iuVCR is a Windows 2000/XP intended video recording program. Have a TV tuner or a video capture card installed on your Windows 2000 or XP system? Now you can easily record your favorite TV programs and videos in *.AVI or *.WMV format. iuVCR has got a simple and plain interface, allows to capture video of any format, resolution and duration, can automatically start when scheduled and has a number of other useful features.

Thanks to Edskes over at Betas Intercom.net for the heads up!

GetRight extends the ability of your web browser's built in downloading by supporting graceful error recovery, download resuming, and many other advanced downloading features. It is different than traditional FTP clients. It is designed to easily add onto your web browser to download files you find using the Web. It provides many features to automate and control your downloads, including scheduling them to start at a time, dialing your modem, hanging up the modem when the files are done, and much more.

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

Dan Elwell's Broadband Speed Test is a downloadable utility that can test your Broadband connection, identify any areas of concern, monitor performance over time and generate diagnostics you can use to send to your ISP. It's the ultimate connection monitoring and benchmarking tool, and is great for those who want to diagnose connection problems or are simply curious about their performance.

The Intel® Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.

The Codecs is the most completed, powerful and reliable compilation package of various audio and video codecs. It contains the best and newest codecs that are needed for playing most movies (Divx, VCD, SVCD etc.).

Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package. Works for every version of Windows XP installation, tested with SP2 build 2180. To avoid confusion, this is for pre-installation, not like XPlite which is post installation customizer.

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.

RivaTuner is powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA and ATI display adapters running under Windows 98/98 SE/ME/2000/XP. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of Detonator and Catalyst drivers.

Thanks to Unwinder for the Heads up!

RC15.2 development is finished, and internal beta testing has been started yesterday and it will take approximately one week. Launch is scheduled on Monday, the 4th of October.

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.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player just like you would an MP3 file.

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player from Real Networks. Supported are: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt) and ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

Plextor Europe is proud to announce a new release of the PlexTools software. You can use PlexTools for instance to get more information on your drive, tweak its settings and besides that you can use it to play audio discs (with support for CD-Text) and of course you can use PlexTools to copy CD's or to make your own audio compilations with.

The tuning and optimizing software for Windows® XP. Unlike other tuning utilities, Tweak®-XP Pro bundles more than 56 different utilities in one: all you need for Windows® XP.

DVD Audio Extractor is a powerful software DVD audio extracting / ripping tool. It can help you to extract sound tracks from your favorite DVDs and save them as OGG, MP3 or Wave files. DVD Audio Extractor can also demux audio streams directly to LPCM wav, mpg, ac3 or dts files.

A64CLK (AMD64 Clock Utility) is a simple utility designed for realtime CPU frequency monitoring and realtime adjustment of the CPU multiplier (FID) and voltage level (VID) of the upported CPUs via processor's power management model specific registers (MSRs). An AMD64 (AMD K8) family CPU supporting processor performance states transitions (known as AMD PowerNow!? or AMD Cool'n'Quiet? technology) is required. The presence of this feature is automatically detected at the program startup.

YMPEG is an award winning professional codec which can integrate itself with Windows and offers seamless encoding from your favorite application (VFW). This powerful and unique feature of YMPEG makes it possible to encode video from virtually any video applications like VirtualDub, Adobe Premiere, AE, Vegas, DVDx, K!TV etc. (using Windows Compression Manager).

Digit-Life reports we've decided to release RivaTuner 15.2 that is already at pre-release stage scheduled for release next week.

Note: I haven't been able to find a download link yet?

This tool suppose to apply every useful Windows XP memory/filesystem/connection tweaks depends on your current hardware and provide the maximum XP performance! it will also clean up temporary & prefetch directories, basicly i wrote it for Windows XP but its suppose to work under Windows NT/2000/2003 as well.