Moto Xoom V.S. iPad2: how to convert DVD/Video to android and other mobile devices.

With the recent releases of the first Honeycomb tablet - the Motorola Xoom and Apple's second-gen iPad 2, the tablet computer landscape is finally starting to get interesting. Motorola Xoom has became a powerful rival to iPad 2. In fact, the Motorola Xoom and the Apple iPad are very similar with regard to basic hardware design and functionality. When you break it down, the iPad 2 trounces the Xoom in almost every category. That’s not to say that the Xoom isn’t a really good tablet, but unfortunately the iPad 2 manages to wipe the floor with it in everything from design to performance. That said, the Xoom can still find itself many happy homes with Android enthusiasts. Anyway, let us learn more about them.
The Motorola Xoom is an Android-based tablet computer by Motorola, first tablet to run Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The Xoom has two cameras. One is a front-facing 2.0 megapixel camera for video chat. The 5.0-megapixel camera on the back is for photos and will take 720p HD video. It captures video in 720p, and the video can be edited in the editing app, Movie Studio. While not as intuitive as iMovie, Movie Studio works fine, and the video quality from the Xoom generally looks better. The Xoom tablet technically offers a more powerful, more capable alternative to Apple's iPad with Google's next generation of Android, Motorola's knack for great hardware, and Verizon's promise of 4G network compatibility. Moreover, with its 10.1-inch HD widescreen display at 1280x800 resolutions, you could enjoy HD video in the thin and light tablet with ease. It will also play Adobe Flash, so web videos are viewable. Below are the formats playable for the Motorola Xoom: H.264, H.263, MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, ACC+ Enhanced, OGG, MIDI, AMR NB, and AAC+. But if you just have some videos in other formats, like MKV, VOB, AVI, FLV, WMA, etc, and want to play them with your new Motorola Xoom, The video converter is the only way you can choose to convert these formats or other unsupported videos to the Xoom playable format at first and then put the converted movies on the Xoom for playback. Also, DVD movies are not supported with Xoom,DVD ripper is necessary to rip your favorite DVD movies to Xoom.
The iPad 2 is the second generation of the iPad designed by Apple Inc. It serves primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. Its size and weight fall between those of contemporary smart phones and laptop computers. The possibility of an SD Card slot is mentioned, but not confirmed, but the report notes iPad 2 will have two cameras, but with components shared with iPad touch, rather than the higher quality iPhone 4 cameras. The cameras on the iPad 2 are as well as an improvement over no cameras at all in the first iPad, but that's about it. The front facing, VGA-quality camera shoots low-resolution footage that's fine for video chats, but the rear-facing camera offers less than a megapixel of resolution. Stretch those images across the iPad's 9.7-inch screen and you are looking at some pretty grainy, noisy shots. Only very bright lighting improves things. The iPad 2 shoots 720p video, which looks higher quality than the photos it shoots, but is still no replacement for the footage a typical point-and-shoot can capture. However, iPad 2 still plays achingly few video formats as well as Motorola Xoom. You have to convert your favorite videos with DVD ripper and video converter, and then enjoy them on your iPad 2 perfectly.
Now, you may also confused that how to get movies from DVD and other video formats into Xoom and iPad 2. Perfectly, Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite will be your nice choice, which is powerful to convert every DVD movies and HD video files to Xoom and iPad format. It is really wonderful to enjoy your movies with them anytime and anywhere. Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite is faultlessly for you to do this. This program consists of two wonderful softwares: 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.
So, follow these two guides to rip or convert your DVD movies and other video formats to Xoom and iPad 2.
1.How to rip DVD movies to Xoom and iPad formats

Step1: Start up Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite, and select "DVD Ripper" tool.

Step2: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive.

Step3: Click the Open DVD button, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it.

Step4: Edit DVD movies with powerful functions: Merge, Crop, Effect, and Trim.

Step5: Select the output file format.

Step6: Click the "Convert" button to start the conversion.
2.How to convert other video files to Xoom and iPad formats

Step1: Start up Nidesoft DVD Ripper Suite, and select "Video Converter" tool.

Step2: Click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer.

Step3: Edit the video with these functions: Crop, Effect, Trim, Options

Step4: Select the out file format

Step5: Click the "Convert" button to start the conversion
Now you could enjoy DVD movies and other videos with your Xoom or iPad 2 smoothly. Certainly, you can find more details about easy-to-use DVD ripper and video converter from Nidesoft Studio website http://www.nidesoft.com. Not Xoom users but iPad users can rip any movies and convert video files to Xoom and iPad compatible formats with the easiest-way.

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How to convert DVD/Video to Dell Aero, new iPod, Sony Walkman MP4，AVI and other device formats

With the development of technology, several 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. In this article, I will introduce some latest devices which are all good media player. You may have a look and select your favorite player.

Dell Aero - The Dell Aero is set to become AT&T's second Android-based smartphone following on the heels of the Motorola Backflip.
Dell has re-rendered Aero’s Android home screen to be conspicuously iPhone-like. You get a customizable row of four frequently used apps, located at the top of its 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel touchscreen. Your other apps are 4 x 4 gridded across swipeable home screens like the iPhone, instead of Android’s usual ever-lengthening pull-up app tray. I was unable to determine, and Dell reps were unable to say, if you could create more than the four app screens on the test device.
Otherwise, the aero acts like a regular Android phone except in one iPhone-like way – the Aero is bereft of the usual front Home, Menu and Back buttons. Instead, on the left perimeter, you get a dual-action button. One press brings you back a page, press-and-hold gets you back home. I’m not quite sure how you access Android app sub-menus.
Amazingly, the Aero is endowed with Quick Office Document Viewer and Editor, which as far as I can tell from the supporting documents, is not included on the supposedly-a-tablet Streak.

iPod Touch - No surprise here: the iPod touch retains its five-star rating and Editor's Choice award for its excellent fourth generation model, which finally includes two cameras, one for still shots and video, and the other for FaceTime video chat, which works seamlessly. And the addition of Game Center for social gaming, and Ping for social networking only promise to make your iPod experience more fun. Every year now, with the touch, Apple seems to outdo itself and leave the competition scrambling. In fact, at this point, the iPod touch doesn't really have much legitimate competition—it seems former competitors like Samsung are now focusing on tablets, like the upcoming Galaxy Tab, in an attempt to grab some of the iPad's considerable market share.

Sony Walkman S750 -Sony has now announced the next addition to the brand, the S750 video MP3 player. The player is shipped with EX vertical in-ear headphones and features digital noise canceling which is claimed to cut out about 98 per cent of background sound, allowing users to turn down the volume without losing audio clarity. Also included is a special adapter for air travelers who want to make the most of the Walkman's noise canceling capabilities while enjoying the in-flight entertainment
The S750 benefits from five Clear Audio technologies including Clear Bass and Clear Stereo, and a Digital Sound Enhancement Engine which restores the high frequencies lost in compressed music files such as MP3. Its 2-inch (51mm) LCD display features TruBlack technology to give screen contrast a bit of a boost, and the supplied software allows drag and drop file transfer. There's also an FM radio. It even allows the playback pitch to be adjusted to cater for those who have trouble reaching the high notes. The player also offers the chance to turn a private sing-along into a public performance via the AV-out port, which also provides for standard definition 720 x 480 video content on a connected TV.
All of these multimedia features, along with a battery claimed to give 50 hours of audio or 10 hours of video playback, has been squeezed into a form factor just 0.283-inch (7.2mm) thin. The Walkman S750 will be available in either 8GB or 16GB from October, although Sony's Japanese site also shows a 32GB version. There will also be a splash-proof dock available at the same time.

All of them are also good multimedia player. 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 Video Converter which could convert video and audio files between all popular formats such as convert AVI to MP4, MP3 to WAV, WMV to MPEG, MOV to AAC, etc.
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your mobile player.
Step 1: Run Nidesoft Video Converter.
Click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. It supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.

Step2: 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.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
Step3: 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. At the same time, if you want to play DVD with smartphones, you may use Nidesoft DVD Ripper which helps you convert DVD to all popular video or audio formats easily to convert DVD files into your favorite smartphone compatible formats. These two software are good assistant for your media player. You may try them!

Under the severe competition in this area, the media player develops quickly and the player device is more and more advanced. And the concept of totipotency has been accepted by persons. Whatever player you opt to use, I also think it is good. Believe yourself!

New Sansa Fuze+ V.S. New iPod: simple review and how to enjoy DVD/Video easily

Apple has enjoyed an undeniable stranglehold over the $100+ portable media player market for years now— it's pretty much been iPods and also-rans. The budget realm, however, has never been Apple's strong suit, and SanDisk and other manufacturers make players that outperform the iPod Nano and iPod shuffle. The Sansa Fuze+, an update to 2008's Sansa Fuze ($130), comes in 4GB ($79), 8GB ($89), and 16GB ($119) flavors. One of the Fuze +'s key features: video playback.
Design
Measuring 3.1 by 1.9 by 0.3-inches (HWD), no one is going to mistake the shiny, black plastic Fuze+ for an iPod Nano, new or old. A 2.4-inch, 320-by-240-pixel screen occupies the upperportion of the front panel; below it you'll find the touch-sensitive control pad consisting of a backward arrow, a Play/Pause button, and a four-way, cross-shaped controller, all painted on to the surface in silver to guide your fingers to the right spot. The Power button resides on the upper panel, Volume controls and a microSDHC slot on the left, a mini USB jack on the right, and the 3.5mm headphone jack is on the bottom panel. Some slightly-better -than-average earbuds—they offer some low-end response and fit securely, at least—and a USB computer sync
cable are included with the player.

Consumer-friendly “Film Strip” GUI
The player’s unique GUI operates like a film strip, enabling intuitive screen navigation that
creates a more natural, crisp and satisfying user experience. Left to right finger sweeps select functions such as Music, Video, Podcasts, FM Radio and Photos, while up and down sweeps or double taps on the touch-pad let users explore and select individual categories and files.

Easy Compatibility
The Sansa Fuze+ portable media player’s broad audio and video CODEC pack ensures easy compatibility with most major media formats.
Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC/M4A (DRM-free iTunes songs), FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Audible, Secure WMA, Podcasts
Video: H.264, MPEG-4, WMV, Flip Video*
Photos: JPEG, BMP, TIFF*, GIF*, PNG*
The Sansa Fuze+ portable media player is compatible with Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems. The media player is also preconfigured for seamless synchronization with Rhapsody, eMusic and Napster. But it doesn’t support DVD and all of video formats. I search this question on Google and I find Nidesoft DVD to Sansa Converter which is the first and best DVD to Sandisk Sansa ripper software which could convert DVD to Sansa video and audio formats, such as MP4, AVI, and MP3 and support all the Sandisk player series. Meanwhile, Nidesoft Video Converter could help you convert all video or audio files to many other formats which your Sansa supports. Both software are assistant for Sansa users.
Below is the simple user process of Nideosft DVD to Sansa Converter.
The first, you need download this software and install it.
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive.
Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, and find the DVD folder of the movie. (It is not only load DVD disc, but also could open a disk backup’s directory.)

Step 2: Click the "profile" button and select the format for your player.
Step 3: Click the "convert" button. Please wait before the conversion succeeds!

Additional Features
The Sansa Fuze+ media player’s rechargeable battery lasts up to 24 hours of audio playback or up to five hours of video playback2. For enhanced versatility, the device also includes a recordable FM radio, gapless playback and a microphone for audio capture.

Compare with New iPod Nano
The Nano is so versatile that you'll never want to set it down. Music is at the forefront, utilizing
iTunes provides thousands of songs available and which are fully syncable with your iPod Nano.
It allows you to store thousands of your best photo moments so you can share your snapshots wherever you may go. Use the click wheel to scroll through photo thumbnails the same way you scroll through your music titles. See photos full screen with a click of a button. You can even view picture slideshows, complete with music. New features allow you to bring your photos alive with a slideshow presentation, incorporating music and transitions on your TV using optional iPod Accessories. Plus, with the 65% brighter screen, pictures will look vibrant and alive, like the music you enjoy. Watching videos will be very enjoyable with the two-inch screen and excellent 320-by-240 resolution, at 204 pixels per inch.
It combines two nice element including: Cover Flow, which allows you to visually navigate through your album collection; Split screen for visual content previews, which shows album covers for a selected song and a new now playing screen.
Additional iPod Nano features let you customize menus, check how much room you have left, change your language, change how your Nano sounds, and more, all from the easy-to-use menus. And, lastly, it is loaded with extras. Everything from calendars, contacts, and the World Clock appear in the Extras menu, along with a few more useful items.

Conclusion
For those searching for a less expensive or more feature-packed alternative to the Apple iPod Nano, reports say that the SanDisk Sansa Fuze delivers on both scores. The Nano is certainly a better performer than the Fuze when it comes to video quality, and that's even ignoring the fact that video files (and photo files) need to be converted using included software before viewing on the Fuse. On all other scores, however, the Fuze holds its own and sometimes even excels. Audio quality is excellent -- so much so that better-quality headphones are a worthwhile investment. Battery life is good. While all reviewers still rate the iPod Nano as a superior MP3 player, they also say that the Fuze's value and performance is hard to ignore.

How to enjoy DVD/Video with devices of WM(WP7), Nokia Symbian, iPhone OS and Android

Android system has been taken into our memory early, many friends favor Smartphone input more energy to concern and discuss. The operating system of mobile Google was just come in, many firms are involved in its ranks. At the same time, Windows phone 7 systems recently has become hot topic. But what are the differences between the different mobile systems? Today is for everyone to collect several typical phones of the different phone system, if you are focused on a new system, so might as well see below, which can allure you?

Nokia N8 - The Nokia N8 is easily one of the most eagerly anticipated devices on the year. It has the new Symbian^3 OS, a 12-megapixel camera, an HDMI port, huge processing and graphical display power and a massively overhauled UI – basically, it’s meant to be pretty damn good. The Nokia N8, while being something of a departure from Nokia’s usual design, is still very much a ‘Nokia’ device in terms of aesthetics. The handset features a unibody design made from Anodised Aluminium, which gives it a solid, durable, feel in the hand. The Nokia N8 also features a non-removable battery, like the iPhone, and two side slots for both your SIM and microSD cards, which are located on the device’s left side. On the right, there’s a volume rocker, lock switch and the camera activation button. The top of the device features a 3.5mm jack slot, HDMI port and the power button. It’s still very much a Symbian OS, both in terms of the way it looks and feels, it’s just received a massive overhaul and has been dragged kicking-and-screaming into the 21st Century with multiple homescreens, widgets and live tiles.

Windows Phone 7 - Windows Phone 7 came together in about 12 months, though a hard reset of the OS started about two years ago. When creating Windows Phone 7, the team focused on visual design and a more integrated experience for the user. Interestingly, OEM partners will be able to customize the user experience but won't be able to replace it. In other words, you won't be seeing the likes of HTC Sense on future Windows phones. Microsoft wants the same user experience on all its phones. The design team created Windows Phone 7 on a number of principles, including user typography, elegance and simplicity, authentically digital, motion, and a mobile OS that's clean, light, open, and fast. Windows Phone 7 has a chromeless user interface, meaning you no longer have borders or a Start button. Microsoft stripped everything it believed the user didn't need and only presents the content you want. Microsoft is not talking about multitasking today, though it did say the phones will have the capability to play music in the background while you're working in other apps. The company is also not officially commenting on Flash support, though Adobe announced on Sunday that it is working closely with Microsoft to bring Flash to future Windows phones. However, it most likely won't be ready by the time the phones ship during the holiday season.

Motorola Droid2 – it don’t have more high technology then Droid X, but get more attention from people, mainly because of it will be running on the newest Android platform. The Motorola Droid 2 has been snapped in the wild and it looks very similar to the first Motorola Droid. The Motorola Droid 2 which is set to come out this month runs a 750 MHz processor with a 3.7 inch touch screen. Internal storage is at 8GB, augmented with the addition of another 8GB on a flash card. Verizon are set to be the first carriers of the Droid 2, but still no word if other carriers will come on board.
Samsung Galaxy S - The good news is that this handset will come equipped with Android 2.2 Froyo out of the box. As reported from BGR, the information has come to us courtesy of MobileCrunch. Specs of the GSM-based Galaxy Q include a 3-inch Super AMOLED display screen with multitouch, an 8 megapixel camera with separate 1.3 megapixel camera on the front, a 1 GHz Hummingbird processor and 16GB of internal memory. Some of you might also be excited to hear that the Samsung Galaxy Q will also come equipped with a QWERTY keyboard.

All of them are also good multimedia player. 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 Video Converter which could convert video and audio files between all popular formats such as convert AVI to MP4, MP3 to WAV, WMV to MPEG, MOV to AAC, etc.
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your mobile player.
Step 1: Run Nidesoft Video Converter.
Click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. It supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.
Step2: 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.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
Step3: 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. At the same time, if you want to play DVD with smartphones, you may use Nidesoft DVD Ripper which helps you convert DVD to all popular video or audio formats easily to convert DVD files into your favorite smartphone compatible formats. These two software are good assistant for your mobile. You may try them!

Although from the 2009, the single square intelligent system smartphone can not meet the mobile phone users’ demand. And the concept of totipotency has been accepted by persons. Since this year, these mobile phones carrying the Android system, Microsoft's Windows operating system, and any other new system, have a good improvement of its comprehensive functions in every minute, including mobile entertainment functions. So our life will become more and more splendid.

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.