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An MP4 file is an audio file type often downloaded from online music stores.
MP4 files can carry Digital Rights Management encoding that stops the user from placing the files on certain MP3 players or copying the files between computers.
This is done to protect the files from piracy.
Removing the protection is a useful way to get the most out of these file types and back them up.

Several software options exist to remove DRM encoding (see links Below).
http://dvd-tool.com/drm-removal.html
http://drmbuster.uptodown.com/en
http://drm-converter.uptodown.com/en
These include DRM Remover, DRM Buster and DRM Converter.
Double-click on the EXE file when the software of your choice downloads and follow the instructions to install the program.
Double-click on the icon of the program, if you placed it on your desktop, or go to "Start," then "Programs," and locate the program to open it.

Click on the "Add" button, or the "Select Files" button, and use the browser window to locate the MP4 files from which you wish to remove the DRM.
Click on the "Convert" button and select an output file type or click on the "Select Output Filetype" if this appears as a separate button.
Click "Convert" again to begin the process.
http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/mp4
.MP4 File Extension
http://dvd-tool.com/remove-drm/itunes.html

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How do you install quicktime from a cd-rom

Installation

If you already have QuickTime installed, then we recommend to uninstall it first. After the uninstallation you should reboot your computer.

Now run the installer (QuickTimeInstaller.exe)
Click on the next button on the first page on the installation wizard.
Accept the license agreement.
Now you will be on the Destination Folder page. Uncheck the box for Automatic check for updates. You don't need that.
Click on the Install button. The installation will now begin.
Click on the Configure File & MIME Types button that is shown on the last page of the installation wizard. If you don't see the button, then don't worry, the file and MIME types can also be configured in the QuickTime control panel (see step 3).

File types:

At the bottom, uncheck the box in front of Notify me if other applications modify these associations.

Uncheck everything except these:
* Video - QuickTime Movie
* Miscellaneous - QuickTime HTML
Optionally you can also safely enable these:
* Audio - Sound Designer II
* Audio - GSM audio
* Audio - AMR audio
* Audio - CAF audio
* MPEG - 3GPP media
* MPEG - 3GPP2 media
* MPEG - AMC media
* MPEG - AAC audio
* MPEG - AAC audio (protected)
* MPEG - AAC audio book
* MPEG - Video (protected)
* images - MacPaint image
* images - PICT image
* images - QuickTime image
* images - SGI image
* images - TGA image
* images - JPEG2000 image

MIME Types:

At the bottom, uncheck the box in front of Notify me if other applications modify these associations.

Uncheck everything except these:
* Streaming - SDP stream descriptor
* Streaming - RTSP stream descriptor
* Video - QuickTime Movie
* Audio - WAVE audio
* Audio - MIDI
* Audio - AMR audio
Optionally you can also safely enable these:
* Video - AutoDesk Animator
* Audio - AIFF audio
* Audio - uLaw/AU audio
* Audio - QualCOMM PureVoice audio
* Audio - GSM audio
* Audio - CAF audio
* MPEG - 3GPP media
* MPEG - 3GPP2 media
* MPEG - SD video
* MPEG - AMC media
* MPEG - AAC audio (protected)
* MPEG - Video (protected)
* images - MacPaint image
* images - PICT image
* images - QuickTime image
* images - SGI image
* images - TGA image
* images - JPEG2000 image
Click on the Finish button.
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Put and Play HD Videos on Apple iPhone 4 in Supported Formats With the sharpest,...

Put and Play HD Videos on Apple iPhone 4 in Supported Formats

With the sharpest, most vibrant, and highest-resolution display screen, we have to admit Apple iPhone 4 is another great player for Apple lovers after the release of iPad. iPhone 4 owns a marvelous 960-by-640 resolution in a 3.5-inch screen, which makes it a more gorgeous to enjoy movies and videos. But there are tons of different video formats in the market, do you know what video or movie format will your iPhone 4 support?
iPhone 4 with Video & Movie Format Supported
- H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.
- MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.
- Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
iPhone 4 with TV Format Supported
- Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter.
- 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable.
- 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable (cables sold separately).
iPhone 4 with Audio & Music Format Supported
- AAC (8 to 320 Kbps)
- Protected AAC (from iTunes Store)
- HE-AAC,
- MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps)
- MP3 VBR
- Audible (formats 2, 3, 4, Audible Enhanced Audio, AAX, and AAX+)
- Apple Lossless
- AIFF
- WAV
iPhone 4 MPEG-4, H.264, MJPEG Video Codec - Which is Better?
We can realize iPhone 4 is capable of playing back the videos encoded using MPEG-4, H.264, MJPEG. What are the differences between iPhone 4 MPEG-4, H.264, MJPEG video codecs? iPhone 4 H.264 video is better than MPEG-4 standard video if each video is encoded at the same resolutions and same bitrates. A 800kbps H.264 video has the same quality as a 1000kbps (1Mbps) MPEG-4 standard video if each video is encoded at the same resolution (ie 1280 X720 or 640X480, the iPhone 4 screen's resolution). MJPEG basically comes from the JPEG format, which is highly standardized for compressing images. The only advantage of Mjpeg is saving CPU resource! But bitrate is very large, video quality is low!
iPhone 4 Video Converters You Need to Have:
Do you want to put and play TiVo, AVI, DiVX, XviD, AVCHD, MKV, MTS, M2TS, MPEG-2, MOD, Flash Video FLV/F4V, Windows Media Video (WMV), uncompressed Digital Video (or DV), DVR-MS, TS, TP, TRP, VRO, MVI, etc or Commercial Blu-rays or DVDs to iPhone 4? If you want to, do you know what iPhone 4 Converters you need to use?
Follow is the list of iPhone 4 Converters provided by Aunsoft:
If you'd like to rip/convert Blu-ray or DVD movies on your new iPhone 4, you can get Blu-ray/DVD to iPhone 4 Converter.
If you like to watch your TiVo/DVR-MS shows, AVI, MKV, AVCHD video or other HD video on your iPhone 4, you may try iPhone 4 Video Converter.
Have a look at the iPhone 4 Special Topic and you will find the right tool for your iPhone 4.
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How to Rip DVD to MPEG/MPEG 2/MPEG 4 ...

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Do you have some home Movie & DVD Discs that you want to:
-Rip DVD to MPEG files so you can edit DVD with Windows Movie Maker?
-Convert DVDs to MPEG 2 lossless that have no copy protection on them?
-Encode DVD to MPEG 4 to watch movie on your mp4 players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc?
Well, you're in the right place, this tutorial will tell a quick way to convert DVD to MPEG/MPEG 2/MPEG 4 in high quality.

What We need is a third party DVD to MPEG Conversion software - Daniusoft DVD Ripper, it's not only a smart DVD to MPEG tool but also a powerful DVD RIpper softwarethat can rip DVD to up to 150+ Video audio files with amazing editingFeatures, now let’s go ahead to the steps to rip DVD to MPEG files,it’s really simple:

Step 1. Load Your DVD Movie to Daniusoft Ripper
Click 'Load DVD' button to add the DVD file. Or click 'Load File' toadd DVD/IFO from your hard disk. (Ensure that you have sufficient spaceon hard drive to store the DVD).



Step 2. Choose output format
Click "Profile" to choose MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG 4 as the output formataccording to your needs. Plus, you are allowed to customize outputfiles frame rate, bit rate, resolution, encoder, etc in the settingpanel.

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Step 3. Start Conversion
Click "Start" to rip DVD to MPEG files. All the tasks of conversionwill be finished at fast speed and high output quality.

When you done encoding DVD to MPEG/MPEG 2/MPEG4, you can play MPEGvideos on your computers, edit MPEG files in Windows Movie Maker, ortransfer MPEG 4 files to your portable media players like iPod, iPhone,Cell Phone, etc without limitation.


Related Glossaries:
MPEG-1 (Video CDs)
Although MPEG-1 supports higher resolutions, it is typically coded at352x240 x 30fps (NTSC) or 352x288 x 25fps (PAL/SECAM). Full 704x480 and704x576 frames (BT.601) were scaled down for encoding and scaled up forplayback.


MPEG-2 (DVD, Digital TV)
MPEG-2 provides broadcast quality video with resolutions up to1920x1080. It supports a variety of audio/video formats, includinglegacy TV, HDTV and five channel surround sound.

MPEG-4 (All Inclusive and Interactive)
MPEG-4 is an extremely comprehensive system for multimediarepresentation and distribution. Based on a variation of Apple'sQuickTime file format, MPEG-4 offers a variety of compression options,including low-bandwidth formats for transmitting to wireless devices aswell as high-bandwidth for studio processing.

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I can't download a movie onto it doesn't acknowledge the file. Its a MPEG-4 file. on the box it says it plays these files but the Zapp program doesn't even find it, when I seach for it.

There are couple of variants of MPEG-4 formats, the first one is the plain MPEG-4 video while the other one is the H264/AVC MPEG-4. The later on is commonly used in portable players today. Try downloading other MPEG-4 movies and 3GP files and see if it works.
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How To Rip Blu-ray To AVI format?

You need to use a dvd to AVI converter to help you .BestHD Blu-ray To AVI Converter is what I am using.It can convert almost all kinds of DVDs to AVI format(AVI-H264,AVI-DivX,AVI-XviD,AVI-MPEG-4,AVI_MS MPEG-4,AVI-MPEG,AVI-WMV)
Check it out at:http://www.besthdsoft.com/blu-ray-to-avi-converter.html
It ensures fast converting speed with good quality. With only 3 steps,you could essily convert you movies to AVI format
step1. click"Add Blu-ray" to add you movies
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setp3. click"Start"button to start conversion
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How to convert MPG to FLV/SWF? What is MPG? Short for M oving P icture E xperts...

How to convert MPG to FLV/SWF?
What is MPG?
Short for M oving P icture E xperts G roup, and pronounced m-peg, a working group of ISO. The term also refers to the family of digital video compression standards and file formats developed by the group. MPEG generally produces better-quality video than competing formats, such as Video for Windows , Indeo and QuickTime . MPEG files can be decoded by special hardware or by software. MPEG achieves high compression rate by storing only the changes from one frame to another, instead of each entire frame. The video information is then encoded using a technique called DCT. MPEG uses a type of lossy compression, since some data is removed. But the diminishment of data is generally imperceptible to the human eye.
There are three major MPEG standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
1.The most common implementations of the MPEG-1 standard provide a video resolution of 352-by-240 at 30 frames per second (fps). This produces video quality slightly below the quality of conventional VCR videos.
2.MPEG-2 offers resolutions of 720x480 and 1280x720 at 60 fps, with full CD-quality audio. This is sufficient for all the major TV standards, including NTSC , and even HDTV . MPEG-2 is used by DVD-ROMs . MPEG-2 can compress a 2 hour video into a few gigabytes. While decompressing an MPEG-2 data stream requires only modest computing power, encoding video in MPEG-2 format requires significantly more processing power.
3.MPEG-4 is a graphics and video compression algorithm standard that is based on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and Apple QuickTime technology. Wavelet -based MPEG-4 files are smaller than JPEG or QuickTime files, so they are designed to transmit video and images over a narrower bandwidth and can mix video with text, graphics and 2-D and 3-D animation layers. MPEG-4 was standardized in October 1998 in the ISO /IEC document 14496.
What is flv or swf?
FLV is Flash video files, and is basically a stream of images and sound. This means you can stream these from a stream server, and get benefits like the ability to start streaming from anywhere in the file and such processing.SWF files are not streaming media, but complete files with scripts and more. This means they will transfer over the http protocol from the first byte and if you need something in the last end of the file you will have to wait for the whole file to transfer.If you however transfer the FLV file over HTTP the same applies also there. But FLV files can with macromedia media playback be transferred over the streaming protocol in a different fashion.That was a short summary for how you can use the two files differently.FLV can also be used as video inside your animation as any other video. And it offers possibility of masking and so on, which swf have more limits with.
if u wanna add ur videos to website? .flv files are the preferred choice !just cause it will takes smaller size,transmits fast ....flv has been the main video format applied on the website ! so the demand to convert mpeg to flv becomes more and more,Today i'll take video to flash encoder as an exmple to introduce how to convert mpeg to flv or swf...

Step1 Add source file(.mpeg)



Step 2. Select source file (.mpeg)


Step3. Convert mpeg to flv





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How do i get my video to play....i am following the directions in the book....when i hit play...i get nothing....i am frustrated ....could someone let me know the step by step directions to get the video...

Make sure that you have the correct video format and compression. Video:
File Format: MOV
Video Compression: MPEG-4 ASP, MJPEG
Audio Compression: MP3, G.711, PCM, ADPCM, 8-bit linear

File Format: AVI
Video Compression: MPEG-4 ASP, MJPEG
Audio Compression: MP3, G.711, PCM, ADPCM, 8-bit linear

File Format: MPG / MPEG
Video Compression: MPEG-1
Audio Compression: MPEG audio Picture:
File Format: JPG / JPEG
Video Compression: Baseline JPEG

Music:
File Format: MP3
Video Compression: PCM, ADPCM, MPEG 1 layer 1,2,3
You will need to re-edit the video files you have for the frame to recognize it.
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Write protected

I have the same camera use on windows computers using pinnacle studio 12 with perfect outcome. if you have however Imac or other apple there might be a few more things to say I have just discovered MPEG streamclip a free program and after 5 month I can now handle the .mod files on apple as well!! mod files are basically mpeg files if you change .mod for .mpeg you wil see that the files can be played with windows media player.The file numbering from Panasonic is very odd and I suggest you first organise your files on date shoot before you change any file extension.
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About playing video

Did your player come with a software disk to control conversion and movement for files? There is a good chance the files you are trying to view are protected, thus it won't show. Right click on the files you are moving and check the properties and make sure they are not protected. If there are check in the boxes for hidden or read only REMOVE THEM, also if a statement shows them BLOCKED, click to REMOVER THE BLOCK. I believe the files you are using in WMV format are protected thus the reason you can't transfer them. Please try this and see if that works.
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MPEG4

MPEG-4 is a graphics and video compression algorithm standard that is based on MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Apple QuickTime technology. Wavelet-based MPEG-4 files are smaller than JPEG or QuickTime files, so they are designed to transmit video and images over a narrower bandwidth and can mix video with text, graphics and 2-D and 3-D animation layers.
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