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Burn downloaded videos easily with DVDCoach Express



One of the most frequent questions I get asked by retail customers is "Where can I get a program that burns my movies?" Nine times out of ten they actually mean "the movies I downloaded with Limewire."

If you're in the same boat and need a nice, simple app to convert and burn your downloaded video files to DVD, take a look at DVDCoach Express.

It's a free application for Windows that utilizes ffmpeg to handle conversion duties. The process is straightforward: drag your videos onto the file pane, set your encoding options, and start your task. Options are kept to a minimum: you can select PAL or NTSC, 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, and the encoding quality.

DVDCoach's simplicity is key, because I've already got enough software support calls to answer.

On the high setting, four 150mb clips converted and burned in about 40 minutes. It runs on XP and Vista, and didn't have any issues on my x64 install.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Video, Web services, Google

Google Video for mobile devices

google video search for mobileCan't seem to get Google Video on your phone or mobile device? There's nothing like being able to search for a video, download it and watch it when you are bored. But what happens when you are on the road, and just have your phone? Well, as long as your mobile device has a XHTML browser, some nice storage space, a relatively fast connection, and an application that plays AVI or MP4 formats, you are in total luck. Srobbin mobile video search plugs into Google Video search and serves them up upon your request. Now remember, you should have a data plan, since many of the videos are about 5MB, and your bill might get kind of yucky. To surf for videos, simply visit srobbin.com/mobilevideo from your mobile device and search! Simple! No more boredom! Just a giant bill if you don't have a data plan.

Filed under: Utilities, Video, Macintosh, Freeware

Perian: Play (almost) every video file in QuickTime

PerianHere's one for the Mac folks: Perian is a free download for OS X that allows QuickTime to play video files in almost any format known to man. It uses the fantastic open source ffmpeg library to enable DivX, XviD, AVI, and even Flash Video files in a variety of configurations. According to the Perian web site, it will also be bundled with the next version of Democracy Player. Very cool.

[Via Anarchaia]

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