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Movie and music lovers nowadays are caught up with the release of countless devices that can easily store up to 20,000 songs and 100 hours of video. This phenomenon started during the advent of converting normally large audio and video files into smaller file sizes without sacrificing the quality of the sound or the image. It used to be that music and video files fill up so much hard disk space faster than one can imagine. Depending on the disk space you have, you would never fully appreciate the limited number of songs and videos provided by a hard disk space filled with these big files. The files do not have the capacity to be played on different media players too, so storing them is really hard.
The MPEG4:
MPEG4 is a compressed video produced by the software created by Microsoft called Codec, a software program that can decode and encode digital streams. MP4 files was created due to the joint effort of a large number of researchers focused on reducing the size of large, cumbersome music and video files into smaller ones to provide more disk space. With this smaller sized format, you now have to option to store more music and video files on your disk space and playing them over different media players is not a problem anymore. You just have to download the latest configuration of the media players to view your MPEG4 files. You now have the option of not deleting any of your old video and music files to make way for newer ones.
The Advantages of MPEG4:
With the advent of MPEG4 or MP4, the storage of music and videos on a hard disk has really changed for the better. MPEG4 or MP4 has been hailed as the prevailing music and video file in the market today. The iPod itself encourages the use of the MPEG4 of MP4 files for video and music and nowadays there are some other MP4 players available too. It was believed that MPEG4 is limited only to video files but this is not so. Music files in the same form may also be made available and this is evident in Apple’s online music store, the iTunes. Videos in the MPEG4 format are being sold online in their website and it has reaped a thousand followers to date. Maybe in the few years to come, audio files can also be converted to MPEG4, saving up on the disk space you need. This is the reason why Apple’s iPod can store up to 20,000 songs and 100 hours of video with just 80 GB of disk space.
There are video converters available online where you could manually convert your own videos to the MPEG4 file format. This can help you considerably save up on disk space and can help you store more files. You can even load them on your own iPod for a more portable use of your music and your videos. The choice is just up to you.
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Written by David on May 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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MP4 is short for ‘MPEG-4’. The official file extension for MPEG-4 is .mp4 – hence the shortened name MP4.
MPEG-4 technology has been developed to provide DVD quality audio and pictures in an extremely small file size – ideal for playing on portable MP4 players such as the iPod Video.
MP4 is here to stay. The Apple Corporation themselves describes MP4 as “the global multimedia standard, delivering professional-quality audio and video streams over a wide range of bandwidths, from cell phone to broadband and beyond”. Thy go on to say that “hundreds of researchers around the world contributed to MPEG-4, which was finalized in 1998 and became an international standard in 2000”.
The BBC confirms that MPEG-4 is used to compress video and is the successor to MPEG-2. They also explain that the version that can turn massive movie files into a handier size has escaped on to the Internet thanks to Microsoft. Microsoft developed the software to compress and decompress video, which is called a called a codec. (A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. The word codec means Compression/Decompression algorithm)
The codec helps the Windows Media Player program handle moving pictures sent over the web. Other web based media players such as the Real Player will also play the MP4 file format as long as you have the latest version downloaded. You have to download the latest MP4 Codec to your own digital media player to ensure MP4 file playback compatibility.
However, an MP4 file doesn’t only refer to video content – an MP4 file can also be an audio file. Many people think that the MP4 format will be both the visual and audio standard file format of the future.
The iPod Video is by far the most popular MP4 Player on the market. But iPod don’t want us to call it an MP4 Player even though it plays MP4 file. Why? It might be because you might then choose another MP4 Player instead!
Another high-profile recent MP4 Player launch is the Zune Player by Microsoft. Surprisingly though, ZDnet.com discovered that at the time of the launch, Zune devices only play protected files from the Zune marketplace.
This is where Microsoft and Apple are both arguably guilty. Both companies are dubiously controlling certain markets. However, this can give the advantage to the MP4 Player consumer. If you take the time to convert your video files to MP4 (for which there is free software available) then you can play them on your cheaper MP4 Player, which probably has more functions than the Video iPod. Even if you choose to move to the Video iPod in the future, you can still transfer your old MP4 files.
The MP4 file format will be integral to the future of web based videos and portable media player videos. It is a global multimedia standard, every increasing in popularity. It is the file format that best insures the mass acceptance of your own media files on various types of media players.
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Written by David on November 16th, 2006 with no comments.
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As mentioned in Tweblog, an excellent free MP4 converter tool has been released that converts YouTube videos (in their standard ‘Flash’ format) to .mp4 format.
Designed by Benjamin Strahs, iTube (the free MP4 converter) is an easy to use Windows program that will enable you to transfer any YouTube video onto your iPod video or MP4 Player. Remember to donate to Benjamin if you find iTube useful.
CLICK HERE to DOWNLOAD iTube for free.
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Written by David on November 15th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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As announced in the rBytes Free Software Downloads Blog, the Free MP4 Download Desktop Manager is an Desktop device that manages all your MP4 Files.
http://www.mp4-converter.net Free MP4 Download Desktop can classify and manage mp4 files in your computer easily. No matter under which disk, no matter under the deep table of contents, all can be extremely easily inquired, classified and managed.
mp4-converter.net Free MP4 Download Desktop 1.67 a shareware product for free. It takes extremely few system resources when it is running, achieving practically exquisitely, with high efficiency.
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In conclusion, with easy-to-use interface, fast converting speed, powerful functions.
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Written by David on November 14th, 2006 with no comments.
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Aom MP4 Converter is a Fast and excellent video to MP4 converter product which helps you convert video to MP4 (MPEG4) with great stability.
With it’s simple 3-step process you can convert videos in just minutes, such as Convert AVI to MP4, MPEG to MP4, WMV to MP4, RM to MP4, RMVB, MOV, ASF, MPG, MPE, M1V, MPV2, DAT, VOB etc to MP4 for play them in your MP4 player, iPod, PSP, 3GP mobile phone, or other portable video device.
Besides, Aom MP4 Converter also convert video files from various formats to AVI, 3GP, ASF. the new video files are no quality lost. You can convert many files in batches regardless of their source formats.
Its friendly interface enables you to use it without learning. can be easily operated by anyone. All a user needs to do is click the “Add Files” menu and select output file format and output folder to save it. Then press Convert.
In just seconds, this Aom mp4 converter creates a new video file. Have a try, you’ll probably like this program for its ease of use and flexibility.
Purchase link: http://feeding-frenzy.biz/buy-shareware/Aom-MP4-Converter-buy.htm
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Written by David on November 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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A brief history of MP4 technology according to Wikipedia…
“MPEG-4 Part 14, formally, ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most-commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but also can be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.”
“Like most modern container formats, MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet. The official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, thus the container format is often referred to simply as MP4. Devices that play .mp4 files are referred to as MP4 players.”
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Written by David on October 25th, 2006 with no comments.
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According to Apple, this is the definition of MP4…
(MP4 is short for MPEG-4)
"MPEG-4 is the global multimedia standard, delivering professional-quality audio and video streams over a wide range of bandwidths, from cell phone to broadband and beyond."
"MPEG-4 is designed to deliver DVD-quality video (MPEG-2) at lower data rates and smaller file sizes. And the same folks who created the popular .mp3 file format — a.k.a. MPEG-1 layer III — developed the new Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec, providing much more efficient compression than MP3 with a quality rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio."
"Like MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 previously did for CD-ROMs and DVDs, MPEG-4 promises to create interoperability for video delivered over the Internet and other distribution channels. MPEG-4 will play back on many different devices — from satellite television to wireless devices."
"MPEG-4 provides an open playing field. As an open industry standard, anyone can create an MPEG-4 player or encoder that will work with other manufacturers devices."
So remember than an iPod Video in an MP4 Player. And you can get many different brands of MP4 Players!
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Written by David on October 25th, 2006 with no comments.
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