Many folks these days download videos from sharing sites such as YouTube (usually with this handy Firefox add-on). The downloaded video is usually MP4 or FLV, both of which can be played with the VLC player. If you want to burn this video to DVD however, chances are the software you use to do that doesn’t recognize either format, so you’ll need to...

We have posted a couple of times with regards to downloading and saving online videos from sites like Youtube, but the site Bender Converter takes this process to the next level. Here you can download and convert videos from the following sites: youtube.com, dailymotion.com, vimeo.com, twitvid.com, wat.tv, veoh.com, vids.myspace.com, video.google.com, blip.tv,...

FFMPEG is a command line utility that just about anyone who has used video in Linux is familiar with. It will convert FLV files to AVI, MOV, M4V (iPod), RockBox, etc. and do so easily. However most people hate command line stuff, and I don’t blame you. Most GUI-based FLV converter apps are absolutely terrible, save for one: WinFF. Don’t be fooled by...

By default when you create screencasts using recordmydesktop in Linux (Ubuntu specifically), the output is an OGG container file. As anyone who has tried to bring that file into Windows quickly learns, there’s not too much software out there that will “understand” OGG in Windows, and even less available if you want to edit it later on using...

One question that has been asked in live chat is how we post our recorded live Ustream videos to YouTube afterwards. Ustream has the ability to convert recorded shows into a compatible YouTube format such as WMV and MOV. See video below for details on how this is...

Have you ever had the need to convert audio or video files to a different format to either save space or make the file compatible with a particular player? If so, you can probably find a program to do the job for that particular conversion. While this is great, wouldn’t it be nice to have a program which can convert virtually any format to virtually any...

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