IBM Mainframe

Zoom Player supports every format imaginable (AVI, DIVX, XVID, MPEG, Flac Audio, Monkey Audio, Matroska, Windows Media, OGM, RealMedia, QuickTime, Flash and more), updated on a regular basis (new stable beta releases every few weeks), every feature is fully documented, supports all the latest playback technologies (Multi Monitor, VMR9, P2P Video Preview) and sports one of the most active support forums you can imagine. Designed for use as an every day media player and all the way up to a Home Theater PC control center. Special TV Viewing features allowing easy remote control of your media playing experience. From Newbie to Guru, Zoom Player is for you.

Type: Freeware

Version: 4.51

Company: InMatrix

File Size: 1.01 MB

Avast 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use. Avast obtained VB100% awards in 2002/4 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows.

It contains an on-demand scanner with two interfaces (simple for novices and advanced for experienced users), an on-access scanner with Standard Shield (which protects against execution and opening malware programs) and an embedded e-mail scanner which scans incoming and outgoing email messages. avast! Home integrates with the Windows Explorer right click menu and also includes a special screen saver which is able to scan your system while your computer is not in use. Updates are incremental and frequently made available for manual or scheduled download.

Type: Freeware

Size: 9.5 MB

Version: 4.6.739

ABC VideoRoll is full-featured video editing application. It supports many popular video, sound and image formats such as QuickTime, AVI, AIFF, JPG, BMP, TGA, GIF, etc. It also features sophisticated video effects and transitions, video capture, motion path editing etc.

ABC Video Roll allows you to mix two images together, fade in and out, add text, music and graphics, add Hollywood-style special effects, transitions and filters such as: Cross Fade, Wipes, Bend, Motion Key, Morph, 3-D Explosions, etc. ABC Video Roll allows you to manage the size of your video collection by cutting out unwanted material and pasting together favorite scenes.

Version: 2.5.70

Type: FreeWare (You can Register Free, but not required)

Company: Advanced Technology Partners 

File Size: 2.36MB 

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Company: VideoLan

Type: Freeware

Size: 8.58MB

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It offers a ton of features, including advanced layer support, masks, filters, effects and many other features found in professional graphics programs.

It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

ImageFroge is a  Free art studio to create or edit images, .avi animations and picture albums. Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more.

Features:

Clipart brushes
Soft brushes
Scatter and Spatter
Special Effect Filters
TWAIN scanner & device support
Color-replacement
Gradients and Patterns
Crop, Enlarge, Resize, Resample, Skew, Rotate by Degree
AVI and BMP filmstrip animations
Tools to produce slide shows
much more