Monday, August 31, 2009

How to convert FLV to MP3

There will be times when you have music as an FLV file that you had downloaded from youtube or other similar sites and you might be wondering what to do with the file. Here are some simple steps to convert those FLV files to MP3 format to be able to play and enjoy it in your mp3 player or computer!

1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.



You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.

2. Drag and drop the FLV file to the super encoder file list.

3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the MP3 file saved in the same folder as the FLV file!

Friday, August 28, 2009

Super encoder

The SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer is a very powerful free audio/video conversion software. It can perform so many conversions without any additional plugins or codecs. It is just unbelievably smart piece of software!

Convert video to mp3

1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.



You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.

2. Drag and drop any video file to the super encoder file list.

3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the mp3 file saved in the same folder as input file

Convert audio to mp3

1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.



You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.

2. Drag and drop any audio file to the super encoder file list.

3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the mp3 file saved in the same folder as input file

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Youtube to creative zen player video conversion

Please read my previous post to learn how to download youtube video as .flv file.

When you have downloaded the flv file, follow these easy steps to convert the video to the format that creative zen will play without any problems!

1. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.

Output Container: AVI

Ouput Video Codec: MPEG-4

Output Audio Codec: mp3

FFmpeg or MEncoder:
FFmpeg

Video Scale Size: 320:240


Aspect: 4:3

Frame/Sec: 30

Bitrate kbps: 1008

Sampling Frequency: 22050

Channels: 2


Bitrate kbps: 64

2. Drag and drop the .flv file to the super encoder file list.

3. Press Encode (Active Files) Button

4. when asked to select "Rendered file optimizer", select DX50 - Best with DivX5/DivX6 decoders and click ok.

5. when the coversion is complete, the file should be ready to be just copied to Zen mp3/mp4 player using Zen Media Explorer without any more zen conversion!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

How to download youtube videos

Follow the easy steps below and you can download any youtube video


Download youtube video as .flv or .mp4 file

a. go to http://keepvid.com/

b. paste your youtube url where it says "Enter URL of video page here - example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3V5a8mDTW6k" and press download button






c. when the download links are shown.. click the download link to download either as .flv or .mp4 file.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Youtube to mp3 conversion

Follow the easy steps below and you can convert any youtube video to mp3:

1. Download youtube video as .flv

2. use SUPER encoder to convert .flv file to .mp3


1. Download youtube video as .flv

a. go to http://keepvid.com/

b. paste your youtube url where it says "Enter URL of video page here - example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3V5a8mDTW6k" and press download button






c. when the download links are shown.. click the download link to download either as .flv or .mp4 file.



2. use SUPER encoder to convert .flv file to .mp3

a. Open SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer and select the following settings.



You can change the Bitrate kbps settings to increase/decrease audio quality. I have set it to 128kbps. Which is a normally used quality setting.

b. Drag and drop the flv file to the super encoder file list.

c. Press Encode (Active Files) Button and in few minutes, you should have the mp3 file saved in the same folder as the flv file!

Creative Zen Mp3 Mp4 player


Creative zen is a very good mp3 mp4 player.

I'l list some of the pros and cons over here

Pros:
-Good quality of audio and video playback
-good battery backup of upto 30 hours for audio and 5 hours for video
-has extendable memory card slot

Cons:
-can easily get scratches and fingerprints on the front panel and screen.
-the files stored in sd card does not have the normal features like playlist and albums.. they are just organised as directory heirarchy.