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PowerISO

It is a personal computer software application used to create, open, mount and emulate, compress, encrypt, and otherwise manipulate CD and DVD image files. It uses a proprietary disc image format, DAA, and supports other formats including ISO, BIN, NRG, and CDI. PowerISO is able to modify all supported CD images formats. PowerISO can create image files of up to 256GB; the free-of-charge trial version supports the same features, but cannot create or edit images greater than 300 megabytes.^[3]

^Features

Power ISO can create, edit or convert ISO image files or extract their contents. PowerISO can convert almost all image file formats to ISO image. It can also make bootable ISO file and floppy disk images. Existing images can be mounted on PowerISO's internal virtual drive and used like an ordinary disc.

PowerISO can save DAA images, which add the following features that are absent in ISO (but can be obtained by manually compressing ISO files):

· Can compress DAA images, thus saving space and allowing smaller downloads

· Can password protect DAA images

· Can split DAA images into multiple smaller files

Direct Access Archive

, or DAA, is a proprietary file format developed by PowerISO Computing for disk image files. The format supports features such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes. Popular disk image mounting programs such as Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools currently do not support the mounting of DAA images.

Currently there is no published information about the format. Among mainstream applications, it can be opened or converted with PowerISO and MagicISO. Various free open source packages are also available to convert DAA to ISO images.

Conversion tools

PowerISO provides free command-line tools for Linux and Mac OS X which allow the user to extract DAA files or convert them into ISO format, however these tools haven't been updated to support the newest version of the DAA format. The PowerISO Windows trial version only supports converting images from DAA files up to 300MB, less than half of the capacity of a standard CD.

AcetoneISO is a free CD/DVD management application for Linux that can convert DAA to ISO with the help of the external PowerISO command-line tool for Linux.

daa2iso is an open source command line application has been developed to convert DAA files to ISO files. The program comes with a Windows binary and source code which compiles under Unix-like operating systems. daa2iso allows users to select the .daa file, and the location for the .iso output via standard windows open and save dialogs.

For Mac OS X, DAA Converter is a GUI application which wraps the daa2iso command-line tool (GNU license).

System requirements

· Windows98/Me, Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system or above (although the internal virtual drive needs Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista or above)

· Intel Pentium 166 MHz or above

· 64MB memory

· At least 10MB hard disk space

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WinRAR

It is a shareware file archiver and compressor utility for Windows. It can create archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats. There is an Android app called "RAR for Android",^[3] and command-line versions called "RAR" and "UNRAR" (widely released since autumn of 1993), available for Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows console mode, and MS-DOS.

Features

· Pack (create) or validate (test) RAR or ZIP archive files. Choice of RAR4 or RAR5 file format.

· Unpack ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, EXE, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, 7z archive files.

· Multiple-core CPU threading compression and decompression.

When creating RAR archive files:

· Support for maximum file size of 16 EB (2⁶⁴ bytes) minus 1.

· Choice of compression directory size from 1 MB to 1 GB (256 MB limit on 32-bit Windows). Default size is 32 MB.

· Optional 256-bit BLAKE 2 file hash in addition to default 32-bit CRC32 file checksum.

· Optional encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 256-bit key.

· Optional data redundancy is provided in the form of Reed-Solomon recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.

· Optional "Quick Open Record" to open RAR files faster.

· Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives

· Ability to create self-extracting files.

· Support for advanced NTFS file system options, such as NTFS hard and symbolic links.

· Support for maximum path length for files up to 2048 characters (stored in UTF-8 format).

· Optional archive comment (stored in UTF-8 format).

License

The software is distributed as a shareware and anyone may use it during a test period of 40 days at no charge.

Although archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, Rarlabs supply as copyrighted freeware the source code of the UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.

Languages

As of February 2015, WinRAR is available in 44 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese.

History

Versions

Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.

· Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995 as 16-bit Windows 3.x application.

· Version 2.00 was released on September 6, 1996.

· Since version 3.00 (May 2002), the new RAR3 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR.

· Since version 3.41 (December 2004), WinRAR adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.

· Since version 3.50 (August 2005), WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes and support Windows XP x64.

· Since version 3.60 (August 2006), WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple, dual-core, or Hyper-threading-enabled CPUs.

· Since version 3.70 (circa January 2007), WinRAR features support for Windows Vista.

· Since version 3.80 (September 2008), support for ZIP archives, which contain Unicode file names in UTF-8.

· Since version 3.90 (May 2009), WinRAR adds support Windows x64 natively and support Windows 7. Also it enhanced support for multithreading

· Version 3.91 is the last version that supports Valencian.

· Version 3.92 is the last version that supports Serbian Cyrillic and Serbian Latin.

· Version 4.00 (March 2011) speeds up decompression by up to 30%. Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT are no longer supported; the minimum Windows version required is Windows 2000.

· Since version 4.10 (January 2012) WinRAR removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows to create multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include Unicode file names.

· Since version 4.20 (June 2012) Compression speed in SMP mode has been increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used. Also, Windows 2000 compatibility was removed.

· Since version 5.00 (September 2013) the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. This new format features a maximum 1 GB dictionary (only in 64-bit version), better multicore support, it removes multimedia, text and Itanium binaries special compression algorithms

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Freemake Video Converter

It is a freemium entry-level video editing app (in spite of its name) developed by Ellora Assets Corporation. The program can be used to convert between video formats, rip video DVDs, create photo slide shows and music visualizations. It can also burn compatible video streams to DVD or Blu-ray Discs or upload them directly to YouTube.

Features

In spite of its name, Freemake Video Converter is an entry-level video editing app. It can perform simple non-linear video editing tasks, such as cutting, rotating, flipping, and combining multiple videos into one file with transition effects. It can also create photo slide shows with background music. Users are then able to upload these videos to YouTube.

Freemake Video Converter can read the majority of video, audio, and image formats, and outputs to AVI, MP4, WMV, Matroska,FLV, SWF, 3GP, DVD, Blu-ray, MPEG and MP3. The program also prepares videos supported by various multimedia devices, including Apple devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad), Xbox, Sony PlayStation, and Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry, and Android mobile devices. The software is able to perform DVD burning and is able to convert videos, photographs, and music into DVD video.

The user interface is based on Windows Presentation Foundation technology. Freemake Video Converter supports NVIDIA CUDA technology for H.264 video encoding (starting with version 1.2.0)

Important updates

Freemake Video Converter 2.0 was a major update which integrated two new functions: ripping video from online portals and Blu-ray Disc creation and burning. Version 2.1 implemented suggestions from users, including support for subtitles, ISO image creation, and DVD to DVD/Blu-ray conversion. With version 2.3 (earlier 2.2 Beta), support for DXVA has been added to accelerate conversion (up to 50% for HD content).Version 3.0 added HTML5 video creation support and new presets for smartphones.

Version 4.0 (introduced in April 2013) added a freemium "Gold Pack" of extra features that can be added if a "donation" is paid. Starting with version 4.0.4, released on 27 August 2013, the program adds a promotional watermark at the end of every video longer than 5 minutes unless Gold Pack is activated.

Licensing issues

FFmpeg has added Freemake Video Converter v1.3 to its Hall of Shame. An issue tracker entry for this product, opened on 16 December 2010, says it is in violation of GNU General Public License as it is distributing components of FFmpeg project without including due credit. Ellora Assets Corporation has not responded yet.

Bundled software from sponsors

Since version 4.0, Freemake Video Converter's installer includes a potentially unwanted search toolbar from Conduit as well as SweetPacks malware. Although users can decline the software during install, the opt-out option is rendered in gray which could mistakenly give the impression that it's disabled.

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Freemake Video Downloader

It is a freeware download manager developed by Ellora Assets Corporation. The program is designed to download embedded videos in FLV, MP4, WebM, or 3GP formats from any website, including the popular sites YouTube,Facebook, Vevo, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh and Metacafe. The software gives a list of all video qualities available for downloading and is able to convert downloaded videos to multiple formats, including formats designed for the iPod, iPhone, PlayStation, and Android mobile devices.

Features

Freemake Video Downloader can rip online videos from popular video portals such as YouTube, Facebook, Google Video, Vevo,MTV Music, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Break, Stupidvideos, Liveleak, Photobucket, MyVideo.de, and Nicovideo.jp. The software is capable of downloading videos at 4096p, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, or 240p resolution. It can also transcode downloaded videos, converting them into AVI files or extracting the audio into an MP3 file. Freemake Video Converter, a sister application to Freemake Video Downloader, offers more conversion options. The program also supports downloading private videos for which proper account credentials are needed, such as private videos on Facebook. It also supports using proxy servers.

Version 2.0

Freemake Video Downloader 2.0 is a major update which integrates support for video downloads from Hulu, Comedy Central, South Park Studios, and more MTV Network websites. The software also adds the possibility to extract original audio tracks and convert online videos to video and audio formats and multimedia devices. The version 2.1 released in March 2011 contains a number of new features, including one-click download mode, simplified link processing, and an option to block downloading from adult sites by implementing a parental control password.

Freemake Video Converter

Freemake Video Converter is an application also made by Freemake. It can be used for more advanced video conversion of downloaded videos, as well as for simple video editing tasks.