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What is Digital Media Converter? |
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Digital Media Converter is a program that can convert between all the most popular media file formats. |
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What file formats does Digital Media Converter support? |
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All commonly used media file formats are supported by Digital Media Converter:
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AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) |
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WAV
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Audio CD |
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MOV (QuickTime)
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WMA (Windows Media Audio)
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WMV (Windows Media Video) |
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MP3 |
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MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) |
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ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) |
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MPEG-4 |
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AU |
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VOB (DVD Video files) |
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SND |
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DVR-MS (including radio station DVR-MS file format) |
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AIFF |
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DV-AVI |
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3GP (mobile phone video format) |
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Supported Output Formats:
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AVI (including DivX and MPEG-4) |
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MPEG-1, MPEG-2 Formats (VCD, SVCD, DVD in both PAL and NTSC standards) |
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MP4 (including Sony PSP and Apple iPod) |
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WMV (Windows Media Video) with over 20 pre-defined profiles including Microsoft
Zune, Portable Media Center,
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and Archos video player support |
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MOV (QuickTime) |
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MP3 |
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WMA (Windows Media Audio) |
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WAV |
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DV-AVI (Digital Video AVI for PAL and NTSC standards) |
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How can I get rid of
the message in the middle of my converted files? |
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The message appears
only in the trial version. If you purchase
the program, there will be no text or other messages
in your converted movies or audio files. |
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What are audio and video
compressors? |
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A video is a sequence of images displayed one after another to produce the illusion of motion. Video compressors reduce the size of a video file by compressing each frame and by making some frames use information from previous frames, to avoid sending an almost identical image. Audio compression reduces the space needed to store sound information in comparable ways.
Using audio and video compression can reduce a file's size by over 90%. You can choose to use very high compression or very high quality, or a point in between, using Digital Media Converter. |
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Which compressors does
Digital Media Converter support? |
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Digital Media Converter detects and uses all the video codec’s installed on your computer automatically. |
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What compressors provide
the best quality AVI files? |
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Here are some compressors that are generally known to provide very good quality: |
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XviD MPEG-4 Video Codec |
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http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/ |
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XviD is an MPEG-4
video compressor and it is free. XviD is developing
very fast and is evolving into a very high quality
codec. |
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What is bit-rate? |
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We use the term “bit rate” when speaking of video or audio quality and file size. The bit rate is the amount of data used per second to describe the audio, the video, or both together. A media file's bit rate is the total of the audio and video bit rates. For instance, if the audio bit rate is 128 Kbps (kilobits per second) and the video bit rate is 512 Kbps, the file's total bit rate is 630 Kbps. The higher the bit rate the better the quality and larger the file. Selecting the proper bit rate for your conversions depends on the purpose of the file. For example, if you’re making a VCD for playback on a VCD/DVD player, the video must be exactly 1150 Kbps and the audio 224 Kbps.
All media files have a bit rate, but AVI files and some MPEG files are not described in those terms. Instead, you can choose the quality directly and the program will calculate the bit rate. On the other hand, Windows Media files are always created by specifying a bit rate. |
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What is Microsoft DirectX? |
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Microsoft DirectX® is an advanced suite of multimedia Application Programming Interfaces (API's) built into Microsoft Windows® operating systems. DirectX provides a standard development platform for Windows-based PCs by enabling software developers to access specialized hardware features without having to write any hardware-specific code. DirectX is a recognized standard for multimedia application development on the Windows platform. |
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In simple terms, DirectX is a Windows-based technology that enables higher performance in graphics and sound when you're playing games or watching video on your PC. You must have DirectX 8.1 or higher installed, to be able to use Digital Media Converter. |
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Where can I download
Microsoft DirectX? |
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Windows 98 (Second Edition), Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), and Windows 2000 users can download the latest version of DirectX from the Microsoft site. Windows XP users do not need to download DirectX for
Digital Media Converter. Windows XP has appropriate support for DirectX 8.1 built into it.
Click here to download the latest version
of DirectX. |
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