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There is no doubt that the iPhone has changed the smartphone world and forced cellphone manufacturers to sit back and rethink how they create new devices and features and how they can compete. Nokia recently announced a very compelling entertainment-focused iPhone rival and Blackberry have launche an stronger competitor - BlackBerry Storm. so which of them is much better? Let's make a comparision.

Screen
The BlackBerry Storm features a high-resolution 360 x 480 touchscreen, which gives it a 4:3 aspect ratio akin to older TVs, versus the iPhone 3G's 320 x 480 touchscreen which is a 3:2 ratio. Not much to choose between the two, though.
Keyboard
The Storm offers several virtual keyboard options, including standard QWERTY in landscape mode and SureType in portrait mode
The iPhone offers several keypads (QWERTY, numeric, symbols) in both landscape and portrait modes.
Camera
The BlackBerry Storm features a modest 3.2 megapixel camera, still beating the iPhone's two megapixel affair. Additionally, it supports video recording out of the box.
Navigation
The Storm uses BlackBerry Maps and offers Touch Screen Navigation. The iPhone features Google Maps and navigation.
Communications
Both units handle 3G where available, have GPS and Bluetooth. The Storm's Bluetooth implementation is better than the iPhone's.
Web Browsing
Both units feature web browsers, though as far as I'm aware exact information about the Storm's software isn't yet public. Various forums have suggested it's based on "WebKit", which is what Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome (among others) are based on.
Operating System
The Storm appears to be running BlackBerry OS 4.7, whereas the iPhone runs OS X.
Storage
The Storm features 1GB of internal memory, 128MB of Flash memory, and support for microSD expansion cards up to 16GB. The storage of iPhone is 16 GB, but no expansion.
Multimedia
We all know that iPhone 3G is the best iPod Apple has ever created. iPhone 3G supports a wide range of audio formats including AAC, MP3, WAV and video format MPEG-4 , while the Storm pipping the iPhone with WMA and WMA ProPlus audio formats. And video formats, the Storm also able to handle WMA files. The music and video playback experience of iPhone is awesome. We can image that the experience of enjoy video and music with Strom is more wonderful.

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When I come to forum about video like this, or some other community like answers.yahoo, I always see someone ask the same question: How to get videos or free download videos from Internet into their iPod, iPhone, Sansa, PSP Blackberry, Nokia or some other popular players. Right now I own an iPod Touch 2. With my funniest iPod I enjoy my favorite movies like Gone with Wind, Ironman, The Dark Knight etc and other 180 songs. So you may wonder how did I get so much beautiful movies and songs into my player. In the below I will share my experience with you so that you can get video and songs you want in your portable player.

I get all the videos and songs from Internet. There are many free resources on Internet that you can download. I usually download movie and music from those famous video website such as Youtube, Google video, Yahoo video. There are also many other free website for you to free download videos such as Hulu, MySpace, Reuters, Metacafe, Break, Dailymotion, iFilm, Music, StreetFire, etc. Of course you may select videos according to your interest. For example, you can get more videos about International news, financial information and trading products information on Reuters.com. On Hulu.com you may get more TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX and many other networks and studio, but Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States. For metacafe, I like the short entertainment video on it, which is really funny. Youtube, Yahoo and Google display a wide variety of video content, you may search movie clips, TV clips, music videos you want and free download it into your computer.

Ok, after surf on Internet, now you must harvest lots of videos in your computer. Next you need to transfer these videos into your portable player. You may find that most of your videos are flv format files. So you need to transfer your videos with a flv video converter. What I use is Nidesoft FLV Converter, probably the best flv converter available. You may free download its trial version on its official website to have a try.
The free trial version can convert video for 2 minutes, you may free try it first. If you like it you may go to its official website to buy it for full version.
Download Nidesoft FLV Converter (free trial version) and install.
Then you may transfer your videos from computer into portable player in the below step by step way.
Step 1: open the program, click “continue trial” to begin.
Step 2: add your flv files into the program:
click the “add” button and select your downloaded flv videos from your computer. Of course, you may select several video files and convert them at one time. You may also preview your video on the right screen: select video and then press the play button then you will view your video.

Step 3: Click “format” drop-down list to select format of your videos. Here I suggest you select format according to your player. For instance, I select “iPod Touch Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for my iPod Touch videos. If you want to convert videos into Xbox, then you should select “Xbox 360 Video – Windows Media Video (*.wmv)”.

Step 4: Click “convert” button to start conversion. Then process would be completed in few minutes, then drag them into your player and enjoy.
Besides video, you could also get cool ringtone for your iPhone, Palm, Blackberry and other mobile phone in this way. Free download music videos on Internet, then extract audio from the flv video file with Nidesoft FLV Converter in the above way, but pay attention to the output format, here you should select a audio format supported by your mobile phone such as “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)”.

Ok, that’s all my way and you could have a try. Below are some problems I have encountered. Maybe you will have the same problems. Here are my solutions:
Q: Does the software contain virus? Is it safe to install and uninstall?
A: I download the software from its official website and install it in my computer. For nearly two month, I have never found any virus. So I am very sure it is safe. However if you downloaded it from somewhere else on the web then I am not sure. Probably malware/spamers have uploaded it onto sites to snag people. So always make sure you download things from their original website, or from a trusted location like download.com, and always run antivirus and scan stuff you are installing.

Q: What tools should I use to download videos from Internet?
A: There are many free video downloader you may get on Internet. For example, you may go to http://www.videodl.org/ to free download Youtube video, Google video and Break video. http://keepvid.com can do the same job. Just google it you may find different downloaders to download different videos.

Q: Some movies are split into several clips by uploader, and I want to merge those video clips into one whole movie. How to do that?
A: You can do it with while convert your flv videos. After add your videos on the flv converter, select your videos, click the blank box before “Merge into one file”, then those video clips will convert into one video.

Q: What is flv? Sometimes I met some special flv files that could not played on my player, why?
A: Flv is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player. It is widely used on Internet, notable users of flv format include YouTube, Google video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe and many other providers. Beside the commend flv format, there are other four new flv files format including f4v, f4p, f4a, f4b. Flash player does not check the extension of the file, so these special formats could not played on your player.

Q: How to do with those special flv format files, are there any special players or other solutions?
A: In fact this FLV Converter could also work as a super flv player. You may preview the flv movie before convert. And with the powerfule decoder, it could decode all kinds of flv format, including those special formats. After add your flv file, you just need to select your flv files then click the play button to preview your videos on the right screen.

Ok, those are all the information I want to share. Now you may follow my way to get videos and ringtones for your iPod, Iphone, PSP, Zune, Sansa, mobile phone and all other popular players. If you still have questions, post here!

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On Oct. 22, Google Inc has unveiled its first phone T-Mobile G1, informally known as the Google phone. Based on the Android platform, the T-Mobile HTC Dream G1 phone is the first phone to be powered by Google’s mobile operating system. Everyone all over the word pay attention to this phone, so do I. I got that this phone have the below main functions:

Search
Google phone lets you to search for everything- from images to news, weather, products and much more. You may get the information you want, right on your Android-powered phone.

Map
Google Maps on Android gives you both map and satellite views of the area you're looking at, using an interface that feels just like it does on the desktop. Scroll in a direction to see more of the map, or zoom in and out by tapping the magnifying glass.

Youtube
You may access millions of YouTube videos, right from your phone.

Gmail
You may send gmail on phone, gmail on Android shows new messages in your inbox as they arrive, you needn’t to refresh or check mail.

Calendar
Calendar allows you to switch between Day view, Week view, Month view and Agenda view, giving you the exact amount of information you need at the moment you need it.

Talk
Talk on Android allows you to easily switch between chats or even create a group chat with several friends at a time.

Contacts
you may contact with your friends, family with call, email or send an IM or text message.

Entertainment
This phone support multiple audio formats including MP3, M4A, AMR, WMA, MIDI, WAV, OGG Vorbis and video formats including H.264, streaming, 3GPP, MPEG4, and Codec 3GP. The music player of this phone is so nice, best since iPhone. Thus we may enjoy our favorite movies and music anytime and anywhere with this portable phone. We just need to drag and drop video and audio files onto a memory card. I was deeply fascinated by this phone of its entertainment function. Then I also got ways of how to get movies and music from DVDs and other video files.

Way 1: how to get movies and music from DVDs for Goole Phone?
To get movies and music on google phone, I recommend you wonderful software. It is Nidesoft DVD to Google Phone Converter. This converter is the first professional DVD Converter software which could convert DVD to Google Phone format in high quality at fast speed. You may free download it here and have a try.
and get more information about this software here:


After download and install this powerful software, only three steps are needed to complete the conversion.
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. Now you could click the Titles and Chapters to preview the movie sections as you like. If you want to convert some of them, you could check it.

Step 2: click the “profile” button and show the list of profiles, you just need to click the “Google Phone Video (*.mp4)” profile.

Step 3: click “convert” button to start the conversion. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
Tips: this converter have full functions that enable you edit your video during the conversion. You may edit your video with crop, trim and effect functions.

Way 2: how to get movies and music from other videos for Goole Phone?
To get movies and music from other format video, I will recommend you another powerful software. It is Nidesoft Google Phone Video Converter. This software is first and best Google Phone Converter software which could convert all video files (AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, FLV, XviD, MOV, YouTube, etc.) to Google Phone video and audio format to support G1 Android system with fast conversion speed and excellent quality. You may free download it here and have a try:
And get more information about it here

After download and install this converter, you may convert your videos to Google Phone in this way:
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your video from your computer. Nidesoft Google Phone Video Converter supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at one time.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list to select the format. Here you just need to select “Google Phone Video MP4 (*.mp4) format.

Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be finished in a short time and you can view the speed at the bottom.

Notes: you can customize the output video by a few clicks on the right. You can set the video size, choose the crop mode to cut off the black edges, set the video and audio quality.

The first Google Phone wowed, yet still there is plenty of room for improvement. For example, there’s no standard 3.5mm headphone jack (only a proprietary USB-based port) and no stereo Bluetooth support. You have to buy an adapter while listening to music or watching videos. It has no video camera and doesn’t support video recording. However, I am optimistic with the second version. The G1 will improve in the future, so does the Nidesoft software. Then we can enjoy the video and songs on phone more convenient. I am looking forward to.

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Introduction: This guide will show you how to Convert DVD to Blackberry Storm, convert flv, avi, wmv, mkv and other format video into Blackberry Storm. How to transfer mp3 audio files into Blackberry as ringtone. How to set videos resolution, video size, How to put DRM protected files into Blackberry Storm.

If you got a Storm like me then you're no doubt absolutely in love with the gorgeous screen. Sure it comes with a sweet Babylon A.D. trailer, but I just had to have some more video to pack onto that 8 gig card to show off to all my friends. So I slaved away looking at the video settings of the Babylon A.D. trailer to figure out the optimal video settings for the Storm. If you already know what your doing here's the dirty details.
Output Container: mp4
Video Codec: MPEG-4
Audio Codec: AAC-LC

Video Scale Size:
If your source is 4:3 use 480x360
If your source is 16:9 use 480x270
Use 1:1 Aspect ratio for both.
Frame/Sec: 25
Video Bitrate: 1248kbps

Audio:
Audio Bitrate: 64kbps
Sampling Freq: 44100
Channels: Mono (will reduce file size) or Stereo (Might sound better with headphones, but probably not worth it for the size increase.)

Now if you have no idea what to do with that, then here's some simple instructions for you.
First go to Nidesoft
If you get videos from DVD, you should do in this way:
download and install Nidesoft DVD to Blackberry Converter
step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select tiles and chapters you want.

step 2: set your output videos according to the settings above including video format, video size, bitrate, resolution and so on.
step 3: if you thought you have complete the settings, click convert button to convert videos. OK, done.
If you get videos from movie maker or other format videos, then you should follow this way.
download and install Nidesoft Blackberry video converter.
step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer. Select the video files you want to convert. Also you may preview your video in the right window.
step 2: click the “format” drop-down list to choose format for your videos. set your video size, crop mode, video quality and audio quality on the right.
step 3: after all the settings made, click convert button to convert, then in few minutes it done.

After that copy your converted videos then drag them into your Storm and show off the videos.

Ok, so there may be some commen problems here:

Besides Storm, How do I convert videos into other Blackberry phones such as pearl, bold and curve?
go to another thread on my blog: http://bestvideoconvertersoftware.blogspot.com/2009/02/references-best-settings-for-all-your.html and get the settings for all other Blackberry phones, follow the same way as Storm to convert your videos. Of course, make different settings according to different phones.

I think there's a virus in this Program!!??
There's no virus in Nidesoft. One person reported being infected by Backdoor.Graybird, but if you got it from the site I linked to in my post it did not come with the download. If you downloaded it from somewhere else on the web then there's your problem. The site repeatedly tells you to only download Nidesoft from them. So I'm guessing that malware/spamers have probably uploaded it to phishing sites to snag people. Always make sure you download things from their original website, or from a trusted location like download.com, and always run antivirus and scan stuff you are installing.

Where do I find the files?
You may change the output directory by pressing "open folder", or it the destination will be set automatically at C:\temp

Why are there black bars on my video?
Even though it looks "widescreen" the storm is native 4:3 not 16:9. So unless you want to streach everybody and make them tall and skiny you will still have the black bars.

Is there a way to make it fullscreen without the black bars?
Yes, you can crop the file when you do the transcode, but I haven't done it with Nidesoft Blackberry video converter yet. I'll post it when I figure it out

Anyone tried to convert youtube videos? i always seem to get an error, following the above instuction, it still doesn't work. anyone know what i can do? maybe use a different video converter?
Just go to Nidesoft Youtube video converter to got the converter and paste the youtube url. Then download the "High Quality" MP4. It will play perfect on your Storm. More details you can go to another post of my blog: http://bestvideoconvertersoftware.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-get-videos-from-youtube-and-use.html

I'm trying to convert a movie purchased from itunes but the Nidesoft software gives me an error. When I view the details of the error it tells me not enough space on my drive. I have plenty of space.
Now when i tried it with a movie (same extension .m4v) that was ripped in the past, it works.
Any suggestions??
Meet DRM.
Itunes store video files are encoded with fairplay digital rights management that means they will only play on Itunes, Ipod, or AppleTV. I have find a way to solve this problem, go to: http://forums.crackberry.com/f135/howto-put-drm-protected-files-your-storm-pics-118585/

The higher the resolution the better the quality right?
Not necessarily at all. If you’re converting a video that is 640×480 and convert it to the same 640×480 resolution then all you’re leaving is more work for your phone. I understand the login behind it, the pixels get compressed and shop up more clear and sharper. But if you compress these pixels in the conversion process wouldn’t the same thing happen? So why not just convert straight to a 480×320 and 320×240 and save your Bold/Curve/Storm the trouble?

The higher the bitrate/frame rate the better the quality?
Yes, that is true. However, RIM won’t release the Bold Video Playback Specifications. That is why we are left guessing and people like me spend hours working different settings. So far the best results have hovered around 1500 bitrate and the frame rate doesn’t seem to be an issue. Usually when you receive bad audio/video lag it is because the bitrate is simply way too high.

OK, I just got those commen problems here now, if you encounter some other problems I haven't mentioned, you may post it here. I will update my thread everyday to solve your problems.

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This article will show you how to convert MSWMM file to AVI, MP4, 3GP, MPG, WMV video format, convert MSWMM file to YouTube FLV video, convert MSWMM file to iPod video. It is composed of the following two parts:

Part 1. How to convert MSWMM to WMV in Windows Movie Maker?

A *.MSWMM is a project file of Windows Movie Maker; it is not a video file (more like a record file). You can open *.MSWMM file in Windows Movie Maker(click "File -> Open Project Project...") and save the movie to your computer: go to the "Tasks" bar, click "Finish Movie" and then click "Save to my computer".

Then Windows Movie Maker will ask you to enter a file name for your movie and choose a folder to save your movie. The movie will be saved as a WMV file in the PC.

Part 2. How to convert MSWMM to AVI/MP4/WMV/YouTube/iPod?

You may wonder how to upload your Windows Movie Maker project(.*MSWMM) to YouTube or watch the movie on your iPod. All you need to do is convert the MSWMM file to video format. After you have saved the MSWMM file to your computer hard drive(in the folder you chose in "Part 1") as WMV video, you can now begin to convert the WMV file to the specific video format you need.

The software you need is Nidesoft Video Converter ( free download ).

The steps are quite simple:

1. Import the WMV file to the program.
2. Choose an output format. For example, if you want to watch the movie on iPod, you can choose "iPod MPEG-4" as the output format.
3. Start to convert.
Done


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This article is about how to convert DVD to Samsung phone, dvd to samsung YP mp3, mp4 with dvd to Samsung converter. How to convert wmv, avi, flv, mkv and other format videos into samsung phone, samsung YP mp3, mp4 with samsung video converter.

The Samsung Group is the world’s largest electronics company. It has produced a series of MP3/MP4 players and mobile phones. All of those products have attracted much more attention around the world for its beautiful design and full functions. In my personal view, the highlight of Samsung device is its entertainment function, especially music and videos.

Samsung Omnia support various music formats including MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, AMR. With an enormous 24GB of memory it can hold a lot of MP3 songs, take your entire music library with you wherever you go. Windows Media Player is another alternative for storing and playing all of your multimedia content on the go. Benefit from the familiar layout and the ability to sync with your PC, you may easy access to your full music library. Also equipped with an FM radio the Samsung Omnia gives you access to entertainment, news and other information anytime, anywhere.
For videos, it is a best video recorder, movie maker and video player.
It record all those precious moments and create home made videos with professional looking quality directly onto your phone. After you’ve captured the excitement of movement and sound in VHS quality video, you may edit your favorite scenes using the advanced video editor. Access features such as audio dubbing, live dubbing, subtitles, trim and merge videos, and also capture priceless images from the video. A sound track editor lets you lay various songs in the background; you’ll have those tools to create professional looking videos.
On the other hands, videos in many formats allow you enjoy a true cinema experience in the palm of your hand. Benefit from the multi-format support including Divx, Xvid, H.263. WMV and MP4, you may watch your favorite videos in windscreen on a crisp 3.2 QVGA screen. With the massive 24GB of memory, you may carry up to 17 DVD quality movies around with you wherever you go to enjoy whilst traveling or when the kids are in the car.
Besides Samsung Omnia, you may also enjoy videos and music with other Samsung players.
Samsung Memoir phone support various audio formats including MP3, AAC, WAV, MIDI and video format including MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV. The best video resolution is 240*400.
Samsung Behold support 3GP, MPEG4, ASF, Real One and WMV video formats. The best video resolution is 240*400. For audio files, it supports MP3, AMR, and AAC formats.
Besides those smart phones, Samsung MP3 and MP4 player is music genius for you to enjoy music and movies. Samsung Q1, 8GB flash MP3 Player, enable you enjoy songs for 4 hours. It support MP3, WMA songs. Samsung S3 player can play audio, videos, text and even pictures. It also comes with 4GB of memory and DNSe sound engine for a superior surround sound experience. It supports MP3, Ogg , WMA and MPEG4 formats.

Enjoy movies with those Samsung device is a wonderful thing, but you may troubled when put movies into your Samsung device. Then I give you an easy way to solve this problem, Nidesoft DVD to Samsung Converter could help you to convert DVD movies into all Samsung portable devices with excellent quality. And Nidesoft video converter could help you to convert all format videos into your Samsung player. With those two software, you can get more videos and songs from DVD, Youtube, windows movie maker and all other videos.
First I will introduce you how to get movies and songs from DVD. As this program is easy to use, the whole process need only three steps, makes things easier.
Download and install the converter
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select titles and chapters you want.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select format for your output files. If you want to get movies from DVD, here you may select “Samsung Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Samsung device and if you want to get music you may select“MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will complete in few minutes.
Tips: Rip official DVD movie is illegal, so make sure you are authorized before you rip them.

Then I will introduce you how to get videos into Samsung player with Nidesoft video converter. Nidesoft video converter is powerful software with full functions. It supports all the popular video and audio formats, thus you may convert videos into all the portable players with it.
Download and install Nidesoft video converter
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer. Select the video files you want to convert. Also you may preview your video in the right window.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select the format for your Samsung player. You may choose video format for your Samsung player or audio format to get songs in your Samsung.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
Ok, now you could just enjoy DVD movies and more videos with your Samsung player.


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This article contains lots of useful information: How to rip DVD, How to convert dvd to avi, dvd to mp4, dvd to 3gp, dvd to mpeg, dvd to flv, dvd to wmv, dvd to mp3, dvd to iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, Sansa and many other portable players.

With the development of technology, we were gradually liberated from chains of watching movies on a portable DVD player with lots of DVD discs bringing out. Now we have more options to enjoy our favorite movies. However we need to convert DVD movies to different video or audio format when we enjoy it in a different way. Now I will introduce you good ways to convert DVD movies to all the popular video and audio formats in high quality at fast speed, then you can enjoy your movies more convenient.
Part1: how to use DVD Ripper to convert and edit your video?
Part2: how to convert DVD movies to iPod, iPhone, Zune, mobile phone and other portable players?
Part 3: how to convert DVD movies into Windows Movie Maker?
Part 4: how to copy DVD movies to your pc?

Part 1: how to use DVD Ripper to convert and edit your video?
To convert and edit your video, you need a useful software. For me, I prefer to use Nidesoft DVD Ripper to do it.
Step 1: you may download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a. Download and install the Nidesoft DVD Ripper by the link:
download dvd ripper
and you can get more information about it here:
Nidesoft DVD Ripper
b. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. (This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember that it’s illegal to rip DVD for any business purposes).


After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.

Step 2: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle: Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to YouTube, just select “YouTube video (*.flv)”

Settings: If you want to customize the output video’s quality, you can click the settings button to open the settings window and set video resolution, video bitrate, audio channels, audio bitrate.
Destination: Click the browse button and select a location on your computer for the output video files.
Step 3: you could edit your file to make your perfect video:
Merge: A regular DVD movie has several chapters; you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before “merge into one file”. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop: you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.

Effect: Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect. You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.

Trim: as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment and the blue line will be the captured parts.


Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start your conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.

Part2: how to convert DVD movies to iPod, iPhone, Zune, mobile phone and other portable players?
You can convert your DVD movies to your portable players with Nidesoft DVD Ripper then you can enjoy your videos and songs anytime and anywhere.
You may use the way listed above to rip your favorite movies to your players.
Note: when ripping DVDs you may confused about the output format. Different format can be used in different way. You could choose your profile according to your portable player. Now I will list some for you as reference.
IPod and iPhone support MP4 format.
Zune support WMV and MP4 formats.
PSP supports MP4 format.
Mobile phone support 3GP and 3G2 formats.
IRiver supports AVI and WMV formats.
Walkman support MP4 format.
Creative Zen Player support AVI format.
Archos Player support AVI format.
Xbox support WMV format.
Dell Player support WMV format.
HP iPAQ support WMV format.
YouTube website supports flv format.

Part 3: How to put DVD movies into Windows Movie Maker
You may want to edit your video with Windows Movie Maker before use it. To put a DVD movie into Windows Movie Maker, you have to rip your DVD to WMV or AVI video first, and then you can load it into Windows Movie Maker.
Step 1: use the way in part 1 to rip your DVD movies to WMV or AVI format.

Step 2: edit video with Windows Movie Maker
Run Windows Movie Maker, in the “Movie Task” bar, click “Add Video” to browse your computer and located the converted files, and then you can start to make personal movies.

Note: Many users may confused how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format. Actually, A MSWMM file is not a video file. It is a project file of Movie Maker that you may edit your video with it next time. It can’t be used as a video file. To convert MSWMM file to WMV file, you have to open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save the movie to your computer: Go to Movie Tasks bar > Finish Movie > Save to my computer. After that you will have a WMV file that can be used.

Part 4: how to copy DVD movies to your pc?
Most DVD movies are protected and you can’t directly copy it to your computer. But you could choose to use Nidesoft DVD Ripper to do it.
Use the way in part 1, but pay attention to the profile. You should click “Lossless DVD copy (*.vob)” when select the profile.

This guide contains two part:
Part 1: What format does Apple family products support?
Part 2: How to convert DVD to iPod Touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle and iPhone?

Recently Apple family has released popular media players such as iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, iPhone and apple TV. You may want to get your favorite movies and songs in your player from DVD, YouTube or any other ways. However, the Apple family products are different from each other. They support different audio and video formats. If you want to get your favorite movies and songs in your player you should know what format your player support. Now I will give you the detail information about their supported audio and video formats so that you can get perfect videos and songs into your Apple player.

iPhone
iPhone player support the audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), WAV
iPhone player video supports MPEG-4 format: 640 *480 pixels, up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, mp4, and .mov file formats

iPod Touch
iPod Touch also support the audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), WAV
iPod Touch video support MPEG-4 format: 640 *480 pixels, up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, mp4, and .mov file formats. It also support for 480p and 576p component TV out.

iPod Nano and iPod Classic support the same audio and video formats as iPhone.

iPod Shuffle support AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps) and WAV. It doesn’t support any video format.

Apple TV
Apple TV support the audio formats: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), WAV
Apple TV videos support MPEG-4 format: Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats















OK, after acquire those information you can get movies and songs into your Apple player from DVD, YouTube and other format videos. If you want to get files from DVD, recommend you use Nidesoft DVD to iPod Converter as this software has full functions that enable you convert your DVD files to your Apple player and set your video and audio quality during conversion.
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After install this software you may convert your DVD files to your player in this step by step way:
Step 1: load DVD movies.
A. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive.
B. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.

Step 2: you may customize the output videos more specific
Profile: click the button and show the list of profiles, you may view the profile for all the apple products, choose one according to your iPod player. For example, if you want to convert DVD files to iPod Touch, you may click “iPod Touch Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”
Settings: you have acquired detail information about each apple player’s supported format. Click setting button, you may set the video resolution and bitrate, audio channels and bitrate. In this way, you may customize high quality of your output files.























Step 3: start the conversion
After setting your videos, you may click the Convert button and soon you will get your perfect videos for your Apple player, just enjoy it.

Also, if you want to get movies and songs from YouTube video or other format video, you may use Nidesoft video converter to convert it. Free download it here and have a try:
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View the guide you can get how to use it step by step guide to how to convert videos into iPod and iPhone.

Ok, if your need further information about converting videos to Apple players you may post here. It’s my pleasure to help you solve your problem.

The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its long awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The Palm Pre has won three of CNET's Best of CES Awards 2009: Best in Show, Best in Category: Cell Phones & Smartphones and People's Voice. It is an internet-connected multimedia smartphone designed and marketed by Palm, Inc. with a multi-touch screen and a sliding keyboard. The phone is scheduled for release in the first half of 2009 and is the first phone to make use of the palm webOS — a Linux-based operating system developed by Palm. The Pre functions as a camera phone, a GPS system, Internet client (with text messaging, email, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity) and a portable player. People can’t wait for it’s coming. Relative programs have published before it is really released, such as Nidesoft DVD to Palm Converter which is the first and best DVD to Palm mobile phone converter tool. In this article I will introduce you the Palm device and its relative program.
Part 1: main features of Palm Pre
Breakthrough design
Slide out the keyboard for faster and easier texting. Close it up and rotate Pre for music, websites, photos, and videos in full widescreen glory. You get the best of both worlds in one beautifully designed phone.
Web-connected applications
An incredibly fast browser brings you full websites the way they were meant to be seen. Plus, the applications on the phone are connected to the web and constantly updated, so you get the latest information without having to work for it.
Email, Wi-Fi, and GPS
Check email from Outlook or personal accounts like Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo. Take advantage of Wi-Fi hotspots. And look up directions or nearby points of interest using GPS.
Multiple activities
Keep multiple applications open and move easily between mail, maps, photos, websites, whatever. Pre thinks of your applications as "activity cards," and lets you flip through them, move them around, or throw them off screen.
Multimedia
It is perfectly media player. It support MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 video formats and MP3, AAC, AAC+, AMR, QCELP, WAV audio format, there’s 3.5mm headphone jack for you to enjoy music. With its 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, movies and TV shows have never looked so perfect on a portable device.

Part 2: Nidesoft DVD to Palm Converter
This program could rip DVD to Palm Pre phone in high quality at fast speed. In this way, people would easily enjoy movies and music with Palm Pre. Besides, this converter supports all other device of Palm family such as Palm PDA, Palm Treo, Palm Centro etc. you could also enjoy your DVD movies and music in other Palm mobile device with this converter. Just far away from the bustling and hustling life, have a cup of coffee in the spring sunshine, and enjoy the beautiful music from your Plam Phone. You can image what a marvellous thing it is!

Below is the step by step guide to how to enjoy DVD movies and music with it.
Download and install this program
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select tiles and chapters you want.
Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select format for your output files. If you want to get movies from DVD, here you may select “Palm Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Palm device and if you want to get music you may select“MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will complete in few minutes, then just enjoy it.
Tips: Rip official DVD movie is illegal, so make sure you are authorized before you rip them


Do you want to know the exactly time when Palm pre coming, go to the latest news about Palm Pre.

Lately, a new format MKV emerged. More and more people start to use MKV. However, lots of people don’t know what the MKV is. As seldom players can read it, people may face the problem that they can’t use the MKV video. This thread here is to remedy that. I will show you what the MKV is on earth, and how to convert MKV to other popular video format so that your video can be widely used.

What is MKV?
MKV, also known as Matroska, is a multimedia container format. It is not a video or audio compression format. It is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie or CD in a single file. Matrosla has incorporates features that you would expect from a modern container format like fast seeking in the file, high error recovery, chapter entries, selectable subtitle streams, selectable audio streams, modularly extendable, streamable over internet (HTTP and RTP audio & video streams), Menus (like DVD’s have). MKV is similar to AVI – it is another container format. But MKV is much newer, and can contain all kinds of stuff that doesn’t fit into AVI. It also has numerous features that AVI lacks. There’s also the difference that windows knows how to open the AVI “box” by itself, since the format was developed by Microsoft in the first place. MKV, however, was not developed by Microsoft and windows do not handle MKV by itself.

How to convert MKV to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, 3GP, iPod, Zune, PSP, .etc?
As seldom players support this format, we’d better convert it to popular video format such as mp4, wmv, 3gp or others when we use it. We may use Nidesoft MKV Converter to convert it to all the popular video and audio format you want, as this converter support very comprehensive video formats. After download and install this program, you only need three steps to do it:
Step 1: click add button to add your mkv video from your computer. This converter support batch conversion, so you may add several video files at one time.

Step 2: click the format list to choose your profile. Here you may choose the output format you want.
Step 3: click the convert button to start conversion. The conversion will be completed in a short time.
You could also set the video size, crop mode, video quality and audio quality for your output videos by yourself.
Ok, now you have convert your MKV files to other format files and you may use it more convenient.