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  • Let your volunteer coordinators do their best work. Icon
    Let your volunteer coordinators do their best work.

    For non-profit organizations requiring a software solution to keep track of volunteers

    Stop messing with tools that aren’t designed to amplify volunteer programs. With VolunteerMatters, it’s a delight to manage everything in one place.
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    Simply Smarter SaaS Backup for Microsoft, Google and Salesforce.

    Spanning proactively defends mission-critical data with automated backup that is secure, affordable and insanely easy to use.

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    ffdshow

    A DirectShow and Video for Windows codec (VFW)

    ffdshow is an advanced DirectShow filter and Video for Windows codec (VFW) codec that supports many audio and video formats. For example: H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, H.263, VP3, VP6, Theora, MJPEG, SVQ3, MP3, AC3, DTS, E-AC3, AAC, and Vorbis.
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    Downloads: 3,900 This Week
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    x264vfw
    x264vfw is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder (from FFmpeg/Libav project).
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    Downloads: 835 This Week
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    Mpxplay is a commander-style console audio player for DOS and Win32 operating systems. MMC is a GUI version of Mpxplay for Windows 7/10 with FFmpeg audio&video playing and translucent windows. x265vfw is a H265/HEVC video encoder/decoder codec for Windows, based on x264vfw and x265 library, usefull with VirtualDub.
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    Downloads: 415 This Week
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    MPlayer for Win32/Win64

    MPlayer for Win32/Win64

    MPlayer Mencoder FFmpeg native win32/win64 builds

    Binary builds of MPlayer/MEncoder for win32/win64, FFmpeg MinGW related packages and MinGW-w64 toolchains
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    Downloads: 359 This Week
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  • Run applications fast and securely in a fully managed environment Icon
    Run applications fast and securely in a fully managed environment

    Cloud Run is a fully-managed compute platform that lets you run your code in a container directly on top of Google's scalable infrastructure.

    Run frontend and backend services, batch jobs, deploy websites and applications, and queue processing workloads without the need to manage infrastructure.
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    mplayer-for-windows

    mplayer-for-windows

    MPlayer & MEncoder Builds for Windows

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    Downloads: 334 This Week
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    YUV Player

    yuvplayer which supports planar/packed yuv

    RAW yuv player project is moved to GITHUB. Visit: https://github.com/Tee0125/yuvplayer Old description: Lightweight player for raw YUV/UYVY files.
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    Downloads: 148 This Week
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    A fast closed captions extractor for MPEG and H264 files. Supports DVD, HDTV transport streams, Replay TV. Use this to create .srt (subtitles) files for your TV captures, have transcripts so you can edit subtitles, etc. This project has moved to its own domain: https://www.ccextractor.org Files in sourceforge are left for archival purposes, but new releases will be available from ccextractor.org.
    Downloads: 46 This Week
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    avbuild

    ffmpeg build tool and prebuilt packages for all platforms

    iOS, android, raspberry pi, windows store, windows desktop, linux, macOS etc. Multiple toolchains support, include gcc, clang, vs2013, vs2015, vs2017. Hardware accelerated decoders and encoders support. Source code: https://github.com/wang-bin/avbuild
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    Downloads: 233 This Week
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    Intel QuickSync Decoder

    A free decoder that utilizes the Intel QuickSync technology

    Abstracts the hassle of HW accelerated decoding in Intel's 2nd generation Core i3/i5/i7/Pentium/Celeron (SandyBridge) or newer Intel CPU/GPU using the Intel QuickSync technology. Started as an internal decoder within FFDShow. Can be easily ported to other DirectShow decoders. The Intel QuickSync decoder is now used within FFDShow, LAV video decoder and PotPlayer.
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    Downloads: 21 This Week
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  • The CRM you’ll want to use every day Icon
    The CRM you’ll want to use every day

    With CRM, Sales, and Marketing Automation in one, Act! gives you everything you need for happier clients, more revenue, and less stress.

    Act! Premium is perfect for small and midsize businesses looking to market better, sell more, and create customers for life. With unparalleled flexibility and freedom of choice, Act! Premium accommodates the unique ways you do business. Whether it’s customizations to fit your specific business or industry processes or your preferences for deployment and access, the possibilities with Act! Premium are limitless.
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    ** Now on Github; https://github.com/aizvorski/h264bitstream ** libh264bitstream provides a complete set of functions to read and write video bitstreams conforming to the ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 AVC video standard.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    FFmpeg iOS

    FFmpeg libraries for iOS

    This is FFmpeg libraries compiled for iOS. If you want to build it yourself, see https://github.com/kewlbear/FFmpeg-iOS-build-script.
    Downloads: 35 This Week
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    This is a program with one, specific purpose: to provide the ability to demux ALL of the streams in any number of Matroska container (mkv) files automatically.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Dolphin DVR Player

    Dolphin DVR Player

    One very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos

    Dolphin DVR Player is one very easy-to-use powerful but totally free player for DVR videos, NVR Videos, HVR videos and CCTV videos. Dolphin DVR Player is one professional H.264/H.265 video player and can play all H.264/H.265 video files smoothly. Dolphin DVR Player is also one NVR, HVR and CCTV video player, only if the video coding is H.264 or H265, the Dolphin DVR Player can detect the video coding type automatically.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Intel Integrated Performace Primitives audio/video codecs plug-in for the OPAL/OpenH323 library including G.728, G.729, G.723.1, G.722.2 GSM-FR, GSM-AMR, H.261, H.263, H.264 and MPEG4 part 2.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Bitrate calculator

    Bitrate calculator

    Bitrate calculator GPL by philippe734

    Bitrate calculator free and open source GNU/GPL by philippe734. Inspired from the bitrate calculator of MeGUI but in a stand alone version. No need MeGUI and no need microsoft framework. Developped by philippe734, author of VPN Lifeguard.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    FRONTEND for mencoder for Windows and Linux. Convert rmvb,avi,mp4,wmv, ogv, mkv, mov, mpg, vob,ogv, ogg, ogm etc To avi (divx5), xvid, dvd iso, h264 in a simple way. Required java runtime 6 and over. (On Linux is required mencoder, dvdauthor and mkisofs)
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    x264 on win32 w/ DirecShow input and fully variable-framerate support.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Video processing source code for algorithms and tools used in software media pipelines. The currently available source code is written in C++ with their associated libraries and DirectShow Filters. Filters include an H.264 encoder, H.264 decoder, H.264 source filter, RTSP sink and source filters, YUV source, RGB to YUV color conversion, croppers, scalers, video mixing/picture in picture filters, rotate filter, virtual mic, and many more. Code is released under BSD license with exception of H.264 codec related classes which are released under LGPL.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    h264enc

    Advanced shell script for video encoding

    Advanced shell script for encoding DVDs, Blu-rays or video files to the H.264 format using the encoding utility MEncoder from the MPlayer project. Supports all the useful options an end-user would need to make a successful encode. The script is a CLI front-end to MEncoder and various audio encoders and container muxers. h264enc is no longer actively developed. Please ty out: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffx264/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffhevc/
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    YouTube Video Converter / Transcoder

    YouTube Video Converter / Transcoder

    Converts various video formats into H264 / mp4 format for YouTube

    This video transcoder converts various video formats into High quality H.264 or mp4 format which is specially optimized for YouTube channel. This application will help you to achieve the recommended upload encoding settings by YouTube. Thus, making your video look flawless on your YouTube channel. Additionally its audio section helps you to extract audio files out of various audio and video formats. It supports exporting audio files into various audio formats namely, FLAC, MP3, WAV, OGG, WV and AAC formats. How to run application ? 1. Extract the zip file and open the folder 2. Run "YouTubeVideoTranscoder"
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Open SVC Decoder
    Open SVC Decoder aims to provide a real-time coding framework for Scalable Video Coding extension of H.264/AVC.This project is AVC/SVC library decoding tools created at the IETR/INSA of Rennes. Please have a look at the project web site for more details
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    Defa Protect HTML5 Video From Download

    Prevent and Protect Your HTML5 Video, Music , Audio From Download Free

    Defa Protector is A Simple PHP and Wordpress Plugin To Protect and Prevent Video Save As From Browser and Some Video Grabber. There is 100% Guaranteed Protection and There might be some tradeoff but If you care about Digital Rights Management of Your Video and Music Content. This Project is for you. Defa Protector 6.7.1 Revamp Code For Better Performance To The Bone. We almost rewritten this project from scratch.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    HAX264 is a Microsoft Windows DirectShow Video Transform Filter for decoding H264(AVC) video.
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    An implementation of the VP8 image/video codec in pure Java.
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    FastoCloud PRO

    IPTV/NVR/CCTV/Video cloud https://fastocloud.com

    IPTV/Video cloud Features: Cross-platform (Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, Raspbian/Armbian) GPU/CPU Encode/Decode/Post Processing Stream statistics CCTV Adaptive hls streams Load balancing Temporary urls HLS push EPG scanning Subtitles to text conversions AD insertion Logo overlay Video effects Relays Timeshifts Catchups Playlists Restream/Transcode from online streaming services like Youtube, Twitch Mozaic Many Outputs Physical Inputs Streaming Protocols File Formats Presets Vods/Series server-side support Pay per view channels Channels on demand HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) server-side support Public API, client server communication via JSON RPC Protocol gzip compression Deep learning video analysis Supported deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow NCSDK Caffe ML Hardware:
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