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Popcorn Time developers officially announces the release of Popcorn Time 0.3.6 which is a Christmas and New Year gift for its users. This release includes several kinds of bug fixes along with new features. The team on the ocassion of Christmas and New Year holidays released this new version for Desktop as well as Android users. Popcorn Time for Android officially designed as proper Android client with amazing new features.

According to official announcement, Popcorn Time 0.3.6 comes with updated Chromecast module to use a refactored Chromecast-js and also added in a BitTorrent PeerID specific to Popcorn Time. The developers reworked the updater to use our DNS servers so it continues to work even with issues. It also fixes the Chromecast reconnection issue when stopping and starting a new session.

The main highlight features of this release includes addition of option to disable updates and addition of built in OpenVPN client whereas Torrent Health now automatically updates. Among several bug fixes, Popcorn Time 0.3.6 includes fixed bug where streams played on wrong device when you have multiple AirPlay devices, temporarily fixed IP address in Media URL for external devices and fixed problems in Watchtrailer, should fix issue PT-1333. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.4.1 codenamed "Fresnel" with new features and bug fixes. As you know that two months ago, FFmpeg 2.3 was released and now they have released with minor improvements. As you all know that FFmpeg is a popular audio/video recorder, converter and streamer.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.4.1 "Fresnel" comes with major version bump of libraries which means that this release of neither ABI-compatible nor fully API compatible. This release is aligned with the Libnav 11 release series and will as a result probably end up being maintained for a long time. Some of the new features are added in libavformat, libavfilter and libavutil.

There are lot of changes made in API since FFmpeg 2.3 release which includes removal of few deprecated functions, making of avfilter_graph_parse function compatible with Libnav, Matroska demuxer outputs verbatim ASS packets and addition of new field mime_type in AVProbeData which causes crashes if not initialized.

The updated libavformat comes with support for Icecast protocol along with support for H.261 RTP payload format. It also includes API for live metadata updates through event, UTF-16 support in text subtitles formats, ASS muxer now reorders the Dialogue events properly and HEVC/H.265 RTP payload format.

Among other changes, the libavfilter comes with addition of silenceremove filter, addition of codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs and large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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LiVES developers officially announces the release of LiVES 2.2.6 Video Editor with minor changes and bug fixes. As you know that LiVES is a simple and powerful video editor and VJ tool which allows its users to combine realtime and rendered effects, streams and multiple video/audio files and then encode them to over 50 different formats.

According to official announcement, LiVES 2.2.6 Video Editor comes with support for freenect camera along with minor code cleanups. This release includes fix startup regression bug which creates config file incorrect. It also fixes Libav compatibility and updates for gtk+>=3.10.0. It shows warning when configuration with gtk+ 3.10.x done. You might also like to check out latest Software News on our website.

LiVES is also considered as VJ tool because it is fully extendable through open standard RFX plugin scripts. It allows you to start editing and making video right away without worrying about formats, frame sizes or framerates. This program is especially designed for digital video artists who wants to create their own content and professional looking video. Also, check how to install LiVES Video Editor on Ubuntu and Linux Mint ?

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HandBrake is a simple tool which is used for converting video from one format into other format and supports wide variety of music codecs. It process most of the common multimedia files along with support for Video Encoders like H.264, H.265 and Audio Encoders such as AAC, CoreAudio AAC/HE-AAC, MP3 and Flac.

Other key features offered by HandBrake tool includes title/chapter selection, queue up multiple encodes, chapter markers, subtitles, constant quality or average bitrate video encoding, support for VFR, CFR and VFR and live Video previews. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install HandBrake 0.10 using PPA on Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Kubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Xubuntu 14.10, 14.04, Linux Mint 17 and other latest PPA based Linux Distros.

Step Wise Installation of HandBrake 0.10 (Video Transcoder) using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based distros

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for HandBrake 0.10 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for HandBrake 0.10 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable HandBrake 0.10 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

After installation, search for "HandBrake" application either in Unity Dash or in Application menu. Now with the help of HandBrake convert your audio and video files from one format to another format on your system.

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FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" with minor changes and bugfixes. This is the latest stable release under 2.5.x series. Among lot of other changes, it includes all changes from ffmpeg-mt, libav master of 2014-12-03 and libav 11 as of 2014-12-03.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" comes with updated library version such as libavutil 54.15.100, libavcodec 56.13.100, libavformat 56.15.102, libavdevice 56.3.100, libavfilter 5.2.103, libavresample 2.1.0, libswscale 3.1.101, libswresample 1.1.100 and libpostproc 53.3.100. You can also download the source tarball of FFmpeg 2.5.2 "Bohr" to compile it on your machine.

Many of you already knew that FFmpeg is a software which is used to record, convert and stream audio and video files on your system. This is one of the leading multimedia framework which allows you to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and transcoder any audio and video format. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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digiKam developers officially announces the release of digiKam Software Collection 4.6.0 with minor new changes and bugfixes. As you know that digiKam Software Collection is a digital photography management tool specially used by Photographers for correction and manipulation of Images.

According to official announcement, digiKam 4.6.0 Software Collection comes with bugfixes in Image Editor and Batch Queue Manager. It includes fixes like sub sub-folders separated with '/' in file path cannot be created with album selection dialog, full image dimensions now shown when not viewing at 100% zoom level, tags are losts randomly when converting TIFF and PNG.

The preview fails when importing images because digiKam uses a wrong path with Gphoto2 camera is also fixed in this release. Other fixes includes taget ICC profile is common to all queues from BQM, mouse-over preview mode does not work, unable to zoom out to less than fit to window, sidecar files are neither created nor updated under Windows. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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XBMC and Kodi project developers officially announces that first beta version of Kodi 14.0 codenamed "Helix" soon going to available for download. Since the previous fourth alpha release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" the developers consistently making some changes and improvements before the final beta released. The developers already freezes the features of beta release but they still find something important which they want to introduce in this release.

According to official announcement, the first beta release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" comes with support for Localised keyboard along with faster channel switching for PVR. The Kodi 14.0 Beta for Windows also receives DXVA-HQ scaling for videos. Well this feature might cause some issues for certain video cards, so for better safety you could enable this via advancedsettings.xml file.

The Kodi 14.0 "Helix" beta release also includes addition of MMAL decoder and MMAL renderer for Raspberry Pi along with Raspberry Pi audio resampling which supports high quality re-sampling, format conversation and up/down mixing. Some of the improvements are made in file handling system which mainly done for better stability and possible error handling.

Among other features, this beta release of Kodi 14.0 also includes dolby atmos surround sound, extends JSON-RPC, update Windows power management functions and fixes iOS 8 runtime issues. This release also includes several bug fixes like fixed T9/SMS text input, fixed non loading of external subtitles for ISO files and BluRay directories and fix for importing some add-on modules that depended on other modules. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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XBMC developers officially announces the final release of XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" with new changes and several bug fixes which were reported in previous beta releases. According to development team, this is the last version under 13.2 "Gotham" and the team is planning to renaming the XBMC to "Kodi" codename. This final release of XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" comes after three beta and one release candidate and includes fixes of previous beta releases.

According to official announcement, XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" comes with fixed audio problems with pass-through on OS X and fixed crash in Android when entering programs menu in some skins. It includes bitstream conversion fix for some BD mkv iso rips and fixes some disappearing characters on Mac OS X. This release doesn't show show OSD menu DVD menu with mouse/touch and fixes FTP TLS which was not working. Also, Download XBMC 13.2 "Gotham" for your favorite Linux Distros.

Other major bug fixes which are included in XBMC 13.2 final release are fix wrong sample-rate selection on OS X, fix optical usb devices with > 2 channels on OS X, fix firewall popups in OS X on start up, fix overlapping subtitles, fix accented letters. Among other updates, it includes updated GUI translations and updated included add-ons. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Rhythmbox is default music player for GNOME desktop environment and have similar interface as of Apple's iTunes. It provides several common features such as playlist support, iPod integration, podcast playback and support for streaming audio. The users can also browse their favorite albums online via music stores Magnatune and Jamendo.

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install Rhythmbox 3.2.1 Music Player using PPA on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint 17 and other PPA based Linux Distros.

Step Wise Installation of Rhythmbox 3.2.1 Music Player using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for Rhythmbox 3.2.1 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for Rhythmbox 3.2.1 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest stable Rhythmbox 3.2.1 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Now play your favorite track or podcast using Rhythmbox player on your system. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in software world ?

Popcorn Time developers officially announces the release of Popcorn Time 0.3.5 with some serious bugfixes. There are lot of applications available for Linux Distros which allows its users to watch their favorite videos online, so Popcorn Time is also similar application which allows its users to stream movies and TV shows directly from torrents without download them on your local machine.

According to official announcement, Popcorn Time 0.3.5 comes with fixed invalid certificate fingerprints in the app not verifying causing requets to fail and also fixes bookmark feature which doesn't work on the list page for TV Shows and Anime. The developers also removes "Blown up" look for Retina but leave it in place for QFHD due to it's size.

This release also catches when the "Theme" var in Database didn't exist upon upgrading. Among other fixes, Popcorn Time 0.3.5 includes fixed movies which are not loading because Trakt started replying with 404s and fixes updater for Popcorn Time in Linux. You can download Popcorn Time 0.3.5 for your Linux Distros.

Well Popcorn Time application comes under illegal zone applications because it offers to stream videos directly from torrents and you know that torrents are illegal because of priacy content. This might be a great application for those who wants to enjoy latest TV Shows or movies without paying any single penny. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Like other media players, StreamStudio also allows you to download and convert videos from one format to another. It is a free software and licensed under GPLv2. There are lot of plugins offered by StreamStudio such as YouTube, Dailymotion, T411, Cpasbien, Twitch, Kickass and OMG Torrent.

It also provides support for UPnP on your compatible devices along with live transcoding and read local files/web. In todays, HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install StreamStudio 2.0.9 using PPA on Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10, 14.04, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint 17 and other PPA based Linux distros.

Step Wise Installation of StreamStudio 2.0.9 using PPA on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and other PPA based Linux Distros

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, Open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to add PPA for StreamStudio 2.0.9 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update recently added PPA for StreamStudio 2.0.9 in the software repository on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Step 3 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest StreamStudio 2.0.9 on your PPA based Linux Distros.

Now you can stream your favorite videos using StreamStudio software directly on your system. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

Cheese developers officially announces the release of Cheese 3.13.92 with several new changes along with minor bug fixes. There are plenty of webcam apps available for Linux but Cheese is quite popular among GNOME based distros as it allows you to take pictures and videos from webcam along with several advanced setting operations.

According to official announcement, Cheese 3.13.92 comes with removed outdated GTK+ version check along with removed outdated intltool build rules. This release also uses APPSTREAM_XML instead of APPDATA_XML. It also comes with large number of new added or updated translations which is voluntarily forwarded by developers.

Among other new changes and fixes, Cheese 3.13.92 comes with removed some unnecessary pkg-config dependencies, fixed crash when animating countdown and post-release version bump to 3.13.91. The Cheese program allows you to add various effects and morph the images as well as allows you to make videos, chat with other people and share their favorite work. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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FFmpeg developers officially announces the release of FFmpeg 2.5.1 codenamed "Bohr" with new and updated packages. Well this is the first update under 2.5.x branch which primarily includes new features like AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support and Animated PNG support. Aart from this, it also includes video streaming support including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer and UDP Lite support.

According to official announcement, FFmpeg 2.5.1 comes with updated library packages such as libavutil 54.15.100, libavcodec 56.13.100, libavformat 56.15.102, libavdevice 56.3.100, libavfilter 5.2.103, libavresample 2.1.0, libswscale 3.1.101, libswresample 1.1.100 and libpostproc 53.3.100. The avpriv_dv_frame_profile2() is also deprecated from API in this release. You can also download the source tarball of FFmpeg 2.5.1 to compile it on your Linux machine.

Among other new changes, FFmpeg 2.5.1 "Bohr" includes -show_pixel_formats option in ffprobe, codec private options support in ffserver, xBR scaling filter in libavfilter, CAST128 symmetric block cipher, ECB mode in libavutil and visualization support in libpostproc. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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