Archive for July 2010
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Free Apps to Conveniently Convert Videos to Mobile Devices
0 Comments | Posted by Bob in Tips & Tricks
Our life are full of mobile devices like iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, PSP and much more and watching videos on these big screen mobile devices is more and more common especially as the development of advanced smart phones. However, the video format incompatible problem may bother you especially if you are a quick temper. If you know nothing about video conversion and you just want a convenient tool to convert the video by a few clicks without taking the trouble to select the corresponding settings one by one manually. Then the following listed apps are what you are seeking for. They have the presets or profiles for mobile devices and they are free. Hope you can find the one that works best for you.
Avidemux
Using Avidemux to convert a video to play in iPhone, iPod, iPod 5.5G, Zune, Sony PSP, and Microsoft Zune, you can click Auto on the top menu and chose the one you want. Then the application will automatically make all settings so that you don’t need to manually make the settings on the left panel. It supports a wide range of import file types including 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, MPEG, MKV, MOV and MP4. Besides, it is also a great video editing program; check here.
Auto format option in Avidemux
Xvid4PSP
Xvid4PSP has many format preset options for mobile devices including PSP, PS3, iPod, BlackBerry, iPhone, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, SonyEricsson, Nokia, and Itouch. But it works a bit too slow.
Format options in Xvid4PSP
Format Factory
Format Factory is a versatile multimedia file converter, converting all popular video, audio, and picture formats to others. To convert videos to mobile devices, click the option of All to Mobile Device under Video in the main interface and then choose the corresponding device. It covers a very wide range of devices.
profile option in Format Factory
HandBrake
HandBrke has the presets for iPod, iPhone and iPod Touch. Just select the wanted one and it will do the job quick and great. Supported sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD, and VOB and TS files. Most multimedia files it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode. To make Zune HD in the presets, check here.
Presets in HandBrake
Videora
Videora has individual converters for devices of Apple, Sony, RIM, Nokia, Microsoft, Motorola, Sonny Ericsson and more. They can convert all popular types of video files.
Videro iPod Converter
The above listed video converters are the best I pick from all the free converting apps， but if you cannot find one that satisfies you with the reasons of working not fast enough，output quality not great enough to meet your requirement or any other reason， you can try a paid video convert. Our video converters can convert various videos to mobile devices with fast working speed, excellent output video quality and absolutely synchronous video & audio. If you want to directly convert video from encrypted DVDs to mobile devices, check our DVD ripper.
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For Beginners: the Best Way to Play Various Videos on iPhone
0 Comments | Posted by Bob in Multimedia
Recently the hot sale iPhone 4 catches everyone’s eyes in the digital product market. Although the iPhone 4 has bug issues, it’s still worthy of the coolest smartphone. Let me guess: you have never got an iPhone and this time you couldn’t resist the temptation of the new iPhone 4 and have just bought one. With the iPhone big widescreen of 320×480 and retina display screen for iPhone 4, you can’t wait to watch videos especially HD videos on it. But wait, you may find your video format is not accepted, then what to do?
iPhone supports video H.264, MPEG-4 in .mp4, .m4v, .mov formats and audio files in AAC, MP3, M4a. If you want to play the unsupported format video on iPhone, you will:
1.Install codecs for the iPhone to play your video?
When our computer software player cannot handle the video format, we can download the corresponding codec for it but can we do this on smartphones? It’ll be very cool to watch various videos on the smartphone, but I’m sorry to say this method doesn’t exist yet.
2.Use the multi-format supported player- VLC4iphone?
As previously introduced in this post, VLC player is the media software coving most formats with all codecs built in. It’s used for all Windows and Mac OS and what’s more, it’s available for Smartphone like iPhone and iPod touch, that is, VLC4iPhone. In order to get VLC4iPhone at Cydia store, you have to jailbreak you iPhone or iPod touch.
However, I have searched online for this app and found the user experience for it is unsatisfactory. Users’ complaints include no fullscreen as advertised, lag video and some annoying advertisements, only working well on a certain type of video, etc. Perhaps there will better version for it in the future or you may try your luck at it.
3.Convert the video format?
Converting the video format to the iPhone supported format is the best way to watch videos on iPhone at least for the time being. There are many excellent video converters and some are free like Avidemux, HandBrake and Xvid4PSP. They are powerful with great output quality.
If you want a tool to convert your video with faster speed, optimized video quality for your iPhone, you may be interested to check our iPhone video converter and free download to have a try. Or, if you would like to watch your favorite DVDs on your iPhone, you can use a DVD to iPhone converter to directly rip your encrypted DVDs to your iPhone with fast speed, excellent quality and ability to decrypt DVDs with new copy protection.
iPhone 4
Obviously, the newest and hottest attraction in the cellphone market recently is the iPhone 4. It was reported that this fresh out of the oven iPhone is on hot sale with 600,000 pre-orders on its first day. The selling points of this new pet including Retina display screen (great for watching HD video) , Multitasking, HD video recording, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and so on. All these new cool features make it be worthy of a cool phone.
Unfortunately, people have found iPhone 4, the most successful product launch in Apple’s history, has bug issues, with complaints about data signal-strength problems. Then in an official statement posted on July 2, Apple said the problems are due to the wrong algorithm formula for signal indicator and it would issue a free software update in a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula, also it reminded the not full satisfied customers that they could return the undamaged iPhone within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.
So will you return the bug iPhone 4? In a forum, someone has launched a vote for this issue and I find more than 70% people voted to keep it for they have no issues currently and over 20% people chose to give Apple chance to fix it and then decide. You can check the vote here. If you haven’t got the iPhone 4, this vote may also help you decide on whether or when to buy the new iPhone 4.
For people who are willing to give others’ chance to fix the problem they have and for those who are waiting for the fix result to decide on whether to buy it, hope Apple won’t disappoint them.
Will you return iPhone 4? Please tell us your opinion in the comments.
