Digital Camcorder Incompatibilities Insanity!

Mar 9, 2008 | 27 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One of our community members by the name of James sent a very well thought out email to me the other day. He has a rant about the proprietary software that must be used by each different camcorder manufacturer. He has [...]

How to Buy an MP4 Player

Feb 5, 2008 | 29 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One community member wrote in to say: “Over the last few years I have come full circle when it comes to MP4 players. So here are the 5 steps to choosing the right player for you.” What do you need it [...]

Speed Up MP4 Video Encoding

Sep 26, 2007 | 5 Comments

Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – If you do any video encoding, you know how long of a process it can be at times. Before I went to Germany, I used Visual Hub to encode several videos, and it literally took days! I wish I had known [...]

Zune: Good and Bad

Sep 14, 2006 | 17 Comments

The Zune good: Wireless capabilities Content subscription Easy media sharing Plays MP4 & AAC formats Microsoft-backed product Forces Apple to do better A unified experience The Zune bad: No podcast management Another closed system Completely new ecosystem Not cross-platform Smaller capacity than iPod 5.5G New software to install Yet another device to manage Just launched, [...]

MP4 Support in WMP11

Jul 5, 2006 | 13 Comments

Don’t count on MP4 playback out of the box in the next version of the Windows Media Player. I filed this “bug” a few months ago, but apparently not supporting MP4 (by default) in WMP11 is a feature: “Spend the money. Pre-install the codec. The PSP relies on it, the iPod relies on it, and [...]