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  • RMM Software | Remote Monitoring Platform and Tools Icon
    RMM Software | Remote Monitoring Platform and Tools

    Best-in-class automation, scalability, and single-pane IT management.

    Don’t settle when it comes to managing your clients’ IT infrastructure. Exceed their expectations with ConnectWise RMM, our MSP RMM software that provides proactive tools and NOC services—regardless of device environment. With the number of new vulnerabilities rising each year, smart patching procedures have never been more important. We automatically test and deploy patches when they are viable and restrict patches that are harmful. Get better protection for clients while you spend less time managing endpoints and more time growing your business. It’s tough to locate, afford, and retain quality talent. In fact, 81% of IT leaders say it’s hard to find the recruits they need. Add ConnectWise RMM, NOC services and get the expertise and problem resolution you need to become the advisor your clients demand—without adding headcount.
  • Manage Properties Better For Free Icon
    Manage Properties Better For Free

    For small to mid-sized landlords and property managers

    Innago is a free and easy-to-use property management solution. Whether you have 1 unit or 1000, student housing, or commercial properties, Innago is built for you. Our software is designed to save you time and money, so you can spend more time doing the things that matter most.
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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: 2,985 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: 648 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: 338 This Week
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    mplayer-for-windows

    mplayer-for-windows

    MPlayer & MEncoder Builds for Windows

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    Downloads: 255 This Week
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  • Manage your IT department more effectively Icon
    Manage your IT department more effectively

    Streamline your business from end to end with ConnectWise PSA

    ConnectWise PSA (formerly Manage) allows you to stop working in separate systems, and helps you build a more profitable business. No more duplicate data entries, inefficient employees, manual invoices, and the inability to accurately track client service issues. Get a behind the scenes look into the award-winning PSA that automates processes for each area of business: sales, help desk, support, finance, and HR.
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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: 175 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: 89 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: 263 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: 41 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: 11 This Week
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    Cyber Risk Assessment and Management Platform

    ConnectWise Identify is a powerful cybersecurity risk assessment platform offering strategic cybersecurity assessments and recommendations.

    When it comes to cybersecurity, what your clients don’t know can really hurt them. And believe it or not, keep them safe starts with asking questions. With ConnectWise Identify Assessment, get access to risk assessment backed by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to uncover risks across your client’s entire business, not just their networks. With a clearly defined, easy-to-read risk report in hand, you can start having meaningful security conversations that can get you on the path of keeping your clients protected from every angle. Choose from two assessment levels to cover every client’s need, from the Essentials to cover the basics to our Comprehensive Assessment to dive deeper to uncover additional risks. Our intuitive heat map shows you your client’s overall risk level and priority to address risks based on probability and financial impact. Each report includes remediation recommendations to help you create a revenue-generating action plan.
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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: 41 This Week
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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.
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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: 26 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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    An implementation of the VP8 image/video codec in pure Java.
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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: 4 This Week
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    libsmacker

    libsmacker

    A C library for decoding .smk Smacker Video files

    libsmacker is a cross-platform C library which can be used for decoding Smacker Video files produced by RAD Game Tools. Smacker Video was the king of video middleware in the 1990s, and its 256-color compressed video format was used in over 2600 software titles. Please visit the Project Web site for detailed information.
    Downloads: 11 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.
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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/
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    Downloads: 9 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: 2 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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    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: 1 This Week
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    BlackBelt CodecPack

    BlackBelt CodecPack

    A clean, lean CoDec Pack. FFDShow and LAV Combined.

    Contains support for popular formats. Works especially well with MediaPortal. LAV, ffdshow - why choose between when you can have both in one pack ! WMV/WMA, DivX, AVI, ASF, FLV, Ogg FLAC, HEV1, x264, x265 etc. NO SPYWARE, NO ADWARE, NO TOOLBARS, NO PLAYER - JUST PURE CODECS Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 - 32/64 bit.
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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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    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.
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    Evk is a simple lossy video codec. Project aims at developing a clean and functional implementation of basic algorithms used in video compression. Next goal is to create a detailed documentation together with tutorial about video compression.
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