Virtual CloneDrive

Virtual CloneDrive

At times, you might need to mount an ISO file to view the contents of the ISO file, or may be, you might want to mount a Windows OS ISO file to quickly copy ISO contents to create a bootable USB flash drive. Though Windows 7 doesn’t support ISO mounting out of the box, there are some good free utilities to mount an ISO file.

In general, one needs to burn the ISO file to CD/DVD to view and use the contents of the ISO file. But if you don’t want to burn the ISO to a CD/DVD, you can use third-party tools such as Virtual CloneDrive to easily mount ISO files.

Virtual CloneDrive is a completely free and easy-to-use ISO image mounting software for Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. It can easily mount .CCD, .BIN, .UDF, .ISO, .IMG, and .DVD files.

How to use it:

• Download and install the software from here.
• Right-click on the ISO image file that you want to mount and select Mount (Virtual CloneDrive (drive letter)).
• Now, you can see the new virtual drive in the explorer (My Computer).

Example:

For example, if you want to mount a Windows 7/Windows 8 ISO file to copy installation files, you would perform following steps:

• Navigate to the drive or folder that contains Windows 7 ISO file.
• Right-click on the ISO file, and select Mount (Virtual CloneDrive (drive letter))option. Also notice the drive letter provided in the option.

• Now open Windows Explorer and open the virtual drive to see the ISO file contents. You can now copy all the contents of the drive to your desired drive or folder.

License: Freeware

Requirements: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)

Homepage: http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

VirtualDub

VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video join/capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.  It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP image

 

How to use:

Suppose you have the file 01.avi and 02.avi and want to create twist.avi as a single file that includes 01.avi and 02.avi.

Run VirtualDub.

1. Upload file 01.avi (File/Open video file)

2. Move to the end of the movie

3. File/Append video segment

4. Select the file to add (for example 02.avi).

5. Video/Direct Stream Copy (the file is again compressed in the video).

6. Audio/Direct Stream Copy (the file is again compressed in the audio).

7. Store the new file by selecting file/save avi.

 

Homepage: http://www.virtualdub.org/index.html

Download page: http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

Windows Essentials Codec Pack

Windows Essentials Codec Pack

Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of the most essential Audio and Video DirectShow Codecs and Filters. With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the internet, stay up to date with the latest Codecs with the Audio / Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and error caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.

W.E.C.P. is designed as a user-friendly near complete solution for all your video and audio needs, with it you can play Audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs and XCDs on the fly, and it adds support for 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, UMX and many more formats so you could play any video / audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the (included) free and wonderful Media Player Classic.

Version:3.3

OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Size: 18.1MB

License: Open Source GPL

Homepage: http://www.mediacodec.org/

Download page: http://www.mediacodec.org/WECPSetup.exe

Freemake Video Downloader

Freemake Video Downloader

Download videos from YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, MTV, Vimeo, ComedyCentral and other sites, extract lossless audio, convert online videos to AVI, MKV, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android with our free video downloader!

• 40+ Sites Support
  • Get easy and quick video downloads from YouTube, Facebook, Hulu, Google, MTV, MTV Music, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Megavideo, Metacafe, ComedyCentral, SouthParkStudios, TheDailyShow, Vh1, Veoh, Break, Stupidvideos, LiveLeak, Photobucket and so on …

• Convert to AVI, MKV, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android
  • Convert online videos to the most popular video/audio formats and handheld devices: AVI, MKV, MP3, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Android. Save your time and effort using ready-made intuitive profiles for portable devices.

• Unprecedented Download Speed
  • Download online videos at a record speed ever possible due to the integrated multistream technology. Tests have proved that Freemake Video Downloader is the fastest ever utility to rip online videos and the only software that lets download original audio in mere seconds.

 

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://www.freemake.com/

Download: http://www.freemake.com/free_video_downloader/

Mp3Tag

Mp3Tag

Mp3Tag is a simple tool for editing the ID3-tags, the program supports the freedb database, and automatically searches for information about selected files.

Mp3tag supports the following audio formats:

• Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
• Monkey’s Audio (ape)
• Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
• MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
• Musepack (mpc)
• Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
• OptimFROG (ofr)
• OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
• Speex (spx)
• Tom’s Audio Kompressor (tak)
• True Audio (tta)
• Windows Media Audio (wma)
• WavPack (wv)

Main features:

• Write ID3v1.1-, ID3v2-, APEv2-Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once
• Full Unicode support
• Support for embedded cover art
• Automatically create playlists
• Recursive subfolders support
• Remove parts or the entire tag of multiple files
• Rename files based on the tag information
• Import tags from filenames
• Format tags and filenames
• Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
• Regular Expressions
• Export tag information to user-defined formats (like html, rtf, csv, xml)
• Import tag information from online databases like freedb or Amazon (also by text-search)
• Import tag information from local freedb databases
• Support for ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and ID3v2.4 with UTF-8
• and much more …

OS: Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7

License: Freeware

Homapage: http://mp3tag.de/en/index.html

Download: http://download.freewarefiles.com/files/mp3tagv247asetup.exe

HJSplit

HJSplit

HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers. HJSplit supports many platforms (Windows XP, 7, Vista, NT, 200x, 3.x, 9x, ME, Linux/wine, all 64 bit editions of Windows, DOS, Amiga, Java, etc.). All versions are compatible with each other and allow you to exchange files between these different platforms. E.g. a file split on the Amiga can be joined on Windows 2000 and vice versa.

Now what’s the use of a program like HJSplit? Think of a file of 20 Mb, and try to send this to a friend. Using email this does not succeed, it is simply too large, and how to put it onto a floppy? HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored.

What about a backup of very large Gigabyte sized files? HJSplit (Windows and Javaversion) also can handle these! E.g. HJSplit allows you to split a 10 Gb file into 640 Mb parts, which can then be stored onto CD-Rom’s by your CD-writer software.

Of course HJSplit can join these split parts back together again, so that the original file is restored. Alternatively, you can use HJJoin for this, which is a tiny and specialized program for joining files.

HJSplit is very reliable, simple, small and easy to use. It does not need any installation or complicated DLLs, it just consists of one ‘.exe’ file. This means that you can also run it directly from a USB stick or CD-Rom.

 

OS: Windows 7, XP, Vista, 200x, NT, 9x, ME, all current 64 bit editions of Windows and Linux/Wine.

License: Free for private/personal use and free corporate (business, govermnent, non-profit, etc.) use

Homepage: http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/

Download: http://www.freebyte.net/download/hjsplit.zip or http://www.treepad.net/download/hjsplit.zip

Free Easy CD DVD Burner

Free Easy CD DVD Burner

Free Easy CD DVD Burner is a complete free burner software.
Burning your data and audio CD/DVDs/BluRay (Audio from WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, MPC, APE) is a very simple operation thanks to Free Easy CD DVD Burner.

• Burn your personal files, burn your MP3 CDs so that you can listen to them in your car, copy your CDs and DVDs, copy your favourite audio CDs in MP3 onto your computer…
• Create and burn ISO images (from your hard disk, from CDs or DVDs).
• Burning according to ISO 9660 standard, Joliet; buffer underRun protection; multi-session support.
• Support of dual-layer DVD formats, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, BluRay Disc

License: Free

OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven

Homepage: http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html

Download: http://www.koyotesoft.com/appli/Setup_FreeBurner.exe

 

Free CD Ripper

Free CD Ripper

Free CD Ripper is an audio ripper, this utility enabling you to extract audio CDs direct on to your hard disk in MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC or WAV.

• Extremely fast copy of audio tracks,
• Copy in MP3, OGG, FLAC or WAV formats,
• Numerous configuration parameters for compression formats,
• Edition of MP3 tags,
• CDDB request for automatic recovery of the titles of songs on Internet,
• Free CD Ripper which allows for the creation of Bin/Cue images from your audio CDs (perfect 1:1 copy of the original CD),
• You can also burn your Bin/Cue audio images.

License: Free

OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven

Homepage: http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html

Download: http://www.koyotesoft.com/appli/Setup_KRAC_EN.exe

 

Free Mp3 Wma Converter

Free MP3 WMA Converter

Free MP3 WMA Converter enables you to convert your MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, Mpc, Ape, FLAC, WAVE files:

• Mp3 to Ogg, Mp3 to Wma, Mp3 to Mp3, Mp3 to Wav…
• Wav to Mp3, Wav to Ogg, Wav to Flac, Wav to Wma…
• Wma to Mp3, Wma to Ogg, Wma to Flac, Wma to Wav…
• Ogg to Mp3, Ogg to Wma, Ogg to Flac, Ogg to Wav…
• AAC to Mp3, AAC to Wma, AAC to Ogg, AAC to Wav…
• Ape to Mp3, Ape to Wma, Ape to Ogg, Ape to Wav…
• Flac to Mp3, Flac to Wma, Flac to Ogg, Flac to Wav…
• Mpc to Mp3, Mpc to Wma, Mpc to Ogg, Mpc to Wav…

And even more possible conversions !

Convert your favorite audio files… Tags’s editor integrated (V1 and V2).

Copy your audio CDs very rapidly thanks to “Free CD Ripper”. Simplicity at the service of efficiency.

 

License: Free

OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven

Homepage: http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html

Download: http://www.koyotesoft.com/appli/Setup_FreeConverter.exe

 

Freemake Video Converter

Freemake Video Converter

Convert between video formats, rip and burn DVD, convert to iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, etc., create slideshows and music visualizations, cut, join, rotate and upload videos and music to YouTube with this free video converter.

Features:

• Numerous Input Formats
• Conversion to iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, Blackberry
• Conversion to AVI, WMV, MP4, 3GP, DVD, MP3
• YouTube Publishing
• DVD Burning
• Photo Slideshow Creation
• Video Editing

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter

Download: http://www.freemake.com/download.php?id=FreemakeVideoConverter.exe (version 1.3.0)