Monolith MC Bends the Rules of DVR's by Julia Hall
Digital Video Recorders, or DVR's for short, are one of the most loved types of technology available right now. They basically take all of the good features that we first enjoyed about VCR's and improved upon them by providing a graphic user interface and doing away with the actual video cassettes. ... (Most DVR's record video in MPEG-2 video compression format which takes up about four times the disc space as MPEG-4.) As mentioned above, you can burn your favorite video onto DVD's so that you can watch them over and over again without having them taking up space on the unit's hard disk as...

Digital Video Movie Making Freedom is Here by Michael Russell
I wanted to learn how to edit and do more than just join together short digital movie clips. I had found an mpeg joiner program on the internet, but that really wasn't enough to get the job done. Many digital movie clips were not in mpeg format so that program didn't work on them. ... The information provided is the frame size of the video, the number of frames in the video, how many frames per second are shown, how much time the video takes to run, and the decompressor used to make the video. ... It allows you to modify mpeg, avi, and divx digital video formats.

DivX and Movie Downloading -- What, How, and Why? by Sergio D'Alesio
Most films that are downloaded at present,are in the DivX Format,and by using this method of compression/decompression, a Movie can typically be compressed to about one tenth of its original size and downloaded without noticeable loss of quality to a users PC. ... Due to the massive popularity of Movie Download networks, DivX has become a very popular video compression technology (it was initially derived from MPEG-4) ,and is doing for video what MP3 did for music. ... For example,a Movie containing several Gigabytes of data can be compressed to several hundred Megabytes of data,and...

Hear It in Digits by Dale Davidson
Music downloads are off the charts! We're listening to digital music in the digital era. The driving force behind the phenonmena is the technonolgy called MP3. This is the technology that has changed the music industry. MP3 is an acronym for Motion Pictures Expert Group Audio Layer III. ... The standards were set in 1992 by the Industry Standards Organisation, beginning with MPEG-1 which was used primarily for video compression. ... MPEG-2 which uses higher bandwith for both audio and video compression has found suitable uses in DVD technology.

DVD Backup: Which Way is the Best? by Artem Chlegov
DVD disk is a quite fragile medium and even despite special protection layer on each disk it is still very easy to damage. Unlike VHS tapes, even dropping the disk or putting it in its box in the wrong way sometime might be enough to scratch it and get reading errors as a result. ... If your hard drive is not too big, it would make sense to repackage movies from MPEG-2 (which is a standard for DVD video) to some format with more advanced compression such as MPEG-4 (AVI, DivX, Xvid, Mpeg-4). ... And by using smart compression techniques it is possible to keep video quality pretty close to...

Video Bytes From The Web by Jim Edwards
** Handheld Video ** Apple Computers recently announced the addition of a small video screen to its new iPod, the perennial favorite portable MP3 music player. Apple's announcement comes as no surprise to many "expert" market watchers, but their stock did go up about 10% within days of the... The iPod plays not only Apple's proprietary QuickTime video format, but the newer Mpeg 4 video format which offers a much higher compression rate (and smaller video file sizes) than previous formats. ... ** Google Video Maturing ** Several months ago I reported that Google launched a video service...

5 Minute Guide to Video Editing for Beginners by Natalie Aranda
Getting started with video editing is very simple you only need a few items and you can be producing quality movies at home that you will be able to enjoy for many years to come. Maybe even produce a hit Hollywood movie. The basic items you need are a video capture card, the software to edit,... The process is effortless, all you do is capture the video to you computer using a capture card, then edit your video with video editing software and then download the video that you edited to either tape or burn it to a VCD, CD, or DVD.

New Features of Macromedia Flash MX by Maricon Williams
In the times of yore, videos all over the web are quite disappointing. It is like delivering a mediocre performance to annoyed expectators. But then, a transition from the passé made a dramatic exposure. The release of Macromedia’s Flash MX marked a leap in the development of rich content... Video format supported by QuickTime or Windows Media Player together with MPEG, DV (Digital Video), MOV (Quick Time), and AVI can be imported. ... Flash works with video by allowing developers to import a video file.

Downloading DivX Movies by Charles Cruz
Divx Movies Everyone in the Online Movie world is talking about DivX Movies, you may have heard of this term before, but what does it really mean? Well, If we would ask a techie: "DivX is a digital video compression format based on the MPEG-4 technology. ... DivX files can be downloaded over high-speed lines in a relatively short time without sacrificing the quality of the digital video. ... Often used on the Internet to exchange video files." But for the rest of the world, what does this mean (in english please)?

High Definition DVD by Kenny Hemphill
High definition DVD, also known as HD-DVD (which actually stands for High Density DVD), is one of two competing high definition storage format - the other being Blu-ray . The need for a new, high capacity storage format, has been primarily brought about by the rapid rise in popularity of... High definition DVD currently supports a number of compression formats, including MPEG-2, VC1 (based on Microsoft’s Windows Media 9), and H.264 which is based on MPEG-4 and will be supported by the next version of Apple’s QuickTime software, which will be included with Mac OS X Tiger.