Media Convert is a new online service which makes it possible to convert a lot of file formats before downloading the file to your computer. All you have to do is add an url and select the input format. Select the format that you want to convert the file to and click on convert. The only restriction is that the file has a maximum size of 150 megabytes, everything above that amount will not be processed.

There are so many supported file formats that it is impossible to name them all. I try to list the most important ones. It supports the most important text formats, such as doc, txt, pdf, rtf and Open Office, many zip formats such as zip, rar and cab. It supports 17 movie formats such as avi, mpg, mov and mp4 and more than 40 audio formats.

Tags: convert, files, media convert, multimedia convert, software
Categories: Online Services, The Web, Tools

I sometimes have the desire to create custom DVDs of movies that I own or that I downloaded to be able to view them on my tv using a dvd player. Many people might think that it is a rather difficult procedure to convert a avi file into a DVD compliant format and create DVD menus to be able to playback the movies on a standard DVD drive. This is not the case.

Tags: avi, convert, create-dvd, divx, dvd, dvd-menu, dvd-styler, freeware, mpg, super
Categories: Knowledge, Tools

Not long ago I wrote an article about converting flv files which are used by Youtube and Google Video to another format like avi and mpg to be able to watch them on your computer without the need of using a flv player or plugin. Fastdump pointed out in the comments that the program VDownloader would do the same faster and easier, what can I say – he was right.

Tags: convert, convert-flv, dailymotion, download, flv, google-video, vdownloader, youtube
Categories: Knowledge, The Web

Youtube and Google Video use the format flv, flash video, to stream the videos on their websites. If you download them using a firefox extension such as Video Downloader you might have problems playing them in your normal video player. One option would be to use a player that supports flv files such as the FLV Player. A better solution would be in my opinion to convert the flv files into avi or mpg which are widely supported and can be send to friends or burned on DVD easier.

Tags: avi, convert, download, flv, google-video, mpg, video, youtube
Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Sometimes you download filetypes that your computer can’t read because of a missing viewer or that you would like to transport to a portable device that only reads certain filetypes. Instead of download several programs that are able to convert the files you have into the filetypes that you need you could use the online file conversion website Zamzar to do the same.

Tags: conversion, convert, documents, file, filetypes, freeware, image, movie, music, script
Categories: The Web

If you ever wondered if there was a fast and easy way to download and convert movies from sites such as youtube to make them playable on your video iPod you are reading the right article. iTube does exactly that. It downloads videos from a page you specify and converts the video either into mpg which plays on most, if not all, computers or mp4 format which plays on video iPods.

Tags: apple, convert, iPod, itube, itunes, movies, mp4, mpg, video-ipod, videos, youtube
Categories: iPod

You have got lots of different file formats on your computer: jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp and png or rtf,txt,doc and pdf for instance. The big question that comes to my mind is why do we need that many formats. Most file formats offer no gain over the other, would not it make sense to convert all files of a certain type to one format only ?

Tags: conversion, convert, convert files, documents, omni format
Categories: Tools