Archive for: August 12, 2007

KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD DVD AVI MKV Ogg Theora OGM 3GP MPEG 1 2 4 WMV RealMedia and QuickTime among others It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio video and screenshots in many ways
The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters decoders audio video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system Internal filters are not registered to user 39 s system to keep it from being messed up with system filters

Supported Files or Devices
Incomplete Damaged AVI file Skip Damaged Frames
Locked Media Files while downloading or sharing with realtime index rebuilding under certain condition AVI downloading in consecutive order
HTTP Streaming ASF OGG MP3 AAC MPEG PS MPEG TS Only work with internal splitters
Directshow playback avi mkv mov mp4 ogg theora ogm rmvb mpeg1 2 http etc including almost every audio formats
Async File Source network filter for memory caching
Compressed Audio Album Support zip rar
Shoutcast Including NSV Icecast
DTS Wave and AC3 files AAC and OGG parser decoder Ape MPC Flac Module etc
Real Engine Directshow needs Real Player or Alternative or its decoders
Supprots surestreamed realmedia files with internal rm splitter not by external one
Almost all Real Media files are supported directshow
QuickTime Engine Directshow needs QuickTime player or Alternative or its decoders
The formats of tested MOV samples with mp4 mov internal splitter directshow MOV AVC1 AAC MOV CVID PCM MOV SVQ1 ARAW MOV SVQ3 QDM2 MOV SVQ3 ...

The Web offers many music-discovery engines, along with a lot of services that promise to help you find artists similar to the ones you like. Pandora, Last.fm, MusicMesh, and more all promise to help you expand your musical horizons. To add to the list, I recently discovered TuneGlue, a service that's powered by Last.fm's discovery engine. It's not only attractive but also has a surprisingly deep catalog of artists, their discographies, and their relationships to one another.

TuneGlue looks sparse when you first visit, but that's just because you haven't started using it yet. Type an artist or band name into the search bar and click the magnifying glass to bring up that artist's name. If you click on the name, a menu appears to either expand (which means display other artists similar to the one you typed in), list releases from that artist (which opens a window with the artist's discography and albums listed), lock its position in the diagram, or delete it from the list entirely.

I started off with one of my favorite bands, Everything But The Girl, whose sound I love but whose albums are very different from one another. I expanded the band out and found some similarities that I knew about and others that I didn't. The recommendation engine behind TuneGlue is the same one used at Last.fm, so I wasn't terribly surprised, but it was great to see the how the lines were drawn between artists. As you expand out multiple artists to see what other bands are similar to them, ...

WinBeta released nbsp an integrated version nbsp of Windows Vista SP1 This is the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Build 6001 16549