J. River Media Center 12.0.450

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• License:Free to try; $39.98 to buy
• Editor's Rating:
• Average User Rating: (out of 129 votes) Rate it!
• Downloads: 160,526
• Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
• Limitations: 30-day trial
• Date Added:March 3, 2008

Publisher's description of J. River Media Center

Collect, Organize and Play. Experience all your media -- music, photos, and video your way - all from a single software program. Connect your PC to your home entertainment hardware and control it all with a remote. Load your music on your iPod while you watch TV. Media Center is software that helps you manage all your media files in one place. Copy music from Media Center to a portable digital audio player or move digital camera photos into MC's powerful image library. Make a CD of music for your car. Record your favorite shows and watch them on your TV.

Version 12.0.450 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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After 10 years and with millions of users worldwide, Apple's QuickTime player still provides one of the best solutions for digital media. Whether you're watching streaming movie trailers online or diving headlong into QuickTime as a creation platform, you'll find little to quibble about in this veteran player.

Its few quirks are quickly offset by the elegant Apple interface and the top-notch audio/video playback quality. QuickTime 7 comes in two varieties. The free standard player handles popular audio, graphic, and video formats, including the much-ballyhooed H.264 and MPEG-4. Also, for $29.95, you can upgrade to the content-creation-friendly Pro version, which adds features such as full-screen playback, easy editing, H.264/MPEG-4 production, and the ability to save movies from the Web.

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