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  • Recruit and Manage your Workforce Icon
    Recruit and Manage your Workforce

    Evolia makes it easier to hire, schedule and track time worked by frontline in medium and large-sized businesses.

    Evolia is a web and mobile platform that connects enterprises with 1000’s of local shift workers and offers free workforce scheduling and time and attendance solutions. Is your business on Evolia?
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    Holistically view your business data within a single solution.

    For IT service providers and MSPs that need a data platform to manage their processes

    BrightGauge, a ConnectWise solution, was started in 2011 to fill a missing need in the small-to-medium IT Services industry: a better way to manage data and provide the value of work to clients. BrightGauge Software allows you to display all of your important business metrics in one place through the use of gauges, dashboards, and client reports. Used by more than 1,800 companies worldwide, BrightGauge integrates with popular business solutions on the market, like ConnectWise, Continuum, Webroot, QuickBooks, Datto, IT Glue, Zendesk, Harvest, Smileback, and so many more. Dig deeper into your data by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing one metric against another. BrightGauge automatically computes these formulas for you. Want to show your prospects how quick you are to respond to tickets? Show off your data with embeddable gauges on public sites.
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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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    x264vfw
    x264vfw is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder (from FFmpeg/Libav project).
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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: 321 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: 185 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: 252 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: 101 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: 269 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: 38 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: 13 This Week
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    The Secure Workspace for Remote Work

    Venn isolates and protects work from any personal use on the same computer, whether BYO or company issued.

    Venn is a secure workspace for remote work that isolates and protects work from any personal use on the same computer. Work lives in a secure local enclave that is company controlled, where all data is encrypted and access is managed. Within the enclave – visually indicated by the Blue Border around these applications – business activity is walled off from anything that happens on the personal side. As a result, work and personal uses can now safely coexist on the same computer.
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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: 42 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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    ** 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: 24 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.
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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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    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: 9 This Week
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    An implementation of the VP8 image/video codec in pure Java.
    Downloads: 5 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: 8 This Week
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    x264 on win32 w/ DirecShow input and fully variable-framerate support.
    Downloads: 3 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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    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.
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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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    HAX264 is a Microsoft Windows DirectShow Video Transform Filter for decoding H264(AVC) video.
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