Wondershare Software Releases the Brand-new Best DVD Converter - Freely Convert DVD video

Wondershare Software, a leading developer of digital media and multi-media software provider, releases its brand-new Wondershare DVD Converter. This brand-new DVD Converter software will be the ideal choice for those who want to enjoy their favorite DVD movies and video clips on various portable media players such as Zune, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, PS3, Xbox 360, Archos etc.




This DVD Video Converter is an all-in-one DVD conversion software. It allows users to convert DVDs and all kinds of videos including SD and HD videos with super fast speed and high quality. It also provides users a lot of amazing editing functions to edit video for their every need.

Highlights of Wondershare DVD Converter

1.Perfectly rip DVD to various video and audio formats you need for every device.

2.Convert video including HD video to any popular video with super speed and high quality.

3.Extract audio from DVD/video to M4A, WMA, WAV, MP3, AAC, AC3, etc.

4.Edit video with unique editing features to trim, crop, adjust effect, add watermark, etc.

5.Two real-time preview windows let you get the best video effects out of your movies.

6.The snapshot function allows you to capture any picture from video and save as jpeg or bmp format.

7.Configure an output profile such as Resolution, Frame Rate, Encoder and Bit Rate for every video or audio conversion you need.

8.The auto-check for update ensures you own all the latest functions and better video conversion experience.

Pricing and Availability
Wondershare DVD Converter is available with only $45.95. More detailed information is available at:
http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/dvd-converter.html#115

About Wondershare Software
As one of the world's leading multimedia software companies, Wondershare software is dedicated to creating and marketing multimedia Windows and Macintosh applications for both business and home users. For more information, you can visit the website at: http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/

How to Convert camcorder video MOD, TOD, M2TS to AVI, MP4, FLV etc with HD Video Converter?

Part 1: why convert camcorder video to AVI, WMV, FLV etc?

Nowadays, more and more families own digital camcorders such as JVC GZ-X900,
Panasonic HDC-TM350, SDR-SW21, Canon FS200, Sony HDR-XR100 etc. With
these camcorders, we can store many wonderful and memorable scenes.

These camcorders usually record the video as MOD, TOD or AVCHD
(M2TS, MTS) video files. All of these files are high definition videos,
with perfect video quality. Only one thing for regret - so little
devices can support these HD (High-definition) camcorder videos.
Normally, you can only play camcorder videos directly from a camcorder
on a HDTV with a HDMI, or burn onto DVD disc, then play from Blu-ray
Disc player, or play on a computer from the camcorder connected via USB
as an external storage device.

However, have you imagined playing your camcorder videos on your
laptop, iPod, iPhone, Zune or any other portable players? Or even
uploading your camcorder videos to YouTube, Myspace, Facebook to share
with all of your friends.

Part 2: How to convert MOD, TOD, AVCHD (M2TS MTS) to AVI, MP4, WMV FLV etc.
It is really not an easy work to do that, for iPod and other
PMPs don't support MOD, TOD, AVCHD video formats. In order to play
camcorder video on iPod or upload camcorder video to YouTube, we need
to convert camcorder video (MOD, TOD, AVCHD video) to iPod and other
PMP supported video formats such as MP4, M4V etc, or convert MOD, TOD,
AVCHD video to FLV format so we can upload it to YouTube. And below is
step-by-step guide to show you how to finish the task with Wondershare
HD Video Converter.

Step 1: Transfer MOD, TOD, AVCHD files from camcorder to PC.

Connect the camcorders to your PC with a USB cable. It is desirable to
copy the videos to your PC's hard-drive before converting or editing it.

Step 2: Download HD Video Converter

You can download free trial Version here: Wondershare HD Video Converter , then install and run this program.

Step 3: Load the camcorder videos

Click the "Add " button to browse your computer hard disc and add the camcorder files
you want to convert to the program. Here we add two .MOD and one .M2TS
files.

Step 4: Customize output Settings

After you added camcorder video, you can select an output format and
specify a directory on your computer to save the output files. Here we
select iPod MP4 as output format, so you can put the converted video on
your iPod.

Step 5: Start the conversion

Click the "Start" button to start conversion and then you can just have
a coffee or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when
you come back.

Step 6: Copy the converted camcorder video to your iPod and enjoy it.

Connect your iPod with your computer, copy the converted camcorder
video (iPod Video H.264) to your iPod, so you can enjoy it on-the-go.

Part 3: How to upload camcorder video to YouTube?

Follow part 2, all you need to do is converting the camcorder video
(MOD, TOD, M2TS, MTS) to FLV format (YouTube video format), then login
to YouTube, upload the converted video (flv format video) to YouTube.

How to Rip DVD to Standard Video or High Definition Video on Windows Vista

Many people ever perplex with how to backup copying righted DVD, and many of our readers asked us via e-mail if we know any free tools which work on Windows Vista that can be used to rip DVD for playback on PMP (portable media players). Therefore, we decided to test some DVD ripper software and then make a tutorial on how to use the best tool we could find. In this article I will give you a step by step guide about how to rip dvd to standard video with handbrake and rip dvd to high definition video with Wondershare DVD Ripper.


Part 1: How to Rip DVD to Standard Video with Handbrake

HandBrake is a freeware application that can convert movies and rip DVD including VIDEO_TS folders, DVD images, real DVDs. It can convert them to standard video like MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM.

You can download the application from Handbrake.fr. Download the latest version for Windows Vista (select the GUI download link) and install it. Now launch Handbrake and let's see how we can rip DVD movies (West Wing) to .M4V for playback on iPod Touch.

When you launch Handbrake, click on the 'Source' button from the menu bar, to select the files that you want to convert.
As you can see, you have two choices: a video file or an DVD/VIDEO_TS folder. Choose what you prefer and then browse to the desired video file.

Now click on the Browse button and choose a destination folder for the new video and type its file name.

Next, select the output settings for the video file. This can be done from the presets panel on the right. Simply click on the 'iPhone & iPod Touch' option and all the output settings will be set in automatically.

Finally, click the Start button, found near Source. Handbrake will begin the encoding process and a command window will open with details about the process.

And the following performance screen shot is from testing on Windows Vista 32 Pentium 4 single core. It seems that the HandBrake occupies too many CPU threads. If you use a dual core processor, the conversion speed will be much faster.

When the process ends the window disappears. For the DVD file is very large - over 4 GB, so it takes me near 9 hours to finish the conversion. And the operation seems to a little difficult for most of new users, it needs too many user define settings.

Part 2: How to Rip DVD to High Definition video with Wondershare DVD Ripper?

Many people complain that the video quality is not as clean as the original DVD after they ripped DVD to standard video. For an ordinary DVD movie is often 7-8 GB in size, if we convert them to standard video formats the size would be hundreds of MB, so we have to face the problem that
the code compress process would destroy most of unimportant data and the video quality get bad. Then what can we do to resolve this issue? The answer is to rip DVD to High Definition video formats, for these HD videos are often bigger than standard video and decrease the video damage. So the HD video seems to be lossless compared with the original DVD.

To finish the task, we need a tool to help us. The tool we use is Wondershare DVD Ripper
Platinum, which can rip DVD to High definition video formats such as MKV, HD AVI, HD MP4, HD WMV, HD MOV, HD ASF, HD VOB etc. This program is very easy-to-use, just a few click to finish the conversion without any learn curve.

You can download the software at the below link: Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, and install the application.

Once you launch the Wondershare DVD Ripper, you can click "Add" to load Real DVD or DVD-like source such as DVD folder, ISO files, IFO files. Here we add a real DVD from DVD Rom.

After you add the DVD, you can edit the video effect by clicking "Edit"
from the menu bar, this software video editing function is very
powerful and utilitarian which includes video crop, video effect
adjust, video trim and watermark edit.

Next, select the output video format, this software supports various video formats, almost any video formats you can name, and it supports many PMPs such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Creative Zen etc. Here we select HD MP4 as output format.

The last step, click the "start"
button to start the conversion. Then you can get a cup of coffee and
come back later to check if the conversion is finished. Furthermore,
this DVD Ripper offers the option to automatically shut down the
computer when the conversion completed.

The original DVD file is near 5 GB, the conversion test on Windows vista 32
Pentium 4 single core system and it works very fast, which takes about
1 hours. And below is this DVD ripper performance screen.

If you use a dual core processor I imagine you would be very happy with the speed of the conversions.

Attention:

Before you begin to use these software, you need to pay attention below items:

1. Understand copyright laws in your country before ripping any copyrighted DVDs.

2. Understand that in the US the laws are unclear and conflicting, you
might be able to rip a copy of copyrighted material for your own use
under the concept of Fair Use. However, circumventing DRM may be
illegal in and of itself, regardless of ownership of the IP or intent
after disabling the DRM method. Read up on the DMCA and then contact
your congressman!

3. Do not promote or partake in piracy. Although there is some dubiety over whether it is legal to copy DVDs for your own use, making copyrighted DVDs available in the public realm is against the law.

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How to convert DVD to PSP2/PSP

This is a step-by-step guide which will show you how to rip DVD/ISO/IFO files to PSP2/PSP both video and audio formats such as MP4, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, MP3 and WMA etc. You can find the following two parts in this guide:

1. How to convert DVD/ISO/IFO files to PSP MP4, MPEG-4 and H.264/AVC etc?

2. Tips on how to perform advanced functions (cropping, trimming, effect adjusting, designing watermark and output settings customizing).

Please download Daniusoft DVD to PSP Converter, install and run it.

Part 1: How to convert DVD/ISO/IFO files to PSP MP4, MPEG-4 and H.264/AVC etc?

Daniusoft DVD to PSP Converter provides you with an easy-to-use way to finsh converting DVD/ISO/IFO files to PSP2/PSP MP4, MPEG-4 and H.264/AVC etc with only the following four steps.

Step 1: Import DVD files.

Click “Add” button, you are allowed to import DVD folders or click ,you are allowed to load DVD Rom, DVD folders, ISO files or IFO files respectively.

Step 2: Edit DVD files.
Click “Edit” button, you are allowed to make wonderful video editing by cropping, trimming, adjusting effect and editing watermark.

Step 3: Customize output settings.
Click “Settings” button in the output settings area, you are allowed to customize the output parameters and specify output format and folder.

Step 4: Start conversion.
Click “Start” button on right bottom of the main interface, you are allowed to start conversion. All the tasks of conversion will be finished at fast speed and high output quality.

Part 2: Tips on how to perform advanced functions (cropping, trimming, effect adjusting, designing watermark and output settings customizing).

Daniusoft DVD to PSP Converter offers you powerful editing functions which allow you to crop, trim, adjust video effect , design watermark and customize output parameters.

Crop video size
If you want to get appropriate video size designed for your player, you can adjust video size by clicking “crop” after entering the edit page. You are allowed to finish cropping by the following three ways:

1. Drag cropping frame by moving your mouse cursor onto one of the eight small adjustment boxes on the cropping frame (the dashed line).
2. Select aspect ratio from the Zoom drop-down list among Keep original, Full screen, 16:9, 4:3, Letter box and Pan&Scan.
3. Set the sepcific values in “Left”, “Right” and “Cropped area size” area to set the position of the cropping frame.

Adjust video effect
If you want to make special effect to your video, you can click “Effect” to adjust video effect by the following ways.

1. Adjust brightness, contrast and saturation of video by dragging.

2. Select a special effect from the Effect drop-down list for the video. The available choices are Gray, Emboss, Negative, Old film and No effect.
3. Select the suitable option from Repeat odd field, Repeat even field, Odd interpolate and Even interpolate in the deinterlacing drop-down list to adjust the picture's quality, if there are some pixels, lines, mosaics or stripes on the picture.

Tip: You can check “apply to all” option to apply the current effect adjusting of one file to all the selected files.

Trim video clips
If you want to split your video into segment, you can click “Trim” to make trimming of video by the following three ways:

1. Drag the slider below the preview windows.
2. Control “Mark in” and “Mark out” button to mark start/end time.
3. Input exact number of start and end time.

Design watermark
If you want to color your video by adding some text or image information as watermark, you can click “watermark” to realize it by adjusting Transparency, Vertical Space and Horizontal Space of added text or image information or resizing the added image.

Customizie output settings

Daniusoft DVD to PSP Converter enables you to customize output settings in the bottom of the main interface. You are allowed to select subtitle/audio track and specify output format/path etc.

Click “Settings” button in the output settings area, you are allowed to set video/audio output parameters including resolution, bit rate, frame rate, encoder, sample rate and channel etc.

Why renting Blu-ray movies makes perfect sense

by Don Reisinger March 2, 2009

Sony's Blu-ray Disc is arguably overpriced and overhyped, and it probably won't be nearly as successful as DVD which can be rip DVD to video and play on PC with DVD Ripper software, but I came across an interesting tidbit of information over the weekend that may make some change their minds about the success of the high-definition video format.



According to Nielsen VideoScan figures for the week ending February 22, Blu-ray captured 10 percent market share, and sales were up 29.31 percent over the same week last year. DVD captured the remaining 90 percent share, but its revenues were down almost 12 percent, year over year.

Granted, that's just one week's figures, and it doesn't mean much in the broader sense, but if you look at previous weeks, those figures are much the same. In fact, Blu-ray is slowly gaining ground on DVD, and its 10 percent share is actually an impressive figure, given its history.

I usually spend my video-allocated cash on other formats, but there is one place where Blu-ray will always win out for me: rentals. I won't stream films, and I won't rent DVDs. Blu-ray is the only format that I will rent from my local video store or get from Netflix. It's as simple as that.
I've had too many lackluster experiences with streaming films. More often than not, if I stream a film through my cable video-on-demand box, it will look grainy, and its quality is the same as DVD even though it's advertised as an HD film. I watched "W" recently via a stream, and along with an absolutely ludicrous story, I found that the film's visual and audio quality were downright awful. But the worst part was having paid $4.99 for a DVD-quality film that was supposed to be in high definition.

The same is true (in most cases) when I stream films through my Apple TV and convert DVD to Apple TV video with DVD to Apple TV Converter. More often than not, the "HD" film doesn't look nearly as nice as it should, and part of that is due to the fact that those films are available only in 720p, but the other part is that, well, they're just not that great over a streaming solution.

In my long search for great visuals, I've decided to rent Blu-ray films. Notice how I said rent? Yeah, well, I still won't buy them--they're too expensive.

And I'm starting to believe I'm not alone. According to market research firm Adams Research, film studios witnessed a 23.4 percent decline in DVD and Blu-ray sales during the fourth quarter of 2008. Although the company didn't break out sales of Blu-ray and DVD, and failed to mention why it believed this happened besides the economy, I don't think that it's a stretch to say more folks are switching to Blu-ray and choosing rentals over retail.

Blu-ray simply looks best on my HDTV. It may not provide a huge value jump over DVD, and more often than not, the difference in picture quality is negligible, when I compare it to a film in my upconverting DVD player, but for $1 more at my local Hollywood Video or Netflix, it's worth using the next-generation format and finding those certain films that really do look much better on Blu-ray than anything else (I'm looking at you, "Dark Knight").

At this point, when I'm ready to start watching a film at my house, I want the most value for my money. I can't get that with streaming services today because so far, at least in my experience, their ease of use is overshadowed by their general lack of outstanding visual and audio quality. And I won't rent DVDs because it doesn't make much sense, when Blu-ray films are available in the next shelf over for $1 or $2 more. The price difference is so small that it makes perfect sense for me to look for the film on Blu-ray.

When the price difference becomes negligible between the two formats on store shelves, that's when I'll start buying Blu-ray films by the bushel. But until then, Blu-ray's niche in my entertainment life is in rentals, where the price difference is slight, and the relative quality is great.

It's the perfect rental format.

More US Consumers Drop Cable, DVDs As Content Moves Online

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- For an idea of what's vexing U.S. entertainment industry executives these days, take a look at how Todd Mundt in Louisville, Ky., watches television and movies.

Eager to save money, the public radio station employee canceled his cable- television subscription, opting instead to get his favorite shows from a host of free streaming video sites, including Hulu.com, a joint venture of General Electric Co.'s (GE) NBC Universal and News Corp. (NWS). Rather than rent DVDs from Blockbuster Inc. (BBI), Mundt streams movies from Netflix Inc. (NFLX), a cheap and convenient substitute.

Mundt estimates he's saving at least $50 a month by getting his entertainment over the broadband connection he would pay for anyway just to have access to the Web. His prowess at finding entertainment online has also made him the envy of friends and colleagues.

"A lot of my friends take a look at my setup and say, 'Cool, how do I do that? '" Mundt said.
Mundt is one of a growing tide of consumers that over the last year or so have begun cutting their cable television subscriptions and shunning DVDs as more content becomes available online and faster broadband connections reach more parts of the country. Now, with the economy in a tailspin and consumers pinching budgets, the trend is picking up speed even though high-definition offerings and live events are still hard to come by.

No one knows how many people have cut their cable subscriptions, though some estimates have put the figure at about 1.1 million, or 1% of U.S. households with televisions. But already the trend is being blamed for shrinking performances at entertainment giants like Walt Disney Co. (DIS) and Time Warner Cable (TWC). Both companies blamed slipping revenue in part on the trend at earnings conferences last week.

DVD sales have also been hit. The Los Angeles-based Digital Entertainment Group estimates DVD sales in 2008 fell 8% to $21.6 billion from a year earlier, while DVD rentals were flat.
Cable and satellite television operators, who rely on subscription-based TV for about half of their revenue, are likely to be the biggest losers from the trend.

"People, particularly young people, are saying all I need is broadband," Time Warner Cable Chief Executive Glenn Britt said recently. "The danger here is...people will choose not to buy subscription video."

Internet delivered movies also threatens to undermine the $14 billion in revenue that movie studios generate by distributing their titles on DVDs. That's because many consumers are asking themselves why they should buy a disc when the same movies are available over the Internet, often at a big discount or for free.

Walt Disney Co. (DIS) is among the major U.S. studios to take notice. Disney said its studio revenues were down 26% last quarter and earnings before items were off 62% because of a soft DVD market driven in part by people accessing entertainment online. Already the shift has prompted Disney to shrink its home- video business.

"Consumer choice grows, we all know this to be true," Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger said recently. "This clearly has had an impact on broadcast television and may have a long-term potential impact on the DVD business."

Not all companies will suffer and already potential winners are starting to emerge.

Netflix, the online DVD rental and movie streaming company is a favorite among converts to online entertainment. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based company offers unlimited movie streaming from its 12,000 title catalogue for just $9 a month.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), both of which operate successful online streaming services, are also already benefitting, as is software giant Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). In the past three months, owners of Microsoft Xbox 360 game consoles have bought packages that let them stream Netflix titles over their game machines and have watched 1.5 billion minutes of programming over that period.

Makers of hardware that connect Internet connections to television sets are also expected to see a booming business. While it doesn't disclose numbers, sales of Netflix's Roku device are thought to be soaring. Meanwhile, sales of Apple's Apple TV unit sales tripled in its last complete fiscal quarter.

Free video Web sites are also winners, though their payoff is muted because most rely on advertising revenues, which have fallen with the recession. Hulu is among the upstarts offering free, higher quality videos like NBC's "Office".

Meanwhile, Google Inc.'s (GOOG) YouTube, and Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO) video Web site have seen increased use as well, according to a January report by comScore.

-By Ben Charny, Dow Jones Newswires February 09, 2009

What's blue about Blu-ray DVDs?

From boston.com

Optical discs use light to read and write data, and the color of the light is important. Older disc storage systems used red or infrared light, while the newer Blu-ray uses bluer light - hence the name. (Actually the name is a bit off, since the light is closer to violet.)

To understand why the switch from red to violet is a big deal, keep in mind that light can be thought of as having waves. Red light has a relatively long wavelength of around 700 nm (1 nm is a billionth of a meter) with violet light about half that wavelength.

Conventional DVDs and CDs use red and near infrared light with wavelengths of 650 nm and 780 nm respectively, while Blu-ray systems use violet light of 405 nm. Third party software DVD Converter to convert DVD to video file.

Waves of a shorter length can "see" smaller structures - so more data can be on the disc they are reading or writing. Hence, the popularity of Blu-ray as the next generation of optical disc format. Why didn't we use shorter wavelengths from the start?

While we have had good, cheap red and infrared lasers for a long time, violet has turned out to be a bit trickier to develop, requiring additional efforts in data encoding. Thus, the delay in its arrival in our techno-lexicon.

Dr. Knowledge is written by physicists Stephen Reucroft and John Swain, both of Northeastern University. E-mail questions to or write Dr. Knowledge, c/o The Boston Globe, PO Box 55819, Boston, MA 02205-5819.

© Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company.