What applications are you using?

[stax76]

Seeing what applications people use might help to discover useful applications so please don't be shy and post your list.

video encoding
AVSEdit
AviSynth
BeSweet
DVD Decrypter
DVD2AVI
DVX
GraphEdit
mkvmerge
VSRip
VirtualDub
VirtualDubMod
XviD

playback
CoreAAC
Elecard DShow MPEG2 Splitter
Matroska Splitter
Media Payer Classic
Sonic DShow MPEG2 Decoder
VSFilter
VideoLan Client
WinAmp, TCMP, RadLight, mplayer, Real, Quicktime, Showtime
Zoom Player

TV
KeyDVB
MediaPortal
PVAStrumento
ProjectX
TV Movie Clickfinder

MP3
EAC
Lame
MP3 Cat
MP3Gain
MP3tag
Station Ripper

programming
Inno Setup
IsTool
ProcessExplorer
Rad Software Regular Expression Designer
Reflector
Regmon
SharpDevelop
TortoiseCVS
Visual Studio .NET
XVI32

documents
Adobe Acrobat Reader
EmEditor
NoteTab Light
OpenOffice

web
dokuwiki
Dreamweaver
FileZilla
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
phpbb

images
ACDSee
IconArt
FireWorks

others
Ad-aware
Nero
QuickSearcher
Stax Launcher
Stax RegistryBackup
Stax Shell Extension
Stax Shell Registry Editor
Stax QuickUninstal
SyncBack
WinRar
X-Setup Pro

[cypher_soundz]

DITO :D lol no but seriously, everything i use is already up there.
i will have to look in to some of these though, i feel i may be missing out on some good programs.
Regards
cyph

[Sergei_Esenin]

TV:

Dscaler (deinterlacing viewer--best live TV viewing)
SageTV (MCE or TiVo-like hardware MPEG-2 scheduled recording)
VirtualVCR (high-quality lossless recording using huffyuv codec)

Media:

Theatertek (best quality "simplified" DVD player for HTPCs)
ZoomPlayer + NVDVD decoders (most configurable DVD player)
Media Player Classic (plays everything if you install the right splitters/filters)
ffdshow (great MPEG-4 etc. decoder filter)

Misc.:

Microangelo (icon creator)
SereneScreen Marine Aquarium (virtual aquarium screensaver)
HyperSnap (screenshots)
Isobuster (CD/DVD image manipulation)
Alcohol 120% (Virtual CD/DVD drive & burning)

[Mug Funky]

free/opensource stuff:

- avisynth
- virtualdub/mod
- DVDdecrypter
- QuEnc
- Xvid
- avs2yuv
- mplayer/mencoder
- LAME 3.9x (whatever's latest)
- mppenc (so l33t)
- foobar2000
- mozilla + firefox
- the gimp
- dcRaw (damn useful - it gets me some extra pixels out of my canon g3)
- Nvu (web editor, haven't hit it hardcore yet)
- OpenOffice
- blender (i'm casually trying to learn it)
- zonealarm (pov version)
- DVDshrink
- DVDrebuilder
- lots of stuff i can't remember and almost never use

i want to make a full migration to opensource stuff and completely do away with payware, but that's probably not going to be possible in the near future (it's not got too far to go though, and the looming shadow of Longhorn is a good reason to migrate to Linux)

payware:

- photoshop
- illustrator
- cool edit/audition (these programs are barely even cosmetically different)
- premiere
- 3d studio max
- dreamweaver (phasing this one out)
- flash
- TMPGenc
- DVDmaestro
- nero

and the biggest payware of all... win2k.

i can't wait for a KarmaWare NLE to come out that can fully replace (and improve on, as this wouldn't be difficult) premiere. also, a motion-graphics app would be totally good news as well (perhaps CinePaint could expand in this direction?)

[Soulhunter]

Playback stuff:

- Ffdshow
- MPlayer2
- AC3Filter
- PowerDVD
- Foobar2000
- Zoom Player
- Mod Plug Player
- Media Player Classic


Picture stuff:

- Unfreez
- IrfanView
- HyperSnap
- Adobe Photoshop


Audio stuff:

- Lame
- Audacity
- WAVPack
- Acoustica
- dBpowerAMP
- Adobe Audition
- ExactAudioCopy
- TestToneGenerator
- Easy CD-DA Extractor


Video stuff:

- XviD
- Ffvfw
- DVD2AVI
- TMPGEnc
- AviSynth
- DVDShrink
- VirtualDub
- GordianKnot
- VirtualDub ASF
- VirtualDub Mod


Other stuff:

- CQME
- GSpot
- MP4UI
- Nero6
- GSView
- IeSpell
- FileZilla
- MyHTPC
- AdAware
- ChatZilla
- BitTorrent
- AviMuxGUI
- ZoneAlarm
- PowerStrip
- AVPersonal
- CDBurnerXP
- TweakXPPro
- AcronymGenie
- Mozilla Firefox
- PowerArchiver
- DVD Decrypter
- Visual Filesplitter


+ WindowsXP
+ Thousand small tools
+ Splitters for everything
+ Decoders for everything
+ Some stuff i wont tell ya
+ Some stuff i dont remember


Bye

[SeeMoreDigital]

What a great idea for a thread...

If this thread grows, the information could prove most useful to "newbies".... Now... where's my list?


Cheers

[stephanV]

list of things i commonly use (not to test out stuff):

encoding
DVDdecrypter
DGIndex
AviSynth
VirtualDub
AVIMux GUI
MKVToolnix
BeSweet (with BeLight)
Lame
Vorbis tools

playback
Media Player Classic
VideoLAN Client
WinAmp

internet
Firefox
Thunderbird
Chatzilla
Sygate Personal Firewall
McAfee

other
Notepad++
7-Zip
Uptime-Client++ :rolleyes:

(OS = WinXP SP2)

[neo75903]

Most of my list is already listed except:
snapstream beyondtv
Darwin streaming server
mp4box
ffmpeg
faad

[Yong]

Some great software in my hdd,
Notepad2 and some great stuff (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html)
ffdshow (http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php)
foobar2000 (http://foobar2000.org)
Highspeed Ogg Vorbis Encoder (http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/) (Warning, still in development, for SSE or higher CPU only).
Free computer cleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/) :)
Free CD checking software, CDCheck (http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/)
A simple mp2/3 cutter, audio player (http://www.mpesch3.de/)
A free DOS operating system FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/)
Some usefull tools, Especially Harddisk thermometer (http://www.rsdsoft.com/)
Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/)
Speed optimized Firefox (http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/firefox.htm)
Rarewares (http://rarewares.org/) , have many good audio stuff.
General propose audio encoder/converter/player, SOX (http://sox.sourceforge.net/)
Some nice CLI encoder frontend (http://members.home.nl/w.speek/)
A file compressor/extractor with beautyfull UI, TUGZIP (http://www.tugzip.com/)
a utility for viewing and converting graphics files, XNview (http://www.xnview.com)
Softpedia, a software encyclopedia ;) (http://www.softpedia.com/)
a free CD/DVD burning software, Burnatonce (http://www.burnatonce.com/)

[DAvenger]

Context
FlashFXP
RealVNC
DaemonTools
Fly2000TV
DVBViewer
Mailwasher (!)
Firefox
iTunes (for my iPod)
7zip
foobar2k
BitTornado
Oldskool UI
NSIS
MSN Messenger and that's pretty much everything :)

[Ana]

Few good programs I use that aren't in the list yet.

Trillian (usefull if you have multiple im accounts)
O&O Defrag
Sisoft Sandra
Serious Samurize (desktop tweak)

[KpeX]

AV Playback
mplayer
vlc
beep-media-player (http://beepmp.sourceforge.net/)

Video Encoding
mpeg-4 encoding
mencoder
transcode
avidemux2 (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)
xvid,x264,faac

dv
dvgrab
kino (http://kino.schirmacher.de/)

dvd ripping/encoding
vobcopy (http://vobcopy.org/)
streamdvd (http://www.badabum.de/streamdvd.html)
dvdbackup (http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/)
dvdshrink via wine
dvdauthor (http://dvdauthor.sf.net)
mjpegtools (http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/)

container stuff
mp4box / gpac
mpeg4ip
mkvtoolnix

Audio Encoding
cdparanoia
grip (http://nostatic.org/grip/)
lame 3.9x
besweet via belight via wine
mpeg audio collection (http://mac.sf.net) via wine

Image
the GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)

Net
Firefox
Thunderbird

Office/Editors
Bluefish (html) (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/)
OpenOffice
nano
emacs

Desktop Environment
KDE (http://www.kde.org/)

[castellanos]

Audio
AC3Filter
OggFilter
BeSweet/BeLight
Sequoia
Sound Forge

Video
AutoGK
AviSynth 2.5
TMPGEnc
Super Video Splitter
BSPlayer
XviD
DivX/Dr. DivX
WinDVD

Subtitles
SubRip
Subtitle Tool
Subtitle Workshop
Srt2Sup
VobSub

DVD
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
DVDx
IfoEdit
VobEdit

Burning
Alcohol 120%
Nero 6
Clone CD/Any DVD

Net
Mozilla

Extras
Encore
Finale 2004
Yamaha Software Synthetizer
And many things that I don't remember anymore!!!

Greetings!

[Moitah]

I didn't see these listed already:

RBTray (minimize any program to system tray)
Automachron (SNTP client)
TCPView (like netstat but w/ GUI)
frhed/WinHex (hex editors)
ExamDiff (compare code or other text files)
BulletProof FTP Server
PerfectDisk (defragmenter)
Easy Thumbnails
EXIF InfoTip (tooltips with EXIF info in explorer thumbnail view)
bmp2png/pngcrush

[thevideofan]

Said already but deserve more credit
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
IfoEdit
VOBBlanker

Internet
Firefox
Thunderbird

Web Dev
HTML-Kit
The Gimp
PhotoImpact


Just a couple that I have found useful
Bulk Rename Utility (name says it all)
Desktop Sidebar (Great Windows add-on with RSS reader)
FileAnt (File management tool)
Canopus DV File Converter (convert between various AVI formats)
DVDInfoPro (great way to identify good media and other tests)
Picasa2 (photo manager)
FileZilla (ftp client)
PuTTy (SSH client)
dbBPowerAmp Music Converter (convert between different music formats)
EssentialPIM (great free PIM)
jEdit 4.2 (programming editor written in Java)