If you’re in the market to buy a new HDTV (think 4K), you may have heard that your current HDMI cable may not support a newer UHD (4K) TV.You may have heard from a salesperson or an ‘expert’ that you would need to buy a special HDMI cable for a 4K TV.Is this true? Not […]
IntroductionThis is a tutorial on AVI to MP4 converter online free 700MB file The converter leaves no watermark on your converted MP4 video.Although it’s rare these days, some video files may come to you in the AVI format.AVI may not be compatible with certain devices. So, you’ll want to convert it to MP4 which works […]
Some MKV files come with subtitles embedded. This means there isn’t a separate file subtitle file like a .srt or a .sub file included with the video file.If you directly convert such an MKV file to MP4, you would lose the subtitles in most instances.So, how then do you convert MKV to MP4 without losing […]
RMVB stands for RealMedia Variable Bitrate.It is a video container format developed by RealNetworks and carries the .rmvb extension. As its name suggests, it is encoded with a variable bit rate. The RMVB video format first hit the market in 2003, offering high-quality streaming video over various devices.Over the years, it has fallen out of […]
One of the well-known free, open-source video formats out there is WebM. Another thing worth noting is the Matroska (free for personal use) multimedia container format. In fact, the WebM container format is based on the Matroska multimedia container format.Why is it Called Matroska?Isn’t Matroska a strange-sounding name for a video container? Yes, it’s not […]
The WebM VP 9 codec is a royalty free codec and is open source.If you’ve not heard of this codec before, it was developed by Google as an answer to the HEVC/H265 codec.So, you don’t need a media player to open a WebM file encoded with the VP9 codec.VP9 is the video codec that operates […]
The WebM VP8 codec is an open-source, royalty-free codec powered by Google.What do you mean by open-source and royalty-free? Open-source means any developer can work on and enhance the code and share it with the rest of the world. Royalty-free means anyone using the codec for a video project or in a device, would not […]
WebM is video container format designed for the web. It’s based on the Matroska video format.WebM could be used for HD video playback, live video streaming and even video calls, In short the format can be used for any form of web video.WebM History WebM started development after Google acquired On2, the company that created […]
There are two types of M4V files – copy-protected and unprotected MP4 and M4V have the same properties but different extensions -.mp4 and .m4v You can open an unprotected M4V file in an unsupported player by changing its extension to MP4 If you’ve come across M4V and have been wondering what it is all about, […]
If you have a tape-based camcorder, there’s a way to transfer video from your camcorder to your computer as will be explained below. If yours is a Digital8 or mini-DV camcorder, you can use the Firewire connection in your camcorder to transfer video to your camcorder. This is only possible if you’ve a Firewire port […]