With the multimedia capabilities of the Palm we can play DVD and videos on Palm Pre 3.1-inch touch screen, but before transfer the video to Palm Pre we have to convert the DVD and video to Palm format.

Palm Pre supported media formats:
Audio Formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV;
Video Formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264;

This tutorial will guide you through the entire process using a DVD/Video to Palm Converter Pro. We took the copy of Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life” and converted the DVD for use on the Palm Pre. The processing time depends on your computer’s processor and the length of your DVD. “A Bug’s Life” is 1 hour and 34 minutes. On my computer, the entire process took roughly 30 minutes from start to finish. Since the Palm Pre supports iTunes, we were able add the converted video to iTunes and then sync with the Pre. And this guide work for all series of Palm including Palm Pre, Palm Centro, Palm Treo, etc.

Step1. Download and install Video Converter Pro (here is the directly download link, about 9M). This software is an all-in-one converter that can rip protected DVD movie and convert video to MP4 video for Palm.

Step2: Load your DVD or videos into Video Converter Pro. Here we can load three kinds of DVD’s:
1. DVD disc, Insert your DVD into your computer CD-Rom, click ‘Load DVD‘ to import it.
2. DVD ISO image, you can amount your ISO files in the daemon tools and then click ‘Load ISO file‘ to import it. No other DVD Converter can convert ISO file except this one.
3. DVD folder, sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it contains the ‘Video_TS’ and ‘Audio_TS’ folders. You can load it by clicking the ‘load DVD folders‘.
4. For regular video files, you can drag and drop them into the software directly.

Step3: Select Profile, Subtitle, Audio, output directory setting
After you load DVD or video into the software, click the Profile drop-down list to select ‘Palm Pre Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)’ as output format.

Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting ‘No Subtitle’. Selecting Audio is the same. For more advanced settings, you can open the setting panel by clicking ‘Settings’.

Step4: After all things done, click the ‘Start’ to begin the conversion. When the conversion is completed, click ‘find target’ to locate the converted DVD or video file on your computer.

Step5: If you use iTunes, simply drag the resulting file into iTunes. Select the ‘Movies’ tab and select ‘Sync movies’. I also selected the option to only bring my preferred movies and then checked BUGSLIFE. When the sync completes, eject the Palm Pre from your computer.

Step 6: Select the Application Launcher and open up the Videos application. Select your movie and it will start to play immediately. You’ve now successfully converted your DVD movie and video for use on the Palm Pre. Enjoy your movies on your Palm Pre!

As we know we can edit video with Windows Movie Maker and iMovie free video editing software, but if you want to edit video by using them you need to make sure the video file is the right format as Windows Movie Maker accepts only WMV, AVI video formats, and iMovie accepts only MOV. Of cause, you can use a video conversion software to adjust the format but the conversion process would certainly destroy the quality.

Here I would like to introduce a few copy of video editing software that can edit video without conversion so the quality will keep original. They are Video Joiner, Video Cutter and Video Splitter, you can follow these simple guides to edit video files after downloading them.

Part 1 How to join video clips into a single video file

1. Download Aimersoft Video Joiner and install
2. Load video clips you want to edit
3. Select the “Profile” and “video size”
4. You can also edit the “Settings” to get better output quality
5. “Start”

Part 2 How to cut video clips

1. Download Aimersoft Video Cutter
2. “Add video” file
3. Create video clips by clicking the “New Clip” button, and the new clip will appear in the right window.
4. Drag the two little triangles to mark the period you want to cut.
5. Repeat 1-4 to cut another video clip.
6. “Start”

Part 3 How to split a video file into a few parts

1. Download Aimersoft Video Splitter
2. “Add” video file
3. Drag the time line and create a triangle to split the video by clicking the scissor icon
4. “Start”
5. You can also split the video averagely by using Automatic Mode

Question: I emailed myself a video I took from my blackberry curve. When i try to play the video on my computer it says it can’t find the file extension. What is the deal?

Answer: The deal is that you either need a program installed on your computer that can play the video file, or a program that will convert it to a common video format like Quicktime or Windows Media.

I’ll cover both approaches, and will introduce you to some free and low-cost programs that’ll handle the video viewing and converting. I’ll also show you how to convert Quicktime or Windows Media videos into a format that can be viewed on a Blackberry, iPhone, or virtually any mobile device that supports video.

Video Players

Most computers come with some form of a video player, such as Windows Media Player that plays video files with a .wmv extension. You can also get the Quicktime video player for free from Apple that plays .mp4 video files.

However, videos that are recorded from a mobile device will usually have a different file extension, such as .3GP for movies recorded on Motorola RAZR phones. These videos won’t play in Quicktime or Windows Media.

You’ll need a video player designed to read the video format that your specific mobile device uses, or better yet - one that can play a wide range of video formats so that you’ll still be in luck if you switch phones in the future.

Rather then look for a universal video file player, look for a video file converter. Not only will you get the ability to view all kinds of video files, but you’ll be able to convert them to be viewable on other devices or other computer systems like a Macintosh. Two for the price of one.

Video Converters

I’ve been a fan of Aimersoft DVD Ripper because it let’s me rip copy-protected movies and backup my movie library, so naturally I checked with them first for video converters.

It turns out that Aimersoft recently developed an HD video converter that supports literally every video format I’ve ever seen, from .3GP cell phone videos, to iPhone videos, Blackberry videos, AVI, WMV, MP4 - you name it.

Aimersoft HD Video Converter will play videos recorded on your Blackberry on your computer, and will also let you convert those videos to HD-quality formats that will play in Quicktime, Windows Media, and even on your regular DVD player (*.vob format).

There are two Aimersoft features I use often. The first is a huge time saver - the ability to batch convert several videos in one shot. Just add the videos to the list, select the output format (iPhone 3G in the example shown above) and away you go. You can even combine all of the videos into a single video.

The second feature I like is the ability to take still shots of the video and save them in a variety of image file formats.

Aimersoft HD Video Converter can be downloaded here

This article is about how to convert DVD to FLV, SWF with a DVD to flash converter software.

As we know FLV and SWF is Flash video formats and notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers.

So, if you want to upload your DVD to most of the online video providers such as Youtube, Google, Myspace, you might need to know how to convert DVD to FLV, SWF.

Ok, let’s start to learn how to convert DVD to FLV, SWF

Step 1: Download a DVD to flash Converter or DVD Ripper and install it, Aimersoft DVD Ripper for example

Step2: Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-Rom, then run the software, click “File” at the top left corner to load the DVD Rom/DVD Folder/ISO file/IFO file. Select the chapters or titles you want to convert, check the “merge into one file” box so the converted chapters or clips can be merged into one video file.

Step3: Select output formats as FLV or SWF to convert DVD to FLV, SWF

Step4: “Edit” and “Settings”

The “edit” interface can help you trim, crop video and also change the effect such as brightness, contrast and saturation.
(With the trim function you can convert any parts of the DVD to FLV, SWF to upload them, I think it’s useful for long DVD movie.)

And you can also get a higher quality video or faster conversion speed by adjusting the video and audio parameters.

After all these done, you can see the conversion time length and estimated output size at main interface, then just press “Start button” to start convert DVD to FLV or SWF.

This article describes two methods to watch video on Nintendo DS: Moonshell + BatchDPG + AviSynth , this is a free method, and another one is Moonshell + DPG Converter which is more easy with a little cost.

DPG - Also known as nDs-mPeG, usually abbreviated DPG, is a special format of MPEG-1 video specifically for playback using the homebrew Moonshell program for the Nintendo DS. So, for watching video on Nintendo DS we have to convert video to DPG with a DPG Converter.

Moonshell - a homebrew multimedia player for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS lite dual-screen handheld videogame systems.

Now, let start to watch Video on Nintendo DS with DPG Converter + Moonshell

Part 1, Watch Video on Nintendo DS with Moonshell + BatchDPG + AviSynth

Programs you will need:

AviSynth:                                                                                      Download
Microsoft .NET:                                                                           Download
BatchDPG (A free DPG encoder need to work with AvisSynth):   Download
Moonshell:                                                                                    Download
ffdshow                                                                                       Download

Step 1:
Downlod and install AviSynth, Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 and ffdshow on your computer. Once you have all that done, you can download BatchDPG, and Moonshell.

Step 2: Download BatchDPG + Moonshell
Download BatchDPG from the above link, extract it to wherever. Also make sure you copy “avisynth.dll” to C:\Windows\System32 directory.
Afterwards, click BatchDPGMTv2.exe  to open up BatchDPG, you can see the interface below.

Click “browse” next to media file and select your media file. Once your video is loaded, please input one of the two recommended settings in the section below and select a temporary path and final output path of your video. Once you are done, just click “Add” and click “Run”. Please repeat if you have any more videos.

BatchDPG 1.3 Beta 5 Recommended Settings For Moonshell 1.71

Fullscreen

FPS: 20
Video bitrate: 386
Max bitrate: 512
Passes: 3
Profile: Ultra
Resizer - Spline16
Width: 256
Height: 192
Audio bitrate: 128
Samplerate: 32768
Mode: Joint Stereo
Normalize: On

Widescreen

FPS: 22
Video bitrate: 386
Max bitrate: 512
Passes: 3
Profile: Ultra
Resizer - Spline16
Width: 256
Height: 144
Audio bitrate: 128
Samplerate: 32768
Mode: Joint Stereo
Normalize: On

Tips: You can lower the amount of passes to reduce encoding time at the possible expense of quality.

Step 3: Download Moonshell from the above link and extract it. Insert you SD Card and transfer the extracted Moonshell files and converted DPG video files from your computer to SD Card.

Then, your can open up your Nintendo DS, enter the DS Card –> MoonShell and play your video.

Note: Some types of DS Card (such as SuperCard-DS) already installed Moonshell, just check your DS Card and if there it is, just ignore step 3.

Part 2 Watch video on Nintendo DS with DPG Converter + Moonshell

Step 1: You also need to download Moonshell from the above link if your Nintendo DS doesn’t have it in your SD Card.

Step 2: Just Download this DPG Converter, use it to convert video to DPG formats and transfer DPG files to your Nintendo DS with SD Card.
This DPG Converter is very professional for converting video to DPG, it can convert almost all video formats to DPG, provides video editing (crop, trim, effect adjust, watermark edit and plug-in subtitle) and also supports batch conversion.

Apple on Tuesday followed through on its promise to remove all digital rights management (DRM) from music sold on the iTunes Store.

All songs on the iTunes Store are now available at 256kbps AAC encoding, which Apple says is virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings.

Why we need to convert AAC to MP3?

First, can we now just move the song purchased from iTunes to another player ?

Yes, but only if that player supports AAC. Obviously, iPods do, and some other players do as well, like the Sony Walkman NWZ-S738F, the Archos 5, and, yes, even the Microsoft Zune. But, if you want to play the music on other players that not support AAC, you need to find a AAC to MP3 converter to convert AAC to MP3 which can be accepted by almost all music players.

Second, what about the previously purchased iTunes tracks, does them still have DRM? If so, can I upgrade them?

Of course, and Apple is offering users a way to upgrade all of their existing music to DRM-free songs. Upgrading costs 30 cents per song. If you upgrade an entire album, it will cost 30 percent of the original album price and music videos can be upgraded for 60 cents. You can get to this upgrade link on the iTunes Store by clicking on “Upgrade to iTunes Plus.”

But, if you purchased a lot of 99-cent tracks on iTunes over the years and want to find an more efficient way to remove the DRM, you can also try an AAC to MP3 converter, of cause it should be an DRM remover too.

How to convert AAC to MP3 with AAC to MP3 converter ?

First, download AAC to MP3 converter and install it.

Following is the screen shoot of a professional AAC to MP3 Converter called Aimersoft AlMusic Converter, it supports both protected and unprotected AAC to MP3 conversion and can also remove DRM from iTunes music.

Then, you can use it to convert AAC to MP3 and remove DRM with three clicks.

1. Click “Add” to load AAC files with the postfix .M4A (unprotected) or M4P. (copy-protected).

2. Click “drop-download” list at the bottom to select output format.

3. Click “start” to start conversion

And you can drag and drop all your music files to AAC to MP3 converter at a time, then do something else till it is finished.

How to free download Youtube video ?

1. With free online flv converter such as http://vixy.net when you find your favorite youtube video, just copy the video URL (like this format http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs ) to the input box, choose the output format, and then click start. When the conversion finished, you will get the video download link, just download to your computer.

2. With Firefox + videodownloader, if you’re using Firefox browser, just install a plug-in named videodownloader, and then you will see a small icon in the bottom right, when you watch youtube video, double click it, and then you will get the flv download link.

3. With free Youtube downloader & player
http://www.flash-on-tv.com/free-youtube-downloader.html

How to burn Youtube video to DVD disc ?

As regular DVD burner software doesn’t support Youtube video format (FLV), you have to find a program that can burn common video such as WMV (Windows Media Player), MP4 (iTunes), FLV (Youtube), etc to DVD disc. DVD Creator is one of the few DVD burner software that can get the job done. And this app can also burn MKV, AVI and M2TS and other HD video to DVD with real DVD menus. Here are a few steps about how to use this software:

Step 1: Download this DVD Creator, install it and start operation;
Meanwhile, you can insert DVD +R (DVD-R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW)

Step2: Run DVD Creator, add video files or load files which you want to convert;

One Way: Click the “Load files” to add video files;

Another way: Choose “Load video” option under the “file” drop-down menu, and you can add files as you want, too.

Step 3: Display the loaded file and choose the video you want to convert

Details:

If you just want to burn video to DVD without adding any special effects, of course you just need to click the “Burn” button to begin the conversion process.

When you are clicking the” Burn” button, here are some options for you as follows:

Burn to: you can burn your DVD to DVD, DVD Folder, or ISO file as you will; and then you should choose where you want to save the burning DVD files; next choose the TV Standard “NTSC or PLA”
Explanation: “NTSC” is 30 fps, which is used in USA, Canada and Japan. “PAL “is 25 fps, which is used in Europe and Asia. At last, choose the aspect ratio: 4:3 or 16:9

After above steps, now click the “Start” button to begin conversion.

Tips: if your video and the subtitle are separated into two files, this software may allow you to plug-in the subtitles for MKV files. Ok, just follow the steps below;
1. Drag the loaded video to the storyboard.
2. Click the video, you may see the button “edit selected video file”.
3. Then click the button, a box that offers settings for the subtitle will appear. (you may also crop and trip your favorite parts off the video here.)

More details you can visit here

Firstly, I’d like to explain the definition of MKV - MKV stands for Matroska video. More exactly it is about a container (from where the name Matroska, in reference to the Russian headstocks) making it possible to contain video (DivX, Xvid, RV9, etc), sound (MP3, MP2, AC3, Ogg, AAC, SDR, PCM), as well as subtitles (SRT, ASS, SSA, USF, etc) in the same file.

If you wanna to convert your Matroska video with the file extension .MKV to other common video and audio formats (MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, MP3, WMA, etc), the following software has the ability to perform the conversion job easy and fast!

Here is the description for Aimersoft MKV Converter:

The program is a multi-functional video application for converting video for any portable device such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, blackbery, etc.
Convert Matroska MKV file to other video and audio, cut, merge, crop, rotate, adjust with professional filters and effects, even add watermarks. Extract audio and frames.

Input video formats: Matroska MKV

Extract audio from your favourite clips and video and save to MP3 audio format.
Customize the conversion speed, file size and quality by selecting your own H.264 and MPEG-4 format settings.

Merge multiple videos into a single longer movie file with one click of the Join button.

Batch conversion: Save time by adding multiple video files and convert them in a single step.

Done!