December 6, 2010
If you save videos to your hard drive for offline playback with flash video detection software on a somewhat regular basis, you might have surely noticed that the format for these videos can be in F4V. The F4V container file format is, in short, a higher-quality FLV file encoded with H.264 video standard (for more [...]
November 8, 2010
Avidemux is an open-source video editor that satisfies your simple editing needs, such as cutting and encoding, and is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and BSD. You can also use this tool to compress videos using VirtualDub (which you can also do in Windows Movie Maker, but the video will most likely end up with [...]
April 27, 2010
Time moves a lot faster in the virtual world. Less than a decade ago, embedding videos to websites was an absurd concept. Now it is exactly the opposite, videos are everywhere. People have no choice but to consume hundreds of megabytes of streaming video as their snacks. Unfortunately, unless you are living in Finland, a [...]
November 18, 2009
The Flash FLV video format has become the default format for video on the web. Many popular video websites like YouTube, Google Videos, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, and Yahoo! Videos use the FLV video format. Meanwhile, most Windows desktop video programs used to play and edit videos use the Microsoft AVI file format. As a result, many [...]
August 9, 2009
YouTube is the biggest video sharing site on the planet. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for a review of the latest gadget, or a simple walking tour of a historical site, chances are you’d find it on YouTube. Most videos uploaded to YouTube are made by amateurs like you and I, usually with modest [...]
July 31, 2009
I’m a big fan of Hulu. It lets me catch up on my favorite shows, and, thanks to generous advertisers, doesn’t cost me a dime. Hulu has new programs, reruns, and full-length movies. One problem, though. Hulu videos stream in Flash video, and there wasn’t any way to download and save programs for mobile viewing. [...]
March 30, 2009
As a proud self-called geek, I must confess one of the activities I am really fond of is downloading games, videos, software, and so on and so forth. After trying a number of download managers, accelerators and those sorts of helpers, I must say I have made up my mind and chosen one which really [...]
February 22, 2009
I’m not an advocate of piracy but here’s a cool idea to grab songs off YouTube. As you may know, YouTube has a huge collection of music videos. Sometimes, I’d watch a music video over and over again just to listen to the song. I’ve just found a nifty application which will extract the audio [...]
January 27, 2009
Websites such as Deezer, Pandora, imeem, Last.fm (and others) all serve free streaming music – often bundled with certain restrictions that reduce their convenience to users. A number of separate various applications exist to download music from specific sites (such as Freezer which exists to download from Deezer, Jiwa, and imeem only. Or tools like [...]
