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Saturday, March 15, 2008

JPGVideo V1.04.0.0

JPGVideo creates a video file from a series of JPEG Files. These files can be from any source, as long as they are all the same size. The video can be created using any video codec installed on your machine.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Then copy all files (except unins000.exe and unins000.dat) to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch JPGVideo.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Slide Show Movie Maker V3.7

Slide Show Movie Maker creates an AVI video from a series of BMP or JPEG pictures. It supports fade-in and fade-out effects, text overlays and background music (WAV only).




Writes settings to: Both Windows registry and application folder. Only a small number of non-critical settings are written to the Windows registry. Other settings are written to Settings.ini in the application folder.

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SSMM.exe.

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Universal Viewer Free V3.1.0

Universal Viewer Free (formally ATViewer) is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. One nice feature is that it can open large text files very quickly without eating memory. One downside is that there is no editing of these files, but useful if you have to go through large log files.




Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: MS Internet Explorer 4.0 and above

How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package for the free version and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Viewer.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Tail for Windows V1.0.27

Tail (aka Tail Live) is a tool to view your logfiles, useful, e.g., to see what the update program is doing (WindowsUpdate.log). The program tail-live reads the last 2048 bytes from a log file and displays the last line first. After 10 seconds the screen refreshes.



Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: MSVBVM60.DLL

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch tail-live.exe

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

DAMN NFO Viewer Portable V2.10

DAMN NFO Viewer is an utility for viewing text files containing ASCII art (eg. NFO and DIZ files). The viewer displays graphical block characters correctly, and automatically detects and displays hyperlinks/email addresses as clickable links. DAMN NFO Viewer Portable is a portable wrapper that writes settings to the application folder instead of the Windows registry.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on DAMN NFO Viewer Portable.exe

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Large Text File Viewer V4.1

Large Text File Viewer is designed for viewing large text files. It uses little memory and is able to open very large files (> 1GB) instantly. Background file indexing makes browsing even faster. It also allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression.

The latest version with Unicode support only runs on WinNT and above, but an older version without Unicode support is also available for Win9x/Me.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on LTFViewr4u.exe.

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

STOIK Capturer V1.1

Stoik Capturer captures video from your DV camcorder directly to AVI or WMV. It is able to split capture file automatically by size. You can also output DV AVI to your DV camcorder with the help of this program.




Writes settings to: User profile folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a temporary folder. Install the MSI file in the archive to the default folder. Copy all files to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch StoikCap.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Free for personal use

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

WinDV V1.2.3

WinDV is a small utility for capturing videos from DV device (camcorder) into AVI-files and for recording AVI-files into DV device via FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface. Capturing is very reliable thanks to use of large buffer queue. Timestamps recorded on DV tape by camcorder can be used to automatically split captured video into multiple files. During transmitting to DV, several AVI-files can be joined together to form final video recording.




Writes settings to: Windows registry

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinDV.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Taksi V0.7.6

Taksi is a video/screen capture tool for 3D applications. It can capture from almost any DirectX, OpenGL or GDI window and capture an AVI video of the contents. Although it can use codecs to compress the results, this is not recommended as it causes more slowdown to an already taxing process. However, this also causes the resulting AVI to take up much more space, so it's a trade-off either way. Also, this application is still in development and some features are not yet implemented (such as recording audio).




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice (using the "MSI Administrative Installation" method). Delete the .msi file (name varies depending on version eg. taksi-0.7.6.msi) and TaksiLogo.jpg. LaunchTaksi.exe.

I also recommend turning video compression off for the best possible performance. Click on "Config", then the "Format" tab, then the "Video Codecs" button. Select "Full Frames (Uncompressed)" from the drop-down dialog, then click "OK". The program will warn you that this uses up a very large amount of diskspace: click "OK" and then Save).

License: Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Cam FTP V1.3

CamFTP takes regular snapshots from your webcam and uploads them to an FTP server of your choice. It supports JPEG compression to reduce snapshot file size. The snapshots can be labeled with a timestamp or some other user-defined text. There is also a surveillance mode which can be configured to perform an action (eg. play a sound, send email) when something changes in front of the webcam.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch camftp.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

Cam Studio V2.0

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create AVI video files, then convert them into streaming Flash video files (SWF) using its built-in SWF Producer. It also supports anti-aliased screen captions as well as audio and video annotations.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Copy all files (except uninstall.exe and uninstall.ini) to a folder of your choice, then uninstall the program. Launch Recorder.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

MediaInfo V0.7.6.0

MediaInfo provides a great deal of technical and tag information from audio/video files. It features many different layouts to display the information, as well as the ability to create custom layouts as well. Can be used to find missing codecs or just to get all the information you'd need from a multimedia file.




Writes settings to: Application folder

Dependencies: UNICOWS.DLL (Win98/ME only)

How to extract: Download the 7-Zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MediaInfo.exe. Select Options, Preferences, Setup, and uncheck Shell extension and Shell InfoTip.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

GSpot V2.70a

Simply drag-and-drop any AVI file to the GSpot window, and GSpot will determine which audio and video codecs are required to play the file, as well as whether these codecs are installed on your system.



Writes settings to: Windows registry. I am accepting it as portable on the assumption that it will only be used occasionally to troubleshoot codec problems, so portable settings is that important.

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on GSpot.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Riva FLV Encoder V2.0

Riva FLV Encoder converts your video files to the Flash Video format (FLV) using one of the existing presets or your own custom settings. It supports AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and WMV. It also comes bundled with the Riva FLV player for viewing FLV video directly.

The FLV video format is small and suitable for display in web pages using one of the existing free Flash Video players. Since Flash is cross-platform and is installed on most web browsers, there will be less system and codec incompatibility issues when viewing video in the FLV format.




Writes settings to: Windows registry

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Then copy all files (except unins000.exe and unins000.dat) to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch Riva FLV Encoder.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Stoik Video Converter V1.1

Stoik Video Converter converts from WMV to AVI, or vice versa. The user interface is a little different, so make sure you read the help file!

Note: Stoik Video Converter V2.x is no longer portable. As such, I will be sticking with V1.1 until a portable new version comes along.



Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch VideoPak.exe

Unicode support: No

License: Free for personal use

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

TMPGEnc V2.524

TMPGEnc converts AVI files to MPEG1, the format which is used in VCDs. It is probably one of the highest quality MPEG1 encoders around, and allows you to fine tune many encoding parameters, including bitrate, quantization matrix, GOP structure etc.

Note: TMPGEnc can also encode to MPEG2, but that is payware with a 30 day trial. It also displays in the splash screen on startup how many days you have left to test the MPEG2 functionality, but if you are not interested, you can always tick the checkbox "Don't show this screen on startup". MPEG1 encoding/decoding remains free after the trial period.

Due to licensing and patent issues, I don't think any freeware can legally offer MPEG encoding features without charge, unless the freeware author is a millionaire and pay for all the royalty charges himself!




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TMPGEnc.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

mp4UI V1.0RC2

mp4UI is a utility for viewing and creating MP4 files. MP4 files are ISO compliant MPEG-4 streams with AAC audio. You are able to edit file/track properties and metadata, as well as import/export individual audio/video tracks.




Writes settings to: Windows registry. But given the nature of the application, I think it can be accepted as portable.

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder C:\Program Files\mp4UI. Then copy all files (except Uninstaller.exe) into a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch the program by double-clicking on mp4UI.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

MP4Cam2AVI V2.38

MP4Cam2AVI is an MPEG4/MJPEG to AVI converter/joiner for MPEG4 digital cameras and camcorders. It makes MPEG4 video files created on most digital cameras playable with any DVD-MPEG4 player. Since MP4Cam2AVI does not recompress video, there is no generational quality loss. Audio can be copied directly or converted to MP3 or PCM.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Mp4Cam2AVI.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

PocketDivXEncoder V0.3.60

PocketDivXEncoder allows you to encode video clips with optimized parameters for handled devices (landscape mode, 240x320, low CPU usage, increased brightness etc). The converted video clips are directly playable on PMP devices (eg. Archos). On Pocket PCs, Palms or smart phones, they are playable using The Core Pocket Media Player.




Writes settings to: None. Note that registry entries are created/updated for various application settings, but the program always start with the default settings for some reason. So if you are concerned with "stealth" i.e. not leaving any trace on the host machine, this program may not be for you.

How to extract: Download the single EXE file to a folder of your choice. Rename PocketDivXEncoder_n.n.nn.exe (where n.n.nn is the version number) to PocketDivXEncoder.exe and launch.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

Any Video Converter V1.02

Any Video Converter is a video conversion tool designed to convert your files to formats playable on an iPod, PSP, or DVD. Though it is basically a front-end for MEncoder, it is far less robust than other front-ends. However, it is very useful if you're intending to make DVD's, iPod or PSP videos.

Note: The latest version of Any Video Converter writes settings to the registry. You can download that from the home page if you don't care about portable settings, or you can download V1.02 by clicking on the "Download" link for this entry. Thanks to Rykenden for sharing his copy.




Writes settings to: Application Folder

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} folder. Launch VideoConverter.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

MediaCoder V0.6.1

MediaCoder is a universal audio/video batch transcoder. It supports numerous audio and video formats directly, with no dependencies on any media players, codecs or components installed on the system. It also supports device-specific profiles (mobile phone, PDA, MP4 player, PSP, VCD/DVD player), and is able to extract audio tracks from video clips.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: You can make MediaCoder portable by following the instructions on this page.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista

SUPER V2007 Build 23

SUPER (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) is a tool for converting one multimedia format to another. It works even on IPod and mobile formats. It currently supports 3GP/3G2, ASF, AVI, FLI, FLC, FLV, MPG, MOV, MP4, OGG, QT, RM, STR, SWF, VIV, VOB, WMV, AC3, AAC, AMR, MP2, MP3, MP4, OGG, RA, WMA.

Note: The latest version V2008 Build 25 is no longer portable. Therefore, I can making the last portable version available for direct download until further notice.



Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Then copy all files (except Setup.exe and Setup.ini) to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch SUPER.exe.

Stealth: No

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

VideoCacheView V1.06

VideoCacheView automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all cached video files. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play FLV files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch VideoCacheView.exe.

Stealth: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista

Lister V0.71

Lister creates an XML file containing various attributes of your audio and video files, then generates an HTML listing using the XML file and a XSLT stylesheet (several samples are included). It currently understands MP3, MPEG, AVI, OGG, RealMedia, ASF, Windows Media, Twin-VQ and playlist files (eg. M3U, PLS, B4S). It may be a little technical for some, but the generated XML file could be manipulated in many ways, or imported into another application.




Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder. Launch Lister.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Fusion V1.7.2

Fusion is a small media player that plays DVD, DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, MP3, WMA, WAV or MID, with skin and visualization plugin support. It also supports recording of streaming content directly to the harddisk.



Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the no-setup ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. There are also a number of skins and plugins on the website that you can download and place in the plugins or skins subfolders. Launch Fusion.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP