Software Reviews

As an Apple iPod user, we often use iTunes for transferring our favorite video, music, to our iPod. As we all know, Apple only allows users “one way” to transfer video, music, photos to iPod, no the other way around like iPod back to iTunes. Maybe they think you want to copy and illegally distribute the protected music after taking it off the iPod. However, we have enough legitimate reasons to require iPod music back to iTunes, for example, if your hard-drive crashed and the only copies of the music were on your iPod, what to do? Or what if you accidentally deleted a song from your hard-drive and you wanted it back? What would happen if your PC was stolen and you want to retrieve your music collection? In this situation, you need to turn to the third party software.

iPod 2 iTunes helps you retrieve your valuable music, playlists, and excellent videos from iPod to iTunes safely. The useful software supports all types and generations of iPod, such as iPod Touch, iPod Classic, iPod Video, iPod Nano, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, etc. It allows you to connect multiple iPods to one iTunes account. By dragging and dropping, you can get the intact playlists and videos from your iPod to iTunes. You can also move the entire genres, albums and artists to iTunes. iPod 2 iTunes optimizes the iPod storage space, so it will find and delete the duplicate songs on your iPod and iTunes.

iPod 2 iTunes can be run on Windows 2000, 2003, XP or Vista. Remember you should install .NET Framework 1.1 even you have .NET Framework 2.0 installed. Spending $24.95 for such a useful tool is quite worthy! I’d like to give it 9 rating out of 1-10 scales.

Sometimes, I am not content to watch my favorite Flash SWF files only on my computer. I own a PSP which is not only a game device, but also a movie and video palyer. So I want to enjoy my videos anywhere and anytime. I can’t directly put my favorite Flash SWF Video on my PSP, however, Anvsoft Flash to PSP Converter brings me a breeze!
 
Anvsoft Flash to PSP Converter is a professional application helps you convert Macromedia Flash SWF files to MPEG-4 format that PSP supports. With it, you can easily convert your Flash videos to your mobile PSP and share with your family and friends. Anvsoft Flash to PSP Converter is absolutely a Flash SWF converter to convert swf to mpeg 4, swf to avi, flash to mpeg, and view them on Sony PSP. It works only with a few clicks ant takes several minutes and even several seconds depending on your file size. And the output video is smooth and stable.

As to me, I like its attractive user interface, very simple and intuitive. It is quite easy to operate for beginners, however, the output settings option allows the advanced users to set the video codec, size, bitrate, FPS and audio codec, channel, bitrate and sample rate. The useful software is priced at $19.95, quite reasonable compared with its good performance. But it can’t add FLV files, it’s a pity! If Anvsoft Flash to PSP Converter supports FLV video, it would be a perfect Flash to PSP Converter.

Extra DVD Ripper Express is the most easiest-to-use converter that I met. Its attractive interface makes you comfortable. There are intuitive icons indicating the output format what you want to convert to, such as AVI, MPEG, Apple iPod MP4, iPhone MP4, Apple TV MP4, YouTube FLV, Sony PSP, Sony PS3, Microsoft Zune, WMV, Pocket PC, 3GP.

Before converting, you can set your video language audio and subtitle that your DVD offers. You can conveniently set the output setting by choosing the preset parameters in the output setting combo-box. For example, if you choose ‘iPod-MPEG 4 QVGA 320*240 512 kbps Stereo/128kbps’, the details video and audio information will be shown one the right of interface. However, you can choose the ‘Customize Setting’, then set your favor video and audio settings. The video setting includes Video Codec, Video Size, Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, Aspect Ratio, and the audio setting consists of Audio Codec, Audio Bitrate, Channels, Audio Sample and Audio Volume.

After setting parameters well, click ‘Convert Now’ button, it pops up a dialogue letting you select record mode. Record from current point, or record from beginning of current title, or set start time and stop time to record. Then click ‘Star’ button, it will start to convert. During the conversion process, you can enjoy the movie on the big preview panel. That’s a good experience! The trial version allows you to rip DVD 15 minutes, and the output quality is same as the original movie, so it is worthy of spending $29.77 to get a full version.

MP4 is becoming more and more popular to people who use the portable devices supporting MP4 such as iPod, PSP, Zune, Xbox 360, QuickTime player and so on. When you have a PSP or iPod, and you’d like to watch movies or videos on it wherever you are, you should know something about DVD to MP4 Converter and Video to MP4 Converter. Here, I’d introduce to you Wondershare MP4 Converter Suite.

Wondershare MP4 Converter Suite is a perfect MP4 Converter bundle package that can help you convert DVD and various video formats including AVI, MPEG, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, FLV, 3GP, WMV etc. to MP4 video. The suite consists of Wondershare DVD to MP4 Converter and Wondershare Video to MP4 Converter. With it, you can select any DVD subtitle and audio track provided offered by Wondershare MP4 Converter Suite. It supports batch conversion, so the more files you convert, the faster it converts.

The powerful MP4 Converter Suite owns some unique features that equal ones don’t have. Video trim function allows you to select the most wonderful clips from your favorite DVD movie or video files. Video crop feature lets you remove the unwanted video black edges for better enjoyment. You can use various video and settings to adjust the output quality for achieving the best performance. This super suite even lets you convert DVD chapters/titles or multiple video files into one MP4 file, an innovative function, isn’t it?

The graphic user interface is quite intuitive, so it is easy to use for beginners. It is priced at $45, two-in-one software, and save you $13 if you buy two separate one. There is no need to hesitate, download a free trial version for this excellent software!

ImTOO MP4 Video Converter is a professional software which helps you convert almost all popular video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, Animated GIF, MOV, H.264/AVC, and RM to MP4 video. Not only a MP4 Video Converter, ImTOO MP4 Video Converter can be also used as an audio converter which allows you to convert audio formats such as MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, CUE, CDA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG, etc., to MP3, M4A, and AAC directly.

ImTOO MP4 Video Converter can be used as PSP video MP4 converter, iPod movie MP4 converter, and iPhone video converter. It also supports many other portable MP4 video players like Archos AV500, Archos AV700, Archos Gmini402, iRiver PMP-100, Creative Zen Vision, etc. Only with a few clicks, you can conveniently convert a type of video format to another with excellent video quality.

Supporting multithreading and batch conversion, so the more files you convert, the faster ImTOO MP4 Video Converter works than any other MP4 Video Converter in the market. It is easy to set general video/audio settings, and advanced settings for experts’ demand, for example, video size, bit rate, NTSC/PAL, frame rate, audio codec, sample rate, etc. You can convert any clip or segment of a whole video file, the output files can be renamed and the output path can be easily defined.

As to me, I highly recommend the versatile MP4 Video Converter to you. Affordable $29 price tag is quite reasonable. It is a high performance-to-price ratio product!