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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.
FIFA World Cup 2010
The spectacular FIFA World Cup is going on and fans are crazy for it these days. Fortunately, even if they cannot go to the scene to watch the tournaments on the pitch, they won’t miss every wonderful moment of this great event with the live broadcast on the TV.
However, you are engaged with something important and cannot sit before the TV to enjoy the broadcast when all fans in the world are crying and cheering with passion and enthusiasm for their star players. Upset and downcast now?
Or you want to savor the splendid moments of the great tournament wherever and whenever in the later days of your life. After all, there is only one time to watch the real scene or live broadcast and TV rebroadcasts are limited. Anyone or anything can help?
If you are one of the World Cup fans who has the above problems, this article may help you: You can record the live broadcast or download the video online and even you can convert the video to play on any mobile device you have, so that you can watch the World Cup anytime and anywhere.
Record World Cup 2010 with Digital Video Recorder (DVR)
A DVR allows you to conveniently record videos from TV to the built-in hard drive and some DVRs even have built-in DVD recorders which let you also save videos forever by burning them onto a DVD media. If you haven’t got a DVR, do some research online or ask for others’ opinion before you buy one.
Download World Cup 2010 Online
There are various World Cup video on video site like Youtube, iFilm, Myspace, Dailymotion and some of them are HD video. Moreover, you can get the videos captured in different angles while the live broadcast has only limited angles. As to the way to download videos online, you can refer to this article.
Convert World Cup Video to Play on Different Devices
If you can watch the recorded or downloaded World Cup videos around with your mobile devices such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc., isn’t it terrific? Check our video converters that can output videos with optimized quality for the intended device, fast speed and smaller file size (a 90 minutes single World Cup match will take a large space of your limited hard drive).
iPod video converter
If you have recorded the World Cup videos to DVDs, you can also convert the recorded DVD to whatever format and even to HD video if your DVR is not HD DVR, using TouchUp DVD Ripper Platinum.
TouchUp DVD Ripper Platinum
Hope you enjoy this hot tournament with the cool videos conveniently!
Handbrake is a cross-platform, powerful and free software tool that easily converts DVD video to another format, with many target devices like iPhone, iPod, Apple TV for you to select in the Presets. With these presets, you can just simply choose the device you want to play your video with and then you don’t need to select the corresponding settings one by one manually. However, there is no Zune HD option in the Presets. Therefore, if you have a Zune HD and want to convert a DVD to watch it in Zune HD using HandBrake, you need to adjust the settings manually. Here are the steps and settings for converting DVD to Zune HD with HandBrake. Hope this is useful for you.
1.Download, install and launch HandBrake. Select the DVD file by clicking on Source.
open video file in HandBrake
Tip: If you are converting directly from a DVD, you may need to run a DVD decrypter in the background, since many DVDs are encrypted with copy-protection and HandBrake is unable to decrypt DVD. You can use the freeware DVD43 as the decrypter.
2. Select the Iphone & Ipod Touch in Presets on the right side.
select iPhone&iPod Touch
3. In the “Picture” Tab, if you video aspect ratio is 16:9, change the resolution to 480 x 272. For non 16:9 video, set the resolution to 480 x “blank”. This will let the non 16:9 video to have a right 480 width but a smaller or larger height adjusted by HandBrake.
4. In the “Video” tab, leave all settings as they are.
5. In the “Audio” tab, change to “Stereo” and 160kbps.
Audio tab setting
6. Set a destination folder to save the converted file in.
set destination folder
7. Let the other settings keep as what they are and then click on Start at the top menu bar to begin the encoding. A window will open to show you the converting progress.
encoding
After it finishes, you will get a H264, M4V file ready for you to drag and drop to the Zune.
Tip: You can save the above settings for converting to Zune HD next time by clicking on Add button at the right bottom and store the whole settings as Zune HD or any name you like in the Presets..
save settings
Note: If you want a program to convert your video to Zune with much better quality, faster speed and more formats supported, you can check TouchUp DVD to Zune Converter, which release you from manually making the settings. What’s more, it lets you directly convert a DVD to your Zune without any other tool to decrypt the DVD first. You can read a tutorial for it to know this intuitive converting software further.
