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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.
You may be dissatisfied with just watching your favorite Youtube videos online so you also download them to you HDD. Even so, you may be still dissatisfied and want to convert these FLV videos to DVD so that they can be stored forever. Then, as a perfection pursuit person, if the downloaded videos are not so satisfactory (not HD video and even poor SD quality), you may feel like improving the original video quality by converting to DVD format.
So is there any way to convert the FLV video to DVD with improved quality for the result video?
I’m afraid the answer is not. FLV is a flash video container format mainly used to broadcast videos through Internet, so it is aimed to lower the bandwidth consumption with lower bitrates for both contained video and audio compared to DVD.
Most FLV container contains stereo at 44.1 Hz and video bitrate ranges from 400 to 1200 kbps, while a common DVD contains 8000+ kbps video and 48 KHz, 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound. And converting the DVD to another format will more or less reduce the quality but converting from other formats to DVD cannot enhance the quality.
You can make efforts like choosing better software to convert the FLV to DVD to get at least not worse quality , but no way to really improve the original poor quality. Therefore, if you cannot endure the poor quality of the video you got, you’d better seek for other video sources with higher quality. There are many HD videos online nowadays. If you cannot find bette
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!
LG IQ
The Telus LG IQ cell phone, also called LG Monaco, was released in the end of last year as an advanced smartphone, running on the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, with a bunch of features such as a fingerprint sensor, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2-inch screen and more. Among the features, the 3.2” WVGA touch screen display and 480×800 resolution is excellent for enjoying your favorite videos anywhere and anytime.
The media formats the LG IQ supports are: MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, AMR, MPEG4, WMV, H.263, H.264. So if you want to watch videos with formats not supported on LG IQ like AVI (Xvid/Divx), the common and popular video format we usually have, how can you do that?
Try Mobile Media Players
There are some mobile media players to let you play the video with format that is not officially certified for your phone, and Divx Mobile Player and TCPMP are two such media players for playing Xvid/Divx video.
1.TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player) is a free media player for embedded devices IE; PocketPC, Windows Mobile with codecs like mpeg4 video (XviD,DivX), mp3 (libmad), vorbis (Tremor) and supports for third party plugins (AAC). However, this free version is abandoned for years so it may not support the newer version of the codecs your videos have.
You may get jerky playback if your video has higher resolution than your screen, for example watching a 1280×760 movie on a 800×480 screen. In this case, you can use the freeware pocketdivxencoder to convert/resize down the video to 800×480 before view it with TCPMP.
2.Divx Mobile Player supports Divx/ Xvid codec videos from version 4 onward, and it is beta software available for a limited time only and will expire.
Convert the Video Format
If the mobile media player cannot play your AVI(Xvid/Divx) videos due to whatever reason, you have to convert your videos to the formats that will be supported by your LG IQ. Find a good video converter that can convert your AVI videos to the format LG IQ supports like WMV, MP4, H.264.
AVI (Xvid/Divx) format is widely used like in some video sharing websites and digital camcorders. These AVI videos can be played in computer but how to make them play in DVD players with as good quality as the original video quality?
Convert to DVD Format to Burn to DVD
DVDs use MPEG2 which is a lossy codec and need a lot more bitrate than the source Divx/Xvid AVI video to keep equal quality to the source video. For same quality video, Divx/Xvid gives smaller file size than MPEG2.
Therefore, to maintain as good quality as possible, don’t shrink the converted video size. Try to put too many videos on a disc or make the files too small; you will make the disc not watchable. You’d better put one movie/video on a blank DVD and use a good AVI to DVD converter. In this way, you will get the disc with similar video quality as the original video.
Burn DVD with AVI Video and Get an Xvid/Divx DVD Player
Burning the AVI videos directly to a DVD without quality loss and play it on an Xvid/Divx DVD player which is cheap (about $30). If you have many AVI videos to watch on a DVD player, buying such a DVD player will saves your time and money in the longtime. After all, the size of Xvid/Divx video is much smaller and thus a DVD disc can take more moves on it. Also, you don’t need to spend time to convert the video format.
However, you may meet Xvid/Divx DVD player playback problems; please read here first.
Want to watch your AVI videos on mobile devices so as to enjoy your favorite video anywhere and anytime? Check our video converters.
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Convert Divx 3 to Divx 5/Xvid with Video&Audio Synchronizing
0 Comments | Posted by Bob in Tips & Tricks
There are different versions for the video codec Divx: Div3, 4 and 5. Div 3 is not much used nowadays but there are still some DVD released in this codec. Unfortunately, many DVD players do not support all the Divx versions and the LiteOn LVD-2001 DVD Player is one of such DVD players. LiteOn LVD-2001 has the feature of high quality DVD playback with support for many kinds of video format including Div 4 & 5. Thus if you have this player and want to enjoy your Div 3 movies on it, you need to convert the Div 3 to Div 5 or Xvid.
However, if a Divx 3 file is encoded with VBR(variable Bit Rate) audio, the audio will easily get gradually out of sync with the video when you re-encode it. Thus following are the guides to help you convert Divx 3 files that have VBR audios to Divx 5 or Xvid files and keep video and audio synchronizing, using the free video converter and editor.
Use Dr.Divx
Dr Divx is a free and open source software tool to convert your avi video encoded in Div 3 to Div 5 or Xvid codecs. It can automatically converts the VBR audio to CBR audio and then re-encode the video to Div 5 with fast 2-pass variable bit rate conversons. It also supports AC3 audio if you download and install an AC3 filter separately.
Note: Since Dr.Divx has not been updated for years, it only works with the 6.8.5 divx codec pack installed. It doesn’t support the latest version 6.9.x divx codec pack which is available now on the official Divx website.
Dr Divx
Tip: If you want better quality, you can adjust the settings by: advanced settings/ Pre-Processing tab /to use the max video resolution (eg using the slide bar); then use the codec tab to set the Rate Control bit rate to 1200Kbps. If you set higher than 1200kbps, the video may not pay fine in some devices.
Use VirtualDub
1.Load the file in VirtualDub that will tell you with a pop-up that the sound is VBR and will cause a skew (out of sync) in the playback.
2.Under the Audio tab, select “Full processing mode” without adding other options.
3.Under the Video tab, select “Compression–Xvid Codec”
4.Under File, select “Save as avi” and select the location to save the converted file.
Note: don’t forget to try our video converters that will convert your videos in different format to high quality Xvid or H.264 videos with guaranteed synchronization of video and audio.
If you like to download your favorite FLV videos from websites like Youtube and Google Video and get a collection of them, you may want to save them in a disc for a long time or you just want to watch them on a TV screen with the standalone DVD player.
Then what tools you can rely on to convert the FLV video to a standard DVD format and then burn to a DVD disc directly or with an additional burning tool like Nero or ImgBurn? There are numerous video converters to help you do this, but some are not so user-friendly; some works too slow; some may not really create standard DVD folder. If you are after for a free way to convert FLV video to DVD, you can try the following free programs which are reliable to convert FLV video to standard DVD format. Hope you can find the one that works for you.
DVD Flick
DVD Flick can convert most popular video formats including FLV to DVD format with supports for DVD Authoring, ISO image creating and DVD burning (so you don’t need an external DVD burning tool). However, its working speed may be a bit slow.
DVD Flick
Guides to use DVD Flick:
http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html
http://stream-recorder.com/forum/dvdflick-burn-any-video-dvd-free-t4071.html
AVStoDVD
Like DVD Flick, AVStoDVD converts various video formats to DVD format and also supports DVD Authoring, ISO image building, and DVD burning using integrated ImgBurn. There is a related guide for you to refer to when using it.
AVStoDVD
Tip: Use ‘Add Title’ button or drag&drop your video in the title frame to add the FLV file, not using the ‘Open project’ button.
DeVeDe
DeVeDe is available for both Linux and Windows and works fast. It is able to convert many video formats like flv, avi, asf, wmv, wma, quicktime, mov, realtime, ogg and matroska to DVD format for you to burn to a DVD disc using an external burning program. There is a guide on how to use it
DeVeDe
This How-to will show you step by step the way to convert a DVD to iPod, using the free DVD ripping program DVDx and TouchUp iPod Video Converter trial version.
Rip the DVD
1.First, download DVDx 2.2 by clicking here and install it.
2. Insert a DVD. Launch DVDx and click File>Open DVD root to select the hard drive location and load the VIDEO_TS folder of your DVD. This will open the following window. If you are ripping a movie, just select the longest title; if you are ripping a TV show or anything with multiple episodes, select the episode you want to convert.
select a title to rip
3. After you select the title, the Input Settings window will pop up. You can leave most of the settings as default. Just choose the language of audio, and language for subtitles. Besides, the Audio/Video Synchronization option is recommended to select, for it can make the output video and audio sync better, though take a little longer. Click OK to save the settings.
Input Settings
4. Click Settings in the main menu bar and choose Output Settings. In the Output Settings you need to choose WMV and click “Apply”.
output settings
5. Click File>Select Output File to select the destination folder to store the ripped file and then press the red encode button on the bottom right to begin the ripping.
Convert the Ripped DVD
After DVDx finishes the ripping which may take a bit long time, you should install and launch TouchUp iPod Video Converter. You can download it here.
Next choose “File > Add Video File”. In the open dialogue, choose the WMV file just created by DVDx and set the output folder to save the final file you will get. Then press the Convert button on the right to begin the conversion.
convet to iPod Video
The converting speed is very fast and you can get the file ready for iPod very soon. At last, launch iTunes and add the converted file to its Library. Now you can play the movie in your iPod.
You also can choose a pay program to convert a DVD to iPod directly. One such program to produce excellent output video and audio quality with fast working speed is TouchUp DVD to iPod converter. You can read the detail tutorial for it and find the easiest to use DVD to iPod converter.
Youtube doesn’t allow users to download videos from its site for it needs to prevent copyright problems and it wants the visitors to come back for more traffic. However, there indeed are some ways to download videos from Youtube. What’s more, all of these methods cost you no penny and is applicable in other video sites like Google video, iFilm, Myspace, Dailymotion, etc.
Using Online File Converters
There are some online file converters like Zamzar, Free File Converter and Convert Files capable of downloading videos from their supported websites like Youtube and meanwhile converting the video format to the one you like. Just copy the URL of your favorite video from Youtube and then do the rest steps as instruction.
download Youtube videos with Free File Converte
use ZamZar to download videos from Youtube
From the source code
In the Youtube webpage offering the video you want to download, right click and choose “View Source” to get the html codecs of this page shown in a notepad. Now press Ctrl+f to get a window in which you type .mov or any file format you require. Then find the URl and download the video using download manager.
Using Firefox Add-on Unplug
You can use Unplug extension to download videos from Youtube if you are using Firefox browser. Unplug works with most sites offering Flash videos including Youtube and it’s easy to use:
First, Ensure you downloaded and installed the tool; then go to top Tool bar in the Youtube page where offers the video you want to download. Click Tools\UnPlug as below screenshot shows.
launch Unplug in firefox
After you have selected the UnPlug option, it will redirect you to the UnPlug page where shows all the media files located on the page you were viewing. Unplug is able to help you find the file you want to download by marking the file in the first link.
save the video file you want in Unplug page
Just click the Save button of the first link and the download will start soon. When it completes, you will get the movie in .flv format and you can play it by downloading and installing a freeware FLV player.
Using Save2pc Light
Save2pc Light is a small freeware program allowing you to download movies from YouTube by just copying and pasting the URL. You can download it here. It is as simple to use as the following screenshot shows.
download Youtube video with save2pc light
Using RealPlayer
The basic version (free) of Realplayer SP also allows you to download videos from Youtube. You can download RealPlayer SP here. Just check the option of “download and recording” during installation.
select Basic Realplayer in RealPlayer installation
select the download option in RealPLayer installation
Now click on the download sign on the top right corner of the video you are watching and it will do the work.
download the video using RealPlayer
Note: After download your favorite videos from Youtube, you may want to convert their formats so that they can be played on different devices. Then don’t forget to try to our TouchUp Video Converter which are much more versatile, powerful and fast-working than the above mentioned online file converters or any desktop media converter.
