Jitterbug sells bare-bones handsets and no-contract service plans geared toward seniors and other consumers who don’t make heavy use of cell phones. One of its phones, the Jitterbug OneTouch, has dedicated buttons for the Jitterbug operator, one preset number, and 911 in place of a numeric keypad. Jitterbug has service and roaming agreements with many CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) operators around the country.

That phone, as well as the standard Jitterbug phone with a keypad, have been recalled because they can’t be used to call 911 emergency lines in some areas where they should be able to. Manufacturer Samsung Telecommunications America is recalling about 160,000 of the phones for a free software upgrade that can’t be done over the air, according to Jitterbug Founder and Chairman Arlene Harris. There have been no reported accidents or injuries caused by the phones, according to a notice by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Users would only run into the problem in rare circumstances, according to Harris. In an area where there is a CDMA network but Jitterbug doesn’t have a roaming agreement with the carrier, the phones can’t be used for regular calls and users receive an “out of range, try again later” message on the handset’s screen. While the phones should still be able to reach 911 through the local network, the recalled handsets cannot.

Customers could only encounter this problem in a few small areas of the country, Harris said. Samsung is conducting the recall voluntarily and is helping Jitterbug reach its customers by letter. Phones purchased from Jitterbug today don’t have the flaw, Harris said.

Samsung recalls 160,000 Jitterbug phones

A great advantage is that VLC plays incomplete videos, opens broken videos from BitTorrent and plays ISOs without unpacking the file it is also well known for being able to play encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the DVD decryption library.

The Skin Editor allows designers to create skins for the application without the need of knowing XML or the internal makeup of skins. It provides an easy-to-use interface giving full control over all of the skin’s features.

VLC media player can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. The VLS (VideoLAN Server), can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast.

Other Information

• Developer : VideoLAN Team
• version 1.0.0.99
• License : Freeware

Links

• www.videolan.org
• VLC media player – Sharealink

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Avi2DVD is a freeware tool that converts Avi, Ogm, Mkv, Wmv and Dvd to Dvd, Svcd or Vcd. This program has the support of multiple audio streams, the capture from digital video cameras and others. It’s a tool for the creation of semiprofessional DVD’s.

In this software you will get multiple tabs for the configurations of the files: the input, output, encoders, subtitles and also the DVD menu. It provides the support of three external subtitles and the configuration of the DVD menu with the inclusion or manages for chapters, audio, subtitles buttons with great facilities.

Is a 100% freeware utility that uses other freeware softwares to complete the package, totally free of malwares.

The author made an important note about the functionality of the software, mentioning that the program is a codec dependant, saying that the codec package could be affected the functionality of it. Some of the softwares that could affect its functionality are the Morgan Splitter and the Nero filters. In the case that you have been installed any of this programs the author let you know it required to uninstall this type of softwares and reinstall the program.

Other Information

• Developed by  TrustFm
• Latest release  0.4.5 beta / June 28, 2007
• OS  Microsoft Windows
• Type  DVD authoring
• License  Freeware

Links

• Avi2Dvd
• AutoGK
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Having done a great amount of development on MediaCoder in past years, we are looking forward to providing better products and services for commercial and enterprise customers, in addition to personal users. Right now we have following products and services on the shelf.

Features in Brief

• Converts among many audio and video compression formats and re-mux into various container formats, on the fly, in batches
• Give you the control over the transcoding process and all the parameters of your converted file, so you can learn about, compare among and play with various codecs
• A flexible device plug-in infrastructure brings specific interfaces for specific devices
• Fully standalone, no need to install any media player, filter or codec, no registration of any components into your system
• Extensions to expand custom features and user interfaces

Typical Applications

• Improving compression / reducing file size
• Converting for audio/video portable devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
• Extracting audio tracks from video files
• Ripping audio/video discs CD/VCD/DVD

Supported Audio & Video Formats

• MP3, Vorbis, AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2, MusePack, Speex, Windows Media Audio, AMR NB/WB, RealAudio, mp3PRO*
• FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio (APE), OptimFrog, Audio Lossless Coding (ALS), WMA Lossless*, True Audio (TTA)*, WAV
• H.264, Xvid, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora, Flash Video, Dirac, H.263, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video (WMV)
• AVI, MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, ASF, RealMedia*, QuickTime/MOV*, OGM*
• CD, VCD, DVD, Cue sheet

* supported as input only
* not all combinations of audio/video/container formats are supported

Links

• Official website: http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
• Official support forum: http://forum.mediacoderhq.com/
• MediaCoder – Sharealink

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