Video converter Tools

Posted on October 5, 2008 at 11:18 PM - Post Comment

Working with videos for all users usually start from video converters. This tool is very irreplaceable when you want to convert DVD to iPod or some other portable devices. Or the other way – encode video from cell-phone to upload it in the internet, for example on youtube or myspace.

Of course, there is no multipurpose video converter or DVD ripper, which can make all kinds of converting. There are two types of video converter tools – special software for mobile devices and converters for desktop computers such as convert DVD to avi or other formats in simple words

Let’s take a look at conversion process es from DVD-video to desktop computer and after - to protable device. Some people facing difficulties with DVD’s regional code and they need to switch regional code of their DVD-ROMs.
I don’t mention illegal pirate copies of DVD movies, which can played at any DVD-ROM or DVD-player regardless of regional code, so, how can video converter help us? Simply.
First of all, we don’t need to change regional code only for watching one DVD from other country with different regional code. So, let’s make an region free format, DivX for example. For fastest encoding we need to copy all files from DVD to hard disk. If DVD have copy protection, use some DVD copy softwares to copy files from DVD disk (you can burn it again to watch on DVD player ). You can choose the size of output video, resolution and quality in percentage. Encoding started. Audio and video encrypting separately, to the prejudice of performance, but in favour of quaily and stability. Actually, conversion speed also depends from your CPU, codec and movie’s length. When it finishen, in output we have an DivX/XviD file (usually .avi or .mpeg format) which can played using most of media players on PC.
Nowadays people using their cell-phones and portable players to watch movies, music video on it. Of course, they can’t watch it without using iPod video converter or Zune video converter and so on. Theses tools allow you to convert DVD to iPod or DVD to PSP or any video format to mobile device whether a PSP or iPhone. There are a lot of different types of portable multimedia devices in the world, but they all following playback’s standard using MPEG4. So, in most cases we just need to choose the screen resolution and codec. For advanced users there are some options, like colour correction, filtration, video and sound encoding.
With becoming popularity of portable devices and online services like youtube(with FLV converter), there are more necessity in video converters. This is very comfortable tools to made your favorite DVD movie be played on your PSP( How to Convert DVD Movie to PSP ), cell-phone( How to transfor DVD Movies to iphone) or PPC.