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The Easiest Way to Enjoy Movies with Car DVD Players

It is really a pleasant thing to enjoy Hollywood movies in car at any time you want. However, after many motorists download movies, they don’t know how to play movies in the car correctly. They usually have many problems, such as the format compatibility issue or no suitable DVD burning software. In order to solve the problems, I have made this guide to explain them in detail. The following tutorial takes Boss BV9992 In-Dash 7 Car DVD Player for example. It is also suitable for other car DVD players.

Step1. Get the detailed information of the car DVD player
The most important thing is to be aware of the supported format of the car DVD player. Different car DVD players support different audio& video formats.
The BV9992 plays back your DVDs/SDVDs, SVCDs/VCDs, CDs, CD-R/Ws, and WMA/MP4/MP3 files. The BV9992 features a USB port and SD Card jack, so you can instantly switch out USB thumb drives or SD cards with a fresh batch of MP3 tunes/podcasts/etc.
Tip: For audio plays, you just need to download the WMA or MP3 files and save them in your SD card or MP3 player device, then connect the device to the car DVD player. For video plays, you need to convert and burn them to DVD discs.
Step2. Download the DVD burner software
You need to burn the movies to DVD discs before enjoying these movies on car DVD player. I use Sothink free movie DVD maker to burn my AVI and RMVB movies to DVD discs.
Tip: Simply copying movies to DVD disc will cause play problems. You need to convert movies to VOB format or others. The easy-to-use video to DVD burner software can save you much time and energy.
 
Step3. Set the burning parameters
1. Click “Add Files” button to add the videos you want to burn. Choose “Target disc size” in the “Settings” option. There are two options: “DVD-5 (4.7G)” and “DVD-9 (8.5G)”. You can make more advanced settings with “Advanced” option.


Tip: D5 is a single layered DVD disc with nearly 5 GB capacity while D9 is a double layered DVD disc with nearly 9 GB capacity.
2.  Click “DVD Menu” option to add movie menus. Dozens of inbuilt menu templates are available in the program. However, you can DIY movie menu too; for instance, you can change the background image to your wedding pictures or baby photos etc. You can refer to the movie menu DIY guides.
Step4. Trim the movies if needed
Tired of the advertisement of the movies? You can trim the movies before burning. Just choose the movie and then click “Edit-> Trim…”. Drag the left triangle to a position you want it be the start of the converted video and the right triangle to a position you want it be the end of the converted video.
Step5. Burn movies to DVD discs
Click “Burn” button in the toolbar. If you forget to insert a DVD disc to your PC, the burnt files will be saved in the folder where the program is installed. The folder will open automatically after the burning.


Tip: Three types of files are included in the VIDOE_TS folder: .IFO (information files), .VOB (video data files), .BUP (backups for IFO files).
Step6. Insert the burnt DVD discs to the Boss BV9992 In-Dash 7
Copy the burnt DVD folder to your DVD disc. Now, enjoy blockbusters with this car DVD player. This method is also suitable for other car DVD players.
Tip: For your safety, you’d better park your car if you want to watch movies.
 

Step by Step Guide about Convert YouTube Video to MP3 Format

YouTube, as the most popular video sharing sites, it appeals thousands of network enthusiasts every day. We can’t delay that it owns abundant and rich video information. Therefore, download videos from YouTube website becomes very convenient.
Once you get the YouTube videos downloaded, not only can you watch the local videos freely without net connection, but you can also deal with the videos by other means, for example, video editing, video uploading, or even video extracting.
It is common to edit or upload local videos, but why do people need to extract video? At present, the most extracted elements from video are audio files (in MP3 format as usual), and the users who usually convert video to MP3 are mainly the following ones that:

1. Need to get the audio element from some movie for video editing;
2. Want to extract the audio from some foreign language education video for listening practice;
3. Want to put the audio from some live concert into MP3 player;
4. Need to procure the audio only from some live speech for radio broadcasting;

……
In that case, how to convert YouTube video into MP3 format? Actually it is not difficult at all.
Firstly, you need to search on the Internet to find some video converter which supports extracting audio from video out. (Here I recommend Sothink Video Converter, because it is a free tool that supports almost any format.) Next, install the free YouTube converter into your computer. At last, just be ready for the conversion. Of course, the precondition is that you have got the YouTube video downloaded already.
In fact, Sothink Video Converter supports lots of formats including YouTube video, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, .etc, but here I made a simple tutorial with one AVI video in my local machine. No matter what kind of source video format is, the operation steps are actually the same.
Step 1: Open the video converter, click “Add Files”, and add the very video file into the program.


Step 2: Go to the left panel, choose “Generic Audio” > “MP3 Audio” in “Encoding Profile”.

Step 3: Next, please start the conversion by clicking “Convert” button.

Step 4: And then you can see the converting status and the estimated converting time in the bar.

Step 5: Finally, you will get the converted audio in MP3 format as you like.

See? Is it easy? You needn’t be professional in video editing, and you needn’t spend money to do the job, either. What you need is just know how to use mouse and install program! That’s all!

Do You Want To Store More Videos in Android Phones Without Quality Loss?

Nowadays, it becomes more and more popular to watch videos through Android phones, such as HTC ThoulderBolt 4G or HTC Sensation 4G. However, do you know how to store more videos in these fashion mobile phones without quality loss? Here is the realistic solution, which will bring you unexpected results.
Let’s go more specific. If you’d like to play full screen videos on your HTC Sensation 4G, and willing to put as many clips of video as possible into your HTC while the picture quality remains great, it is possible to do that.


Step 1: Check your mobile specifics.
Firstly you must know the specifics about your HTC phone’s video playing function. Let’s take HTC Sensation 4G and HTC ThunderBolt 4G for example.
HTC Sensation, in Android 2.3 system, 4.3-inch (109mm) wide screen with qHD 540*960 resolution. Internal phone storage: 1GB + microSD slot; 1080p HD video capture and sharing
HTC ThunderBolt: in Android 2.2 + HTC Sense system, 4.3 WVGA TFT capacitive touch screen.
Memory: 8GB emmc + 768 RAM Memory card, preinstalled 32 GB microSD.
Step 2: Make sure what formats of videos you should prepare for HTC phones.
You may confirm what video format this HTC mobile supported: MP4 (Android).
So, you may convert the videos you desired to watch on your HTC to MP4 (High-Definition MP4 is perfect), and it’d be better set the video’s output dimension as 960×540.
Please follow the below steps:
Step 3: Download and Install Software.
Download some video converter freeware, which supports encoding (HD) MP4 video and customizing video properties, launch it. In this article, we used Free Video Converter from Sothink for example.
Step 4: Select target output format.
Import videos you want to enjoy on your HTC Sensation 4G to video converter application program. And choose target encoding format:
Note: I have to say that, the reason I chose Sothink Video Converter is that it supports almost all video formats and it pre-sets various encoding profiles so I could freely select any one. That’s very convenient.
For HTC Sensation, of course you could directly choose profile “Google Android MP4” to convert video to Android. Video Converter definitely will export videos that could be successfully played on your HTC. However, you may set detailed encoding properties by yourself for getting correct format, smallest file size, greatest quality and perfect ratio.


Choose “MP4 HD 720p Video” from HD Video in the pop-up menu of “Encoding profile”.
Step 5: Specify settings for HTC Mobile.
Set the video dimension as “960×540”.
The HD videos always has large dimension and big file size. But here my mobile’s 960x540p screen only needs the same or even smaller parameters.


As for “Zoom mode”, you may choose “Stretch” for full screen enjoyment.
Besides pre-made profiles, this video converter also offers simplified video/audio quality levels for users to easily find a balance between media quality and encoding speed. Just keep the default settings and it will export great mobile videos in short time.
By now, the setting progress is quite easy and it makes me would like to always converting videos for my mobile like this. So, I saved the profile I made. I save all the parameters’ setting as a new profile and next time I could directly to use it.
Just click the button “Save as New Profile” near “Encoding profile”.


Step 6: Transfer clips to HTC phones and finished.
Now everything is OK. Click button “Convert” to get much closer to my perfect video enjoyment on HTC Sensation.


That’s all. And that also can solve video enjoyment on iPhone, iPad, and other portables. Even if you want to use a DVD Ripper for perfect DVD movie enjoyment on devices, it still helps.
Come and experience the perfect mass quality video storage solution for your smart phones with Sothink Free Video Converter.