In one of my previous guides I have shown you How to embed/hardcode subtitles in your videos using VirtualDub. The disadvantage of this method is that you have to reencode your original video thus leading to a quality loss. In this tutorial I will describe you how to hardcode your subtitles to an AVI video file without recompression using Avi ReComp. Why would you want to embed subtitles to a movie file? If you want to watch your favorite movie or TV show in a handheld device (such as iPhone, iPod Touch, PSP, your mobiled phone etc.) you have no other option but to embed the subtitles file since those devices don't support external .srt files. So, download Avi ReComp, its freeware, install it and let's get started. Add comment (16)
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In this guide I will describe you the steps on how to easily convert MKV video files to AVI. Of course someone would ask why to do this, MKV along with the H.264 codec has better quality. Well a simple answer is in order to reproduce the video file on a standalone divx player and watch it in your TV or in any other portable device that doesn't support mkv files. Just for the record MKV stands for Matroska Multimedia Container and it is an open standard free container format, in other words it's a file format that can hold video, audio and subtitles in a single file.
If you are using Media Center software such as Windows Media Center (WMC), XBMC or Boxee you will know that it looks awesome when apart from the video files you keep movie's metadata, backdrops, posters, trailers, story plot etc. In this guide I will show you a freeware program which makes the job of collecting and organizing metadata fast and easy. 
Today's web is full of .flv videos. YouTube, Yahoo! Video, Hulu, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many many other sites offer their videos in Flash Video format with the use of Adobe Flash Player. There are many players capable of playing those .flv files such as VLC media player or MPlayer. However what happens when you want to save a video you downloaded from YouTube into your mobile device? Or if you don't want to keep a collection of .flv files and you prefer the old .avi format? In those cases you will need an flv converter. In this guide I will show you how to easily convert .flv files into AVI, MOV, MPEG, MP4, MP3 formats so that they can be played in gadgets such as iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, XBOX, Zen, Mobile Phones etc. You got the point!
When you want to watch a video file such as a movie or a tv series in your computer all you have to do is use the same name for bothe the video and subtitles file and most modern video players will automatically recognize the external subtitle file such as .srt and .sub. However if you want to view your video in a mobile device or with a player that doesn't support external subtitles you must somewhow embed the subtitles on the video. In this guide I will describe you how to hardcode your subtitles using VirtualDub. Just remember that embeding subs means that you will have to reencode the video file which will take some time and you might have a quality loss.
Well, I don't have a Mac. However a friend of mine a few days ago was looking for a program to convert some videos on his Mac. He tried Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac and was pretty satisfied to suggest it to me. This program supports various video formats such as WMV, MKV, TS, MTS, M2TS, FLV, MP4, AVI, MOV, MP3, M4A, MOD, ASF, DAT and other. In other words you can use it to convert your videos for your iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPhone, Apple TV,
PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, Zune, Archos, Sandisk, iRiver, Creative Zen, PMP,
MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Mobile Phone, etc. You can trim, crop, join and edit video as well. So, this step by step guide is dedicating to demonstrate how to convert, trim, combine and edit video on Mac OS X (Leopard supported).
This guide shows how to remove DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection from wmv/wma/asf and m4b, m4p, m4v(iTunes) and convert over 40 video/audio formats at fast speed and high quality. After conversion, you may enjoy music and video on any digital media player: iPod, Creative ZEN, Zune, iPhone, PSP, Archos, Xbox 360, PDA, Mobile Phone, MP4/MP3 Player etc.
