VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC3

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:

* MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
* DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
* From satellite cards (DVB-S)
* Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
* From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Title: VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC3
Filename: vlc-1.0.0-rc3-win32.exe
File size: 17.86MB (18,722,404 bytes)
Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License: Open Source
Date added: June 8, 2009
Author: VideoLAN.org
www.videolan.org

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Change Log

Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0-rc3:
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Important notes:
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* Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
See 'Access:' for more info.
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations

Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes

Decoders:
* New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
* New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
* New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
* New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
* New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
* Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
* New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
* Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
* Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
* Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering

Demuxers:
* Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
* Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
* Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
* Metadata for mod files are supported
* GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
* New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
* New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams

Encoders:
* Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
* Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder

Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
* On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
* Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
* DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
* New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
* DVB scanning on linux
* EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
* On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
* Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
* MTP device access on Unix
* CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
* :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values

Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
* Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
Windows.

Playlist:
* Export the playlist in HTML
* Lua script for BBC radio playback
* Better metadata handling and reading

Linux/Windows interface:
* Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
* Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
* Interface toolbar customizations
* Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
- More menus actions
- Finer speed slider
- Improvements on many dialogs
- New dialog for plugins listing
- Fixed-size mode for videos
- Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
* Better integration in GTK environments

Mac OS X Interface:
* Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
* Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
* Additional usability improvements

Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
* Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
* Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.

Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.

Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.

Mac OS X Port:
* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
* New Document icons by Dominic Spitaler
* Support for latest iSight models

Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
* Surround support for PulseAudio

Video output:
* Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
* Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
(hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
* Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
The old image video output has been removed.
* Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.

Miscellanous:
* Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications

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MySQL 5.1.35

MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

MySQL delivers enterprise features, including:

* Partitioning to improve performance and management of very large database environments
* Row-based/Hybrid Replication for improved replication security
* Event Scheduler to create and schedule jobs that perform various database tasks
* XPath Support
* Dynamic General/Slow Query Log
* Performance/Load Testing Utility (mysqlslap)
* Improved! Full Text Search (faster, new dev templates)
* Improved! Archive engine (better compression, more features)
* Improved! User session and problem SQL identification
* Improved! MySQL embedded library (libmysqld)
* Additional INFORMATION_SCHEMA objects
* Faster data import operations (parallel file load)
* ACID Transactions to build reliable and secure business critical applications
* Stored Procedures to improve developer productivity
* Triggers to enforce complex business rules at the database level
* Views to ensure sensitive information is not compromised
* Information Schema to provide easy access to metadata
* Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture for maximum flexibility
* Archive Storage Engine for historical and audit data

Title: MySQL 5.1.35
Filename: mysql-essential-5.1.35-win32.msi
File size: 35.69MB (37,423,616 bytes)
Requirements: Windows 9x/2000/XP/2003/Vista
License: Open Source
Date added: June 5, 2009
Author: MySQL AB
www.mysql.com

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* The .msi installer does not detect an existing root password on the initial configuration attempt. To work around this, install and configure MySQL as normal, but skip any changes to security. (There is a checkbox that allows this on the security screen of the configuration wizard.) Then check your settings:
o If the old root password and security settings are okay, you are done and can proceed to use MySQL.
o Otherwise, reconfigure with the wizard and make any changes on the second configuration attempt. The wizard will properly prompt for the existing root password and allow changes to be made.

This issue has been filed as Bug#45200 for correction in a future release.

* The Windows configuration wizard allows changes to InnoDB settings during a reconfiguration operation. For an upgrade, this may cause difficulties. To work around this, use one of the following alternatives:
o Do not change InnoDB settings.
o Copy files from the old InnoDB location to the new one.

This issue has been filed as Bug#45201 for correction in a future release.

Bugs fixed:

* Important Change: Replication: The transactional behavior of STOP SLAVE has changed. Formerly, it took effect immediately, even inside a transaction; now, it waits until the current replication event group (if any) has finished executing, or until the user issues a KILL QUERY or KILL CONNECTION statement.

This was done in order to solve the problem encountered when replication was stopped while a nontransactional slave was replicating a transaction on the master. (It was impossible to roll back a mixed-engines transaction when one of the engines was nontransactional, which meant that the slave could not safely re-apply any transaction that had been interrupted by STOP SLAVE.) (Bug#319, Bug#38205)

See also Bug#43217.

* Partitioning: When a value was equal to a PARTITION ... VALUES LESS THAN (value) value other than MAXVALUE, the corresponding partition was not pruned. (Bug#42944)
* Replication: Unrelated errors occurring during the execution of RESET SLAVE could cause the slave to crash. (Bug#44179)
* Replication: The --slave-skip-errors option had no effect when using row-based logging format. (Bug#39393)
* Replication: The following erors were not correctly reported:
o Failures during slave thread initialization

o Failures while initializing the relay log position (immediately following the starting of the slave thread)

o Failures while processing queries passed through the --init_slave option.

Information about these types of failures can now be found in the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS. (Bug#38197)
* Replication: Killing the thread executing a DDL statement, after it had finished its execution but before it had written the binlog event, caused the error code in the binlog event to be set (incorrectly) to ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN or ER_QUERY_INTERRUPTED, which caused replication to fail. (Bug#37145)

See also Bug#27571, Bug#22725.

* Replication: Column alises used inside subqueries were ignored in the binary log. (Bug#35515)
* Valgrind warnings for the DECODE(), ENCRYPT(), and FIND_IN_SET() functions were corrected. (Bug#44358, Bug#44365, Bug#44367)
* On Windows, entries for build-vs9.bat and build-vs9_x64.bat were missing in win/Makefile.am. (Bug#44353)
* Incomplete cleanup of JOIN_TAB::select during the filesort of rows for a GROUP BY clause inside a subquery caused a server crash. (Bug#44290)
* Not all lock types had proper descriptive strings, resulting in garbage output from mysqladmin debug. (Bug#44164)
* Use of HANDLER statements with INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables caused a server crash. Now HANDLER is prohibited with such tables. (Bug#44151)
* Invoking SHOW TABLE STATUS from within a stored procedure could cause a Packets out of order error. (Bug#43962)
* myisamchk could display a negative Max keyfile length value. (Bug#43950)
* On 64-bit systems, a key_buffer_size value larger than 4GB could couse MyISAM index corruption. (Bug#43932)
* mysqld_multi incorrectly passed --no-defaults to mysqld_safe. (Bug#43876)
* SHOW VARIABLES did not properly display the value of slave_skip_errors. (Bug#43835)
* On Windows, a server crash occurred for attempts to insert a floating-point value into a CHAR column with a maximum length less than the converted floating-point value length. (Bug#43833)
* Incorrect initialization of MyISAM table indexes could cause incorrect query results. (Bug#43737)
* libmysqld crashed when it was reinitialized. (Bug#43706, Bug#44091)
* InnoDB uses random numbers to generate dives into indexes for calculating index cardinality. However, under certain conditions, the algorithm did not generate random numbers, so ANALYZE TABLE did not update cardinality estimates properly. A new algorithm has been introduced with better randomization properties, together with a system variable, innodb_use_legacy_cardinality_algorithm, that controls which algorithm to use. The default value of the variable is 1 (ON), to use the original algorithm for compatibility with existing applications. The variable can be set to 0 (OFF) to use the new algorithm with improved randomness. (Bug#43660)
* UNION of floating-point numbers did unnecessary rounding. (Bug#43432)
* ALTER DATABASE ... UPGRADE DATA DIRECTORY NAME failed when the database contained views. (Bug#43385)
* Certain statements might open a table and then wait for an impending global read lock without noticing whether they hold a table being waiting for by the global read lock, causing a hang. Affected statements are SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, LOCK TABLES ... WRITE, TRUNCATE TABLE, and LOAD DATA INFILE. (Bug#43230)
* Using an XML function such as ExtractValue() more than once in a single query could produce erroneous results. (Bug#43183)

See also Bug#43937.

* Full-text prefix searches could hang the connection and cause 100% CPU consumption. (Bug#42907)
* InnoDB had excessive contention for a character set mutex. (Bug#42649)
* Incorrect elevation of warning messages to error messages for unsafe statements caused a server crash. (Bug#42640)
* CHECK TABLE suggested use of REPAIR TABLE for corrupt tables for storage engines not supported by REPAIR TABLE. Now CHECK TABLE suggests that the user dump and reload the table. (Bug#42563)
* Compressing a table with the myisampack utility caused the server to produce Valgrind warnings when it opened the table. (Bug#41541)
* For a MyISAM table with DELAY_KEY_WRITE enabled, the index file could be corrupted without the table being marked as crashed if the server was killed. (Bug#41330)
* Killing an INSERT ... SELECT statement for a MyISAM table could cause table corruption if the table had indexes. (Bug#40827)
* A multiple-table DELETE IGNORE statement involving a foreign key constraint caused an assertion failure. (Bug#40127)
* Multiple-table UPDATE statements did not properly activate triggers. (Bug#39953)
* The mysql_setpermission operation for removing database privileges removed global privileges instead. (Bug#39852)
* A stored routine contain a C-style comment could not be dumped and reloaded. (Bug#39559)
* In an UPDATE or DELETE via a secondary index, InnoDB did not store the cursor position. This made InnoDB crash in semi-consistent read while attempting to unlock a nonmatching record. (Bug#39320)
* The functions listed in Section 11.13.4.2.3, “Creating Geometry Values Using MySQL-Specific Functions”, previously accepted WKB arguments and returned WKB values. They now accept WKB or geometry arguments and return geometry values.

The functions listed in Section 11.13.4.2.2, “Creating Geometry Values Using WKB Functions”, previously accepted WKB arguments and returned geometry values. They now accept WKB or geometry arguments and return geometry values. (Bug#38990)

* On WIndows, running the server with myisam_use_mmap enabled caused MyISAM table corruption. (Bug#38848)
* CHECK TABLE did not properly check whether MyISAM tables created by servers from MySQL 4.0 or older needed to be upgraded. This could cause problems upgrading to MySQL 5.1 or higher. (Bug#37631)
* An UPDATE statement that updated a column using the same DES_ENCRYPT() value for each row actually updated different rows with different values. (Bug#35087)
* For shared-memory connections, the read and write methods did not properly handle asynchronous close events, which could lead to the client locking up waiting for a server response. For example, a call to mysql_real_query() would block forever on the client side if the executed statement was aborted on the server side. Thanks to Armin Schöffmann for the bug report and patch. (Bug#33899)
* CHECKSUM TABLE was not killable with KILL QUERY. (Bug#33146)
* myisamchk and myisampack were not being linked with the library that enabled support for * filename pattern expansion. (Bug#29248)
* For InnoDB tables that have their own .ibd tablespace file, a superfluous ibuf cursor restoration fails! message could be written to the error log. This warning has been suppressed. (Bug#27276)
* COMMIT did not delete savepoints if there were no changes in the transaction. (Bug#26288)
* Several memory allocation functions were not being checked for out-of-memory return values. (Bug#25058)

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BitComet 1.12

BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. It contains many advanced features that can accelerate your downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or even more

Key Features:
BitTorrent Download - fast and powerful
Preview while Downloading: Preview of MP3, rmvb, wmv, and qt is available during downloading process.
Intelligent Connection Optimization: Configuration is automatically set to match your connection type.
NAT Traversal: Users behind NAT can now connect with each other by UDP.
Auto Config ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP
Auto Config UPNP port mapping in router (UPnP support is required in router, Windows XP is required).
Option of Disabling and Setting Priority of Files in any torrent: Files can be disabled, so they are not downloaded, or set to higher or lower priority, allowing you to select which files finish first.

HTTP/FTP Download - Innovative P2P Technology
Ability of Multi-Mirror download: Mirror servers are automatically found for the file being downloaded. Data from these servers are downloaded at the same time to increase download speed 300% or more.
Support for Unicode: Multi-language web pages and encoded URLs can be correctly handled.
Quick Resume: Stopped download tasks can be resumed from where they left off from both HTTP and FTP servers.

Download Management - Customization Available
Global and Per-Task Speed Limit, for Both Upload and Download.
Bandwidth Scheduler

Title: BitComet 1.12
License: Freeware Free
OS: Windows 2003, XP, 2000
Requirements: No special requirements
Publisher: BitComet
Homepage: http://www.bitcomet.com/?ref=brothersoft.com

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DivX Play 7.2.0.19

DivX® 7 for Windows is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on your computer, including HD H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology. You can also play your DivX files (.divx, .avi) on millions of DivX Certified® devices today. Look for DivX Plus™ HD Certified devices later this year that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus files, as well as .mkv (H.264/AAC) videos from the Internet.

Web Player: DivX Web Player lets you play up to HD-quality DivX® video in your web browser. You can also use DivX Web Player to easily embed DivX videos onto your website or blog.

Community Codec: With the DivX Community Codec, you can watch high-quality DivX® and DivX Plus™ (.mkv) videos using your favorite media player or create DivX files with popular third-party software.

Drag-and-drop DivX HD video creation (15-day trial): Convert your digital videos to the DivX® format for playback on your computer or DivX Certified® devices in one easy step. DivX Converter now supports the new DivX Plus™ HD profile so you can easily convert your HD video to H.264 (.mkv) with AAC audio.

DivX Pro Codec (15-day trial): The codec that revolutionized the video world is at it again.

Title: DivX Play 7.2.0.19
Filename: DivXInstaller.exe
File size: 20.15MB (21,128,536 bytes)
Requirements: Windows XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License: Freeware
Date added: June 4, 2009
Author: DivX Team
www.divx.com

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Change Log

DivX Codec 6.8.5,
DivX Converter 7.1.0 <- new DivX Player 7.2.0 <- new DivX H.264 Decoder 1.1.0 <- new DivX AAC Decoder 7.1.0 DivX MKV Splitter 1.0.1 <- new DivX Web Player 1.5.0 <- new

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Skype 4.0.0.227

Skype is software for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don't even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear.

Additionally it doesn't just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel for each platform. Talking, sending instant messages or even file transfers work between different platforms like a charm.

* Skype calling - Skype has all the features of an ordinary phone so it's even easier to manage your calls.
* Video calling - see who you are talking to at the same time as speaking to them.
* Add Skype and SkypeOut contacts - Add contacts who use Skype and those who use ordinary phones so you can call more people.
* Organising groups - group contacts under certain names and share them with your contacts so they can talk to them too.
* Basic chat and emoticons - when it's not convenient to call, chat or Instant Message (IM) your contacts.
* Group chat - for when it's easier to chat or Instant Message (IM) all your friends at once.
* Profile settings - change how you appear to the world and let people know a bit about you.
* Conference calling - talk to more than one friend at a time.
* Import contacts - search your address book to find friends and family that already have a Skype name and start calling them for free.
* View Outlook contacts - view and call your Microsoft Outlook® contacts quickly and directly from your Skype contact list.
* Quickfilter and Speed-Dial - find Skype contacts, recent chats and SkypeOut contacts quickly and easily, then enter their Skype name to call them back quickly.

Title: Skype 4.0.0.227
Filename: SkypeSetupFull.exe
File size: 19.66MB (20,619,560 bytes)
Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64
License: Freeware
Date added: June 4, 2009
Author: Skype Technologies
www.skype.com

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