Frequently asked questions

So, VIPeers distributes Pump, a desktop software that enables you to find, play and save any Web content, no matter its source (Websites, blogs, podcasts, BitTorrent). You can browse and download music, videos and torrents, and subscribe to RSS feeds. Pump enables you to play all the content on your PC and on your mobile phone or media player thanks to mobile synchronization.

All of these past and present projects are developed by the same company, zSlide.

Pump supports the following media file formats:

• MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, WMV, AVI, ASF, MPEG-2, MPG,...
• OGG, AAC, FLAC, DivX, Xvid using additional DirectShow filters
• FLV, H264, MP4, MOV, 3GP using VLC Media Player
• AAC, MOV, M4A, MP4, M4V, iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, 3GP, AIFF using VLC or QuickTime

Find more about third party donwloadable components here.

Pump also supports:

• Web radios
• Torrents
• RSS feeds for blogs, podcasts and torrentcasts

Probably! Check this page for the list of mobiles on which Pump can sync content.

Probably! Check this page for the list of PMPs on which Pump can sync content.

Yes, absolutely. New search engines appear on the Web every now and then and some are pretty good at returning downloadable media links to Pump which can provide: music, videos and torrents.

Pump manages and lets you add two kinds of search engines:

Simple Web search

Simple Web search engines are similar to what you find in the toolbar at the top of your browser window: you enter a keyword and it opens a web page with results.

Click here to learn how to add a simple Web search engine.

Advanced tab search

Advanced tab search are search engines that return list of results that Pump can display in a grid. These engines must return results in RSS format or using Pump's specific XML search result format

Click here to learn how to add an advanced search tab.

VIPeers is the broader project from which we launched Pump. Historically, VIPeers also included a P2P file sharing service and a large email service called Podmailing, but we terminated these other parts and now only Pump remains.