Thursday, June 5, 2008

VideoLan Project

The VideoLAN Project

The Project

VideoLAN produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.

It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.

Hosted projects

Although VLC media player is the most well-known VideoLAN project, we do host several other video-related projects, mostly aimed at developers:

  • libdvdcss, a C library to access DVDs without having to bother about the decryption.
  • libdvbpsi, a C library to decode and generate MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables.
  • x264, a H264 / AVC encoder.
  • libdca, a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.
  • libdvdplay, a DVD navigation library.
  • VLS (VideoLAN Server), our legacy streaming server, which is now mostly replaced by VLC.
  • VLMa (VideoLAN Manager), a Java application to manage multiple VLC instances through their telnet interface.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

Cleans the following

Internet Explorer
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat.
Firefox
Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history.
Opera
Temporary files, URL history, cookies.
Windows
Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
Registry cleaner
Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.
Third-party applications
Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...
100% Spyware FREE
This software does NOT contain any Spyware, Adware or Viruses.

What's New

[29th May 2008]
CCleaner v2.08New
- Added Startup tool enable/disable checkbox.
- Fixed problem with Vista "low" folders being removed.
- Improved index.dat detection on multiple scans.
- Secure deletion improved with IE History index.dat files.
- Added OS detection to INI files.
- Added Vista Thumbnail Cache cleaning.
- Added ImgBurn cleaning.
- Added Secure deletion to "Recent Documents" cleaning.
- Improved Vista "Recent Documents" cleaning.
- Fixed bug with Chkdsk chk files not being removed.
- Added "Select all" checkbox to header of Registry cleaner.
- Added sorting to Startup tool listview.
- Fixed Vista 64 issue with Startup tool.
- Added Croatian translation.
- Minor tweaks and GUI improvements.