Christmas Offer: easily convert DVD and Video to iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, MP4, Nokia, BlackBerry, etc

Christmas Day is coming, we are having a happy time to celebrate the great time in the whole year. At this time, are you still looking for that perfect present for your friends, for your relatives, for your family, especially for yourself to express our thanks to everyone who have helped us during the past year and reward yourself after hard work? Look no further, here I have a good news to make you this Christmas a time for sharing and giving.
December 12, 2009, Nidesoft Co. Ltd (http://www.nidesoft.com/): Christmas sales for 2009 holiday season have launched today: take up to 25% off hot products and 33% discount suite. The offer is available until January 31, 2010. Thousands of users worldwide will receive their products and suites with a price that won't let them feel economically challenged amid the economic adversity.
Now, firstly, I will show you step by step how to use Nidesoft DVD Ripper which is one of hottest products in order to help you use software after buy it. Then, I will introduce Nidesoft Christmas special product lists. Hope you can select your favorite presents from it!

Part1: How to get movies and music from DVD with Nidesoft DVD Ripper?

Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. The quality is high and the speed is super fast. Also it is easy to use, only a few clicks were needed.
You can download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper by this link: http://nidesoft.com/downloads/dvd-ripper.exe
And you may get more information about this program here: http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-ripper.html
Download and install this software.
Step 1: you may open Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
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: 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 your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”. If you don’t know which format to convert, you may choose the profile according to your portable player.

Tips: You may edit your video using the functions below 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.

Step 3: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
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, and audio bitrate
Destination: Click the browse button and select a location on your computer for the output video files.

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

Ok, you have ripped your DVD movies to other format you want, now just enjoy it. At the same time, you may try Nidesoft Video Converter which is excellent video conversion software to help you convert videos and audios to all popular formats such as convert AVI to MP4, MP3 to WAV, WMV to MPEG, MOV to AAC, etc for your different kinds of player. It could support all of the popular multimedia devices, for example, iPhone, iPod, Nokia, Blackberry, Google Phone, PSP and Zune, etc. If you have these two software, then you can easily and conveniently watch DVDs and videos in any of your mobile or multimedia player.

Part2: Nidesoft Christmas special offer: buy one, get one.

Nidesoft Inc. recently has released eight new products, composed four groups:
1 Nidesoft DVD Ripper is best software to rip DVD to many other formats and Nidesoft Video Converter is professional video conversion software to convert video or audio files between all popular formats.

2 Nidesoft DVD to Blackberry Converter is an excellent Blackberry Video tool which could convert DVD to Blackberry video and music: 3GP, MP4, MP3, etc.
And Nidesoft Blackberry Video Converter is powerful and wonderful Movie Converter for Blackberry series mobile phone. It could convert video and audio files to your Blackberry movie and music format.

3 Nidesoft DVD to iPhone Converter is professional iPhone conversion sofrware which could convert dvd to iPone movie, iPod Video MP4, rip DVD to iPhone audio, iPod Music MP3 and M4A, and other Apple mobile devices including iPod and Apple TV.
And Nidesoft iPhone Video Converter is the best iPhone converter software to convert many video files and audio files such as MOV, MP4, DivX, ASF, 3GP, WMV, MPEG, AVI, OGG, and AC3 to iPhone movies or iPhone music.

4 Nidesoft DVD to Sansa Converter is the first and best DVD to Sandisk Sansa ripper software which could convert DVD to Sansa video and audio formats and support all the Sandisk player series, including: Sansa View Video Player, Sansa Fuze MP3 player, and Sansa Clip, etc.
And Nidesoft Sansa Video Converter is the first professional Sansa Media Converter software. It will help you to convert video and audio files to Sandisk Sansa compatible format.

These new products were designed for the new launched mobile phones. With this software you may convert your DVD files or videos to your mobile phone and all other portable players easily with high quality and fast speed. During the Christmas holiday, if you buy any one of them, you can get another one in the same group for free. Just send email to: support@nidesoft.comto get the free one.
My suggestion: you may buy one DVD converter and free get one video converter in its same group, and then you could convert both your DVD and videos to your players. In this way during holiday you could enjoy all your movies and music in your portable player anytime, to spread your digital joy everywhere.

Nidesoft Christmas promotion is aimed at happy Christmas for all its users, to spread the digital fun everywhere in the holiday, as its products are all focused on electronic entertainment. Want to get more digital fun and share it on Christmas holiday? Visit the Nidesoft Christmas special offer.

How to convert MKV to AVI, MP4, WMV, iPod, iPhone and many other formats

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.
Lately, more and more people start to use MKV. As seldom players can read it, people may face the problem that they can’t use the MKV video. I had been searching the internet for a few months, and found a nice tool called Nidesoft MKV Converter. It can convert MKV to MP4, WMV, FLV, AVI, 3GP, MP3 and more. In addition, This MKV movie converter could also convert AVI, MP4, FLV, YouTube, MOV, MPEG, WMV, RM, VOB and many popular formats video you may saved on your PC, and could support many portable player and mobile devices, including convert MKV to iPod video, MKV to iPhone 3G, MKV to Zune, MKV to 3GP, MKV to PSP, and so on.

Now I will show you how to load and convert MKV to other popular video format so that your
video can be widely used. Firstly, you could free download and install Nidesoft MKV Converter from: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/mkv-converter.exe.
When you finished the download process, run the .exe file to install it.

Step 1: Click “Add File” button to import your videos from your computer.
Tips: Click a file in the list and you could use the preview control buttons to play the file.
Step 2: Click "Format" combo box to select the output format, such as to mp4 for iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Creative Zen, Blackberry, Nokia, Apple TV, etc.
Step 3: Click “Convert” button to start conversion. The conversion will be completed in a short time.
Ok, now you have converted your MKV files to other format files and you may use it more convenient.
Tips:
1: How to crop off the black edges and adjust the size of video play region
By using the "Crop" function you can crop off the black edge of your video and you can also drag the line around the video image to adjust the video play region to fit for your mobile devices。

2: How to change your video effect
If you want to adjust the effect of your movie, please click the “Effect” button and a pop-up effect window will appear. It allows you to edit your movie’s effect including “Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume”.

3: How to split or join the videos
Click "Trim" button and you will see the trim window. You can move the slide below the screen or enter the start time and end time on the right to get any segment of the video. The blue line part is the video you will get.
And if you would like to put several files into one output file, please tick the check box of the “Merge into one file”.

4: How to save your favorite picture
If you like the current image when preview video, you can use the "Snapshot" option. Just click the "Snapshot" button, the image will be saved and you can click the "Open" button next to "Snapshot" button to open your picture.

In addition, you want to enjoy DVD movie with your mobile or other players and need convert DVD to your players. I also find Nidesoft DVD Ripper could help you convert DVD to all popular video or audio formats easily!
If you have any technology problem, you may email to: support@nidesoft.com. Their staff will be very warm-hearted to help you.

How to convert dvd and video to MP4, AVI, WMV, iPhone, BlackBerry, and many other devices.

How to convert dvd and video to MP4, AVI, WMV, iPhone, BlackBerry, and many other devices.

With the development of technology, various of media portable players emerged and have enriched our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phone and so on. It is really wonderful that we can enjoy our movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere. But you may also get confused with the problem: how to get movies and music into your favorite portable players?
Now I will introduce you an all in one solution. Only one program will help you solve all your questions, that is Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite. This program consists of two wonderful software: Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Nidesoft Video Converter. Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. Nidesoft Video Converter can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats so that you can\get movies and music from any format files. The quality is high and the speed is super fast. Also it is easy to use, only a few clicks were needed.
You can download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper suite by this link: http://nidesoft.com/downloads/dvd-ripper-suite.exe
And you may get more information about this program here: http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-ripper-suite.html




Then I will introduce you how to get movies and music from DVD, YouTube and other video files with this powerful program.
How to get movies and music from DVD?
Step 1: you may open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a.Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “DVD Ripper”, then you may get the software 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.

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: Nidesoft DVD Ripper has powerful functions that enable you edit your video during conversion. You may use the functions below 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.

Step 3: 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 your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.



Note: If you don’t know which format to convert, you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if your portable player is PSP, choose the profile “PSP Video MPEG-4 (*mp4)”
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, and audio bitrate
Destination: Click the browse button and select a location on your computer for the output video files.

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

How to get movie and music from YouTube and other video files?
To get movie and music from YouTube, you should free download it to your PC first.
1. Open the website: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/ this is a free Online YouTube Video Download Tool and you can download free video on here.
2. Go to the YouTube website: http://www.youtube.com. Find the video you like, click “more share options”, the link will show out, copy the link from the box below “Copy and paste this link into an email or instant message” under the video. Or, you can just copy the link in the IE line.
3. Paste the link in the box on the website: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/



4. Click the button “Get Video” next to the box and download the video in flv formats in your computer.
Note: to download the video in flv format, you should rename the file by add “.flv”.

The file downloaded from YouTube is in “flv” format, you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1: open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load files.
a. Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite you have just downloaded, click “Video Converter”, you may get the software Nidesoft Video Converter.

b. click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.



c. EDIT the video with the function button:
Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1) Crop: Remove the undesired area or just convert part of the video area from your video file by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right.
(2) Effect: You can Select gray effect or Negative effect from Special Effect or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special effect movie.
(3) Trim: To get your favorite segment by setting the “Start Time” and “End Time” or dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.
(4) Options:
Set video Resolution, video Bitrate, Audio Channels, and Audio Bitrate to customize the output video's quality.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.

d. Select the out file format
Click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.





e. Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Please wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!

Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoying it. If you have any questions, please email to: support@nidesoft.com. It’s my pleasure to help you solve your problem.

Sansa player review and best solution of putting DVD onto Sansa Fuze

IPods are great music players. But there are also other options. SanDisk has dipped its toes into the media player market and released a series of portable players. Looking at SanDisk’s product lineup and pricing structure, it is clear to see that the Sansa’s target audience would be people looking for a lower-proced media player compared to devices such as the iPod.
The Sansa Fuze is an iPod Nana competitor. On the outside, it looks like the iPod Nano; on the inside, however, it packs a lot more functionality. The robust feature list includes support for subscription services such as eMusic, Napster, and Rhapsody To Go. You can display video and images on its 1.9-inch screen. The player also has an FM tuner, a voice recorder, and microSD expandability. The Fuze performed very well on its audio and video playback.
Sansa Clip is good for people who use subscription music services, people who still listen to the radio, and people who want a small MP3 player with a screen. The Clip has been (and will continue to be) compared to the iPod Shuffle. The Clip is a perfectly capable digital audio player that can be clipped to your clothing like the Shuffle yet it has features the Shuffle doesn’t, such as an FM tuner, voice recording, subscription music compatibility, and a screen.
The Sansa View is SanDisk’s flagship flash MP3 player with the ability to playback video on its 240*320 64k color screen. What makes the Sansa View interesting is its high capacity flash memory along with memory expansion putting it in close rivalry to hard drive bassed players. The other thing going for the View is the “band for the buck” factor. It may not be a high end player, but it is one of the best values on the market.
The SanDisk Sansa e200 series combines copious features such as subscription compatibility, an FM tuner/recorder, voice recording, and photo and video playback into a compact and durable device. The user-removable battery and the Micro SD slot are nice touches, and the device has decent sound quality, processor performance, and battery life. Finally, the Sansa e200 series e280 has a maximum base capacity of 8GB, and it offers a competitive price in the high-stakes world of high-capacity flash players.

Common video and audio files can be used in Sansa players.
Sansa View: supports most audio formats, including MP3, protected and unprotected WMA, WAV, DRM-free MP3 downloads. Video compatibility with MPEG4, WMV, H.264 formats; Smooth video playback at 30 frames per second.
Sansa Clip: plays MP3, WMA, secure WMA and Audible audio file formats. Up to 15 hours of playtime with internal rechargeable battery.
Sansa e280: support WMA, MP3 audio files; AVI, WMV, ASF, MOV, MPEG, MPEG-4 format videos.
Sansa Fuze: it support audio formats including MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, secure WMA, WAV, Audible. For videos, the official Sansa website said it support MP3G4 videos, however, when I convert an mp4 videos and convert it into Sansa Fuze with SMC, my player can't play the video. Again I found a post in abi forum:
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27460 it said that Sansa Fuze support AVI format video. I have been confused about it for a long time and haven't got the clear answer until now. Should I use mpeg4 videos or AVI format videos in Sansa Fuze?
Luckily, I have found a way to get Fuze compatible video with a DVD to Sansa converter, as this converter not only converts videos for common Sansa player, but also convert Sansa Fuze compatible videos. I can convert Fuze videos directly with it. What’s the format and video code? Who cares？
See the below:

The “Sansa Fuze MP4 Movie (*.mp4)” profile is set for Sansa Fuze videos. So what we need it do is load DVD file by press the “Open DVD”button, choose the “Sansa Fuze MP4 Movie (*.mp4)” profile and click “convert” button, then you get the Fuze compatible video.
Convert the video files into Sansa Fuze with SMC and enjoy.
Options: if you have no DVD, you can get Fuze videos from any other video formats file with Sansa converter, which also support “Sansa Fuze MP4 Movie (*.mp4)” profile, and you can convert videos into Fuze video directly.

Sansa Fuze Supported Video Codec Information

This was the Sansa Fuze video information I got from anythingbutipod forum.


General #0
Complete name : C:\Users\EnzoTen\Desktop\WAZ.MineToRemember.SansaP layer.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 20.0 MiB
PlayTime : 3mn 26s
Bit rate : 812 Kbps
Writing application : InterVideo

Video #0
Codec : DivX 5
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec profile : Unknown
Codec settings/Packe : No
Codec settings/BVOP : Yes
Codec settings/QPel : No
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/Matri : Default
PlayTime : 3mn 26s
Bit rate : 667 Kbps
Width : 224 pixels
Height : 176 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 1.273
Frame rate : 20.000 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Interlacement : Progressive

Audio #0
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
PlayTime : 3mn 26s
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Bit rate mode : CBR
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Writing library : Xing (new)