So many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that's on your DVR, iPod, PSP or ...

Figure 1. Essence and metadata are contained in a wrapper. The things you see and hear, along with information about those things, are contained in a file. Click here to see an enlarged diagram. It is ...

The last newsletter covered some of the most common video file formats in use. This tutorial will explain the functions of containers and wrappers in the modern broadcast facility. Special file ...

Of course, nowadays, you do not have to install an app to convert a video. There are many online video converters in the browser itself. They support many file formats and can even convert multiple ...

Do you want to convert one of your audio and video files to a format that will run on the BlackBerry Pearl or 8800? The BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center has posted a document to help you through ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

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If you need a free app that can convert between several pre-set video formats with a few clicks, https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,155766/description.html is ...

Android may be a versatile OS, but the little green robot can run into trouble when it comes to certain file formats. RAW photo formats such as .NEF won’t show up in the default Android’s image and ...

OPlayer, from olimsoft, is an iOS application for both iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad, that claims to boost your device’s media capabilities by allowing playback of a huge list of audio and video file ...

Ian Campbell is a reporter based in San Diego who writes features, interviews, guides and reviews for Pocket-lint. Before he spent his days covering great products for Pocket-lint readers, Ian was an ...