Video DownloadHelper 4.0.2

Thursday, January 22, 2009
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.

Long Description

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.

Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item

For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.

Since version 3.1, you can setup the extension to automatically convert the downloaded movies to your preferred video format.

When you are on a page containing links to images or movies, you can download some or all of them at once. Moving the mouse over the items in the menu will highlights the links directly in the page to make sure they are the ones you want to pick up.

DownloadHelper also allows you to download files one by one, so that you keep bandwidth to surf for other stuff to download.

To modify your preferences, like changing the download directory, right-click on the icon and choose "Preferences".

When you first install the extension, your browser is redirected to a welcome page with links to a user manual at http://www.downloadhelper.net/manual.php and a faq at http://www.downloadhelper.net/faq.php

This does not change your homepage setting and the welcome page won't appear anymore.

Support can be obtained from http://www.downloadhelper.net/support.php

Works with:

  • Firefox: 1.5 – 3.2a1pre
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FLV Extract

Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved as AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F) or raw elementary stream (H.264/AVC). The audio is saved as MP3, AAC (with ADTS headers), or WAV (PCM).

NOTE: If you simply want to convert FLV to AVI including audio, the FLV Input Plugin for VirtualDub (see below) is most likely a better choice. FLV Extract currently writes out separate video/audio files which you would have to join. Also, FLV Input Plugin is able to maintain synch in variable framerate videos by inserting drop frames. However, it doesn't yet support H.264 or AAC.

NOTE: The AVIs will not play unless you have the right decoders. ffdshow-tryouts can decode FLV1, VP6F, and H.264; make sure they're enabled in its configuration dialog.

NOTE: The extracted MP3s may appear to have an incorrect duration in your audio player. This is because FLV Extract doesn't generate a VBR header, but the files are perfectly valid nonetheless. To add a VBR header you can load an MP3 in foobar2000, right click on it, go to Utils, and click "Fix VBR MP3 Header".

Changes:

1.4.0 (2008-Nov-16):
  • Supports H.264/AVC, written as a raw elementary stream.
  • Supports AAC, written as .aac with ADTS headers.
  • Extracts VP6 alpha channel to a separate file.
  • Prompts before overwriting files.
1.3.0 (2008-Feb-26):
  • Added dialog that lists the status of all files, replaces the message box that was shown for each file.
  • Doesn't leave files open upon error.
  • Better handling of incomplete files.
  • Changed VP6 FourCC from FLV4 to VP6F.
  • A few fixes for rare files.
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K-Lite Codec Pack

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:
- It it always up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
- It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
- It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs.
- It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: Basic, Standard and Full.
K-Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie CDs.
K-Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
K-Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for the various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

Features of K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 FULL version :

Player :
- Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.1 rev. 85]
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema [version 1.2.972.0]
FFDShow :
- ffdshow [revision 2624]
- ffdshow VFW interface
- extra plugins
DirectShow video filters :
- XviD [version 1.2.0 build 2008-01-10]
- DivX [version 6.8.5]
- On2 VP6 [version 6.4.2.0]
- On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0]
- MPEG-2 (Cyberlink) [version 8.1.0.1608]
- MPEG-2 (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- MPEG-1 (MainConcept) [version 1.0.0.78]
DirectShow audio decoding filters:
- AC3/DTS/LPCM/MP1/MP2 (AC3Filter) [version 1.51a]
- Vorbis (CoreVorbis) [version 1.1.0.79]
- AAC (MONOGRAM) [version 0.9.5.0]
DirectShow audio parsers:
- MusePack (MONOGRAM) [version 0.9.1.2 | 0.3.1.2]
- WavPack (CoreWavPack) [version 1.1.1]
- FLAC (madFLAC) [version 1.8]
- Monkey's Audio (DCoder) [version 1.0]
- OptimFROG (RadLight) [version 1.0.0.1]
- DC-Bass Source [version 1.2.0]
- AC3/DTS Source (AC3File) [version 0.5b]
- AMR (MONOGRAM) [version 1.0.1.0]
DirectShow source filters:
- AVI splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.9]
- AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Matroska splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.3.0]
- Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Ogg splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.1]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
- CDXA Reader (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.2]
DirectShow subtitle filter:
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.39]
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.33]
Other filters:
- Haali Video Renderer [version 1.9.42.1]
VFW video codecs:
- XviD [version 1.2.0 build 2008-01-10]
- DivX [version 6.8.5]
- x264 [revision 1024]
- On2 VP6 [version 6.4.2.0]
- On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0]
- Intel Indeo 4 [version 4.51.16.2]
- Intel Indeo 5 [version 5.2562.15.54]
- Intel I.263 [version 2.55.1.16]
- huffyuv [version 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5]
- YV12 (Helix) [version 1.2]
ACM audio codecs:
- MP3 (Fraunhofer) [version 3.4.0.0]
- MP3 (LAME) [version 3.98.2]
- AC3ACM [version 1.4]
- Vorbis [version 0.0.3.6]
- DivX ;) Audio [version 4.2.0.0]
Tools:
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.2.9]
- GSpot Codec Information Appliance [version 2.70a]
- MediaInfo Lite [version 0.7.7.8]
- VobSubStrip [version 0.11]
- GraphStudio [0.2.9.0]
- Haali Muxer
- FourCC Changer
- Bitrate Calculator

Changes from K-Lite Codec Pack 4.4.5 FULL to K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 FULL :

- Updated Media Player Classic Homecinema to version 1.2.972.0
- Updated ffdshow to revision 2624
- Added option to use experimental MT version of ffdshow. That has better H.264 decoding performance on multi-core processors
- Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.9.42.1
- Updated Ogg splitter (Gabest) to version 1.2.972.0
- Updated MPEG splitter (Gabest) to version 1.2.972.0

Features of K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 STANDARD version :

Player :
- Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.1 rev. 85]
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema [version 1.2.972.0]
FFDShow :
- FFDShow [rev. 2624]
DirectShow video decoding filters :
- MPEG-2 (Cyberlink) [version 8.1.0.1608]
DirectShow source filters :
- AVI splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.9]
- AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
DirectShow subtitle filter :
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.39]
Other filters :
- Haali Video Renderer [version 1.9.42.1]
Tools :
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.2.9]
- MediaInfo Lite [version 0.7.7.8]
- VobSubStrip [version 0.11]

Changes from K-Lite Codec Pack 4.4.5 STANDARD to K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 :

- Updated Media Player Classic Homecinema to version 1.2.972.0
- Removed regular version of MPC
- Updated ffdshow to revision 2624
- Added madFLAC (version 1.8)
- Added CoreWavPack (version 1.1.1)
- Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.9.42.1
- Updated MPEG splitter (Gabest) to version 1.2.972.0
- Removed AVI splitter (Gabest)
- The "Auto-load VSFilter" setting for Haali Media Splitter is now enabled by default

Features of K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 BASIC version :

- ffdshow [revision 2624]
DirectShow source filters:
- AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
- Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
DirectShow subtitle filter:
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.39]
Tools:
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.2.9]

Changes from K-Lite Codec Pack 4.4.5 BASIC to K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 :

- Updated ffdshow to revision 2624
- Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.9.42.1
- The "Auto-load VSFilter" setting for Haali Media Splitter is now enabled by default

Important Note :

- The K-Lite Codec Pack works only on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.

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Smart Defrag 1.10

Smart Defrag
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