Interesting programmer/writer podcasts on c++ and more.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Wildly popular open-source media player VLC has updated to version 2.0 and brought a mountain of new and upgraded features with it–including enhanced codec support, hardware decoding, and experimental Blu-ray support.

The new release is a substantial overhaul of the VLC platform that includes a rewritten video output core, half a dozen new video filter algorithms to clean up video and provide a smoother viewing experience, audio resamplers, faster audio processing, multi-thread processor support for popular video formats like H.264, enhanced hardware support for CrystalHD cards and other hardware decoders, and even experimental support of Blu-ray playback.

Patrick Winston is Principal Investigator at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating better artificial intelligence is not a matter of more powerful processing: we have to teach computers how to think more like humans.

Yet another list of dev podcasts...
Podcasts killed the radio for me. Here's the tech/developer related podcasts that I keep up with:

The Engadget Podcast. You know it, you love it... you subscribe to it. Now you're able to get all that podcasty goodness in one place, unfettered by the restraints of multiple clicks, confusing scroll bars, or space-hogging "applications." Below you'll find the aural masterworks of Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, and Nilay Patel (plus guests), as well as our archive of past podcasts.

Rather than dive into a full history of Usenet, let's talk about how it's relevant to you. Usenet was originally designed as a bulletin-board service, and so there's a ton of text content available on Usenet, but once binary newsgroups made their way into Usenet, it quickly became a popular place to find any sort of files that interest you. A site called Newzbin started indexing the binaries available on Usenet and creating the NZB file format. An NZB file is basically the Usenet equivalent of BitTorrent's torrent file, in that when you download an NZB, you're simply downloading a file that points to files available on Usenet. Applications supporting the NZB format can use them to make downloading Usenet binaries a piece of cake. In this guide, we're going walk through how to set up Usenet access, configure a newsreader, and then find NZB files so you can get the content you want.

Found a new list of audio podcasts.

Written by the same genius that wrote the Tiny C Compiler...FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library.

Lua~ is a Max/MSP external embedding an extension to the Lua programming language for computer music composition (the Vessel library), supporting sample accurate interleaving of synthesis and functional control.

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Since then he has developed a unique and powerful style of ambient music. His two collaborations with Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, established his trademark atmospheric piano style. On Lovely Thunder he introduced subtle electronic textures. His thematic 2000 release The Room saw a return to a more minimalist approach.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list.
It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

Looks promising...VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

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iMovie is a simple, easy to use video editing program that comes free with the Apple operating system (it has no Windows PC version).
Despite its simplicity, iMovie offers many of the same features - dropping clips on a time line, cropping them, adding transitions between clips, etc. - as more advanced video editing programs like FinalCut Pro or Premiere.

Lots of great music...

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VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Another bunch of dev related podcasts, mostly .net-related.

Lots of tech podcasts.

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New aggregation site. Looks like ita has possibilties...SpokenWord.org is a free non-profit service that helps you find, manage and share audio and video spoken-word recordings.

...FeedDemon''s powerful new podcasting tools enable you to download audio files and automatically copy them to your iPod or other media player (that''s right - unlike other podcasting tools, FeedDemon supports media players other than the iPod!) The bundled FeedStation utility enables you to schedule your downloads so they happen overnight while you''re asleep. When you wake up, you''ll find new audio waiting for you on your iPod.

Need to try this...MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more. You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.

...A free (open source) audio/video converter, putting together many excellent audio/video softwares into one friendly GUI

Odiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

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But what are those principles? When we talk about bits and samples, what do we mean? In this article, we'll take a look at the very basic process of turning audio into a digital file and the variables that affect it.

Subsonic is a Web-based media streamer. Although primarily designed for MP3, it works for any media format that can stream over HTTP (for instance WMA and OGG). With Subsonic you have access to your entire music collection wherever you are. It is designed

Lots of good tech/dev, mostly .net-related, audio downloads...

Meet Free Lossless Audio Codec, or FLAC for the friends. A codec which allows you to store your music digitally without any loss of quality from the original source, but not as big as storing huge wave files. Unlike as with MP3 where data is discarded, re