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MediaInfo

Submitted by millarrp on August 2, 2007 - 1:37am

I came across this open source app that can pull media information from media files. It appears to handle both audio & video. I've copy from their website some of the information that it gets from files, and some of the media files the app supports:

What information can I get from MediaInfo?

* General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
* Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
* Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
* Text: language of subtitle
* Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters

7-Zip 4.51

Submitted by zikarus on August 1, 2007 - 2:14pm

I know that John - usually - does no beta versions.

BUT this one may be worth an exception since

a) 7-Zip v.4.42 is quite old meanwhile and
b) the actual 4.51 beta is not a "real" beta but an advanced version close to final (it runs veeery stable like all its predecessors and does - besides some new functions - contain lots of bugfixes over v.4.42)

Maybe worth the hassle of some pre-release Beta testing since it should be easy to update...

DOSBox

Submitted by millarrp on August 1, 2007 - 1:53pm

I was looking through the portable freeware website, and I saw this open source project that might make an interesting addition to the operating systems list.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

It's a DOS emulator. Based on the discription, it not only creates a dos session, but emulates an older PC. I guess the idea is to allow older dos programs to run in an environment that they're origionally designed for.

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