Mpeg Encoders by Jennifer Bailey
Movie viewing and editing has never been the same because of MPEG encoders. What exactly is it and how can you use it to make the quality of the movies you are watching better? Read on to satisfy your curiosity. MPEG encoders defined Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) encoders are software... MPEG has been setting international standards for video compression since the dawn of digital video. ... To make life easier, try utilizing the ‘media convert’ function that can usually be found in the submenu labeled ‘video output parameters.’ You can easily reduce the size of your movie file, of...

What is an mp3? by Quinn Spicker
The mp3 is to music what the JPEG is to images. It is a type audio file which is compressed so it takes up less space. Mp3 is short for MPEG-1, Layer 3, where the MPEG part is a video format, and Layer 3 is the sound of that video. Compression When a sound is compressed into mp3 format, the... You should not be able to hear the difference between an mp3 and a compact disc (CD), despite the fact that the latter’s file size can be over five times as large as the former’s. ... The mp3, its file extension being .mp3 (originally .bit), was finished in 1992.

What are MP4 Files - and What Do They Do? by David Bain
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. ... However, an MP4 file doesn’t only refer to video content – an MP4 file can also be an audio file. ... 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.

Data and MP3 Compression: Why Do We Compress? by Matthew Bredel
In the last article (Data and MP3 Compression: Understanding "Digital"), I explained what a "digital" signal is. Remember, data can be stored as raw, or "analog" signals (like cassette tapes, VHS, or records) or they may be digitized (converted into a series of 1's and 0's) which we can later... MP3 and MP4 players are now a reality for a variety of reasons: 1) Advanced compression techniques have made file sizes even smaller than ever. ... MP4 (or video compression) is building momentum. ... How compression works is that we take the 70MB signal (as we described above) and by using either...

DVD Basic Facts by Ray P
DVDs have become ubiquitous. Whenever we want to watch a movie or listen to some music we reach out for a DVD. Here are some basic facts about the DVD: What is a DVD? DVD is short of Digital Versatile Disk. A DVD-ROM closely resembles a CD or compact disk. ... DVD video is technically superior and the closest we have to studio quality video. ... All the titles are made from multiple input files and each input file is one chapter. ... What is DVD video? ... Authoring is the process of collecting audio, video, menus, subtitles, etc onto a DVD.

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. ... You have a regular DVD file which is about 4.7 GB, if you wanted to download it that would take as long as 3 days to download! ... If you want to Burn the file onto a Cd and watch it on your DVD, first make sure your DVD-player supports DivX/XviD playback, then all you need to do is Burn it onto a Cd or two, depending on the size of...

Convert DVR-MS File Recorded By Windows Media Center by Shirley Schweizer
What is DVR-MS? DVR-MS, a kind of media file format like WMV, is created by XP Media Center PCs. It uses the MPEG-2 standard Compression for video with some ‘extras’ like certain copy protections and so forth and audio compresses using MPEG-1 layer II. ... The software can convert, split, join, remove commercials, copy, burn, and edit DVR-MS file to almost all video and audio formats like AVI, MP4, DVD (playable on a stand-alone DVD Player), WMV, MOV, 3GP, MPEG, SWF, RM, etc, so you can enjoy movie and music anytime anywhere.

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...

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... Flash works with video by allowing developers to import a video file. ... Video format supported by QuickTime or Windows Media Player together with MPEG, DV (Digital Video), MOV (Quick Time), and AVI can be imported.

Digital Photos Explained by David Manson
The Basics of Digital Images An image, of course, is any visual representation. Still images, such as photographs and drawings, capture a single, visual moment in time; while moving and video images, such as television and movies, are able to capture entire periods of time. ... JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) TIFF (Tapped Image File Format) BMP (Bitmap File) EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) Al (Adobe Illustrator) SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) To enable the sharing of such a photo, one solution is to compress the photographic data...