Third-Party Tools and Utilities
This page contains a collection a links to various file utilities and resources related to Usenet binaries.
File Utilities
- QuickPar (for Windows). Free tool allowing missing or corrupted files to be recovered using their associated parity files (identified by their .par2 extension). It can also be used to reassemble files split into multiple parts such as file.avi.001, file.avi.002, etc. As its name indicates, it is among the fastest PAR2 utilities out there. It is also available in a number of other languages. http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
- UnRar (for Windows, OS X, Solaris 8 and BeOS).
Free command line utility to decompress RAR archives. Usage:
unrar e -kb <rar_file_name>.
http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
Audio/Video Utilities
- Configuring your system for Media Playback (for Windows).
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/mediasetup.shtml/
- MPEG2 Video Decoder (for Windows).
Free MPEG2 Video Decoder from Elecard.
http://www.elecard.com/download/#mpeg2decoder
- XviD Video Codec (for Windows).
XviD Video Codec build for Windows. See also the
XviD web site for more
information.
http://nic.dnsalias.com/xvid.html
- Ogg Vorbis DirectShow Filters (for Windows).
Filters/plugins to play Ogg Vorbis files (.OGM extension). See also the
Ogg Vorbis project web page
for more details.
http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm
- VobSub (for Windows).
Subtitle plugin for VirtualDub & Avisynthand DS filter for subtitle
overlay during playback.
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/software.htm (scroll down almost to bottom of the page to section Subtitles for download link).
- Morgan Stream Switcher (for Windows).
Switch on the fly between several audio
streams embeded in an AVI file.
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/mmswitch/