VideoLAN or VLC - Free multimedia solutions

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

VideoLAN or VLC - Free multimedia solutions

Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

More Features

• Simple, fast and powerful media player.
• Plays Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
• Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix
• Can do Media Convertion and Streaming.

Juice - Web Podcasts Receiver

Juice - Web Podcasts Receiver

Juice lets users select and download shows and music and play whenever they want on their iPods, portable digital media players, or computers automatically.

Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your computer, so you don't have to spend a lot of time manually selecting and waiting for downloads. You can play your selected audio files using iTunes or other "jukebox" software, or load them on to your iPod or other portable digital media player to play anytime you want.

Juice runs on the Mac, Windows, and Linux.

PodNova - the best way to find, subscribe to and share your entertainment. Listen to audio and watch videos with online players, or use the PodNova Desktop Client to download and synchronize with your mobile device automatically.

Pure Data - Multimedia Programming

Pure Data - Multimedia Programming

Pd is a real-time software system for live musical and multimedia performances. It is in active development by Miller Puckette, and perhaps others. The system is unfinished, but quite useable for sophisticated projects. It has been ported to GNU/Linux, MacOS X, IRIX, BSD, and many flavors of Windows.

PD (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written and maintained by Miller Puckette and includes the work of many developers, making the whole package very much a community effort.

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

• You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
• Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
• You can create video tutorials for school or college class
• You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
• You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
• You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favorite software program, before you forget them

History

CamStudio was originally released by a company called RenderSoft who were subsequently bought by a company called eHelp who used some of the technology in their program, RoboDemo ...

Some time later, eHelp was bought by Macromedia who wanted RoboDemo (which was to become Captivate) ...

CamStudio on SourceForge:

sourceforge.net camstudio

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Years back (y2k), I tried a few demos with its swf generator, it aids building web based help. Recently i made a avi with camstudio and converted to flv with Riva flv encoder, and added to My YouTube Video Collection - Ananth

Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder

Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder

The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

• Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
• Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
• Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
• Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

• Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
• Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
• Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
• Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
• Open raw (headerless) audio files using the "Import Raw" command.
• Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats