HandBrake

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported Sources:
•Most common multimedia files that libavformat and libavcodec support.
•Any DVD or Bluray-like source which is NOT copy-protected. (removal of copy protection is not supported)
Outputs:
•File format: MP4(M4V) and MKV
•Video: H.264(x264), MPEG-4(ffmpeg), MPEG-2(ffmpeg), or Theora(libtheora)
•Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC (OS X Only), MP3, Flac, AC3, or Vorbis. AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC and MP3 pass-thru
Misc features:
•Chapter selection, Chapter Markers
•Subtitles
•Vobsub and Closed Captions
•SRT import and passthru
•SSA passthru or burn-in (experimental)
•Constant Quality or Average Bitrate Video Encoding
•Support for VFR, CFR and VFR
•Video and Filters: Deinterlacing, Decomb, Detelecine, Deblock, Grayscale Cropping and scaling
•Live Video Preivew
•Built-in presets for common devices

Credits 
HandBrake uses a lot of (L)GPL libraries from the Linux world:
liba52
9 libbzip2
10 libfaac
11 libfaad2
12 libavcodec
13 libfontconfig
14 libfreetype
15 liblame
16 libass
17 libbluray
18 libdca
19 libdvdnav
20 libdvdread
21 libiconv
22 libmkv
23 libogg
24 libsamplerate
25 libtheora
26 libvorbis
27 libxml2
28 libmp4v2
29 libmpeg2dec
30 libpthreadsw32
31 libx264
32 libzlib

Download HandBrake (32 bit) For Windows XP, Vista and 7
Download HandBrake (64 bit) For Windows XP, Vista and 7
Download HandBrake (intel 64 bit) For Mac OS X 10.6 / 10.7 / 10.8

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Keywords: Free Software, Download, Downloads, Video Encoder Software, Rip DVD, Video Ripping Software, Audio Encoder Software, Video Transcoder, Rip Bluray, Bluray Encoder, Bluray Transcoder.

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Subtitle Edit

Download Subtitle Edit 3.2.8  (Installer)(zip)
Download Subtitle Edit 3.2.8 (Portable)(zip)

Overview
Subtitle Edit is a free (open source) editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor

With SE you can easily adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video in several different ways.
You can also use SE for making new subtitles from scratch (do use the time-line/waveform/spectrogram) or translating subtitles.

Features
•Create/adjust/sync/translate subtitle lines
•Convert between SubRib, MicroDVD, Advanced Sub Station Alpha, Sub Station Alpha, D-Cinema, SAMI, youtube sbv, and many more (100+ different formats!)
•Cool audio visualizer control - can display wave form and/or spectrogram
•Video player uses DirectShow, VLC media player, or MPlayer
•Visually sync/adjust a subtitle (start/end position and speed)
•Auto Translation via Google translate
•Rip subtitles from a (decrypted) dvd
•Import and OCR VobSub sub/idx binary subtitles (can use Tesseract)
•Import and OCR Blu-ray .sup files (can use Tesseract - bd sup reading is based on Java code from BDSup2Sub by 0xdeadbeef)
•Can open subtitles embedded inside matroska files
•Can open subtitles (text, closed captions, vobsub) embedded inside mp4/mv4 files
•Can open/OCR XSub subtitles embedded inside divx/avi files
•Can read and write both UTF-8 and other unicode files and ANSI (support for all languages/encodings on the pc!)
•Sync: Show texts earlier/later + point synchronization + synchronization via other subtitle
•Merge/split subtitles
•Adjust display time
•Fix common errors wizard
•Spell checking via Open Office dictionaries/NHunspell (many dictionaries available)
•Remove text for hear impaired (HI)
•Renumbering
•Swedish to Danish translation built-in (via Multi Translator Online)
•Effects: Typewriter and karaoke
•History/undo manager (Undo=Ctrl+z, Redo=Ctrl+y)
•Compare subtitles
•Multiple search and replace
•Change casing using names dictionary
•Merge short lines/split long lines
•Export to PNG images (+bdn xml), Adobe Encore FAB image script, VobSub, Blu-ray sup, EBU stl, PAC, and plain text

Subtitle Edit is available in the following languages: 
•Arabic (thx Zakaria Farah Abu Wael)
•Basque (thx Xabier Aramendi)
•Brazilian Portuguese (thx Igor Rückert)
•Bulgarian (thx Ivo Ivanov)
•Chinese (Simplified) - Thx FeiXJ
•Czech (thx Trottel)
•Danish
•Dutch (thx minouhse)
•English
•Finnish (thx Veikko)
•French (thx Frederic)
•German (thx JW 301)
•Greek (thx Crazy Rabbit)
•Hungarian (thx zityisoft.fw.hu)
•Italian (thx Maff)
•Japanese (thx Nardog)
•Polish (thx admas)
•Portuguese (thx Ricardo Perdigão)
•Romanian (thx dr. Jackson)
•Serbian - both Cyrillic and Latin (thx Rancher)
•Spanish (thx m2s)
•Swedish (thx Ted)

Subtitle Edit can read, write, and convert between more than 100 subtitle formats, like:
•SubRip (*.srt)
•ABC iView
•Adobe Encore
•Advanced Sub Station Alpha
•AQTitle
•CapMaker Plus (*.cap, binary)
•Captionate
•Cavena890 (*.890, binary)
•Cheetah Caption (*.cap, binary)
•D-Cinema (Cinecanvas)
•Dvd Studio Pro
•Dvd Subtitle
•EBU Subtitling data exchange format (*.stl, binary)
•F4 (several variations)
•Flash xml
•Json (two variations, for use with JavaScript)
•MicroDvd
•MPlayer2
•OpenDvt
•PAC (*.pac, binary)
•Pinnacle Impression
•QuickTime Text
•RealTime Text
•Scenarist
•Sony DVD Architect
•Sub Station Alpha
•SubViewer 1.0
•SubViewer 2.0
•Sami (*.smi)
•Son (*.son, import only)
•Subtitle Editor Project
•Timed Text 1.0 (*.xml), also know as TTML
•Timed Text Draft (*.xml)
•TMPlayer
•TTXT
•TurboTitle
•Ulead Subtitle Format
•Ultech (*.cap, binary, only read)
•UTX
•WebVTT
•YouTube Annotations
•YouTube Sbv
•Zero G
•Xml
•Csv
•VobSub (*.sub/*.idx, binary - can also be read from Matroska/mp4 files)
•DVD Vob (*.vob, binary, read only)
•Blu-ray sup (*.sup, binary, can also be read from Matroska files)
•Bdn xml (*.xml + png images, read+write)
•+ several formats of unknown name

*Subtitle Edit can also convert subtitles via command line (text formats only)

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Keywords: Subtitles Tools, Subtitle Editor, Subtitle Software, Freeware Software, Free Software, Download, Downloads.

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Corel Completes Acquisition of Roxio® Business from Rovi Corporation

Ottawa, ON - February 7, 2012

Corel today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Roxio® business from Rovi Corporation. With this deal, Corel has expanded its product portfolio to include Roxio’s broad range of digital media and security solutions, including Roxio Creator®, the industry’s most popular digital media suite and Roxio® Toast®, the leading media conversion software on the Mac® platform. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

Corel now adds the Roxio product line, including the following well-known products, to its portfolio:

Roxio Creator® – Software to enhance, preserve, capture and share your digital media
Roxio® Toast® – The ultimate multi-media toolkit for your Mac
Roxio® Game Capture – Software and hardware solution to record your console gameplay
Roxio® Easy VHS to DVD – Convert analog video tapes to digital video for sharing on DVD, online and mobile devices
Roxio® CinePlayer® DVD Decoder – Watch your favorite DVDs on Windows Media Player
Roxio® BackOnTrack™ Suite – Complete media protection solution that automatically keeps your memories safe and protects your PC from both hardware and software disasters
Roxio® Secure Products – Powerful encryption for optical media and USB flash drives
“We want Roxio’s customers and partners to know that these products are an important addition to our portfolio and they will have a great home with Corel,” said Shawn Cadeau, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing at Corel. “We look forward to bringing together the best of what Corel and Roxio have to offer as we work to deliver even richer, more rewarding experiences to our customers.”

With this acquisition, Corel will take advantage of its well-established global infrastructure to dramatically broaden distribution of Roxio products into new international markets. In addition, the company will draw upon the complementary video, photo, audio, and disc burning technologies found in both Roxio and Corel software to give users even more capabilities and further enhance Corel’s overall product portfolio. Corel also sees significant opportunities in combining the strengths of Corel’s and Roxio’s established retail and direct sales channels and large customer bases.

In a separate news release today, Corel also announced the introduction of its first Roxio product, Roxio® VHS to DVD 3 Plus. Today many customers have precious memories recorded on old tapes that are degrading over time and the devices to play them may eventually disappear. Roxio Easy VHS to DVD 3 Plus makes it easy to transfer your VHS, Hi8 and V8 videos tapes to digital video formats and save them to DVD. New easy-to-use features make your videos look great and also offer sharing to YouTube™, Facebook® and mobile devices like iPhone®. See the full news release at: www.corel.com/newsroom.

For more information on Corel, please visit www.corel.com. For more details on the Roxio product line, please visit www.roxio.com.

About Corel
Corel is one of the world’s top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries. We develop software that helps people express their ideas and share their stories in more exciting, creative and persuasive ways. Through the years, we've built a reputation for delivering innovative, trusted products that are easy to learn and use, helping people achieve new levels of productivity. The industry has responded with hundreds of awards for software innovation, design and value.

In February 2012, Corel acquired Roxio’s broad range of digital media and security solutions, expanding its product portfolio with new products including the industry’s most popular digital media suite and the leading media conversion software on the Mac platform.

Our award winning product portfolio includes some of the world’s most widely recognized and popular software brands, including CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel® Painter™, Corel® PaintShop™ Pro, Corel® VideoStudio®, Corel® WinDVD®, Corel® WordPerfect® Office, WinZip®, Roxio Creator® and Roxio® Toast®.

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