August, 2007

By On 27 Aug, 2007 At 02:47 AM | Categorized As eBay Deals | With 0 Comments

Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry is a very professional and easy to use DVD to BlackBerry conversion application. The steps below are to guide you on how to convert DVD movies to for playback on BlackBerry:

Step 1: Import DVD Movie

Insert your DVD disc to your DVD ROM, click the Load DVD button, select your drive and click OK. If your movie is saved on your hard drive, you can just select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK.
After you import your DVD disc, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can select the titles or chapters you want to convert. If you want to convert the whole movie, you can just keep all the titles or chapters ticked.

Note: If a title is already checked, you should not check the chapters under it, otherwise, the title will be converted twice.

Step 2: Edit Movie
Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry Converter allows you to edit your DVD movie by trimming movie length, cropping video and setting movie effects.
1. Trim Movie
If you just want to convert a clip from the current title or chapter, you can click the Trim icon to capture a clip. In the Trim window, you can do the trim by either dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or inputting the time values in the Start Time and End Time fields.

2. Crop Video
If your DVD video has black sides, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click the Crop icon to open the Crop window, and set the crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop values(Top, Bottom, Left and Right).

3. Movie Effect
If you are want to edit the movie effects, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your movie video and the available effects are Gray, Emboss and Negative.

Step 3: Output Settings
Before the conversion, there are a few settings you should make:

A.Input the name each title or chapter in the Destination File field and select a subtitle and an audio track for the conversion.
B.Select an output format from the Format drop-down list for different versions of BlackBerry phones.
C.Click the Settings button to set the encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.

Note: You can check the “Merger into one file” option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.

Step 4: Click the Start button to start the conversion. And now you can just go get a cup of coffee and wait till the conversion is finished, and then transfer the converted files to your iPhone with iTunes.


By On 14 Aug, 2007 At 05:06 AM | Categorized As eBay Deals | With 0 Comments

This is a full guide about Apple iPhone, it should be easy to understand. If you have any problem about this guide, feel free to post here. I will reply to you ASAP.

Guide index:
Part1: Simple introduction about iPhone
part2: How to rip DVD to iPhone MP4 and H.264
Part3: How to Convert video to iPhone MP4 and H.264
Part4: Where to find free iPhone video and how to rip CD to MP3
Part5: How to transfer video to iPhone

Part1. Simple introduction about iPhone

Screen resolution: 320 by 480 pixels (160 ppi),
Operating system: OS X
GSM Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), Wireless data
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) / EDGE / Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Battery: Talk Time: Up to 8 hours; Standby Up to 250 hours; Internet Use Up to 6 hours; Video Playback Up to 7 hours; Audio playback Up to 24 hours.

iPhone Supported Video format:
H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

iPhone Cost: $59.99 a month for 450 minutes of talk time, $79.99 for 900 minutes and $99.99 for 1,350 minutes along with unlimited data service. There also is a $36 activation fee. Customers can pay extra for plans to get more talk time or text messages. Several family-style plans also are available, ranging from $80 a month for 700 shared minutes to $120 for 2,100 shared minutes.

iPhone Video Tutorial: Apple iPhone Video tutorial

Part2. How to rip DVD and VOB to MP4 for iPhone

Step1. Download “Aimersoft iPhone Converter Suite”, install and run it. For Windows Vista user, you may have to run this program as Administrator, right click the program shortcut and click “Run as Administrator”.

Step2. Run the DVD to iPhone Converter. Load your DVD by clicking “Load DVD” button, you also can load IFO file from your hard drive by clicking “Load File” button.

Step3. Click the drop download list to select the Audio and Subtitle you want, you also can change the output location. A regular DVD movie has several titles, such as MTV DVD, by default, this software will merge all the DVD chapters into one video clips, you can check the click box before the title list to select any DVD clips you want to rip.
As format: This software supports three Apple products: iPhone, iPod and Apple TV. It can rip DVD to MP4, M4A; it also can rip audio from DVD to MP3, AAC. Just select “iPhone Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”

After you finish the settings, click “Start” button to start the conversion.

Part3. How to convert AVI, MPEG, FLV, WMV, MOV, ASF, MP4, DAT, RM, RMVB, MPG, 3GP to MP4 for iPhone

1. Click “Video to iPhone Converter” to load the Aimersoft Video to iPhone Converter. Then click “Add” button to load video files. This software supports batch conversion, so you can add several video clips at one time.

2. The operation is similar with DVD to iPhone Converter, this software can join several different video clips into one file, if you want to join video, just check the box “Merge into one file”. You also can customize the resolution, video bit rate, encoder, frame rate, audio bit rate, channel, etc in the setting panel by clicking the “Settings” button. The program also lets you create a profile and save it, then you can use different settings for each video clips.

3. Click “Start” button to start the conversion after you finish the settings.

Aimersoft iPhone Converter Suite Tips:
1. This software provides rich video editing functions for you to trim, crop and edit DVD movie. Click the “Crop” button, and then you will see a pop up window (See the figure below). There is a frame in dashed line around the movie video; you can drag it to cut the black edges.

2. You can click the “Effect” button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast, volume, etc . You can even apply special effects such as “Emboss”, “Negative”, “Old film” and “Gray” by selecting an effect from drop-down list.

3. This software can capture pictures from DVD movie, there is a small camera icon below the preview windows, click it when you preview the movie, it can save picture as JPEG and BMP.

For more iPhone converters, you can refer this iPhone Converter review:
http://www.iphone-tool.com/dvd-to-iphone-review.html
http://www.dvdtoiphone.net/review.html
Wondershare iPhone Converter

Trouble shooting:
To convert RM/RMVB real media files to MP4, you may have to install Real player

Part4. Where to download free iPhone video and rip CD to MP3 for iPhone

1. iTunes store: $0.99 for one song, $9.99 for one movie, $1.99 for one TV show. Just install iTunes and visit the iTunes store.

2. Limewire is fast and popular file sharing freeware working on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Through the P2P (peer-to-peer) network, you can free download various files by its category or keyword searching.

3. Other stream video website such as youtube, video.yahoo, Myspace, etc. here is a list of free stream video website
here is a guide to show you how to download stream video to computer for free with vixy.net, KeepVid or Firefox.
step by step guide
the download stream video is flv file, if those free online flv converter couldn’t deal with it, you can use try SUPER or Aimersoft Video Converter, and they can convert flv video to any format you want.

4. Rip your own CD to MP3 for iPhone; iTunes can help you to do that. Install and run iTunes, click “Edit -> Preference -> Advanced -> importing tab” to change the “Import Using” to MP3 Encoder, you can also customize the audio bit rate here. Then click OK and put your CD into your disc drive, iTunes will automatically recognize that you’ve loaded a CD. Now you can either choose individual songs for import by checking only the tracks you want and un-checking all the rest (all songs are selected for import by default). Simply click the Import button on the upper right corner of iTunes and let the software do the job. All of the selected files will be encoded into MP3 digital music files and saved in your iTunes music directory by Artist and Album. (If you’re not sure where to locate your files, you can find out by going back to the “Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced tab”. Here you can see the default iTunes Music folder location,

Part5. How to transfer music and video to iPhone

You need iTunes version 7.30 or later to sync music and video to iPhone. If you don’t have iTunes yet, you can download free from here.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download
If you already have iTunes, just create a play list; drag your music and video to the list (set your iTunes to “manually manage music and video”), connect your iPhone to computer via USB cable, then click iTunes “File -> Sync iPhone”, Done.