun.

XviD-1.0 got final! The XviD team is very pleased to have a stable, fast and high quality codec out now. Development is going on of course, new features will be available in the 1.1-tree soon XviD is a codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded with XviD. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link.

One click DVD backup tool that uses CinemaCraft Encoder Basic/SP or QuEnc(ffmpeg) encoder or ReJig transcoder engine. This tool helps you to do a full dvd backup(movie, extras, menus) of your DVD9s to one DVDR using one of the best video encoder available, CinemaCraft Encoder.

SpeedswitchXP is a small applet that sits in the system tray and allows dynamic switching of the frequencies of mobile Intel and mobile AMD CPUs under Windows XP. During the development of Windows XP, Microsoft decided to integrate dynamic frequency switching into the operating system itself. On a default Windows XP installation, the power schemes in the power settings of the system panel control the frequencies of the processor. On Windows 2000 and previous operating systems, it was possible to manually control the CPU frequencies with a SpeedStep applet provided by Intel, but this is not possible anymore under Windows XP.

ChrisTV Professional - best program for viewing TV on your PC - developed by Chris P.C. srl for TV Tuners with WDM Drivers installed. Supports all TV Cards based on BT8x8 chipset, Philips SAA713x chipset,Conexant CX2388x. Great Image quality and very easy to use.