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K-Lite Codec Pack 6.0.0
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

K-Lite Codec Pack 6.0.0 Full Changelog:

• Updated Media Player Classic Home Cinema to version 1.3.1959
• Updated ffdshow to revision 3461
• Updated Cyberlink MPEG-2 decoder to version 8.4.0.1408
• Updated DivX H.264 decoder to version 1.2.1 (build 9.0.1.21)
• Removed Gabest MPEG-2 decoder
• Added VP8 decoder
• Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.10.175.0
• Removed DirectVobSub 2.33. Use the Mega pack if you need this old version.
• Updated Codec Tweak Tool to version 4.4.0
• Updated MediaInfo Lite to version 0.7.33
• Updated Win7DSFilterTweaker to version 3.2
• ffdshow is now used by default for decoding Vorbis audio instead of CoreVorbis
• Added playback support for Google’s new .webm video file format
• Minor changes

Downloads (32-bit):
K-Lite Codec Pack 6.0.0 : Full
K-Lite Codec Pack 6.0.0 : Mega
K-Lite Codec Pack 6.0.0 : Standard
K-Lite Codec Pack 6.0.0 : Basic

K-Lite Codec Pack 3.5.0 : 64-bit
This is a bundle of 64-bit DirectShow filters that can be used together with 64-bit players, such as Windows Media Center. This pack can co-exist without problems with the regular (32-bit) K-Lite Codec Pack.

The 64-bit versions of Windows can run 32-bit software perfectly fine. So it is recommended to use the regular K-Lite Codec Pack when possible. That one contains more, better and faster decoders. You only need 64-bit filters for use with 64-bit applications.

Contents of version 3.5.0 : 64-bit

• ffdshow [revision 3461]
• AC3Filter [version 1.63b]
• AC3File [version 0.7b]
• Haali Media Splitter [version 1.10.175.0]
• MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.3.1959.0]
• FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.3.1959.0]
• RealMedia splitter (Gabest) [version 1.3.1959.0]
• MPEG splitter (Gabest) [version 1.3.1959.0]
• CDXA Reader (Gabest) [version 1.3.1959.0]
• DirectVobSub [version 2.40.1959]
• Codec Tweak Tool [version 4.4.0]
• Win7DSFilterTweaker [version 3.2]
• GraphStudio [version 0.3.2.0]

Download (64-bit):
K-Lite Codec Pack 3.5.0 : 64-bit

I am thoroughly enjoying Windows 7 at the moment but do find this video quite funny. Wolves! Love it!

Posting video of Ares DM1 5-segment booster test just because it’s really cool and something we will see in use in the future. If video doesn’t show up just refresh page.

Embedding of the video is disabled so here is a direct YouTube video link.

47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her performance in the auditions for Britains Got Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.

This is the greatest video I have ever seen. All the dynamics are here: triumph of one expected to fail miserably, cynicism to genuine appreciation, humbling of one’s self, watching something great and extraordinary happen, humor. It’s truly beautiful. Judging by the view counts of these videos you’ve likely seen it already but I’ll post anyway, just in case. It’s honestly something not to miss. Jaw dropping. Inspiring. It’ll send chills throughout your body and you will feel uplifted.

Nokia has some seriously amazing people making their commercials these days; remember the epic “Fourth Screen” commercial? Recently, I found a commercial that’s been airing for the past few months for the N96, and they’re using old footage of martial arts icon Bruce Lee. During the ad, Lee is is playing ping pong with nunchucks (in addition to flashing his image on the phone itself).

Do they want the N96 to seem as legendary, or astonishingly capable as Lee was? Maybe. Is it an awe-inspiring video? Certainly.

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VirtualDub 1.8.6 is out and is a stable release containing bug fixes for issues reported by users. Notable bug fixes include errors handling audio in NTSC DV type-1 files, several crashes, and a few glitches in batch mode (job control).

Those of you on the forums know that I’ve been pushing out experimental features as “1.8.X2″ test releases. Chances are at this point that I will rename that to 1.9.0, because there is enough in it that I wouldn’t want to pollute the 1.8.x branch in case there are enough fixes to warrant 1.8.7. After that I’m kind of screwed with respect to major version numbers, although I guess I’ll deal with that when I get there.

Build 30009 (1.8.6, stable): [September 21, 2008]
[bugs fixed]
* Wheel scrolling in the Set Text Information dialog closes the edit control.
* Save Segmented AVI now works with VBR audio.
* Animated GIF export now fails with an error if the current output format is
compressed or otherwise not supported.
* JobControl: Fixed crash when one machine attempts to run a job in
distributed mode right when another machine deletes it.
* JobControl: The filter crop mode saved in jobs was opposite from selected.
(This only affected YCbCr cropping.)
* Capture: Fixed crash when capture driver sends audio samples when
DirectShow graph is not running.
* D3D: Fixed sporadic crash on lost device.
* D3D: Fixed Direct3D errors when display debug information is enabled and a
video filter fails to initialize.
* Frameserver: Frame rate adjustments weren’t always propagated correctly.

[regressions fixed]
* Fixed crash when using fast/normal recompress mode without a video codec.
* Fixed divide by zero crash when loading video and a video filter in the
list is unable to initialize.
* Changing the “source rate adjustment” option no longer invalidates the
current selection.
* Rendering would loop endlessly if an error occurred during video
compression and threaded compression was disabled.
* Disabling the “directly decode YCbCr formats” option works again.
* Filters: lMicrosecsPerFrame and lMicrosecsPerSrcFrame were reporting
milliseconds (broken since 1.8.0).
* JobControl: Fixed case where a non-distributed “load job list” command can
fail due to erroneously running distributed-mode code.
* JobControl: Fixed problem where dialog would suddenly close when editing
job names.
* Script: Fixed crash when removing video filter from filter chain.
* DV: Audio decoding works again with NTSC DV files (broken since 1.8.4).

Download VirtualDub 1.8.6 32-bit
Download VirtualDub 1.8.6 64-bit

I have one purpose and one purpose only for posting this movie trailer for Wargames 2 : The Dead Code.  It sucks and you have now been warned.  Here’s another once great title smashed to bits by a crappy follow-up that MGM should be ashamed and embarrassed to release.

If you haven’t seen this video, it’s a horrendous crash from today’s speed qualifying for the Texas Motor Speedway race on Sunday at 2pm Eastern. It’s incredible that Michael was able to walk away from the crash with little to no difficulty. It is amazing how far NASCAR has come in the past years since Dale Earnhardt left us.

Edit:  Follow-up Interview