Showing posts with label editor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editor. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2016

Top Windows, HTML 5, WYSIWYG HTML editors


Do you need a free web editor that supports HML5? I needed one and I really had to waste some time to review some. Here are the conclusions (and the conclusions only). NOTE: See the 2017 update at the end of the post!

BlueGriffon  
2015
Price:  Free or 70 euros: http://www.bluegriffon.org/#whatsinside
Comment: Seems robust and mature

Maqetta     
Discontinued may 2013, but still online
Price: free
Kit size: 86MB
Conclusion: Difficult to Install. Needs Java 6!

LibreOffice 
2015
Price: free

OpenOffice.org     2014
It only has a web page editor (not web site builder)

Dreamweaver 
2015
Conclusion: Nice but way too expensive!

Microsoft Expression 2012
(discontinued)

openElement  2014
Free
Kits size: 47MB
  
oXygenXML Editor 2015
Conclusion: not tested yet  

TOWeb  2013
Conclusion: not tested yet  

WebStorm IDE
2013
Conclusion: not tested yet 

Based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_editors
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UPDATE 2017

Stormy Website Builder is the ultimate tool for building a web site (CMS). It has a beautiful WYSIWYG html editor. You can have a site up an running in only 4 minutes.
Stormy Website Builder wants to be a lightweight alternative for Joomla CMS.


Thursday, June 12, 2014

How to make VirtualDub open/edit mkv, mp4, flv, mov and other file formats?


In order to open MP4 (and other video files) in VirtualDub you need a plugin called 'Virtualdub FFMpeg Input Plugin'. 

Installation:
Download the plug in and unzip it in VirtualDub's folder. The ZIP contains two folder one for Windows 32 bit and one for Windows 64 bits. You can delete the one that you don't need.
In my case, the plug in installed looks like this:

c:\Program Files\VirtualDub\plugins32\FFInputDriver.vdplugin
c:\Program Files\VirtualDub\plugins32\ffdlls\avcodec-55.dll
c:\Program Files\VirtualDub\plugins32\ffdlls\avformat-55.dll
c:\Program Files\VirtualDub\plugins32\ffdlls\avutil-52.dll
c:\Program Files\VirtualDub\plugins32\ffdlls\swscale-2.dll

This  plugin is freeware and open source.
And yes, it also works with H264 (H264 MPEG-4 AVC) movies. Enjoy :)


Update 2018

A video editor that has EMBEDDED (yes, no codec needed) support for MP4 is AviDemux.

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.

It is not quite as sophisticated as VirtualDub but is definitively much more easier to use. I use it mainly to crop movies, and as I said it works with many popular formats, right out of the box.






Video related tools:

 
Places an animated video/GIF file directly on your desktop.