Digital Video Software

Creating a memorial slide show is simple with a program such as Microsoft's free slide show creator. You can add as many pictures you'd like, background music, appealing transitions and more....

Created by Cisco, Webex is a program used for video-conferencing or conducting a meeting between parties in separate locations that allows the participants to both see and hear each other. Wrf...

Windows Media Player 11 does not come installed with the correct codecs (program that decodes the DVD to digital video) to play back DVDs from a fresh install. However, Microsoft does suggest...

DVD X Copy is a program designed to make perfect copies of DVD discs. By placing a DVD in your computer's DVD drive, the program makes a copy of all the files contained on the disc on your hard...

The process of making a personal movie file starts with actually recording video footage. You can do this with a video camera, but you can also do it with something cheaper like a webcam, along...

Making a movie from pictures is easy and fun. Download the files from your camera to your computer. Maybe you want to share a family vacation or a camping trip, either way you can put your photos...

Real Media's .rm format was one of the first streaming video and audio technologies that took the web by storm. The Real format takes audio and video data and, using a special codec...

Photos can say a thousand words, but adding animations, music and others can make them say a whole lot more. Turning photos into movie clips allows you to display your pictures on social...

YouTube is one of the leading video sharing websites. You can download the videos and convert them to an MP3 audio format so you can listen to them on an MP3 player without the visuals. Converting...

MP4 is a very popular video format used on many portable players and websites because of its ability to compress videos to relatively small file sizes while maintaining quality playbacks. MP4...

MP4 is one of the most common video formats used on many portable video players (e.g. iPods) and video sharing websites. It uses many different codecs (e.g. H.264) and is popular because it...

A PowerPoint presentation is basically a slide show that is used for either educational or entertainments purposes. It includes a series of pictures, texts and effects (e.g. transitions) organized...

Real Player Gold is a media player for the computer that handles both video and audio formats. While it is no longer the latest release from Real.com, it remains a favorite because of the...

Sometimes a DVD you want to copy is larger than the 4.7 gigabytes (GB) of a typical DVD±R (recordable DVD). The step before copying the disk is to find a compressing or "shrinking" program....

Converting files between the MP4 format and a MP3 format is easy. They are perfect files to replay over and over again on your MP3 player.

The largest conversion of flies right now is AVI to WMV. Both have advantages for using them and switching between the two is a simple as one program and a small amount of time. Both of these...

Flash Video (FLV) is a video format used to compressed high quality videos that are generally used on the Internet. They support high bandwidths so that they can be embedded on websites. Audio...

If you act quickly enough, you can use a file recovery software program to reconstruct a video file that was accidentally deleted from your computer. That's because when you empty the Recycle Bin...

PowerProducer is a video editing program developed by Cyberlink that allows you to edit and create videos in multiple formats such as AVCD, Blu-ray and DVD. PowerProducer supports an array of...

MP4 (mpeg4) is a file format used for recording and streaming audio and video content in computers and portable media players, such as ipods. The format's relatively small file size makes it...

YouTube Downloader is a program that allows you to download streaming video from YouTube, MySpace Video, Google Video and numerous other sources and save the video to your hard drive. These...

Movies can now be downloaded from the Internet using various means, such as P2P services like Limewire, or torrent programs like Azureus. But, once the movie video is downloaded, a video player...

Windows Media Player and iTunes are the most popular media players available for home computing, but the VLC media player is beginning to rank as one of the best media players available---and it's...

WMV files are Windows-specific video files meant to play on Windows Media Player, making it difficult to play these kinds of files on Mac computers. Meanwhile, MPEG4 files are a more common kind...

VirtualDub is a software program used to capture and edit videos. The main purpose of the program is to process AVI files, a type of Windows video file. VirtualDub does not contain a normal...

The most common type of video file format is one with a .AVI file extension. Other than the DVD or Blue-ray format, .AVI files have the best picture quality. Because of this, .AVI files are known...

Converting files from DivX to PSP can allow you to view movies and other video files on the PSP (Playstation Portable) video game system by Sony. The PSP media player uses a different format than...

The art of copying DVD-Rs is known as the digital variation of creating duplicate recording video tapes from a VCR. This technique is one of the latest trends sweeping the digital world. It serves...

The "Application Error 17235" message will display on your screen when you are using a DVD backup program such as "InterVideo DVD Copy" and the program experiences a problem that causes it to...

The "IFO" file extension is shorthand for "DVD Info" and is associated with short video clips or even full movie files stored on some DVDs and displayed on certain websites. To make it easier to...

The Microsoft Zune player can play videos and movies in WMV, MPEG and other media formats. But it doesn't support most DVD formats. So if you want to download DVD movies to your Zune, you must...

Video encoding is a computer technique that allows a user to take a video file in one format and change it into another without losing any resolution or other video information. This is necessary...

Small Web Format (SWF) files are small programs, meant to be run directly in a Web browser, that display animations and video clips. SWF files are designed to be used with Web-based applications...

Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is a creative beginner editing program that allows you to capture and import videos, and add effects and transitions to create video. With digital video programs such...

DivX is a popular video codec that compresses encoded video without a significant loss of visual quality. A DixX encoded movie file requires the DivX Player; however, a DivX file can be converted...

The video format on a DVD is sometimes not compatible with video players on a computer. These players might play Karaoke videos in MPEG format. MPEG, or Moving Picture Experts Group, is a specific...

Since most Apple media players like iTunes mainly use MPEG4 (or MP4) for videos, playing DVDs on iTunes is a problem as its movie files aren't in that format. You need to have an MPEG4 version of...

While the Sony PSP has been adapted to play Windows Media Audio files, it cannot read Windows Media Video files. If you want to play WMV files on your PSP, you need to convert them to an MP4...

If your computer uses the Quicktime media player (which most Macs use), you can find it hard to play files for the Windows Media Player. While Quicktime's Flip4Mac plug-in can allow it to play...

Dolby Digital AC3 uses high-quality audio with its video. The higher-quality audio often will not play directly when playing a video on an iPod, requiring you to hook up some form of external...

Creating DVDs from home movies and video cameras is easy, but if you want to burn video projects from a collection of downloaded videos, you may run into some trouble. This is because there are a...

DivX is a highly compressed video format created by Microsoft. If you play movies through the Quicktime application on a Mac computer, this program can have problems handling the format. The best...

If you want to transfer a movie from a DVD onto your iPod, you will have problems with the formatting. The iPod plays MPEG4 files, a format that most DVD movie files don't use. To transfer a file...

WMV and MPEG are the two of the most used video formats, but they often won't work together. WMV is primarily meant for the Windows Media Player, while MGEG works with QuickTime and most Apple...

AVI, or audio video interleave, is the standard data format for videos shared and played over Microsoft Windows media. An ISO image file is often used on DVDs. If you have ISO files saved on your...

This article explains how to use an Aimersoft iPod touch converter. The iPod Touch is a portable hand-held device from Apple that plays music and video files. The only major drawback is that you...

DVDs aren't cheap and can damage easily. It's an unfortunate fact, but there is a solution. DVDs can be backed-up and a spare copy (or several) made to set aside for that rainy day when the...

I will show you how to copy your DVD's for back up purposes and never have to worry about scratching the expensive DVD's you own! This ehow article is for information purposes and curious people....

1 Click DVD Copy is a software program used to copy a DVD disc and create a back-up copy. This program can create copies of almost every DVD except for discs that are highly encrypted. In order to...

You've paid a good amount of money for your DVDs and now want to enjoy them in iTunes (and perhaps on your iPod) without the hassles of buying videos through the iTunes store. The only problem is,...