CalculusMAX

José Manuel Busto

CodecViewer

CodecViewer

YAAI

greek0

Yet Another Avi Info (YAAI)is an interesting application that finds all the information relating to videos with an AVI extension. Just select the file and the program will display all their data such as compression, bitrate, resolution, audio format, etc.. It also offers the option to edit the information that accompanies the video (author, title, comments, etc). Another bonus in YAAI is that it has a small tool for synchronizing videos that have had their sound removed. The program also requires no installation.

PS2Reality mediaplayer

N/A

The Codecs

Theorica Software

The Codecs is one of the most complete and functional audio and video codecs packets today, with which you can play practically any video format without any problems. The Codecs is especially designed for the format DivX, which monopolizes more and more every day the leading role in the field of video compression. This version of The Codecs includes: DivX, MPEG-4 Video, XviD, Ffdshow Filters, Intel I.263 Video Drive, and Huffyuv. The audio codecs included in this packet are: AC3Filter, MPEG Layer-3 Audio Codec, InterVideo Audio Decoder, Moonlight Odio Dekoda, Ogg Vorbis Filter, and MM Stream Switcher. Thanks to The Codecs you won't have issues watching any movie you want.

InstalledCodec

Nir Sofer

If you need to know which codecs are installed on your computer, there's a free program called InstalledCodec that can do the job for you. InstalledCodec doesn't need to be installed. You just execute it from any location and wait a few seconds for it to scan the system. When it's done, the interface shows an extensive list with all the codecs installed on your computer. The list also shows all the related information (type of codec, date of installation, if it's activated or not, version, developer, etc.). One of the few options you can change lets you choose which columns to show, so if there's something that you don't need to see, you can have InstalledCodec hide it from view. Another interesting feature of InstalledCodec is that it can generate reports in HTML format, to be viewed in your browser. You can also copy elements from the list and paste them on an Excel sheet to manage them more easily.

CodecInstaller

JockerSoft

Do you have problems for playing any video you have downloaded due to codec limitation? With CodecInstaller you'll solve this usual problem immediately, because it will detect codecs installed in your computer and those you need to play your multimedia files. It includes three main options easily accessible from the interface: installed codecs which will show you installed codecs. ’Analize video’ to guess the codec you need to play it, and 'install codecs' a link for downloading latest news from the Official website. If you have CodecInstaller in your computer, you have all you need to view your multimedia files.

Cole2k Media Standard

Cole2k Media

The Standard model of the Cole2k Media codecs package is designed to facilitate the process of playing the majority of the most popular video and audio formats. It's very easy to install these codecs on your computer--all you have to do is run the Cole2k installation and all the necessary files for playing multimedia files will automatically be installed. It is recommended to uninstall any other codecs package before installing the Cole2k package so as to avoid incompatibility issues or errors on your computer.

AC3Filter

Xvalex

For sure that you have downloaded an avi video which seems to be without sound. It’s usual that they seem to be like that, but the real reason is that they include the sound codified using AC3 compression and you don’t have the correct codec installed. This audio compression format is compatible with DolbySurround, Dolby ProLogic and Dolby ProLogic II and is more and more used. If you want to enjoy your videos with their sounds, install this codec and put no limits to your sound experience. This DirectShow filter for AC3 is totally free and distributed under GNU license.

Win7codecs

Shark007

When we install a new Operating System and we try to play our videos, we usually find that we can't play some video formats and the following step is installing a good pack of codecs. If you have installed Windows 7, Win7Codecs is a good choice if you want your system to support any kind of multimedia formats. Win7Codecs is a full-featured codec pack for Windows 7 that will enable your common multimedia player to play any video format. AMR, MPC, OFR, DIVX, MKA, APE, FLAC, EVO, FLV, M4B, MKV, OGG, OGV, OGM, RMVB or XVID will not be a problem anymore for your computer. It's very easy to install thanks to its wizard, so run the executable file and follow the easy steps given by the wizard and enjoy your videos with no problem on your new Windows 7 PC.

DivX Video Pro

DivX

Netflix

Netflix, Inc.

Netflix is the Netflix program for PC, through which you can access the vast catalog of the world's most famous on-demand video platform on your computer. If you have a Windows operating system, this app lets you access any movie or series through a perfectly adapted interface. Once you open Netflix, all you have to do is go to your profile, if you share the account with other users, to access the catalog contents. It is worth noting that this is an on-demand platform whose algorithm organizes movies and series according to your tastes, meaning that it won't take you very long to find something you want to watch. There is even the option to create lists where you can save the content that interests you most. Another noteworthy feature of Netflix is that you can change the language and subtitles of each content to suit your needs. Most of the content is released simultaneously in over 190 countries, so many movies and series have been dubbed in multiple languages. Downloading the Netflix app for Windows will make it easy to watch movies and series on your PC without resorting to the browser. This way, you can view your content in practically the same way as with the Android version.

Disney+

Disney

Disney+ is the official Disney streaming platform where you can watch a large part of its catalog, including movies, series, and even shorts. On Disney+, you'll find classic movies, like Beauty and the Beast, as well as totally exclusive content. For example, series like Ms. Marvel and Star Wars: The Mandalorian. Disney+ works similarly to other streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. The available content depends on your location, but you can choose whatever language you want for the audio and subtitles. You can also add favorites, follow a series, or add it to your list. In Disney+, you can watch your favorite series and movies by streaming them or downloading them if you want to watch them offline later on. If you have different tastes from other members of your family, don't worry. Disney+ lets you create up to four profiles so everyone can keep their preferences separate. For example, if you have young kids, you can create a profile for them that will recommend age-appropriate content. Disney+ is a high-quality platform with a wide-ranging catalog. Disney is currently one of the largest corporations in the world and owns many important licenses, such as Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, so this platform is an excellent way to access tons of popular franchises without any limits.

Movies & TV

Microsoft Corporation

Movies & TV is a digital video service developed by Microsoft that will allow you to buy or rent movies, series, and TV shows in HD. Your purchases will be available for watching on Windows, TV, and Xbox. If you are looking for a safe, reliable, and comfortable store, this option has a wide catalog of options full of great productions. The interface of Movies & TV is very simple. All its offer is divided into large categories that will allow you to easily find what you are looking for or explore among its wide range of products. Thus, in the first sections of the tool, you will have the latest releases, special offers, the options chosen for you, and special selections based on the theme. If you do not find anything that interests you or you are simply looking for a specific title, you can find it directly through its search engine. Movies & TV's product sheets are very complete. In them, you will be able to read the movie's synopsis and know its duration, cast of actors and actresses, director, studio, screenwriters, release date, and a long etcetera. You can find out about any aspect of the title you have chosen. On the other hand, the series, movie, or TV show you buy will remain in your account forever, while the rented ones will only be available for a few days. Finally, this tool has a special section for your own videos. In it, you can manage your own recordings and work with them in a comfortable and simple way. Create your own library easily and enjoy all the features Movies & TV has to offer.

Plotagon

Plotagon

Plotagon is a fun and creative tool to give free rein to your imagination, creating entire 3D movies with lots of characters and any setting you can think of. Absolutely everything about the film can be edited, modified, or started from scratch, so you can create your own short or feature film. You just need to follow a couple of easy steps. First, before you activate your profile, you can follow other users to keep track of their work. The community is so big that you could even consider Plotagon a huge social network focused on short movies and feature films. Once you start following the projects you're interested in, you can start focusing on your own projects. You have two ways of creating new movies: you can use default characters and settings, or create them one by one as needed. If you want custom elements you can create them from a model, to which you can add all kinds of details. To use them in any of your creations you just have to save them under a certain name in your gallery. Once you have your characters and settings ready, you have to set up their movements and dialogues. To do so you'll have a long list of actions and interactions for your characters to do at any time you want. When you finish your project you can publish it on any social network, and on Plotagon as well, adding any tags you deem appropriate. Your contacts on any social network can share their comments, as they would on a normal Facebook post. All the 3D movies you create are saved on your gallery, so you can use them at any time in the future.

Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll Inc.

Whether you like watching anime or just want to get started, Crunchyroll is the streaming service for you. Until now, finding anime with good image quality, dubbing, and subtitles was a difficult task, especially if you wanted a legal way to watch it. Crunchyroll offers all this and more. This streaming service has a large catalog, with well-known anime like Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia, as well as others that have just been released or classics such as Hunter x Hunter. In addition, Crunchyroll has added Drama to its catalog, which are series from Japan, South Korea, and other countries that feature real actors dealing with all kinds of problems. Best of all, this service is easy to use. When you open the app, you'll see a few different options: "Home," "New," "Anime," and "Drama." From "Home," you can access all the content you follow or have already watched, so you can see your viewing history. From "New," you'll be able to keep up with whatever anime is currently airing. There, you can also find a section with recently uploaded episodes. Finally, with "Anime" and "Drama," you can find the series you've been looking for. Crunchyroll currently offers a subscription service with several payment methods and a free trial. If you like watching anime, this streaming service is a must-have. Download it here now.

FineCam

FineShare Co., Ltd

Movavi Video Editor

MOVAVI

Movavi Video Editor is a tool to edit video that provides you with all the necessary options you need to get a professional final cut for all your videos. The program lets you save files in many different formats, including those that are compatible with mobile devices like tablets and smartphones which are not usually offered by other publishers. It also includes the option to burn your files directly onto a CD. You can also directly record video footage from your desktop, making captures of clips and using them to add to your compositions or simply to edit them roughly. Movavi Video Editor incorporates an application that will allow you to upload your final results to platforms like Youtube, Vimeo or Facebook.

Apple TV Preview

Apple Inc.

Apple TV Preview is the official Apple app for using the Apple TV streaming platform, where you can find original premium movies and series, as well as a catalog full of other popular content. Apple TV Preview for Windows lets you access your official Apple TV account, a subscription service for TV series and movies, both originals from Apple and other distributors. As well as this, Apple TV Preview also lets you rent recent movie releases that are exclusive to Apple, as well as sports, including some matches that can only be enjoyed on this platform. The Apple TV Preview interface is typical of this kind of platform: you can find the latest news on TV series and movies on the main screen. Naturally, Apple TV original series are given higher visibility and are featured when you open Apple TV Preview. You'll also be able to easily browse all its content thanks to the genre-divided categories. This way, you can find what appeals to you most in any given moment. When watching videos in Apple TV Preview, you can select whether you want dubbed audio or the original version instead. Apple TV Preview also lets you customize the subtitle size, color and background to make it more visually accessible. Enjoy your favorite series and movies on Apple TV Preview and download the app now.

FMovies

VideoDownloader

Paramount+

CBS Interactive, Inc.

Celtx

celtx

Celtx is a fundamental tool for audio-visual professionals that allows them to administer in an efficient way all the resources that take part in projects such as films, short-films or advertisements. With Celtx you can prepare the time plan for your audiovisual project. It has a calendar application where you can write the important dates for the development of the project. It also enables you to write the script through a complete text editor; to describe the scenes and the characters, their parts in the play, their outfits and make-up, or defining the places where the film will take place, etc. Another interesting characteristic of this application is the possibility to add multimedia files (like images, music and videos) to the different categories that will guide you when you want to record the different scenes. Celtx is a free tool, so you won´t have to pay to use it!

Movavi Video Suite

MOVAVI

Movavi VideoSuite is a pack of 6 multimedia tools that allow you to perform different actions on video files. Capture video from your webcam, convert formats and change resolution to allow videos to be supported by other devices. Copy DVD to HD, divide and merge videos, apply special effects, etc. You can do all this using Movavi Video Suite. This pack also includes a CD/DVD burning application, so when you'll finish your creation you can copy it without having to use any other programs. Finally, it also includes a stunning new application to create video greetings. Record a video and embed it into an email, send it to your friends and surprise them. You have more than 30 templates to use and decorate your greeting card.

LIONSGATE+

Starz Entertainment, LLC

LIONSGATE+, formerly known as Lionsgate+, is a video-on-demand service that allows you to view tons of audiovisual content directly from Windows on your PC. Thanks to this app's simple interface, it only takes a few moments to start watching exactly what you were looking for. On LIONSGATE+, you'll find lots of original and exclusive series that have been produced by this platform itself. From this section, you can watch all the episodes of Power Book III: Raising Kanan, The Girl From Plainville, and The Stand, among many other productions made for the small screen. By scrolling through the main menu of LIONSGATE+, you can also find other sections dedicated to successful movies and other more specific topics. It should be noted that every piece of content includes a file with interesting information, such as the technical and artistic teams, the synopsis, and the trailer. So, if you're not sure which series or feature film to watch, you can use this information to get a better idea of what you're looking at. Downloading LIONSGATE+ for Windows is a great way to access a large catalog of series and movies from this platform that's well-known all over the world. Best of all, it always offers the highest video and audio quality, so you can fully enjoy the content.

Maralix

Maralix

Maralix is, without a doubt, one of the best ways to watch your favorite movies, series, and anime online, at home, without having to download any files. With this application, you'll have an extensive catalog at your fingertips. The selection is so varied that you can find just about anything you're looking for, and always in the best quality. There are so many advantages to using Maralix that you'll never go back to downloading movies or looking for them on the Internet. This application has its own search feature that you can use to define basic search parameters and filter the catalog based on what you want to watch by searching movies, series, and anime all at once. In the main window and the search results, you will see the cover for each of the options and the year it came out. If you can't figure out which one is the movie you're looking for, you can read more information about it. Once you've selected a movie, you can see a synopsis, its duration, its IMDb score, and, most importantly, a tab with subtitles in which you can find practically any language, as well as a list of quality options. Pick the options you want and then push play. You can either watch the movie with the built-in Maralix player or from any of your installed applications that are able to open the file. It doesn't take too much time to load the first few minutes of the movie, so you can start watching in just a few seconds or skip to whichever minute you want. Download Maralix if you want to enjoy any movie, series, or anime without having to download any files or search for the right subtitles and episodes on various websites.

FileBot

Rednoah

FileBot is a program full of interesting features that's perfect for those who love TV series and anime. First off, it allows you to rename a large number of episodes that have been saved to your computer so that you can label them appropriately and find them much more easily. Also, you'll have direct access to the databases of websites like TVRage, AniDB, TV.com, IMDb, and The TVDB, from which you can copy the names of all the episodes of any TV show in just seconds. FileBot's most interesting function allows you easy access to OpenSubtitles, Subscene, Sublight, and SubtitleSource so that you can download subtitles in any language you choose. Another function lets you check the functionality of SFV files, which are normally used to secure large archives of compressed files. FileBot is an interesting program for anyone who watches a lot of TV shows on their computer, which, nowadays, includes the majority of us.

EMDB

Wicked & Wild Inc.

EMDB is an app that helps you organize your film collection. As with many other similar programs, EMDB doesn't require the user to enter information about a film, just enter the name of the film and EMDB collects the data from the Internet. The source of information used by the program is IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase or www.imdb.com). The data fields that EMDB can store are the following: title, alternative name, version, director, country, year, duration, genre, plot, actors' names, format, languages, resolution, source, etc. EMDB also retrieves and saves a thumbnail of the movie cover. Plus, this tool has been totally transformed in its latest versions and has a much more attractive design. You can choose between different looks (modern, dark or classic) and a much more user-friendly way to organize the options and menus available.

muvee Reveal

muvee Technologies

muvee autoProducer has reinvented itself and has released a simple and really effective video edition tool apt for all users. Its name: muvee Reveal. This new application respect one of the premises of muvee software: simplicity and step by step process. In fact you can have your own video production in 3 simple and easy steps: a) Choose the multimedia sources that will take part into the movie. b) Choose an style for the video and custom its behaviour. c) Choose the soundtrack for your own movie. The styles include in muvee Reveal are not more than ten but you can buy lots of them through internet. Choose the style you like the most: explode and pump it up, for frenetic videos; Life history, perfect for telling a familiar event; bands and impressions to apply soft transitions,... Finally, muvee Reveal allows you to add notes to photos, title and credits or even a off-voice to narrate a history. At the end, choose the output format and enjoy it in your favorite device: PSP, iPod, mobile phone, computer, DVD,...

Media Browser

MediaBrowser

Media Browser is a tool that comes highly recommend because it is very easy to use and has a visual interface that is a practical multimedia files manager. As a result, you can access your whole library from this program. This app covers a wide range of media, so you can control all your movies, series, music, books, photos and games from your central server. In addition, the biggest advantage of this service is that you can not only administer files saved on your hard drive, but also connect all the computers and portable devices on the network. This way you can open any file from the same computer without worrying about where is it stored locally. Media Browser turns your Windows Media Center into great software from which you can tag all your libraries in order to administer and better navigate them. All the files are always with you regardless of what devices they are found on.

Rename your TV Series

Tweaking4All

If you have hours and hours of TV series on your hard drive you'll know that organizing them can be an arduous and tedious task, especially when the files have different names and you have to find the titles for the episodes on your own. With Rename your TV Series this will no longer be a problem, as it lets you rename all your files at once. All you have to do is look for the title of the series in its ample database and you'll then find the corresponding list of episodes. Afterwards, you add the series’ files, either separately or in a folder, and the program sorts them by analyzing the file names, as the alphabetical order is not always effective if each file has a different nomenclature. You then select the episodes from the left column that correspond to the added files so that you can rename them all by just clicking on the right button. On preferences, you can choose the format you want the files to be saved in, or the database on which to search. Plus, it lets you export the list of episodes to a text file in case you want to have a list of all your episodes. A whole new way to efficiently organize yourself and to then just simply enjoy your series.