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Files created by DAT recorders, or ".dat" files, are often used to store video information, but the files can not be easily shared or viewed by other users. Converting ".dat" files into ".avi"...

Are you planning a long trip and want to take some movies along to play on your laptop, but don't want to bring a bunch of DVDs with you? Or perhaps you just want to make backup copies of your...

VOB files are multimedia files that comply with the MPEG-2 system level standard (ISO 13818-1). VOB files contain high-quality audio and video, but unfortunately they are very large. For example,...

Unfortunately, the videos that you have in the popular format AVI aren't set up to work as screensavers the way they are. This means that in order to get your AVI file to play on your computer as...

AVI to DVD Converter for Mac can not only convert .avi video files to dvd, MPEG to DVD, DivX to DVD, and burn DVD movie from videos, but also burn DVD folder to DVD, ISO file to DVD on Mac.

DVR-MS is the file type used for video that has been captured from television through a digital video recorder. Both the audio and video components of DVR-MS files rely on MPEG codecs, but unlike...

When video is ripped from a DVD, the DVD files can be viewed in some media players, but they are not widely recognized in programs such as video-editing softwares. If you would like to be able to...

AVI files contain video information that has gone through very little compression. Due to the lack of compression, the video in AVI files maintains a high quality, but the files themselves are...

There are several cell phones with the ability to capture video clips. Cell phones commonly store video as 3GGP multimedia files with a ".3gp" file extension. 3GP video files are generally...

MP4 is a video file type that is widely used both on the Internet and on portable media devices. SMV files are video files created through VideoLink Pro. These files are highly compressed and are...

MP4 files have become one of the most popular types of video files for sharing on the Internet. The files are highly compressed, which makes them perfect for uploading to video sites such as...

PPTX stands for Microsoft PowerPoint Open XML Document. PPTX files store the slides, soundtrack, graphics and any other information that has been used to create a PowerPoint presentation. PPTX...

Google Video offers a wide variety of videos from the Internet. The videos are a combination of videos directly uploaded to Google's server and videos found in other locations on the Web, such as...

MP4 files have become a standard file type for uploading video to portable media devices, such as MP3 players, and for uploading to video-sharing sites like YouTube. Highly compressed MP4s have...

PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) files store the presentation slides, plus any video files, audio files, image files and text files that have been used to create the slides. SWF files are small web...

RMVB files are Real Media files that have been compressed using a variable bit rate. The bit rate used depends on the type of video being compressed, resulting in a smaller file size and enhanced...

GVP stands for Google Video Pointer. A GVP file points to the address where a Google video is located on the Internet. The GVP file does not contain any video itself and Google's Video Player is...

3GP is the file type used in many 3G mobile phones with video capturing capabilities. While there are many programs now that can read 3GP files, several video editing software, such as Windows...

While MP4 files have become popular due to their quality sound and picture and compact file size, MP4 files are not able to be read by every video program. There are several popular video editing...

MP4 files have become a popular file type for MP3 players and file-sharing sites due to the small sizes and therefore short upload times. MP4s are not widely recognizable in editing softwares...

Burning MPG or AVI video files to DVD doesn't take any extra preparation. Though MPG and AVI files generally require some amount of compression to fit onto a DVD, most DVD-burning software...

If you have AVI files on your computer that you would like to burn to VCD, it's a rather simple process to prepare them for burning. VideoCDs use MPEG files, which are high quality video files...

AVI is one of the most popular types of digital video files. If you have captured any video online or created any videos in a video editing software, those video files may have the .avi extension....

You may have video files saved to your computer hard drive that you would really like to be able to watch on your television. Most any type digital of video file, including AVI files, can be...

Uncompressed AVI files are large. A 1-hour file uses roughly 13 GB of space. A standard writable DVD is only 4.7 GB and a dual-layered disc is only 8.5 GB. So, if you want to place a 2-hour AVI...

FLV files are flash video files used to create brief animated introductions on websites or to create simple video animations for popular streaming video sites. FLV files are perfect for websites,...

AVI files are very high-quality digital video files that can be captured in many programs, including Windows Movie Maker and Adobe Premiere. Uncompressed AVIs are extremely large files, using up...

If you have a PowerPoint presentation that you need to deliver to a large group of people, you don't have to gather them all into a conference room and project the presentation onto a screen. It...

JPEG is the standard format for images and for digital picture photos. When someone would like to create a slide show using her JPEG images, she needs to convert her JPEGs into a video file...

While many videos available online are encoded in either Windows Media (.wmv) format or Quicktime (.mpg) format, there are still many encoded in other formats, such as .asf. ASF stands for...

AVI is one of the highest quality video file types available. AVI files take up an incredible amount of space though when compared with other video file types. DivX is a high-quality video file...

SWF files are Adobe Flash animations and video that can be viewed on most browsers. AVI is a multimedia video format. Free software utilities (freeware) are available for PCs that will convert SWF...

AVI is an advanced codec that allows you to compress a large movie file of several gigabytes or more into a much smaller file, typically 1 gigabyte or less. Because of this, AVI is a highly...

You will need to convert your AVI files to DVD format for your DVD player to be able to play them. This conversion is needed when transferring files from a digital videocam to your computer. ...

sometimes we may find many useful videos at Youtube, after we download it to our computer, it's a FLV file, which can't be played with realplayer or mediaplayer, now we need to convert it to a...

A Video Output Board (VOB) file is a subset of the standard MPEG-2 system stream. In other words, it's one way to watch video. However, many programs don't run VOB files, so you might want to...