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What is HTML5 Video Like?

Brenda — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:05:04 +0000

Along with the development of smartphone and mobile device, in the Internet world, watching online videos on mobile phones and devices is in a trend. However, as we know, the most popular smartphone, iPhone and Android mobiles are in different OS, which means they adopt different codec standard, for instance, iPhone only can play the online videos in MP4 format, while Andriod mobiles can play online videos in FLV format only. Therefore, if there is a format can be supported by both systems, the mobile video websites will attract more visitors. Now, the very format has come out, which is HTML5 video.

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software.It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML4 as of 1997)and as of January 2012 is still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML as well. – From Wikipedia.

What is HTML5 Video?

HTML5 video is an element introduced in the HTML5 draft specification for the purpose of playing videos or movies, partially replacing the object element. HTML5 video is intended by its creators to become the new standard way to show video online,[citation needed] but has been hampered by lack of agreement as to which video formats should be supported in the video element. – From Wikipedia

As easyhtml5video.com says, HTML5 is the fastest growing web development trend and HTML5 video as a part of HTML5 becomes the new natural way to show video online. iPad, iPhone, Android, all new browsers declare the support for HTML5 video. It’s great, but what is the usual route to create HTML5 video? First you need to find converters and make three versions of your video – .OGG, MP4, WebM. Then, to provide the compatibility with IE and old browsers you add a fallback Flash version of your video with Flash video player. And finally, you extract an image for poster and write batch lines of code to combine all of it…

What are the codecs for HTML5 video?

MP4 or H.264

This is the codec supported by Apple and Microsoft. It is a licensed codec that provides good quality video and small file sizes. There are a lot of programs available for both Mac and Windows that will encode in H.264 video.

Where the problem comes in is that this codec is not free. MPEG LA, the owner of the H.264 codec, has said they wouldn’t charge royalties for internet video that is free to end users in perpetuity. But what does that mean? They may charge browser makers and video editing software makers to put the codec into their products, or they could take it right to the video creators (although this is unlikely). Ultimately, if the MPEG group starts charging anyone for the license of this software, we will be paying for it at some point through increases to the price of software we purchase or the loss of support in browsers and other devices.

ogg/Theora

Ogg/Theora is a free open standard for video encoding. It generates high quality videos with comparatively larger file sizes. Plus it is a lot harder to find tools to convert to ogg/Theora. And in some cases they only convert the video, and not the video and audio.

Ogg/Theora is free software, so many people are comfortable using it because they are not concerned that they will be charged a license fee some day in the future. As such, we can expect that the cost of this codec will remain free.

WebM

WebM uses the VP8 codec that is owned by Google. It has high video quality, but it can take a lot longer to encode a video in WebM than in H.264. While Google claims that WebM has the highest video quality of all the web codecs, most independent sources find that either H.264 is slightly better or there is very little difference between the two. The problem is that it can be very difficult to encode, especially compared to the many free and commercial tools available to encode H.264.

The WebM codec is free and open source, so it should remain free to use. However, the underlying codec is owned by Google. And their position on open source could change in the future. Ultimately, most people are assuming it won’t, and so this codec will remain free.

(The explanations above are all from Jennifer Kyrnin)

Gradually, HTML5 video will be the first chosen for websites’ builders. As the software pioneer, sothink has been dedicated in developing the products in the advanced technology, and we’d like to let you know that our HTML5 video converter will be released in the near future; it is the video tool that can help you convert videos to HTML5 formats for publishing. Please keep an eye on our website for the latest news!

How to Watch Everything on iPhone 4S/Samsung Epic/Nokia Lumia 800?

mirrorking — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:59:31 +0000

By now, Apple iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch and Nokia Lumia 800 are all hot mobiles around the world. Their amazing 3.5-4.5 inch touchscreen and large storage make themselves own the wonderful video, especially HD video, playback ability.

Since iPhone 4S, Samsung Epic and Nokia Lumia are perfectly suited for video watching, converting video to the right format never should be a tough thing. Here are some tips on the kind of software those hottest mobiles users need, what jobs should be done for conversion, and more. With this article, everyone could handle watching everything on iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy and Nokia Lumia.

How to watch YouTube video on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch/Nokia Lumia 800?

For YouTube video, here we mean Flash video FLV format. So if you would like to enjoy FLV on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch/Nokia Lumia 800, you should first convert FLV video to MPEG-4 format, which those mobiles support.

Download Sothink Free Video Converter (there are a lot of video converter applications and here we only recommend the freeware, which is absolutely capable for iPhone/Samsung/Nokia video conversion and multi-language supported), and launch it.

Click button “Add Files” on the top toolbar or select “Add Folder” under “File” to import the YouTube videos you would like to convert. Then go to the left panel and choose encoding profile from the pre-set ones. Here we choose “Google Android Video (*.mp4)”, which is the universal format for those mobiles. Once you choose this profile, you don’t need to configure anything for your conversion since all configuration work has been automatically done for correct and the most suitable. Then click button “Convert” to start the video to conversion.

After a while, you will get the converted files. It only takes 3 steps, which are actually 3 clicks. And the conversion is very fast since this free video converter supports multi-CPU and multi-threads.

With this method, you may also watch other online videos on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy/Nokia Lumia. And as for AVI, WMV, RMVB, 3GP, MKV, MOV, VOB, and more formats of video could also be converted following this way.

How to watch PC video on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch/Nokia Lumia 800?

You must have collected a lot of videos and movies in your computer, and maybe you are wondering if you could use the method mentioned above to convert those files in various formats. Of course you can. Free Video Converter supports almost all video formats, including AVI(DivX, XivD), WMV, ASF, MKV, H.264, RM, RMVB, MOV, QT, MP4, DV, 3GP, 3GP2, 3G2, 3GPP, MPG, MPE, MPEG, DAT, VOB, ASX, TS, MTS, M2TS, AVCHD, etc. You could add all your videos, no matter what formats are those files, and batch convert to MP4 format at one time. The source videos will be perfectly played on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy/Nokia Lumia with the same properties.

How to watch HD camera video on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch/Nokia Lumia 800?

Launch Free Video Converter, add your HD camera videos into the program, go to encoding profile and select “HD Video – MP4 HD 720p Video (*.mp4)”, or select “H.264/AVC Video – MP4 H.264/AVC Video (*.mp4)”, which can keep the original resolution of the HD camera video. If your HD camera video is of 1080p, we suggest you choose the first profile because the output files will have the same excellent high definition quality for iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy/Nokia Lumia but the first one will take less conversion time.

Now you can watch HD camera videos on those mobiles with high definition screen. However, what about play the video recoded by them on other devices? How to make it happen if we want to enjoy the recorded mobile video on PC, upload it on web, share it on some other devices or mobiles?

Still use the same method. With this video converter freeware, the recorded video could be converted to AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, TS, FLV, SWF, ASF, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, and DV format with different codec, dimension, aspect ratio, zoom mode, etc. It also supports basic video editing including cutting source videos into smaller clips.

How to watch DVD movie on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch/Nokia Lumia 800?

Watching DVD on iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy/Nokia Lumia needs another converter tool especially developed for ripping DVD movies. Here we still introduce the conversion way using Sothink product, DVD Ripper, which has almost the same process as the one you have already be familiar with.

Lay the source DVD disc in your PC drive or store your DVD folder in PC directly. Launch Sothink DVD Ripper, and click button “Open DVD” to import the DVD movies you want to enjoy on the three hot mobiles. (You’ll find all DVD titles are listed in the program and have been ticked, except the ones shorter than 10 seconds. By default, it will hide and ignore the DVD titles shorter than 10 sec, which is for helping you jump over some advertisement or other unnecessary clips in your movies.) Go to select target profile for ripping DVD to MP4. And then, click button “Rip DVD”.

Till now, we guess you can handle any video to iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy/Nokia Lumia conversion and you truly can watch everything on it!

Winter Comes. So Does Big Bang Theory Cartoon!

mirrorking — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:45:14 +0000

For fun, we SourceTec team created a cartoon video adapted from The Big Bang Theory. Involved there is a video tutorial about how to get a universal video format for all popular mobiles like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. This time, mobile and laptop users may learn the use skills of video converter software in a funny way together with “Sheldon” and “Penny”.

We have already uploaded this video onto YouTube and you may view it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IYtC2igdlI.

Wish you’ll like it, and share it to your friends. We will appreciate that if you leave us some comment or advice. Then a secret gift may land in this hopeful winter.

Speaking of “secret gift”, in fact that this Big Bang Theory cartoon video is the first gift for the coming Xmas. Next there will be other more Xmas gifts and if you are interested, please follow our Xmas Gift page and Facebook page.

[How To] Use Sothink DVD Ripper (No BS Tutorial)

mirrorking — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:09:17 +0000

“Sothink DVD Ripper is surprisingly easy to use. All you need to do is insert DVD, select what you want to rip, then rip it!”

That was what GameDexterity, the ID of “Home of The Tutorial” YouTube Channel, said about our DVD ripping tool.

We are very appreciated that GameDexterity produced an excellent video tutorial for Sothink DVD Ripper and we would like to share it to more DVD ripper software users at http://www.youtube.com/user/SothinkMedia?feature=mhee#p/f/0/YStinB7fWo4.

How to Download Music from YouTube Video Before Sunset?

mirrorking — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:13:32 +0000

Have you watched the romantic movie Before Sunset? I love it so much! And I always play the guitar part again and again. If I can download the music A Waltz for a Night (Julie Delpy) of that part and put it into my iPod, that will be great.

Actually I realized it! Here is my video tutorial with voice about how to download music from YouTube video, which of course took Before Sunset as my example:)

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you like it, please share with your friends.

More interesting How-to videos are available at SothinkMedia YouTube Channel.

Is It the Right Time to Start Using HTML 5

Gracie — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:49:45 +0000

Over the past ten years or so, concepts such as Web 2.0, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and the Semantic Web have all pushed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to and beyond their limits, often relying on plug-ins such as Adobe Flash to power components such as video and audio, as well as highly graphical and interactive applications. The Adobe Flex development framework, Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, and JavaFX have all looked to provide support where HTML’s weaknesses made developers’ lives difficult.

With HTML5, however, the markup language is striking back, with full multimedia support, local storage and offline application support, a native 2D drawing API, and a host of new application development APIs, all provided with the intent of proving that HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can provide a rich front end to your Web sites and applications.

HTML5 is a relatively young specification, and as a result, browser support is quite limited (at the time of writing). Main features will work in all browsers, but some will not. Here are several charts about how well each browser supports HTML5 and CSS3. To ensure that you can experience all of HTML 5 new features, it is recommended that you install the latest versions of the following Web browsers on your system:

However, since old versions of the browsers won’t support HTML5 or CSS3, you can still make your site work by what is known as: Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation

Is HTML5 Ready for Prime Time?

There is a lot of confusion about the future of the web and HTML5. HTML5 has been THE buzzword in web technologies for the past couple of years, and each year the excitement grows even larger. We are told that we will no longer need Flash, embedding videos will be easy, and we will be able to have advertising without third-party plugins. We are told that HTML5 will be the magic fix to all of our development woes, and never again will we struggle to create the next great multimillion dollar web site.

Not so fast. If it sounds to good to be true…well, you know.

There a lot of good reasons to implement HTML5 today. There are also a lot of good reasons not to, including the fact the HTML5 is not a finalized standard by the W3C. Whatever you decide on implementing HTML5, the decision you make will have consequences immediately for your site. And not all of those consequences are positive.

Download Facebook Video to Portables

Gracie — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:23:21 +0000

Facebook video downloader enables downloading online videos from Facebook much easier. People spend lots of time on Facebook every day to update status, make friends, join common interest groups and share funny videos or latest movie trailer. Even if you are not an addict like me, I bet you have thought about to download Facebook videos to enjoy on PC or your portables. Thus, is there a kind of Facebook Downloader out there? From the experience of most our customers, they find Sothink YouTube Downloader is extremely useful and easy to handle to download Facebook video. Following this post, we will give you more information about Facebook Downloader you may concern.

Know More about Facebook Downloader

Downloads videos, HD videos from Facebook, YouTube, Viemo, Revver, MySpace video, Google video, and many others.
Support downloading all online video formats.
Save Facebook videos in its original format FLV, or convert it to WMV, MP4, MP3, SWF and etc.
Output Facebook videos for iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, MP3/MP4 player and all kinds of smart phone.
Live video capture from various web browsers, like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon and etc.
Rich useful features.

Simple Steps to Download Facebook Video

Download and install Sothink Facebook Downloader following the instruction of the setup file. Open your web browser — it could be Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, and etc. Browse to Facebook and watch a video you are interested in. A notification will pop up from the right bottom corner when the live video is captured. Click on the notification to start a new download task. In this window, user could set up “Save to” address, “File name”, and “Target format”. This target format includes general video audio formats and device-ready formats one click away. And then hit OK. Click “Start” on the main interface. The Facebook Downloader will start to download videos from Facebook. After finishing downloading, Facebook Downloader will automatically start to convert Facebook FLV video to your designated format, like MP4 or Zune WMV. Several minutes later (depending on the file size or your computer/bandwidth condition), you could preview the downloaded video with build-in player by double clicking the file on completed list in Facebook Downloader. And meanwhile the downloaded files could be found in saved folder.

To transfer Facebook videos to your mobiles or portables, upload to your blog to share with friends or just back up for enjoying anytime on PC. It’s totally up to you!

Download Video from Vimeo.com onto Your iPad

Gracie — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:03:34 +0000

Vimeo.com, the second most popular online video sharing sites (only behind YouTube), has gradually gained the recognition in the netizen world. As of March 2010, Vimeo has over 3 million members and an average of more than 16,000 new videos uploaded daily.

Simple Steps to Download Vimeo Video onto Your iPad:

Play:

Play a Vimeo video from web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Mathon. Sothink YouTube Downloader will prompt a notification on the right bottom corner when the live video is captured.

Click:

Click the notification to start a “New Download”. In this window, user could set up “Save to” address, “File name”, and “Target format”. This target format includes general video audio formats and device-ready formats. In this scenario, we choose “iPad H.264/AVC Video (*.mp4)” and then hit OK.

Download:

Now click “Start” on the main interface. Sothink Vimeo Video Downloader will automatically download and convert Vimeo video in your desired formats.

With Sothink Vimeo Downloader, user could:

Download Vimeo videos for iPod
Download Vimeo videos for iPad
Download Vimeo videos for iPhone
Download Vimeo videos for PSP
Download Vimeo videos for smart phones
Take your favorite Vimeo video wherever you go

Download Vimeo Downloader Now!

Use Case Scenarios of Sothink Free Video Converter–3

Gracie — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:02:16 +0000

This is our third post concerning user case of Sothink Free Video Converter. If you still remember, we mentioned in last post that user could cut out and convert only a part of video sound track or audio clip. Here I will give you two usage examples:

1. Convert Video Audio for Ringtones

Extract your favorite snatch of conversation soundtrack from the movie or take the climax in a song and then convert the selected periods into MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG, MKA, FLAC, AIF, and AU (Not all formats are supported by mobile ringtone. Here we listed just for your better knowledge). After conversion, you could transfer the MP3, WAV, AAC file to your mobile and set it as your ringtone.

To accomplish this, we use the “Trim” function under “Edit” on menu.

Your special ringtone could be easily created with Sothink Free Video Converter in following steps: 1). Select the target video audio; 2). Click “Edit” –> “Trim”; 3). Drag the two sliders on timeline to the exact start and end time, 4) Hit “OK” on Trim Window; 5) Select output format “Encoding profile” on main interface; 6) Last, hit “Convert”.

It is just as simple as several clicks to have your special ringtone. Isn’t it cool?

2. Convert Video Clip for Enjoying Only the Highlights

In example one, we focused on audio conversion. Actually, we could also convert and save a clip of video in any desired formats, like AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, TS, FLV, SWF, ASF, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, DV.

What benefits we could get:

1) Convert video clip to MP4, 3GP

— Enjoy only the highlights on mobiles and portables

2) Convert video clip to SWF, FLV

— Share only the highlights with friends on YouTube for personal blogs.

3) Batch convert video clips to VOB

— Collect only the highlights for DVD burning.

4) More for you to discover!

Want to have a try? Follow the operation processes explained in example one and you could enjoy only the highlights easily and freely.

This is the third post regarding scenarios for the extensive usage of Free Video Converter, if you have any problems with Free Video Converter, please leave a message on blog or follow me on or . Have a nice day!

Download the latest version of Free Video Converter!

How to Watch Everything on Nokia N8?

mirrorking — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:38:13 +0000

N8 is the first Nokia smartphone to run the new Symbian ^3 OS, the first 12 megapixel camera phone, and also the first device to support HD Video recording. What’s more, the phone supports Dolby Digital Plus surround sound and users can use it by plugging into their home theater system. All these excellent features make this mobile of 3.5 inch touchscreen and up to 48GB storage has the wonderful video, audio and picture playback ability.

Since Nokia N8 is perfectly suited for video watching, converting video to the right format never should be a tough thing. Here are some tips on the kind of software you need, what jobs you should do for conversion, and more. With this article, you will know how to realize watching everything on Nokia N8.

How to watch YouTube video on Nokia N8?

For YouTube video, here we mean Flash video FLV format. So if you would like to enjoy FLV on your Nokia N8, you should first convert FLV video to MPEG-4 format, which Nokia N8 supports.
Download Sothink Free Video Converter (there are a lot of video converter applications and here we only recommend the freeware, which is absolutely capable for Nokia N8 video conversion and multi-language supported), and launch it.
Click button “Add Files” on the top toolbar or select “Add Folder” under “File” to import the YouTube videos you would like to convert. Then go to the left panel and choose encoding profile from the pre-set ones. Here we certainly choose “Mobile Phone Video – Nokia Mobile Phone Video (*.mp4)”. Once you choose a profile for your target device, you don’t need to configure anything for your conversion since all configuration work has been automatically done for correct and the most suitable. Then click button “Convert” to start the video to Nokia N8 conversion.
After a while, you will get the converted files. It only takes 3 steps, which are actually 3 clicks. And the conversion is very fast since this free video converter supports multi-CPU and multi-threads.
With this method, you may also watch other online videos on Nokia N8. And as for AVI, WMV, RMVB, 3GP, MKV, MOV, VOB, and more formats of video could also be converted to N8 following this way.

How to watch PC video on Nokia N8?

You must have collected a lot of videos and movies in your computer, and maybe you are wondering if you could use the method mentioned above to convert those files in various formats. Of course you can. Free Video Converter supports almost all video formats, including AVI(DivX, XivD), WMV, ASF, MKV, H.264, RM, RMVB, MOV, QT, MP4, DV, 3GP, 3GP2, 3G2, 3GPP, MPG, MPE, MPEG, DAT, VOB, ASX, TS, MTS, M2TS, AVCHD, etc. You could add all your videos, no matter what formats are those files, and batch convert to Nokia N8 format at one time. The source videos will be perfectly played on your smartphone with the same properties.

How to watch HD camera video on Nokia N8?

Usually the formats of HD camera video are M2TS, MTS, and TS. You may still use the free video converter to transfer the high definition videos to MPEG-4. However, if you would like to keep the original high definition properties, such as dimension, picture quality, aspect ratio, and so on, you may configure the encoding profile on your own instead of directly choosing video to Nokia N8 profile.
Launch Free Video Converter, add your HD camera videos into the program, go to encoding profile and select “HD Video – MP4 HD 720p Video (*.mp4)”, which is best for 720p Nokia N8, or select “H.264/AVC Video – MP4 H.264/AVC Video (*.mp4)”, which can keep the original resolution of the HD camera video. If your HD camera video is of 1080p, we suggest you choose the first profile because the output files will have the same excellent high definition quality for Nokia N8 but the first one will take less conversion time.
Now you can watch HD camera videos on Nokia N8. However, what about play the video recoded by Nokia N8 on other devices? We know that N8 comes with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor. It can capture video in 720p 25 fps with codecs H.264 and MPEG-4. How to make it happen if we want to enjoy the Nokia N8 video on PC, upload it on web, share it on some other devices or mobiles?
Still use the same method. With this video converter freeware, your N8 video could be converted to AVI, MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, TS, FLV, SWF, ASF, MPG, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, and DV format with different codec, dimension, aspect ratio, zoom mode, etc. It also supports basic video editing including cutting source videos into smaller clips.

How to watch DVD movie on Nokia N8?

Watching DVD on Nokia N8 needs another converter tool especially developed for ripping DVD movies. Here we still introduce the conversion way using Sothink product, DVD Ripper, which has almost the same process as the one you have already be familiar with.
Lay the source DVD disc in your PC drive or store your DVD folder in PC directly. Launch Sothink DVD Ripper, and click button “Open DVD” to import the DVD movies you want to enjoy on your N8. (You’ll find all DVD titles are listed in the program and have been ticked, except the ones shorter than 10 seconds. By default, it will hide and ignore the DVD titles shorter than 10 sec, which is for helping you jump over some advertisement or other unnecessary clips in your movies.) Go to select target profile for ripping DVD to Nokia. And then, click button “Rip DVD”.
Till now, we guess you can handle any video to Nokia N8 conversion and you truly can watch everything on it!

Use Case Scenarios of Sothink Free Video Converter–2

Gracie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:44:41 +0000

This is a sequel to the post of Use Case Scenarios of Sothink Free Video Converter -1. In last article, I was introducing you to convert YouTube to MP4 with Free Video Converter, and in this post, I am going to talk about converting video to MP3.

Reasons to convert video to MP3:

Extract audio from music video for listening.
Extract sound track from a classic foreign movie for language studying.
Extract audio from a touching dialogue as your unique ringtone.
……

With Free Video to MP3 Converter, user could extract highest quality audio from video files (AVI, MPG, MP4, WMV, ASF, MOV, VOB, MTS, M2TS, TS, MOV, QT, 3GP, MKV, and FLV) and save it as MP3 for your MP3 players or smart phones. Of course, it can be your AVI converter, 3GP converter, MKV converter, MP3 converter, and so on. Besides, you can convert the whole file to MP3 or just a partition of it.

However, if you hope the MP3 files extracted from video, from YouTube for instance, become more mellow and fair-sounding, you have to learn the “Advanced” setting parameters of Sothink Free Video Converter:

1) Bit rate:

Bit rate is generally measured as the number of “bits per second” (bit/s or bps) at which the data in an audio is being delivered. A higher bit rate means that the audio has more information.

2) Sample rate:

The audio sampling rate is number of samples per second that are taken to digitize a particular sound. The more samples taken per second, the more detail the sound has. For example, the current sample rate for CD-quality audio is 44,100 samples per second. This sample rate can accurately reproduce the audio frequencies up to 20,500 hertz, covering the full range of human hearing.

3) Channel:

Set the number of output channels to n-channels. A value of 1 indicates monophonic sound, 2 stereophonic. Returns the number of channels the device was set to.

Now, you have further knowledge about converting video to MP3. Just enjoy any video’s sound track on MP3 players, smart phones and thanks for reading our second post concerning the extensive usage of Free Video Converter, if you have any problems with Free Video Converter, please leave a message on blog or follow me on or . Have a nice day!

Download the latest version of Free Video Converter!

Use Case Scenarios of Sothink Free Video Converter–1

Gracie — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:40:48 +0000

If you frequently browse our blog, or you are a user of Sothink Free Video Converter, you may be quite familiar with the basic features of this product. Well, in the following days, I am tending to share with you some use case scenarios for the extensive usage of Free Video Converter.

Day 1: Convert YouTube Video to MP4

Need a YouTube video in MP4 format? Maybe you just finished watching Baby by Justin Bieber for the 50th time on YouTube? Have you been bothered by the buffering delay or missed the video since it had been removed. Well, Justin Bieber is not for me, but there are definitely tons of YouTube FLV videos I wouldn’t mind to download it once and for all, convert it to MP4, and enjoy it wherever I go with PSP, iPhone, iPod, Zune and almost all mobile phones. This is what Sothink Free Video Converter could do for you. Import YouTube video to the program and convert to MP4.

As a bonus, Sothink Free Video Converter also supports to convert YouTube videos to other video formats, such as MOV, WMV, AVI, 3GP and MKV, to name a few. It can be your AVI converter, 3GP converter, MKV converter, and so on.

So here is the first scenario for the extensive usage of Free Video Converter. If you are interested, please pay close attention to the series of posts. Any problems with Free Video Converter welcome to leave a message on blog or follow me on or . Have a nice day!

Download the latest version of Free Video Converter!

How to Enjoy TV Shows on iPhone 4

mirrorking — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:07:21 +0000

Have you ever run into the situation like this: Once you wanted to import some .avi movies and .flv Youtube video to iPhone4 to enjoy while on the move but iTunes failed to import those videos, it doesn’t support. Here, things will be different if he has an iPhone4 Video Converter to convert .avi and .flv files to iPhone 4 MP4 format first.

Know more about Video to iPhone Converter

Convert video to iPhone 4, iPod, iPad, and various popular devices
Support 120+ video, audio and image formats
Ultra speed with multi-thread and multi-core processing
Basic video editing and flexible operation
Easy-to-use iPhone 4 video converter with simple clear interface
Completely FREE video converter

As I briefly described above, free video converter worked as a translator to compile an unknown video to the ones understood by iTunes and iPhone 4. Luckily, this “translator” understands lots of “foreign languages”, i.e. AVI, WMV, ASF, MKV, H.264, RM, RMVB, MOV, QT, MP4, DV, 3GP, 3GP2, 3G2, 3GPP, MPG, MPE, MPEG, DAT, VOB, ASX, TS, MTS, FLV, RA, APE, WMA, MP3, M4A, AAC, AA3, OGG, FLAC, WAV and more. What’s better, free video converter not only supports to convert any video format to iPhone 4 compatible MP4, but also with excellent image quality and ultra speed. Follow the tutorial below, and you will fast get your video and TV shows playing on iPhone 4:

Step 1. Preparation of Video Converter

Click “Add files” on the top tool bar, or simply drag and drop to import HD movies, TV videos into the iPhone4 video converter software. Then set up “Output folder” at the bottom of the program window by browsing, make sure there are enough free space at your designated path.

Step 2. Select Video to iPhone 4 Profile

After the preparation work is done, go to the setting panel on the left. Click the drop-down arrow under “Encoding profile”. There are several built-in profiles for popular end devices. Navigate to “iPhone 4 Video”, choose “iPhone 4 video”, “iPhone 4 HD 720p video” or “iPhone 4 video for TV” per your needs.

After selecting the target profile, all setting spaces below are automatically specified accordingly. If you would like to set some properties for even better quality or other special needs, you may customize all by yourself. “Setting” for novice users and “Advanced” for more experienced users.

Step 3. Convert Video to iPhone 4 MP4

Double-check the video you want to convert have been ticked, and click “Convert” on the top.

Be aware that:
1. You could “Pause” and “Stop” the conversion at any time
2. Add target videos during the conversion process
3. Set “Sleep”, “Hibernate” and “Shut Down” after all tasks finished before you went away.

Step 4. Import MP4 to iPhone 4

Actually, you have finished your work with iPhone4 video converter with Step 1, 2, 3. Now, open your iTunes, import converted video, connect iPhone 4 to your computer and click “Synchronize”. Just wait a few minutes; you could enjoy HD movies, popular TV shows on your fancy iPhone4 screen.

Download Free iPhone Video Converter to convert video to iPhone 4 MP4 MKV and other formats.

How to Convert DVD to MKV?

mirrorking — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:57:41 +0000

How to convert DVD movies to MKV format? Here introduces an easy and fast solution to convert DVD to MKV with DVD to MKV Converter.

DVD to MKV Converter is the fastest way to convert DVD movies to MKV (Matroska Video). In just a few clicks, you can enjoy your DVD movies on PC and other devices supporting MKV format.

Follow the guide below and you will handle the DVD to MKV converting very soon.

Note:

First, it is necessary to install the software, Sothink DVD to MKV Converter;
Secondly, you should have a DVD disc in your driver or DVD folder in your PC;
Last, make sure your PC has enough free space in a hard disk for saving temporary files.

Step 1. Add DVD Movie to Converter

After download and install this DVD converter, first launch the program. And click button â€œOpen DVDâ€ on the top tool bar to open a DVD disc in your driver or a DVD folder in your PC. Batch DVD titles conversion is supported.

Tip: There is a window on the bottom of the program for previewing the DVD titles. You can click button â€œPlayâ€ to preview your DVD movie. You may switch between Details mode and Thumbnails mode to view the information about your source video(s).

Step 2. Specify DVD to MKV Conversion

After DVD titles are all listed in the program, you may go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel to specify your conversion.

Click the drop down arrow under “Target profile” and select a profile from the list. It lists kinds of DVD to MKV conversion pre-sets, which are specified different dimension, bit rate, codec, file size and so on. You may choose any one of them according to your own needs.

Here we choose “Matroska Video (*.mkv)” under “Generic Video”, which will help to create MKV video be of the same dimension of your DVD from your DVD movies.

Tip: If you want to customize all the properties by yourself, you may do the settings under profile in General Settings or Advanced Settings panel.

Step 3. Convert DVD to MKV

When the setting finished, click button “Rip DVD” on the top of the tool bar to start DVD to MKV conversion.

By default, DVD to MKV Converter will jump over the DVD titles shorter than 10 seconds, which usually are some advertisement or other unnecessary clips, and directly rip DVD movie to MKV video. So you need make sure the checkbox besides the DVD titles you want to convert has been ticked.

After several minutes, the DVD file to MKV conversion will be finished. Isn’t it easy? Try it now, and you can enjoy your DVD movies in MKV format on PC, or other multimedia devices and players immediately!

Why Choose DVD to MKV Converter

It’s easy – Just click to convert DVD to MKV (Matroska Video).
It’s quality – Great image and sound output.
It’s powerful – Suitable for almost all multimedia devices and players supporting MKV.
It’s fast – Batch convert DVD movie titles in super high speed.
It’s flexible – Click to adjust video and audio properties.
It’s user-friendly – Optimized interface, clear clue for conversion.

You can free download the trial version of this DVD to MKV converting tool. If you want to get the full functions, we strongly recommend you to purchase this software.

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How to Convert DVD to iPhone 4 MP4?

mirrorking — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:14:02 +0000

Amazing portable device Apple iPhone 4 has released currently. It is announced that this latest mobile will give users wonderful video enjoyment experience than ever! Here is a tutorial illustrate how to convert DVD movies to iPhone 4 MP4 with a DVD converting product, Sothink DVD Converter. Follow the guide and you will easily and fast play your favorite DVD movies on your fashion iPhone 4!

Sothink DVD Converter is the fastest way to convert DVD movies to MP4, MPEG-4, HD MP4 video. In just a few clicks, you can enjoy your DVD movies on PC and other devices supporting MP4 format. This DVD converter is definitely the best choice to convert DVD to iPHone 4 MP4!

What DVD to MP4 Converter Can Do?

Fast convert DVD to MP4, DVD to MPEG-4, DVD to MPEG-4, etc.
Convert DVD to high definition MP4 video up to 1080p with H.264 codec.
No quality loss during the conversion.
Convert DVD for iPhone 4, iPod, iPod Touch, iPad, PSP, Zune, PS3, Xbox 360, etc.
Customize bit rate, dimension, zoom mode, frame rate, etc.
Choose audio and subtitle language for the output video.
Support multi-core CPU and converting DVD titles simultaneously.

Step by Step Guide: Convert DVD to iPhone 4 MP4

Note:

First, it is necessary to install the software, Sothink DVD Converter
Secondly, you should have a DVD disc in your driver or DVD folder in your PC
Last, make sure your PC has enough free space in a hard disk for saving temporary files.

Step 1. Add DVD Movie to Converter

Step 2. Specify DVD to iPhone MP4 Conversion

After DVD titles are all listed in the program, you may go to General Settings or Advanced Settings panel to specify your conversion. Click the drop down arrow under “Target profile” and select a profile from the list. It lists kinds of DVD to MP4 conversion pre-sets, which are specified different dimension, bit rate, codec, file size and so on. You may choose any one of them according to your own needs. Here we choose “iPhone MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)”, which will help to perfectly convert DVD to latest iPhone 4.

Tip: If you want to customize all the properties by yourself, you may do the settings under profile in General Settings or Advanced Settings panel.

Step 3. Convert DVD to iPhone MP4

When the setting finished, click button “Rip DVD” on the top of the tool bar to start DVD to MP4 conversion.

By default, DVD to MP4 Converter will jump over the DVD titles shorter than 10 seconds, which usually are some advertisement or other unnecessary clips, and directly rip DVD movie to MP4 video. So you need make sure the checkbox besides the DVD titles you want to convert has been ticked.

After several minutes, the DVD file to MP4 conversion will be finished. Isn’t it easy? Try it now, and you can enjoy your DVD movies in MP4 format on PC, iPhone 4, iPod, iPad, PSP or other portable devices immediately!

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