AviTricks is a non-linear, non-destructive AVI video editor with real-time preview. It makes cutting and joining footage easy and includes a wide range of built-in adjustable effects that can be used separately or in combination. (Effects include dissolves, mirror image, sepia, iris effects, fades, TV-shop and many more.) Besides the preview screen, the video you are working on is also represented clearly and graphically on a timeline and a tree-structure. Both of these fields are active and easy to work.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

What's New:
· VirtualDub helps you get video into your computer.
· VirtualDub lets you clean up video on your computer.
· VirtualDub is fast.
· VirtualDub is cheap.

Ulead VideoStudio programis is an video editor for the PC. Built around an intuitive interface, VideoStudio helps you transform long, boring videotapes into great home movies.

You can add titles and rolling credits, transitions, narration, and background music. It offers expanded usability features, such as enhanced scene detection, plug and play conectivity, overlays, and more.

What's New:
· Full MPEG-4 support
· Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound
· Multiple Overlay Tracks
· Total High-Definition Solution
· InterVideo WinDVD Player included

AVS Video Tools (formerly AVS VideoConverter), also includes AVS Video ReMaker, AVS DVDtoGo, and AVS Capture Wizard. Convert, split, join, remove commercials, edit, rotate, add logo, cut scenes, apply effects, extract audio tracks and images, capture, transfer, copy, rip, and burn DVD and video files with AVS Video Tools. All key formats are supported: AVI (DivX, XviD), DV AVI, MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple iPod, Archos DVR, Creative Zen), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, DVD, VOB, VRO, MPEG 1,2, MPG, DAT, VCD, SVCD, ASF, MJPEG, H.263, H.264, Real Video (RM, RMVB), and DVR-MS. Direct transfer to iPod, PSP, mobiles and other portable players. Create and upload your video to wide range of mobile devices--portable players, including Sony PSP, Apple iPod, Archos DVR, Creative Zen Vision, mobile phones capable of video playback, and portable DVD players.

What's New:
· Up-to-date Formats Supported: .FLV, .MKV, .OGM
· Customizable DVD Menus
· Audio Tracks to .mp3 Files

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

- Record live audio.
- Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
- Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
- Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
- Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
- And more...

What's New:
· Usability improvements
· Major improvements to some built-in effects
· Improved Equalization effect
· Improved accessibility for the visually impaired
· and more...

Sound Forge® Audio Studio™ software is everything you need to produce professional-quality audio on your home computer — no more renting expensive studio time to get the results you want! Record just about anything, edit and restore audio, burn your own CDs, create streaming media, and convert files with lightning speed — all using drag-and-drop actions and simple commands such as cut, copy, and paste.

GoldWave is the most advanced and complete audio editor available in its price range. It includes all of the common audio editing commands and effects, plus powerful built-in tools such as a batch processor/converter, a CD reader, and audio restoration filters that cost extra in other similar programs. Comprehensive, easy to use, and efficiently engineered, GoldWave offers the best value in audio editing software. With over 10 years of development and widespread usage, it has an excellent and unmatched track record.

What's New:
· Adds a new waterfall visual, cue lines, time frame input, several fixes and other improvements.

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

What's New:
· Updated ffdshow to revision 885
· Updated DivX decoder to version 6.5.1.0
· Updated DivX encoder to version 6.5.0.53
· Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.7.62.21
· Updated DirectVobSub
· Added AC3File [version 0.3a]
· Minor changes

VLC media player 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.

What's New:
CDDA / VCDX plugins:
* Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)

DivX Pro for Windows includes the DivX Player and DivX 6.4 codec. The DivX Player plays all DivX and Xvid files that contain DivX (Xvid) video and MP3 audio (including DivX 3, 4, 5 and 6 video formats. Once you have installed the The DivX codec, you can view DivX media with any media player installed on your computer.

What's New:
Huge improvements in encoding performance, up to 350% depending on encoding profile and system configuration.

GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you won't have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you can't play a certain video format. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site.

What's New:
· addressed several incorrectly display texts
· no longer creates GomPlayer folder in My Documents by default
· file association for .mov, .mqv added
· better subtitle support for ASF files
· better deinterlacing
· supports .m2t
· fixed issues with .flv
· other minor problems...

As a reminder, PowerDVD is the best software application to use when watching DVDs on laptops. This new version brings exceptional video playback quality, provides greater control over the user experience, which includes a freestyle interface that offers five modes for disc controls, and much more. PowerDVD 7 will even determine how much of the movie you can see before your laptop runs out of power.

What's New:
· The following is a list of other great audio technologies supported by PowerDVD:
· DVD-Audio support
· Dolby Pro Logic IIx
· Digital Theater Surround 5.1 (DTS)
· Dolby Digital Technologies
· Dynamic Range Compression (Dolby Digital)
· Speaker System Support
· Audio Time Stretch
· 24/96 LPCM Direct Output
· LFE Mixer

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

What's new:
· NEW! Winamp Dashboard beta
· NEW! Winamp Remote beta
· NEW! Unicode filename and track support
· IMPROVED! Sync capabilities for your device
· SECURITY! Two vulnerabilities fixed!