Shareware
Vista / Win7 / Win8 / WinNT / WinXP
Nero Burning ROM is probably the best all-in-one CDR / DVDR / Blu-ray application on the market.
Nero combines huge amounts of features in a compact and easy to use package. It handles disc duplicating and pre-mastering with ease, supported by a cover designer and even an audio file editor. The excellent GUI desing keeps all the functions handy and guarantees that simple tasks can be done quickly.
If you have to settle with just one CDR / DVDR / Blu-ray burning software, then Nero would be it.
Download plugins for Nero from Neroplugins.
In case you're not interested to download the full version of Nero, but just want to have some parts of the software, such as the burning part, you can download one of the unofficial Nero "mini builds":
Nero Micro
Nero Lite
If you have questions related to Nero, please visit our unofficial Nero support forums!
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The trial version of Nero requires a serial number to run. Click here to request a serial number.
Open source
Vista / Win2k / Win7 / WinXP
FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing several video formats, including DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies.
Filter also supports nowadays decoding of virtually all audio formats used in movies, including AC3, DTS, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, and several subtitle formats.
The codec also features postprocessing capabilities, support for virtually all MPEG-4 video formats, support for various processor enhancements (such as SSE and MMX), etc. FFDSHOW is released as an open source software under GPL license agreement.
To summarize its main idea, the FFDSHOW consumes way less CPU power than original DivX or XviD codecs, even with maximum post-processing. At the same time the post-processing seems to give excellent quality results and allows more configuring than the original DivX codec. It can even automaticly reduce post-processing if your CPU is getting overloaded. The noise filter adds a kind of a rasterising effect to the picture - might be useful in some cases.
FFDSHOW requires Microsoft Visual C++ to work.
Please note! Certain Antivirus applications may claim that FFDSHOW contains a trojan. However our own tests indicate that this is a False Positive
We also recommend that you read through our guide on how to install and configure FFDSHOW.
Open source
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.
Open source
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
Firefox is Mozilla''s next generation open source web browser.
Firefox''s features include a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, better security and privacy options, hassle-free download manager and much, much more.
Ad-supported
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
SUPER, Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. A GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.
If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.
SUPER supports a wide variety of input/source file format to play or encode (to & from) without any additional third party software:
Video format: 3gp/3g2 (Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson), asf, avi (DivX, H263, H263+, H264, Xvid, MPEG4, MSmpeg4, etc..), fli, flc, flv (Flash), mpg (MPEG-1 & MPEG-2), mov (H263, H263+, H264, MPEG4, etc..), mp4 (H263, H263+, H264, MPEG4), ogg, qt, rm, str (PlayStation), swf (Flash), viv, vob, wmv
Audio format: ac3, amr, mp2, mp3, mp4, ogg, ra, wma
AviSynth Script Files: avs. ALL Input/source files that fail to encode, will be encoded without error when using AviSynth scripts.
Please note! Program is nowadays adware and asks you to co-install an advertisement element when installing the software itself.
Adware
Vista / Win2k / Win7 / Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinXP
ImgBurn is a light-weight, free software that can write most types of CD / DVD images and supports all the latest writers (including booktype / bitsetting on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, Sony).
You can even use ImgBurn to erase / format your rewritable media!
With the release of ImgBurn v2.0.0.0, "Build" mode has been added allowing you to use ImgBurn to create ISO images from files on your hard drive, or burn them directly to a disc, making ImgBurn even more superb software.
ImgBurn will try its very best to burn your DVD-Video double layer images using the layer break you've specified in the IFO files, but it can also calculate the best place for you, to save you the trouble.
Advanced functionality can be found in context menus that appear when you right click on various bits of the user interface. Can you find them all??!!
Guides:
Ad-supported
Vista / Win10 / Win7 / Win8 / WinXP
Avast Free Antivirus is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home and non-commercial use.
Avast includes standard resident protection, P2P and IM shields, network shield (against worms etc.), guard against suspicious emails, web shield (http traffic monitoring), automatic updates, virus chest and virus cleaner.
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