Software Reviews

Xilisoft DVD Creator for Mac is an easy and fast DVD maker for Mac users with powerful and integrative functions. It enables you to convert almost all popular video formats including MPEG, DivX, WMV, XviD, DV, VOB, AVI, and burn them on DVD (playable on home DVD player) with the perfect quality which means the Internet will become storehouse of your home theater! Compared with other Mac DVD Creator application, Xilisoft DVD Creator for Mac has more features catching your eyes.

Xilisoft DVD Creator for Mac supports DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+-RW, Dual-layer DVD, DVD-RAM. Its main functions include Video to DVD Burner and DVD Burning Software. On the one hand, it can convert DivX, MPEG, AVI to DVD, burn DivX, MPEG, AVI to DVD, create DVD from AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, DV, DivX, XviD, VOB, 3GP, 3G2, MP4, NUT, YUV, H.264, M4V files. On the other hand, it help you burn DVD folder and DVD ISO file to DVD, and burn DVD movie disc. It provides fast converting speed to burn DVD movie with high quality. The created DVD movie Disc is burned with DVD menu, and users even are able to select background music for a menu. It also supports editing the title text of a menu, and changing the color of the text.

This Mac DVD Creator is so easy to use that you can burn DVD on Mac PC with just one click. Personally, I think no other DVD creator software on Mac could exceed it. Before going to buy a commercial version, you can download the trival version firstly. What a powerful and attractive application! Free trial as soon as possible!

Do you usually watch YouTube videos? So do I. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Perhaps you are not satisfied to watch YouTube videos on your computer, maybe you’d like to watch videos on the go, or sitting back if you have an iPod, iPhone, or Zune, PSP, Pocket PC or other Portable Media Players. At this time, you need a tool to convert YouTube video to your personal video player. One of my friends recommended a tool named Moyea “YouTube Converter“. It is not only a YouTube Converter, but also a YouTube Downloader, download YouTube video directly from YouTube.com in flv format.

With this converter, you can convert any favourite videos from YouTube.com, Google Video, etc. This program supports converting batch files at a time, so the selected files could be converted one by one, that will save some time for your converting. Moyea “YouTube Converter” has a distinct feature from other softwares, that is watermark function, which helps you add your individuation watermark or text advert to the video with a few clicks. A good way to show your unique video, isn’t it? I like this feature very much.

Moyea “YouTube Converter” is built in PSP Video Manager, so you can transfer any PSP videos between your computer and PSP at will. Spending $35, then getting the excellent software, and you can get free updated version when the publisher updates it. I nearly use it everyday, and strongly recommend it to my friends.

Many friends want to backup their favorite DVD movie into popular video formats, how to do? There are quite a number of softwares can do that job. Which one do you like to choose? One named ‘iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum‘ caught my eyes. I was attracted by its shining interface, which is different from common user-interface of similar softwares. I even can conveniently make skins for iSofter DVD Ripper through its color scheme system. Most importantly, with a simple mouse click, I can convert DVD to AVI, DivX, XviD, VCD, WMV, MPEG4 format video files with almost no-loss quality.

iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum can check your CPU type automatically so that ensure you can rip your DVDs with the best ripping speed. It is designed with external codec’s power feature for optimizing the output video quality. With vob scan support, you can open ifo file’s or rip your vob file to any video format. iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum supports most popular audio formats so that you can save as audio files, such as m4a, mp4, mpg, avi, mp3, wma, wmv, and 3gp. 
With optimized profiles, you can convert DVD Movie to iPod Video, Zune, Pocket PC, 3GP Mobile Phone or any other MP4 player or format only one click. You can rip entire DVD movie or just one or several chapters. In addition, this converter supports batch conversion, so you can select all files you want to rip and the DVD Ripper will copy them one by one. You can preview the movies before you begin ripping, even you can watch the movies simultaneity when you are ripping DVDs. However, there is no sound when you are ripping DVDs.
This DVD Ripper software is priced at $39.95, a versatile tool! It is suited for both veterans and beginners. Why not have a try? I would give it at 9 scale rating out of 1-10.
 

Apple TV is a digital media receiver designed, marketed and sold by Apple Inc. It is a network device designed to play digital content originating from the iTunes Store, YouTube, podcasts，or another computer onto an enhanced-definition or high-definition widescreen television，not to mention your photos (and your friends’ photos) from Flickr or .Mac Web Galleries.

As a leader in multimedia industry, Xilisoft has released quite a number of good quality softwares related to iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, etc. Here I introduce to you Xilisoft Apple TV Video Converter for Mac, a perfect Apple TV converter, also an Pod video converter, which can convert almost all video and audio to Apple TV video and audio, and to iPod, iPod touch. It supports comprehensive video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB, 3GP, etc to Apple TV Video MP4, MPEG-4, it also converts popular audio files including WMA, MP2, OGG, RA, AC3, APE, CDA, etc to Apple TV MP3, AAC, WAV. In my opinion, no other similar softwares can exceed it in the present market.

Why not choose Xilisoft Apple TV Video Converter for Mac? Except powerful functions, it provides you with many adjustable settings, such as video size, bit rate, frame rate, etc. It supports batch conversion and multithreading so that you can convert multiple files at the same time. All conversion processes of Xilisoft Apple TV video and Apple TV movie converter are very fast and easy to handle.

Spending $29 for getting such a professional converter, it is really worthy. I’d rate it 9 points of 1-10 points.

As we all know, FLV prevails in internet at present. Want to make your life more convenient and colorful? The other day, I came across a wonderful FLV Video Converter named ‘A-one’.
Although its user interface not luxuriant, it is a powerful yet easy-to-use tool for you convert MP4 files to FLV files.

A-one FLV Video Converter can convert various video file formats to FLV from MP4 with high speed and good performance, including DivX , XviD , AVI , WMV , MPG, MPEG , ASF , MOV , ASX , SVCD , VCD stream formats. It supports batch video files so that you can convert several video files at one time conveniently. It could automatically shutdown your computer after all conversion done, so no need to wait around your computer.

This Video to FLV Converter is not setted complicated parameters, you can use it just with a few clicks. It automatically detects your hardware and decide the best converting speed. In normal status, batch files conversion speed is more than 2 times of the playback speed.

In my opinion, A-one FLV Video Converter is professional in the mass. $25 for getting a full version, it is affordable to us. If the conversion speed is a little faster, and the UI is more bright, that would be better. I’d like rate it 7.5 out of 10 scales.