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This area is devoted to
sites that offer information on viruses and how to combat them. Also here
are firewalls that will stop hackers and intruders from entering your
computer. DVD is rapidly becoming the medium for movies and copying .
There are many specialist sites and here are some of the best.
Finally there is an area devoted to CD Burning and general help on CD's.
You can checkout the main
recording formats here>>
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Burn World is dedicated to bringing you
up-to-date, accurate and unbiased information on the expanding and exiting
world of optical recording technologies. We will report, review and
preview news that is relevant to the community. We would like to welcome
you, who are new to the exiting world optical recording and we offer the veterans a fresh
and new look at the industry and technologies
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CD Information
Centre
is a public service website from The CD-Info Company. Here you will find
information about Compact Disc (CD) & Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) in all
their forms (physical and data formats), especially how they are manufactured
and used for electronic publishing. We also present links to other websites with
more information on these subjects.
- Fireburner:
is a compact yet full-featured CD-R/W burning software package used by
hundreds of thousands of people all over the world! FB
allows users to easily burn custom data, audio or mixed mode CD's. FB
can burn audio tracks from MP3 files with its on the fly decoding support. Fire Burner is
shareware.
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Roxio
Many of us have a collection of music that pre-dates Madonna by at least ten
years (sometimes much more). But it's on vinyl LPs, cassettes, or even
reel-to-reel tapes, so we can only listen to it in the living room, where our
trusty old turntables and tape decks reside. But, with Easy CD Creator Deluxe,
if you want to listen to classic rock while driving to work, you no longer have
to be a slave to the whims of the local disc jockey: you can move your old music
onto CD and have it your way. Version 6.0 also enables the creation of DVD
copy's
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Nero Burning ROM is the best friend your recorder could ever
have. Fast, ultra-stable, powerful, and user-friendly. Nero is the complete answer to your recording
needs. Since 1995, Nero's development has been guided by users like you. Now,
with Nero 5.5, the world's premiere recording application has gotten even better!
There are several sites recommended by Nero for specialist information.
These links are here>>
Nero recommended links.
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Blank Media
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DVD
and Media offer excellent prices an a very large variety of DVD
and CD blank media.
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Blank Media
DVD
shop on line offers excellent quality recordable media. They
have also the famous TAYIO-YUDEN disks.
Big
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Tutorials and Fan
sites
Burn World
is dedicated to bringing you
up-to-date, accurate and unbiased information on the expanding and exiting
world of optical recording technologies. We will report, review and
preview news that is relevant to the community. We would like to welcome
you, who are new to the exiting world optical recording and we offer the veterans a fresh
and new look at the industry and technologies.
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CD Rom Backup
This site was initially created for CD-ROM discussion, but now has expanded to all types of digital storage. That includes CDI's, VideoCD's, DVD's, CD-RW's, and so on At the heart of our site are our discussion
message boards. In addition, the site offers an excellent price comparison bot
(Bargain Finder), and numerous links to other resources. We hope you will make this site your #1 resource to find information on digital storage. Please visit us often as you will see ongoing updates to the site. Don't forget to bookmark the site (press Ctrl+D)! We welcome your feedback.
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Clone CD Net offer excellent tutorials and
information on Clone CD. They say it is the ultimate CloneCD Website.
Here you will find everything you need to download and use this powerful free cd burning software program correctly and efficiently. This is a totally free site featuring a wide variety of topics and information
that will allow you to crack Clone cd. Use this site for information, tips, tricks, advice, Clonecd
Full Download and much more.
The tutorial is here>>
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Digital Director
Make a home movie to be proud of by following these concise, easy to follow, beginners guides to digital video editing. Aimed at the beginner, most of the guides concentrate on budget and freeware software to minimise costs... but maximise the quality of your presentations. The guides are separated into a logical order - if you're a complete novice, start with the overview, then dive into the world of digital video!
A very good guide to
U-Lead Media
Studio is here>>
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 DVDR Help
has tutorials on CD Clone, Any DVD, and how to copy DVD's in general.
This site will help you to make your own Video CDs, SVCD's or DVDs that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM, WMV and ASF. We also have an extensive list of standalone DVD Players with compatibility information such as CD-R/W, DVD±R/W, VCD, SVCD,
MP3 and more.
CD Clone and
Any DVD here>>
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DVD Copy Software Review is a great starting point to
check out the software. DVD copying software is part of the DVD archiving solution!
Want to backup your entire DVD library to protect your pricy originals? You may think copying DVDs is too technical, but new software has made the task fast and simple.
This site is a tool to help you understand DVD copying issues and find solutions to suit your needs. We have developed a comprehensive report of the TOP 20 DVD copying software applications available.
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Tutorials and Fan
sites
'DVD
Reviewer' is run by Reviewer Ltd, a
company registered in England, and staffed by a group of people who
share a love for the DVD format. This
site has huge amounts of information on the DVD format, players,
region hacks news and reviews. A great site.
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DVD Guides offer very good
help and tuition for DVD burning. They are are here to help you with DVD copying, ripping,
authoring and burning! In their site you can find many easy-to-follow guides that will lead you to many
successful copies! Don't waste more time, just find the guide you came for from the menu above and
start making your backups in seconds!
There is an excellent MPEG-DVD
conversion tutorial here.
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Minifest Technology  Web site is designed to help you make sense of computer and consumer electronics technology.
Instead of providing product reviews or exhaustive feature comparisons of specific versions, the focus here is on providing the overall context and information you need to help make sense of what's available, and to understand whether it might be of use to you. Read the articles, check out the links, and enjoy!
As of January 2004, this site contains over 110 articles and presentations, all freely available.
Check out the excellent section on
Digital
video here>> and on
Adobe Premiere Pro here>>
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 Nicky
Page has a really superb site offering really useful help
min the art of digital copying and movie making. In his words
"Firstly, I’m not really an expert in either the Mpeg format or in
DivX. Neither am I some kind of hacker or pirate in any sense of
the word. I do not claim to have invented any of the major
conversion methods. In fact, it would be hard for anyone to say
they had invented them since all methods depend almost exclusively
on the software and utilities that enthusiasts have produced for
the purpose of both converting DVD's into another formats. I’m
only explaining the things I have done so that you can try them.
Great advice from a single site! Check out this
guide to Virtual Dub here>>

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Sefy's DVD and CD guide New in this release of the guide, the long expected DVD to DVDR media Full Backup. Using Freeware Tools and Shareware. You also have multiple Input Selections option, meaning, AVI/QuickTime/RM as sources and not just DVD movies, check the "What's New" page. When you use the guide, remember it is just an example, and so I won't need to take multiple captures of essentially the same image (e.g.: D2V/AVI or WAV/MP3 inputs) just make the correct changes with your sources.
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Video
Guys is both a fan site and a sales site. The sales side
offers much more of a personal service than most similar sites and
they also offer help and reviews on a variety of products. I found
them when searching for info on Pinnacle Studio and they have a
good review
here>>
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DVD
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DVD
Demystified:
On the DVD
Demystified site you will find detailed descriptions of every facet of DVD.
Over 200 information-packed charts and figures, including a quick
reference section. Comprehensive comparisons of DVD to other media technologies.
Clear and understandable explanations of DVD features and technologies.
Includes a DVD with samples from Broadcast
DVD, Dolby, DTS, Joe Kane Productions, Microsoft, Ovation Software, THX,
Widescreen Review, and others, plus
WebDVD HTML
files, spreadsheets, and more.
On the DVD
Demystified site, all (ok, most) of
your DVD questions are answered in the
DVD FAQ.
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DVD
Burning Software from Techworthy is a very large and
comprehensive review of the leading DVD/Movie authoring packages. The
site offers many more reviews on such as Audio, Desktops, Cameras,
Printers etc. A great site well worth a visit.
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Kiss
DVD is the DVD player that has it all. DVD playback in all formats
plus DIVX. The 5oo and 508 have Ethernet connectivity so you can link up
to your computer,. All in all a superb range of players.
The Kiss
firmware is here>> and the
main info is
here>>
'DVD Reviewer' is run by Reviewer Ltd, a
company registered in England, and staffed by a group of people who
share a love for the DVD format. This
site has huge amounts of information on the DVD format, players,
region hacks news and reviews. A great site.
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Digest: Digital Digest is a web site dedicated to the future - a digital future. This site will
feature all information and downloads digital related. All of
the latest news, information and downloads specific to enhance
your digital experience. They have an excellent article on Regions and
Region
selecting here>>
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 DVD
Help us is a really superb site. There are downloads, FAQ's,
help, tutorials, reviews etc. This is an excellent site if you are
interested in DVD and CD copying.
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DVD
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DVD
Region free is a really superb program that really does
get round the DVD region problem. Multi-region is a problem for
PCs and it's even more complicated than the issue with stand-alone players. Most DVD players
can be hacked Quite easily, but with PCs there are several elements that can
cause problems. The DVD drive can be region-locked, which can sometimes be
solved with an unofficial firmware upgrade. The software DVD player can
also be region-locked, and there are various hacks on the Internet for
resolving these. On some systems, which include a hardware decoder card, there
can be a third source for preventing region-free playback.
There is one neat solution that can help you get round all these. Take a look at DVD Region-Free, a software program
that is exactly what you are looking for.
DVD Region-Free enables you to watch and copy DVD from any region on all DVD drives! It fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and does not require any firmware modifications. It will work, even if you can not change the DVD drive's region anymore.
DVD Region-Free works in the background to make DVDs appear region free and unprotected for DVD player
and copy software automatically.
With the help of DVD Region-Free you can watch any region code DVD movies with a software DVD player like
Power-DVD or Win-DVD! With DVD Region-Free's help DVD copy software like DVDFab, DVD X Copy,
Pinnacle InstantCopy, InterVideo DVD Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS encrypted DVDs!
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DVD Software review
Want to backup your entire DVD library to protect your pricy originals? Some think copying DVDs is too technical to tackle, but new software has made the task fast and simple. Just put in the DVD that you want to copy, add a blank medium, and a few hours later your copy is finished.
This site, DVD Copy Software Review, is a tool to help you understand DVD copying issues and find solutions to suit your needs. We have developed a comprehensive report of the TOP 20 DVD copying software applications available. You can archive your DVD library easily by following our easy tips and selecting the DVD copy software that works best for you.
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DVD Direct
offers that information we all need- "what is the difference between -R
-RW +R +RW". There are also many other important facts on DVD and other
formats.
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DVD Copy
software at ask.com. With DVD Copy Plus you can backup Your DVD
Movies with the same 74min or 80min CD-R’s you’ve used in the past
to create audio CD’s. Our software compresses the large DVD files on
your standard DVD to VCD, SVCD, and DivX much the same way the
popular MP3 format compresses audio.
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Video Help
This site will help you to make your own
VideoCDs,
SVCDs
or DVDs
that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources
like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX,
MOV, RM, WMV and ASF. We also have extensive lists of
Capture Cards,
DVD Media, computer
DVD Writers,
desktop DVD
Recorders and desktop
DVD
Players with features, compatibility information and user
comments. Use the menu to the left to navigate our site. Enjoy.
The
All-In-One guide, VCD or SVCD to DVDR/W with SVCD2DVDMPG+ is
extreemly good.
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DIVX
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DIVX Main site.
So you want to know a little bit about DivX®.
DivX® is a lot of things.
First and foremost, it is a patent-pending MPEG-4 digital video technology
created by DivXNetworks, Inc. Videos encoded with DivX technology are among
the highest quality digital videos available anywhere (and with a relatively
small file size to boot).
DivX is also a global phenomenon. Over 30 million people across the world
have downloaded and used DivX technology since its launch, and hundreds of
thousands of DivX videos are watched on the Internet every day. DivX is quickly
becoming the format of choice for digital video professionals and amateurs who
want to distribute their videos with premium visual quality at small file sizes,
earning DivX the popular moniker "The MP3 of Video."
In addition, DivX is the most widely distributed MPEG-4 compatible technology
available today. DivX technology is compatible with the MPEG-4 video compression standard, allowing it to compress
MPEG-2 video down to about one eighth of its original size. DivX is able to
create fully compliant MPEG-4 bitstreams, so if you're looking for an MPEG-4
compatible video technology, we can help. Read the DivX Licensing Overview for more
information.
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DIVX
Video duplicator from BVRP is a collection of tools adding DIVX to
give easy DVD duplication. A good site to purchase however is
Novatech here>>
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Kiss DVD player is
the first DVD player to support DIVX technology. It is a very stylish unit
and will also support multi-region (though not officially). The only down
side is their painfully slow site. BE WARNED. Try Bliss Media as they sell
them.
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Movie Utilities and Tools
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Adobe Premiere
Pro is one of the best movie editing suites available. It
revolutionizes nonlinear video editing. Powerful real-time video and audio editing tools give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production. Built for the exceptional performance of Microsoft® Windows XP® systems, Adobe Premiere Pro takes video production to an entirely new level.
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 DVD Santa is not the best name for such a powerful tool. The user interface requires no technical knowledge whatsoever.
Converts and burns video files directly into DVD movies so that you can watch them on TV. you can mix multiple video files into one DVD disc,
Convert photo files into DVD movies, real-time capture camcorder tapes directly to DVD video format. You can fit 9GB double layer DVD movies into 4.7GB single layer DVD disc.
Burns DVD ISO Image or DVD VIDEO_TS folders to DVD. It supports major video formats such as AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, VOB., major audio formats such as WAV, MP3, WMA.,
supports DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW format discs and burners. It also supports output to hard drive and has an
integrated High Speed DVD MPEG-2 Encoder. This is really the one that does it all and very cheaply.
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DVD Shrink can
copy a DVD with the added ability to remove subtitles etc so it will fit
onto a standard DVD.
You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.
DVD Shrink will also burn your backup DVD, if you have installed the latest version of Nero. If you already possess alternative burning software and prefer to stick with it, then you can still use DVD Shrink. The output from DVD Shrink can be saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn with software of your choice.
DVD Shrink is free software. You should never pay for DVD Shrink.
There are a number of help sites and forums to help with this brilliant
program. DVD Shrink Info,
Mr Bass guide,
DV-DR Digest,
Doom9,
There is an excellent guide using
DVD Decrypter with
DVD Shrink here>>
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Edskes
Codeks is the download site
for QuickTime alternatives, Real Player alternatives, BL Player and codeks
for most video formats
from can be found here>>. Watch out you don't also get a
Russian bride with the codec's.
Go past this header for the real software. This is also a superb site to download
Kazaa, Win RAR, E-Mule, and loads of other software. The
Mega Codek site is here>>

- MPEG
join M-Pack Ordix
M-pack is a program to join and split
multiple files. It provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface for
joining or splitting of files. Although you can use Ordix M-pack
to combine any types of files you like, it is specifically designed to
combine MPEG files.
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Softpedia
is an excellent resource for codec's, games, drivers and much
more. The MPEG2 codec from
Stinky is also here. The K-Lite mega codec's can also be downloaded
from here. Alltogether a great site. Also here is a great
DVD to AVI and any other video converter.
- MPEG
join Pecks An excellent program that is very hard to find. At
the time of writing it can be found here.
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Streambox Ever notice that most streaming media content, such as .asx, .asf,
.wmf, .rm and .ram files, can be played, but not saved? Would you like
to save streaming media to your Hard Disk for future playing? Of course
you would!. StreamBox VCR is an easy to use utility which allows one to
save streaming media to ones Hard Disk for later playing.
Streaming video - How to capture is a site that shows you how to Capture Streaming Real Video and
Streaming Real Audio (Recording Real Networks Media Streams): record
.rm, .ra, .ram rtsp, pnm or http protocols from web pages. There are
also links for other types of web video, a good site.
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Remote Selector
Region free DVD for all supported decoders and players with any DVD drive, even region protected ones.
You will never have to worry about changing the region code or upgrading the
firmware of your DVD drive, which can be difficult and dangerous!
Full documentation is
available here>>
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Sonic MYDVD is a really excellent video authoring tool. Sonic has revolutionized DVD creation with a variety of easy-to-use, flexible applications that give you everything you need to create stunning DVDs on your PC desktop. If you have a camcorder or digital photo collection and want to create DVDs on your home PC, Sonic has the product for you.
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Slysoft Any DVD
Any-DVD is a driver, which descrambles DVD-Movies automatically in the background. This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well. With Any-DVD's help copy tools like Clone-DVD, Pinnacle Instant Copy, InterVideo DVD-Copy, etc. are able to copy CSS protected Movies. With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like!
- T-Mpeg
TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in Video CD.
Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.
TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace
and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file
depends on your purpose.
This was recommended in an article
in PC Answers vol. 117.
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Image is a powerful disk
utility that enables users to make a disk image from a floppy, extract
files from image, make an empty image, put the image on blank disk,
etc... Win Image also supports many different standard and non-standard
formats, including Microsoft DMF format.
- Virtual Dubb is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms
(98/NT/2000/XP). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe
Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has
batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be
extended with third-party video filters. Virtual-Dub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files,
although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
This was recommended in an article
in PC Answers vol. 117.
- VCD Gear:
Gear is a program designed to allow a user to extract MPEG streams from
CD images, convert VCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, and more all
in a single step. Initially developed back in late 1997, the
program has grown to do various extractions, conversions, and
corrections on the fly. Cross-platform support will allow different
machines to process and generate output that is compatible between one
another. People requiring the need to transport their video
materials will find VCDGear as a useful tool to assist them in getting
the video to play on their computer or Video CD player.
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VideoReDo is the perfect tool to edit your MPEG2 files. Whether you create digital video by capturing off-the-air programs, convert analog (VHS) tapes, or extract chapters from DVDs, VideoReDo makes fast work of trimming, cutting, and/or joining your MPEG compressed digital images.
Download
here>>
I must also report on the superb pre- and after sales support. Every
problem has been answered swiftly and successfully. Support is so
important and this company really does have it.

- Accessory Media Viewer will search your disk or CD-Rom and display some of the major file types such
as pictures, sounds, music, and videos.
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3MB Mpeg Encoder
is a total solution for encoding you AVI files to Mpeg1, Mpeg2, VCD, SVCD, DVD and VOB file formats.
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AVI VCD DVD.
Is a program thatcomes complete with numerous customizable video/audio controls that can deliver the highest quality viewing and listening experience.
The site also offers
codecs and
advice on numerous subjects concerned with video authoring.
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WinMPG Video Convert
is a complete solution for video file converting. It supports conversion AVI to Mpeg1, AVI to Mpeg2, AVI to DVD, AVI to VCD, AVI to SVCD, all media format to DivX, and all to AVI. WinMPG Video Convert is a media file converter. It supports almost all video file formats, including AVI, Mpg, Mpeg, Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Mpeg4, VCD, SVCD, DVD, DivX, ASF, WMV, and QuickTime MOV.
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