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Multimedia

5 best HTML5 video players for your website/blog [Internet-tools]

July 7, 2010

HTML5 will sooner or later replace flash. This is quite evident from the latest upward trend in the popularity of HTML5 and the fact that most of the web browsers are not supporting HTML5 multimedia. Even popular video hosting sites have shown their positive support to HTML5 video formats and hence it’s inevitable for webmasters [...]

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This is what a video recorded on iPhone 4 looks like

June 19, 2010

A regular reader of a Czech site Jablickar.cz, posted some pictures and a video sample taken from an iPhone 4 which he obtained prior to the official release. Not surprisingly, the quality of the photos and the video is awesome, thanks to the 5MP camera. Pictures taken from iPhone 4: Video recorded on iPhone 4: [...]

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Miro Video Converter: First one to support WebM conversion

May 22, 2010

Earlier this week, Google announced WebM which might become the de-facto web standard for online videos considering the huge positive response it received. In just a couple of days later, the Participatory Culture Foundation came up with a new version of Miro Video Converter with WebM (VP8 video codec) support. Miro Video Converter is an [...]

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Translate YouTube video captions to your language

April 22, 2010

YouTube has been continuously adding small but really useful functionalities to their main site after the major makeover. I don’t know whether you already know about this or not, but YouTube has added a functionality to translate the video captions to your own language. The functionality is still in BETA but works considerably well. It’s [...]

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How to: Increase or normalize volume in Media Player Classic

April 16, 2010

Quick-Tutorial Media Player Classic bundled with K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is my favorite player for watching movies (VLC comes close second). But sometimes I do run into a problem where the volume of the movie is not properly normalized. The result is a very low sounding audio. Here is a small workaround for this. I [...]

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Download Silverlight 4 now!

April 16, 2010

The much anticipated Silverlight 4 has been launched some minutes ago and now you can download its Windows and Mac runtimes. For those who don’t know, Silverlight is a platform for creating and experiencing top-notch interactive web, desktop and mobile applications. Silverlight 4 is claimed to bring in even better support and interactivity for multiple [...]

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WMP 12: Automatically preview songs on mouse hover

March 27, 2010

Beginner Quick-tip Windows Media Player 12 is my favorite music player on Windows and it has evolved to a great extent. I have shown some WMP tricks in the past and today I am back again with yet another small trick that will enable / disable automatic preview of songs just by hovering over them. [...]

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XBox 360 now supports external USB storage

March 27, 2010

On April 6, Microsoft will roll out an update through XBox Live enabling the XBox systems to use any external USB storage provided it’s larger than 1GB. Upon installing the update, users can now simultaneously add up to two 16GB flash drives at once for storing the game data. That means, 32GB is the maximum [...]

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How to: Play HTML5 videos in Internet Explorer

February 22, 2010

We’ve all known that Internet Explorer is the last one to support any new web browser feature. And while Firefox and Google Chrome are showing support to HTML5, Internet Explorer is busy playing in the sun. However, a genius dude called Christian Adams decided to roll up sleeves and provide a plugin for IE to [...]

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