Guide : Avi or any video format to DVD

Hello Friends! Today I`ll post for convertation – avi or any video format to dvd. VSO’s ConvertXtoDVD software can take almost any common video file you have, encode it to MPEG-2, build a DVD compilation and Burn to a blank DVD, and the best part is how easy it all is. It has the ability [...]

GUIDE : Virtual Commands in DVD

The DVD specifications provide a set of machine instructions which tell the DVD player how to play back the video and audio contents of the DVD. The complete set of instructions is also known as the Virtual Machine (VM) DVD command set. To have absolute control over your DVD authoring project without any compromise, you [...]

Multimedia – Video Formats

The AVI Format The AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format was developed by Microsoft. The AVI format is supported by all computers running Windows, and by all the most popular web browsers. It is a very common format on the Internet, but not always possible to play on non-Windows computers. Videos stored in the AVI format [...]

Video Manager DVD

A DVD-compliant disc contains files necessary for playback of DVD-Video, and is made up of one Video Manager (VMG) and multiple Video Title Sets (VTS). The VMG is composed of up to three files: 1. VIDEO_TS.IFO consists of control and playback information for the entire DVD. Locations of all Video Title Sets on the disc [...]

Color Conversion in DVD

Color information recorded in the color palette provided by each PGC is encoded as luminance and color difference coded signals (YCrCb). This encoding is popular among many component video systems and is used by the DVD-Video standard. YCrCb is the method of color encoding for transmitting color video images while maintaining compatibility with black-and-white video. [...]

How I check my video file properties???

Many of us have problems converting videos. It’s not straightforward. And when you ask for my help I always ask about your video. You should always be able to read what type of video you are dealing with before you start questioning why it doesn’t work. In many cases once you read your video properties [...]

Digital Video Ad Format Compliance

The Digital Video In-Stream Ad Format Guidelines give advertisers and their agencies the ability to develop advertising content with consistent specifications, which can be accepted by many of the leading interactive publishers. The purpose of this set of guidelines is to lend efficiency to the online ad-creation and media-buying communities. Agencies, advertisers and their creative partners [...]

Did you know that HDTV ?

You recently bought a high-def TV, but the quality is not as good as you thought? Even worse, your favorite episode from Lost, or maybe House M.D. looks terrible although you already got the newest TV set? As you may already have noticed that every month, even a week, new models of TV screens are [...]

Which is the best video format?

H.264 (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10 or MPEG-4/AVC) is a new video codec standard which can achieve high quality video in relatively low bitrates. You can think it as the “successor” of the existing formats like DVD (MPEG2), DivX & XviD (MPEG-4 Part 2 also know as MPEG-4/ASP) etc, as it aims in offering [...]

File Formats: The Package

Hello friends! Today I’ll post for File Formats. Basically, AVI and QuickTime are file formats, a collection of file headers and control information wrapped around some video (and audio) data to define the contents of a video file. In order to play a video file, you first need to know what it contains. The file [...]

HDTV Setup Basic Settings

What is HDTV? What are the Requirements to get HDTV video? What is the differences between old Regular TV and HDTV? What does HDTV-Ready mean? What is HDTV? HDTV is a new format for broadcasting TV programming. HDTV is an acronym for High Definition Television.  It is the high-end of digital cable, and provides the [...]

History of HD Movies

Hello friends! Today I’ll post a short list of HDTV History. The developmental era (1948 – 1970s): low definition TV as high definition TV From a historical perspective, NTSC or System-M was the first HD television transmission format.System-M held the high definition video monopoly from 1948-1956. The only other existing TV broadcast systems in Europe [...]

Popular video stanards

Hello friends! Today I’ll post a short list of popular video media standards. Here’s a short list of various video formats and standards. 8mm, Video8, Hi8, Digital8 – 8mm Video refers to a group of three video formats: Video8, Hi8 and Digital8. Together these formats, championed by Sony, played a very important part in the [...]

About

Hello everybody! My name is Nikola Dachev. I’ve been in the web video (streaming) industry for more than 4 years now. During my work I’ve witnessed many common misconceptions about how video works on the web, from amateurs and pros alike. This blog is my effort to help people willing to publish their videos to [...]