Convert Video to Play on Different Players

Nowadays, the most popular video formats is .mp4 format. Because Apple's iPod, iPhone and iPad all support .mp4 format video's playback. However, there are hundreds of video formats around the world. People have to convert them in order to play them on their computer or devices.

To convert your videos you need a total video converter. The video converter can help you to convert your videos to the video formats you need, such as mp4 to flv, mp4 to wmv and so on. The working principle of the video converter is first to decode your videos and then encode them with a specific encoder to the video format you want. With the development of computer's hardware, the software of video converter is also developed. Most video converter now supports hardware acceleration, such as cuda (Compute Unified Device Architecture) and ati (AMD APP technology). It makes the speed of conversion much faster than the original conversion. But it can only faster the conversion that the input and output video formats are all hd format, such as .mts, .m2ts, .ts and so on. If you are still using DVD and you also want to play your DVD movies on your devices, you can use best dvd ripper to rip your DVD to video file.

If you are using a multi-core computer, most video converters can provide users a option that if you want to use all the cpus to convert, or you just want to use half of them or one. Users are allowed to choose how many cpus they want to use to convert videos. If you want to finish the conversion fast, you can choose use all the cpus to convert. If you want to do other things with the computer while you are converting videos, you would better choose to use half of them.

Video converter also provides users video editing functions, such as cut video, merge video, take off the black edges of the video and also adjust the video's effect, such as brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and volume. Users can also add watermark to the output video and the watermark can be text and pictures. This function allows uesrs to add their name or studio's name after they make a video and share on the internet.

As the handhold devices are more and more popular, most video converters provides many default output profiles for those devices, such as iPad (The New iPad), iPod classic, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPhone, iPhone 4, PSP, Zune, BlackBerry, Nokia, Creative Zen, Sony Walkman, iRiver PMP, Archos, PS3, Apple TV, Xbox, iPAQ, Pocket PC, Mobile Phone, NDS, and other android tablet.

What I said above is only few of the features of video converter nowadays. If you are using Mac OS, you need to download video converter for mac to install on your Mac computer. And if you only want to convert your videos to iPod, you can choose iPod video converter. And also if you want to put your DVD movies to your iPod, you can choose iPod Transfer. It can help you to transfer your DVD movies to your ipod easily.

Some of the video converters now support the 2D to 3D conversion function. If you are a 3D fan, you can have to try. With it, you can enjoy your 2D videos in 3D effect easily.