7-ZIP SFX Maker v2.0

7-ZIP SFX Maker

version 2.0 (02-01-2009)

This is a tool for making Self Extracting EXE files from 7-ZIP files. This program uses the modified SFX module developed byOleg Scherbakov.

This program requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or above to run. Version 3.5 or 3.5 SP1 is recommended.

Features

• Change SFX icon.
• Create shortcuts for current user or all users.
• Create environment variables.
• Run multiple programs one by one after extraction.
• Delete SFX file after extraction (Self-delete)
• Select overwrite mode for files.
• Hide extraction progress.
• Compress SFX stub with UPX to reduce size.
• Enable/disable XP Visual style.
• Set extraction path. Allow/deny users to change the path.
• Extract to temporary folder for software setups.
• Save/load settings.

Feature Requests

Please do not email me with any feature requests for this particular program. Most of the features available in this program are due to the modifications made to the default 7-ZIP SFX module by Oleg Scherbakov. Please contact the author if you have any feature requests. If you are good in C++ you can download the source code for the original 7-ZIP SFX module and implement the features yourself (since the 7-zip project is open-source).

If you have any suggestions for the GUI then you are welcome to email me or leave a comment on my blog.

Screenshots

Important

This program uses Resource Hacker to change the SFX icon. There are some re-distribution restrictions with ResourceHacker so I can’t include it in this package. Download ResHack.zip from the following link, un-zip it and copy ResHacker.exe to the application folder.

http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip

Download Links

Download 7-ZIP SFX Maker v2.0 (650 kB)

Download Resource Hacker (514 kB)

Download .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Disclaimer

This program is free for personal and commercial use and comes with absolutely no warranty. You use this program entirely at your own risk. You are allowed to redistribute this program as long as you don’t charge anything for it.

If you have any suggestions or if you wish to report any problems,
feel free to leave a comment on my blog or email me at the given address.

7-ZIP, UPX, ResourceHacker, the Modified SFX module and the Icons used in this program are copyright of their respective authors. This program is not associated with these projects in any way. These projects are copyrighted and licensed by their developers under various licenses. Please visit their respective websites for more information.

 

My rainmeter skin

I made my first Rainmeter skin a few months ago. Its a simple skin with large fonts. This skin uses the Calibri font so please make sure you have this font, otherwise the skin will look ugly.

Rainmeter is a popular system monitoring application. It displays the time, date, CPU usage, RAM usage and other statistics on your desktop. It can be downloaded from here. Rainmeter uses very low system resources compared to dozens of similar programs available on the internet.

Download skin (6kB)

To install the skin simply unpack the zip file to the skins folder and restart Rainmeter. After that right-click on the tray icon, select Configs -> TG and select one or more items.

Dozens of other rainmeter skins can be downloaded from here

 

MediaInfoGUI .NET v2.2

Screenshots

Download

Full download ( ~500 kB )

Update only ( ~75 kB )

Changes since v2.1

• New text view mode
• Now shows chapter info also (it was missing in previous version)
• Settings are saved in an INI file instead of the registry.

 

GVC 0.6 beta 1

GVC is a free front-end or GUI for windows written for the FFMPEG video converter. FFMPEG is a free, opensource video converter which offers a lot of options for converting audio and video. FFMPEG can decode (and convert) files of almost any format, including some rare formats such as game music files.

Input Formats

3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AIFF, AMR, ASF, AVI, AU, DVD VOB, DV Video, FLIC, FLV, MP2, MP3, MP4, Matroska, MJPEG, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Musepack, NULL, NUT, OGG, PCM, Real Media, Shorten, SWF, TTA, QuickTime MOV, VCD DAT, VOC, WAV, WMV, Wavepack and many more….

Target Audio Formats/Codecs

AC3, MP2, MP3(LAME), MP4/AAC (FAAC), OGG Vorbis, AIFF, AMR, WMA, WAV, PCM

Target Video Formats/Codecs

H264, XVID, MPEG-4, MSMPEG-4, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H261, H263, H263+, Theora, DV, Asus Video, Real Video, Sorenson, HuffYUV, FFHuff, FFV1, JPEGLS, MJPEG

Target Container Formats

3GPP, 3GPP2, MP4, MOV, AVI, ASF, RM, OGG, MKV, MPG, FLV, SWF, DV

Applications

• Convert all audio file to other formats
• Convert all video file to other formats
• Extract the audio from a video file
• Extract raw video from a video file
• Extract a part of the video from a video file
• Boost the audio volume of a video/audio file
• Quickly convert VCD .dat and DVD .vob files to MPG
• Convert some rare audio/video formats to more common formats

Note

It requires Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 or above to run.

Download .NET Framework 2.0 (23MB)

Screenshots

Download links

GVC 0.6 beta 1 ( 7-zip file ) ( ~6.6 MB )

http://download.freewarefiles.com/files/GVC_0.6_Beta_1.7z

 

MediaInfoGUI .NET 1.0

This is a GUI for MediaInfo. Shows the format/codecs/properties of audio/video files. You can add a large number of audio/video files and get a comparative view of their properties.

Download Links

ZIP file ( 714 kB )

http://www.mediafire.com/?hmywlbmjnd3

Screenshots

Requirements

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or above.

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 ( 22 MB )

 

GVC 2008.5

This version fixes the video quality issue that was there in the previous version. The -qmin and -qmax parameters were being ignored and the video was being encoded at a quantizer level of 31. This caused a big drop in quality.
In this version the option for choosing the encoding mode has been removed. Now there is only a fixed quantizer mode and a single slider which controls the video quality. There are many minor bugfixes.

Download Links

With Installer (4.04MB)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wn21jm2db2m

Without Installer – 7-zip file (3.65MB)

http://www.mediafire.com/?gm0m2jdx2p0

Please Note

If you are converting to WMV then please uncheck the first 2 options on the advanced settings page. Otherwise it may cause problems.

 

GVC 2008.4

Now you can see a detailed progress report on the progress window. Check out the screenshots.

Screenshots

Download

Full package with Installer (4.02 MB)

http://www.freewarefiles.com/gvc-v_program_38517.html

I’m using a free file hosting service and the bandwidth limit is getting exceeded. So please download from the 2nd and 3rd links on the Freewarefiles.com download page.

Full package without Installer (3.65MB)

http://www.mediafire.com/?5ghymmtbmcc

This is a 7-zip file. Use WinRAR to open it.

Changes since v2008.3

• New progress window with detailed progress information
• The progress bars are now 100% accurate
• Progress window now shows estimated filesize and estimated time remaining
• New progress window options – Turn off monitor, Turn off PC when done
• Managing profiles is now much easier on the Profiles window
• Summary of settings for the Settings window
• The files panel now shows a comparative display of file properties
• You can now hide the file properties panel
• Problematic files are highlighted in red on the file list
• New error reporting window for debugging crashes
• You can now resize or hide the file info panel
• Collecting media information of files is now much faster
• Removed dependency on Kill.exe and MediaInfo.exe. MediaInfo.dll is still needed.
• Updated MediaInfo to version 0.7.5.9
• All window resizing issues are fixed. All windows will now display correctly irrespective of your screen resolution and DPI settings