Multimedia
After upgrading to VLC 1.0 on your home and office PCs, its now time to get the 20MB, no-install VLC Portable 1.0 on your thumb drive.
VLC Portable 1.0 is a carbon-copy of the original VLC 1.0. It has all the features you’ll find in VLC 1.0, moreover it respects your privacy as it leaves behind NO personal information on any Windows system.
The best advice if you have a big USB drive, is to carry along with you, your audio/video files together with VLC Portable, just in case the Windows PC you come across can’t read the audio/video formats you have in your external drive.
VLC Portable 1.0 like VLC 1.0 is a free app with the GNU/GPL license.
VLC Media Player Portable --version 1.0.0
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VLC, the best Linux media player leaves beta and goes 1.0 final. This open source media player that is capable of playing most of your media files out-of-the-box gets even better and reads more media files formats than before, the new comers are; Raw Dirac and M2TS.
New HD codecs are also included in this major release;AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0.
VLC 1.0 also has customizable toolbars, better integration in GTK, finer speed controls, AirTunes streaming — amongst many other new features that you’ll find on the VideoLan web site.
Download VLC Media Player 1.0 for all platforms – – Windows, Mac and Linux.
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For Windows/Mac/Linux: With the Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC you can now watch live streams from the Justin.tv on your XBMC Media Center.
Justin.tv is surely the largest online community to broadcast, watch and interact with live video.
Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC does not support video clips, for now. The author says he’s looking into it.
To manually install this plugin in your Ubuntu box, download and extract the Justin.tv directory into your ~/.xbmc/plugins/video/ directory. Run XBMC, hit Videos -> Video Plugins -> Justin.tv and start watching live video streams.
The author of this plugin also recommends the use of the SVN Repo Installer update feature for automated updates of this plugin.
Justin.tv Video Plugin for XBMC | Download
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On my Ubuntu box streaming Tv boils down to two applications/web applications, SopCast and Justin.tv. The first, Sopcast needs to be installed on your system, the latter Justin.tv, goes every where there is a browser with the Flash plugin, great. But Justin.tv goes even further, it now has DVR – Digital Video Recorder.
Justin.tv will present to viewers a bar under each video that reads “Continue watching this later…” A click on it is enough to start recording the given live video. Justin.Tv will like preserve it for you, so whenever you come back, you can pick it up from where you left it. More»
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The popular open source music player Songbird goes 1.2. The new version is said to include full integration with iTunes. The 2-way Sync with iTunes permits those who buy content from iTunes Music Store to export iTunes library tracks and playlists into Songbird and vice versa, that is, you can also export your Songbird tracks and playlists to iTunes, hence into your iPhone or iPod. More»
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