There are so many handheld multimedia players, that it is somehow difficult to have DVD movies in the appropriate format for the MP4 player, the iPod, the iPhone, or any other device. Thanks to its user-friendly interface and great usability, Clone DVD Mobile runs all the conversion process, without requiring any knowledge about codecs, formats, pixels or compression rates. Simply select the original file and the receiving device (from a complete preloaded list). Then, follow the instructions on every screen. Easier is not possible.

The application also allows viewing the original video file. This way, it is possible to monitor the conversion process.

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YouTube is becoming the new television for those generations growing up during the Internet revolution. The difficult part about using YouTube has always been wading through the many, many videos to find exactly the one you want amongst the multitude of similar ones. As such, ‘zapping’, or channel surfing, has become the norm on YouTube but it’s still annoying not to be able to save some of those videos so that you can carry them around with you on your multimedia player or mobile phone, where Internet access isn’t as easy, quick or cheap as it is at home.

Now, with Easy Video Downloader, you can do just that; all you need to do is copy the web address of the YouTube (or MySpace) page, paste it into the corresponding dialog box and select the video’s destination folder and its format. You can choose between a high-quality format and another adapted for mobile devices and multimedia players.

Once you’ve followed these steps, just click on the start button and, in a matter of seconds or minutes (depending on your Internet connection, the speed of your computer and the type of file you’ve chosen) you’ll have the YouTube or MySpace content saved in the local folder on your computer.

Easy Video Downloader 2.o

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Apple’s iPod devices, and even their iPhones – if you happen to have already got your hands on one of these telephone/multimedia players – aren’t particularly user-friendly when it comes to loading movies onto them. Many videos aren’t compatible with these multimedia players and the conversion tools provided with iTunes are neither the fastest nor the most versatile. The specific version of Mobiola Video Studio for iPod/iPhone speeds up enormously video conversion tasks, even when working with YouTube multimedia content. Whether you drag and drop, browse through the file explorer or enter the URL of the YouTube video directly, the software provides you with a video which is compatible with and adapted for the screen sizes of Nano, Classic or Touch iPods or the iPhone. You can also choose to only copy the files to the hard disk so that you can convert them later.

It’s possible to pick the final quality of the video and even to chop it up into chunks of predefined sizes for when it’s difficult to work with large file sizes. The conversion is done quickly, and you can optionally display a preview window to keep an eye on the process and make sure it’s all going well.

Moviola Video Studio.

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The multimedia capabilities of computers have improved to the point where they’re now potential competition for conventional DVD players. All you need is the right piece of software, such as Cyberlink PowerDVD, to really turn them into a multimedia system which is as easy to handle as the kit in your living room, with the added bonus that they don’t just play DVDs, but also movies stored on your hard disk, whether in standard resolution or high definition. As with a conventional DVDs, you can pick the audio track, the subtitles and access particular scenes by just pushing a key, or a button on your remote control if your PC has one.

What’s more, the software can take full advantage of the hardware acceleration of the new graphics cards, capable of playing full HD files easily, even when your CPU isn’t the most powerful on the market. Combined with a Blu Ray drive for your computer, Cyberlink PowerDVD is one of the most economical ways around to get access to real high-definition video.

CyberLink PowerDVD.

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Internet is absolutely full of multimedia content, but a lot of it is not always easy to view. You know the story: you download a file as normal, you click on it, and when you expect Windows Media Player to show the images and sound as normal, all you get is a message saying that the codecs are being downloaded, followed by nothing except a psychedelic pattern playing in the background.

The problem is the codecs: each video is encoded in a particular way, in accordance with certain standards. Un-encoded videos would be so large that they’d be extremely complicated to handle, and so particular methods to compress the audio and video as needed in each case were developed. DivX was one of the first, along with Apple Quicktime and MPEG2 for DVD. Now the most popular ones are H.264 for high-definition video, Windows Media Video and the new versions of DivX and Xvid. But there are many more, for sound as well as video, although for audio the most common codec is MP3.

Luckily, there are compilations of codecs out there waiting to be downloaded and installed that can solve these old problems, installing on your system everything you need to enjoy practically any video or audio file around. K-Lite is one of the most well-known and popular collections, with frequent updates that update your machine so that you can enjoy multimedia content without worrying about compatibility problems. It may seem strange that it installs an old version of Windows Media Player, but this is one of the most compatible players around at the moment, and any newer version you already have installed will not be affected.

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