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Raw Bytes Computer News KPBX FM 91.1 Radio National Public Radio Network Frank Delaney Producer Broadcast on Wednesday Morning 7:35 AM During Morning Edition Support Public Radio ! The Theater Of the Mind |
In computer news this week 04/11
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Getting what you see on the
Internet ... A review
of Applian Technologies streaming
video tools .. In the
new world of Web 2.0 – the new generation of the WWW, web pages are no longer static. This means that instead of websites
being composed of just text and pictures, you can now have live video on your
website, talking about you, your products, giving instruction etc. Which
poses the question – “If a picture is worth a thousand words,
what’s a live video worth ? “ Well
I’m not sure exactly what a live video is worth, but it sure seems to
draw a lot of traffic. Take for example the world’s biggest live video
website – Youtube – which grew exponentially in just a few years,
and was recently bought by Google. Youtube
features videos of virtually everything under the sun, and many of them are
very good. Anyone can create a Youtube site and upload their videos for the
entire world to see. So you can go to Youtube, type in some keyword of
something you’d like to see in a video, and then watch videos based on
your selections. You can bookmark
these videos and return anytime to watch them, and send the links to your
friends. But
what’s even better than finding and watching these videos, is being
able to download and save these videos, which you can’t do on youtube,
nor on many other live video websites, as they try to prevent you from
downloading these videos, and this is where Applian Technologies has a wonderful
suite of software tools to allow you to do this. One tool
is their Replay
Media Catcher , which enables
you to go to a site like Youtube, start playing a video, and then their
program captures the video in raw format. After it
downloads, you can rename the filename to anything you want and give it the
extension of .flv , and then click on it using Windows explorer, and the
video will play using another Applian
Technology program named FLV Player, in a choice of sizes. So you have the capability of
downloading and capturing virtually any video you see on the internet
today, and playing it on your
computer. “But
wait – that’s not all” – as they say in those tv
infomercials – it does more- much more. Another Applian Technology tool is Replay Converter,
which lets you both convert the videos you download into other popular
formats, including Ipod, MP3, .avi and .mpeg and others, and to actually
resize and enhance the videos. “But
wait – there’s even more ... ” In the event you’d like to edit
or split these videos, perhaps to eliminate a leadin or somethings, they also
provide a utility named Replay Media Splitter
for this exact purpose. You can
buy these products either ala carte, or as part of a software tools suite
named the Audio Video Streaming
Capture Suite. These are
some of the best and most complete
video download, capture, and edit tools
available today, and you can buy the entire suite for $ 99.95. The web
today has become a candystore, and now you can help yourself to the candy. For Raw Bytes This is Frank Delaney (C) 2007 MTA Micro
Technology Associates http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html PO Box 31522 Spokane, Wa 99223-1522 (509)624-7230 |
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