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What is the SWF Video Format: Can You Still Open it and Convert to MP4?

<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;re new to digital video&comma; you may not have heard about the SWF video format&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;ll be instances when you&&num;8217&semi;ll need to deal with SWF files&period; So&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s good to have a working knowledge of the SWF video format&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;”wp-block-heading” id&equals;”h-what-is-the-swf-video-format”>What is the SWF Video Format&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>SWF used to stand for <strong>ShockWave Format<&sol;strong> when […]

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What is DVD-18? Why Wasn’t it Popular?

<p>You may have heard of DVD-5&comma; DVD-9&comma; or even DVD-10&period; But what is DVD-18&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DVD-18 is a double-sided&comma; dual-layer optical disc&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;”wp-block-heading”>Storage Capacity<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Its storage capacity is 17&period;1 GB &lpar;17 080 000 000 bytes &rpar;&period; This is equivalent to the storage capacity of two DVD-9 discs&period; In other words&comma; 2 back-to-back DVD-9&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since it&&num;8217&semi;s double-sided it holds up […]

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How to Hide Your Subscribers on YouTube

<p>A channel&&num;8217&semi;s YouTube subscriber count is an indication of how popular a channel is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is one of the routes to attracting more YouTube visitors to subscribe to your channel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But then you may have noticed that some channels do not reveal their subscriber count&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;re thinking of hiding your subscribers on YouTube&comma; too&comma; here&&num;8217&semi;s some food […]

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How to Share a Private YouTube Playlist with this Simple Hack

<p><em>YouTube doesn&&num;8217&semi;t allow you to share a private Youtube playlist&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a workaround though&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People usually create private YouTube playlists for their own viewing pleasure&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A private YouTube playlist may contain public&comma; unlisted&comma; or private videos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Usually&comma; they contain private videos&period; Videos that they don&&num;8217&semi;t want anyone else to watch except some selected people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> If they&&num;8217&semi;ve hundreds […]

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What was Google Video? Why was the Free Video Hosting Service Shut Down?

<p>Before YouTube&comma; there was the Google Video service&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Google Video was introduced as a free video hosting platform on January 25&comma; 2005&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It worked very much like YouTube&period; You could upload videos to it&period; You could also embed them on your websites&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Google Video lost its popularity after Google bought YouTube&period; YouTube was soon the go-to platform […]

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What is Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Video?

<p>You may have come across the term signal-to-noise ratio in product brochures or descriptions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sometimes it is written in the short form <strong>SNR or S&sol;N<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; what does signal-to-noise ratio mean&quest; What should you know about it&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To put it simply in the context of video it is the ratio of <em>good <&sol;em>video &lpar;signal&rpar; against &&num;8220&semi;useless&&num;8221&semi; video &lpar;noise&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When […]

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What is the AMR Audio Format? Why is it Better than MP3?

<p>AMR is an audio format that hardly anyone hears about&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;ve come across it recently and wondering what it&&num;8217&semi;s all about&comma; here&&num;8217&semi;s a quick explanation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AMR stands for <strong>Adaptive Multi-Rate<&sol;strong>&period; It is identified by the <strong>&period;amr<&sol;strong> extension&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Is it a new audio format&quest; No&period; It has been around since 1999&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;”wp-block-heading” id&equals;”adaptive&lowbar;multi-rate&lowbar;codec&lowbar;file&lowbar;info”>AMR File Background<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Ericsson developed the […]

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What is HTML 5 Video? Why Has it Replaced Flash Video?

<p>HTML stands for <strong>Hypertext Markup Language<&sol;strong>&period; It is a web coding language&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It sends instructions to a web browser like Chrome&comma; Firefox or Opera how to display a web page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The latest HTML version is HTML5&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How is HTML5 different from previous HTML versions&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apart from support for SVG graphics&comma; HTML5 is unique because of the way it displays […]

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Turn Your Articles into Instant Videos with these Top Online Text to Video Converters

<p>Video creation is a tedious and time-consuming process&period; Video creators are always looking for ways to minimize production time&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One way of doing it is by creating slideshow videos&period; Slideshow videos dispense with the need to set up a camera and lighting&comma; among others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While this saves time to a certain extent&comma; time is still needed […]

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How to Play MP4 Video on a Set-Top Box

<p>Why would you want to play an <a href&equals;”https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;freevideoworkshop&period;com&sol;what-you-should-know-about-mp4&sol;amp&sol;” target&equals;”&lowbar;blank” rel&equals;”noreferrer noopener”>MP4 <&sol;a>video on a set-top box when you can do it directly on your <a href&equals;”https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;freevideoworkshop&period;com&sol;sdtv-vs-hdtv-whats-the-difference-between-standard-definition-tv-and-high-definition-tv&sol;amp” target&equals;”&lowbar;blank” rel&equals;”noreferrer noopener”>HDTV<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>HDTVs come with USB ports&period; You can play MP4 videos through your pen drive or an external hard disk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your TV&&num;8217&semi;s built-in media player should be able […]

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