VLC Gets Better FLV Support and New Look

Comments · September 16, 2008 at 6:09 am · Desktop

I have always been a big fan of VideoLAN - VLC media player, and with the most recent upgrade it looks like the best just keeps getting better.

The biggest improvement over past versions is that the FLV support is much better.  So if you download a lot of YouTube (or any of the other video sharing sites) videos, you will no longer have to reload the player if you try to fast forward or rewind.  You can check out the full list of features too for this tiny player, if you are not impressed yet.  For more on this most recent release, check out the “What is cool in 0.9″ page or check out this video:

VLC media player 0.9.2 - Grishenko from Antoine Cellerier on Vimeo.

 

Rip MP3s from YouTube Vidoes

Comments (1) · May 4, 2008 at 4:00 am · Online Tools

Now it isn’t often that I want to take the audio track from a video on YouTube, but the other day I found a collection of wrestling themes I really like to have a few selections from.  So to take the music from the uploads, I found a tool that will get it done.

The FLV to MP3 Online Converter is the tool you want to keep handy.  So far it is still fairly quick with it’s conversion and when it is done doing that voodoo that it does so well it will spit out a .mp3 file for you to save, edit and rename as your own.

As a bonus, also be sure to check out my post on Firefox Facts that covers ripping mp3 files from music shared on MuxTape.com.

 

CamStudio - Easy Desktop Recording

Comments off · December 16, 2007 at 5:02 am · Software Help

Looking for the perfect way to roll out a few tutorials here and there?

I have looked everywhere at every single product. For the best tools for the cheapest price my personal best find award would go to CamStudio. It is free and gets the job done.

The interface is simple enough for you to master within a few minutes and the number of different projects you could do with this are almost endless.

Personally, I wanted something to do a few quick captures so I could do a few more video tutorials - showing things from my desktop.

Here are a few more details from the developer:

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)

CamStudio did not let me down. There are a handful of advanced features too - but they really were not needed for what I wanted to do. As long as I can send that avi into a video editing program or upload it to a place like YouTube I am good to go.