Month: February 2018

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What is HLS M3U8 ? Learn how to download M3U8 video stream 🎞️ and how to download YouTube live event ✨?

HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based media streaming communications protocol implemented by Apple Inc. as part of its QuickTime, Safari, OS X, and iOS software.

It resembles MPEG-DASH (MPD) in that it works by breaking the overall stream into a sequence of small HTTP-based file downloads, each download loading one short chunk of an overall potentially unbounded transport stream. As the stream is played, the client may select from a number of different alternate streams containing the same material encoded at a variety of data rates, allowing the streaming session to adapt to the available data rate. At the start of the streaming session, HLS downloads an extended M3U8 manifest playlist containing the metadata for the various sub-streams which are available.

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Windows 10 version 1803 – Redstone 4 – April 2018 🚀 Next release 📆

Windows 10’s Redstone 4 (version 1803) is the next major release set to deliver a new wave of features and improvements. Although we’re still 1 month away from the final release, there has been a number of previews unveiling a number of changes coming to the platform.

There are already confirmations that Window 10 Version 1803 will be followed by Version 1809 & Version 1903. Which simply means that after the release of Window 10 Version 1803 in March or early April, Microsoft plans to release next feature updates in September 2018 and March 2019.

At the time of writing this, the current Windows 10 version is 1709 a.k.a Fall Creators Update released last year, October 2017.

How to check your Windows 10 computer score?

It’s quite simple, just install ChrisPC Win Experience Index software and you will get back the Windows interface that you are already familiar from Windows 7 and Windows 8.

ChrisPC Win Experience Index is a free software for non-commercial use.

You can improve your computer graphics, gaming performance, internet connection speed with our software: Chris-PC Game Booster

Manage your computer memory and pagefile usage more wisely than before by changing Windows default behavior with our new software: Chris-PC RAM Booster

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What is MPEG-DASH 🎬? How to download MPD video files 📺?

Nowadays many sites start using the MPD manifest instead of well known M3U8 and F4M.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), also known as MPEG-DASH,  is an adaptive bitrate streaming technique that enables high quality streaming of media content over the Internet delivered from conventional HTTP web servers.

The multimedia file is partitioned into one or more segments and delivered to a client using HTTP.  For the client, aka video player, to know each segment position, a media presentation description (MPD) file describes segment information: timing, URL, media characteristics like video resolution and bit rates.

How to download MPD manifests?

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Where to watch the PyeongChang 2018 🏅 Olympic Winter Games ? 🌍🏑

The Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony just took place yesterday in PyeongChang, South Korea. You probably want to watch some skiing, hockey, curling and some ski jumping 🙂

So we made a list with the websites you can watch live or replay/recorded the Winter Games!

Keep in mind that this will work depending on your location or you can just use a proxy or VPN to “teleport” yourself in the right location to view the website you want. Continue reading “Where to watch the PyeongChang 2018 🏅 Olympic Winter Games ? 🌍🏑”

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⚡ VideoTube Downloader Pro Version 10 comes with improved video download speed 🎉

We have good news for those passionate users that are searching and downloading their favorite videos from the net and want to be up-to-date with latest technology, entertainment, news and trends.

ChrisPC VideoTube Downloader Pro version 10 comes with many improvements:

  • Improved download speed by up to 15x times for M3U8, MPD and F4M streams.
  • Added segmented download option to improve YouTube video download by up to 12x times (this feature needs to be activated in Settings->YouTube).
  • Improved Link Finder engine detection of M3U8, F4M, MPD, MP4, M4A, M4V, MP3 video and audio streams.
  • Video Download History keeps a log of all your downloads, helps you find downloaded videos by title, author, day of download.
  • Added the option to automatically select subtitle language to download for YouTube, ITV, BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX and others.
  • Record live streams from YouTube, Livestream, Ustream, M3U8 HLS and F4M HDS streams.

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What exactly is a DNS? How to change your DNS?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.

Simplifying DNS mechanism one can say that DNS is an intelligent phonebook where network entities (computers, servers, printers etc) have a human readable name associated with their technical unique Internet address which is a sequence of numbers. 

In the end, computers connect to each other on the network by their technical internet addresses called IPs: IP (v4) or IP (v6).

A DNS server has the capability to quickly serve the IP of the named computer/entity that is accessed from your PC/laptop/tablet/smartphone. Therefore it is necessary for the functioning of your Internet browser when using URLs (Uniformed Resource Locators) and also when you send emails, since you use email addresses (which are in human readable form). Hence DNS is vital for browsing on the Net.

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Get Windows Experience Index (WEI) score on latest Windows 10 using free software

ChrisPC Win Experience Index is a free software that brings bag the Windows Experience Index on your Windows 10 OS.

Totally convenient, ChrisPC Win Experience Index runs on any Windows version on 32 or 64 bits, but aims to be used mainly for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

On some computer configuration the Windows System Assessment Tool – WinSAT might fail to calculate the WEI score so no ratings will be shown by ChrisPC WEI. In this case click on “More details” button and see where the assessment fails.

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9 YouTube Facts You Didn’t Know About

Everyone nowadays has heard of YouTube. Want to search for a tutorial? You go to YouTube. Want to watch and listen to some music? the answer is the same: YouTube.

But I guess you didn’t know about these facts:

1. YouTube started as a Dating Site 🙂

Crazy, right? It’s true! They have started YouTube as a Dating site back in 2005, you can check this by yourself using the Wayback Machine.

2. You can create YouTube Playlists

This is one of the powerful feature of YouTube. You can create as many YouTube Playlists as you want with your favorite videos, TV show, news videos and so on.

3. First Video was uploaded in 2005

The first ever YouTube Video was uploaded on april 23rd, 2005 by Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube.

4. You can download YouTube videos to watch them offline

There are moments when you want to download some nice videos either music video clips, news, tutorials, cartoons, documentaries and/or even (old) good movies.
Why? Because you want your favorite collection of videos with you when you are offline: on the beach on a remote island 😉 or when flying.

Now how to do that? Simple just download this Free Tool.

5. Every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube

6. YouTube has over a billion users and rising each day.

7. YouTube was founded by 3 former employees of PayPal

8. Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars just 18 months after YouTube’s creation

9. 60% of YouTube’s 1000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany