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  • All-in-One Payroll and HR Platform Icon
    All-in-One Payroll and HR Platform

    For small and mid-sized businesses that need a comprehensive payroll and HR solution with personalized support

    We design our technology to make workforce management easier. APS offers core HR, payroll, benefits administration, attendance, recruiting, employee onboarding, and more.
  • Automated quote and proposal software for IT solution providers. | ConnectWise CPQ Icon
    Automated quote and proposal software for IT solution providers. | ConnectWise CPQ

    Create IT quote templates, automate workflows, add integrations & price catalogs to save time & reduce errors on manual data entry & updates.

    ConnectWise CPQ, formerly ConnectWise Sell, is a professional quote and proposal automation software for IT solution providers. ConnectWise CPQ offers a wide range of tools that enables IT solution providers to save time, quote more, and win big. Top features include professional quote or proposal templates, product catalog and sourcing, workflow automation, sales reporting, and integrations with best-in-breed solutions like Cisco, Dell, HP, and Salesforce.
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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: 2,900 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: 743 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: 329 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: 235 This Week
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  • Nectar: Employee Recognition Software to Build Great Culture Icon
    Nectar: Employee Recognition Software to Build Great Culture

    Nectar is an employee recognition software built for the modern workforce.

    Our 360 recognition & rewards platform enables everyone (peer to peer & manager to employees alike) to send meaningful recognition rooted in core values. Nectar has the most extensive rewards catalog so users can choose from company branded swag, Amazon products, gift cards or custom reward types. Integrate with your other tools like Slack and Teams to make sending recognition easy. We support top organizations like MLB, SHRM, Redfin, Heineken and more.
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    mplayer-for-windows

    mplayer-for-windows

    MPlayer & MEncoder Builds for Windows

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    Downloads: 278 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: 100 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: 289 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: 20 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.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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  • Component Content Management System for Software Documentation Icon
    Component Content Management System for Software Documentation

    Great tool for serious technical writers

    Paligo is an end-to-end Component Content Management System (CCMS) solution for technical documentation, policies and procedures, knowledge management, and more.
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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: 45 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.
    Downloads: 14 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: 8 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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    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: 5 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: 5 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: 16 This Week
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    x264 on win32 w/ DirecShow input and fully variable-framerate support.
    Downloads: 9 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/
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    Downloads: 11 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: 3 This Week
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    An implementation of the VP8 image/video codec in pure Java.
    Downloads: 4 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: 6 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: 5 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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    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: 2 This Week
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    The Bolt Player™ a free open source video player lives up to it's name by delivering fast, high definition video. The Bolt™ player delivers a true high definition picture that supports both Flash and HTML5 delivering your videos on mobile devices.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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