Thursday, December 17, 2015

How to Play MOV files on Samsung TV

Samsung LED, LCD, 3D Smart TVs and 4K series TV are very popular in the market; many customers bought Smart TV to play high-definition movies on it. Nowadays it is convenient to put movies on USB flash drive and play on Samsung Smart TV via USB port. However, many people with amazing MOV files find that can't play them on the Samsung TV after trying all the efforts. This article will teach you how to solve the issues about playing MOV files on Samsung TV. 

As we all know, Samsung Smart TV supported video format is limited, from Samsung TV official website we know that Samsung TV best video format is H.264 codec MP4 format. To playing MOV files on Samsung TV, you’d better convert .mov to the best compatible format for Samsung TV, so that you can avoid video playback issues. Here I will share a quick solution for you. Follow me.

In order to perform this conversion task, you'll need the iFastime Video Converter Ultimate, a top MOV to Samsung TV converter program. Besides MOV, it can also convert Blu-ray and DVD discs or other popular video formats like AVIMP4, WMV, MKV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, ASF, etc. to your Samsung TV. you can do batch conversion from MOV to Samsung TV compatible videos in simple clicks of mouse. Meanwhile, you can freely tweak the video, audio parameters to get a decent video as you want.

If you are a Mac user, you can turn to iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which enables you to encode MOV files to Samsung TV under Mac OS X(El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks included).

No technical knowledge is required! Now just download the right version of the top rate MOV to MP4 converter software for Mac and follow the guide to transform MOV files for Samsung TV from to suitable formats without any hassles. Here is the review.

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How to convert mov to mp4 for Samsung LED/LCD/3D SmartTV?

Step 1. Add MOV files to the MOV to TV converter

Hit the “Add video” button to browse through your local directories and import the MOV files you'll like to convert. (Tips: This program also supports the drag-and-drop feature as well as batch conversion mode to ease your conversion).



Step 2. Select your Samsung TV compatible format as the output

Click the Output Format to access more of the supported formats. Here, you'll be able to see a variety of options or optimized presets for specific devices. Choose TVs > Samsung TV, select Samsung TV as the output format, this critical step is so simple without any thinking.



Tip: With 3D, 4K TV, you can choose the format from “3D Video” or “HD Video”. If necessary, you can click the Setting button to adjust the bit rate, frame rate or resolution manually, this program can help you compress 4K video and more. The additional settings can assure you of a better conversion quality.




Step 3. Start converting MOV to play on Samsung TV

Hit “Start conversion” on the bottom-right corner of the interface to kick off the MOV to Samsung TV conversion. Now, you can sit back and leave it to the MP4 to Samsung TV converter to finish off the conversion for you.

After the conversion, you can transfer the files onto your hard drive and then play it back on your Samsung TV via the HDMI or USB cable.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Reduce WMV File Size for Web Email and YouTube

WMV (Windows Media Video) is a set of digital video codecs developed by Microsoft generic term, it is part of the Windows Media architecture. When try to upload WMV video to YouTube, some video sites or send video by email, only to find the WMV video file size is too large to upload or send. In this case, you need to compress the video to a smaller file size. Here offers 3 ways to help reduce WMV file.

Three popular ways to reduce video size

Way 1 - Reduce video resolution, frame rate and bit rate

As we all know, the video resolution is associated with video quality and video size. The higher resolutions mean that more pixels are used to display video, resulting in the larger video file size. You are able to change the resolution of the original video file to a smaller resolution. Generally, HD videos can be as high as 1920X1080P, but you can reduce to 1280X720, 640×480, 640×360, and more resolutions. You can also set lower bit rate can achieve smaller video size. But please don't make it too low, otherwise the image quality can be really bad. Besides, convert WMV to other format with smaller file size is workable. FLV are considerable for uploading to web.

Way 2 - Reduce WMV File Size by Trimming/Cropping Video

The professional video editor enables you to trim unwanted video clips from your big video file. Through video editing, you can change the video file into several parts and cut off unnecessary clips. After saving, the video size will be compressed. Also, you can save away each spliced video clip. This way can make it easy to get decreased video file.

Way 3 - convert WMV to other format with small size

To compress the video to a smaller file size, you need a video compressor. Though there are many Video Compressors, they either compress video in poor output quality or support few video formats. Less time, higher quality: iFastime Video Converter Ultimate is the right video compressor software. It allows you to compress WMV file to MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. for emailing, sharing on YouTube, iTunes, Vimeo, or playing on iPhone 6s/Plus, iPad Pro, Android mobiles, OnePlus 2 and more. with great quality remained and 5 times faster speed compared with other normal video compressor software. 

Another big highlight is that this video compressor tool is able to compress videos of any format and resolution, shrinking video MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV, MKV, 720p, 1080p, 4K UHD, and many more within mins or even secs. Additionally, it is a solid video editor to trim, cut, crop WMV file and add subtitles. It ensures a hassle free compressed WMV video movie playback as well. You won't spend much time studying the user guide, it is very easy to decrease large WMV file size. Read review to learn more.

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Guide to Reduce WMV File Size for Web Email or YouTube

Step 1. Download the WMV video reducer for Windows, and launch it on your computer. Hit "Add video" to load WMV file you are going to compress.



Step 2. Select "FLV-Flash Video Format(*.flv)" as output format from "Flash Video" menu to compress WMV to FLV format with smaller size. It is also possible to change WMV to MOV, AVI, MKV, FLV, 3GP, MTS, MP3, AAC, to name just a few.



Tips: you can click “Settings” to adjust the video’s parameters, lower the frame rate, bit rate and resolution to compress WMV. Note that a proper value is needed to keep good balance between file size and video quality. It is better to keep bit rate between 1400 and 2000 kbps.



if you want to further edit the WMV video movie, like adding subtitles and watermarks, click "Edit selected task" button. It also includes features of trimming, cropping and expanding to remove black bars, unwanted parts of the video, which helps a lot in compressing WMV file size.

Step 3. Click "Start conversion" button to start compressing WMV file. The process will be done speedily.

When the video conversion completes, click Open Folder to locate the converted video files. After that, you can upload WMV video to YouTube, some video sites or send video by email for sharing with the world.

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

How to Convert AVCHD to MP4 on Mac/Windows

AVCHD (Audio and Video Compression for High Definition) is a video format that is designed for camcorder use. You may get many AVCHD videos from your camcorders, some video players like VLC can play them directly on Windows and Mac, but if you wanna play these AVCHD file on portable device. Or share them with friends, you need to convert AVCHD to a popular video formats, such as MP4. 

Want to convert AVCHD files to MP4? Then you can't miss iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which enables to convert AVCHD files recorded by Panasonic, Sony, Cannon or other camcorders to MP4 format, so that it becomes possible to play AVCHD files on portable devices, such as iTunes, iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc. 

Besides MP4, this professional converter also supports to convert AVCHD to almost all kinds of video formats likeAVCHD to AVI, AVCHD to MOV, AVCHD to WMV, AVCHD to ASF, AVCHD to FLV, etc. then you can edit AVCHD in iMovie, QuickTime, FCPDaVinci Resolve, etc. Meanwhile, you can convert DVD, Blu-ray video files to video in any popular format so that you can import your media file to your device like iPhoneiPad, Samsung, HTC, BlackBerry etc.

What’s more, it can be perfectly compatible with the latest Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. If you are windws, you can get the windows version.

How to Convert AVCHD to MP4?

Step 1. Load AVCHD videos

To start with, please drag and drop your AVCHD files to the program first. Alternatively, you can also import your videos by going to click "Load Files".



Step 2. Output format preset

Aside from converting AVCHD files to different video formats, you can extract audio from your AVCHD videos as well. If you select "H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)" from the "Common Video" as the output device, then you can directly play the output video on your iPad without any additional settings.



Step 3. Start conversion

In this step, please click the "Start conversion" button to start the conversion process. Within seconds, you can achieve to convert AVCHD files to the targeted format. Well, if your video file is in a large size, please wait for a while patiently.

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Best MXF Player and Converter on Windows/Mac

What is a MXF file?

MXF is an acronym for for Material Exchange Format. The MXF file format was designed by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. 

Files that contain the .mxf file extension are often referred to as the digital equivalent of video tape. These files contain video and audio data as well as other data bitstreams. They can be used in video recorders, cameras and on computers.

The MXF file format is a container format and MXF files can be converted into other video formats when needed. However, the proper video codec must be present in order to play the video that is contained in the MXF container file.

How to play MXF files?

Solution 1: VLC player - Play MXF files on Mac and Windows

VLC player is an open source media player developed by the Video Lan project. It is a very useful tool for viewing many different media formats, on multiple computer platforms. Playing MXF files on VLC can be achieved by some methods. To be able to play them you can use Avid or Canopus editing software, or use RayLight and use any of these to convert the MXF files into AVI files that can be easily played in VLC by downloading a codec like divX codec. Another method for playing MXF files on VLC is by using the Mainconcept Reference codec, by installing this codec you can directly run your MXF files on the VLC media player. Through this you should be playing MXF files on VLC media player with ease.

Solution 2: MXF File Converter - How to play MXF on Mac(OS X 10.11 included) or Windows

Besides playing MXF files, most users have the need to convert MXF to other video formats, such as convert MXF to MOV, convert MXF to AVI, convert MXF to MP4, etc. because MOV, AVI, MP4 or some other formats have better video compatibility, with these compatible formats, you can easily play them on portable devices, or load them to editing software like FCP X/7/6, Avid Media Composer, iMovie, Adobe Premiere for editing.

iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac (Review) is a professional MXF files Converting tool which features converting MXF recordings shot by Panasonic P2 camcorders, Canon XF series camcorders and Sony XDCAM camcorders, etc. to a wide range of formats compatible with
- Home Theater System: 3D TV, WD TV Media Player, Xtreamer Media Player Streamer, HDTV, etc.
- Portable Devices: iPad Air, iPhone 6, Apple TV 3, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4/Note 4, Galaxy S6, Amazon Kindle Fire HDX, Google Nexus 6/9, Surface 3/Pro 3, HTC One M9, etc.
- Media Players: QuickTime Player, VLC, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Popcorn Hour Media Player, etc.
- Video Editing Software: Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Express, Adobe PremiereAvid Media Composer, Apple Aperture 3, Kdenlive, Sony Vegas, Cinelerra, Pinnacle, Windows Movie Maker, Cyberlink, DaVinci Resolve, iPhoto, etc. 

You can download this best MXF Converter Mac version here. If you are running Windows 10/8.1/7, you can try Windows version MXF Converter

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Transcode MXF on OS X El Capitan 10.11 for playback

Step 1. Import MXF recordings

First copy the MXF footages from your camcorder to the Mac computer, then click "Load File" button to import MXF files to this MXF Video Converter.

This powerful MXF Converter also supports drag and drop function and support batch convert several MXF files at one time.



Step 2. Select MOV as output format

Click the "Format" drop-down menu to select MOV as output format from the "Common Video" or or "HD video" category.

Tips: 

There are two kinds of MOV format in the "Common Video" category.
One is MOV QuickTime Video(*.mov): it is recommended to select this kind of MOV If your purpose of converting MXF to MOV is to burn MXF to iDVD, or play MXF in QuickTime, iTunes, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, or edit MXF in iMovie.
Another is ProRes Apple ProRes Codec(*.mov): it is recommended to select this kind of MOV if your purpose of converting MXF to MOV is to edit MXF in Final Cut Pro X, 7, and etc.



Step 3 Directly edit MXF movies (Optional)

Click the "Edit" button to open the Video Edit window to edit MXF files:

Go to "Trim" tab to set which MXF segment you want to convert by setting the start time and end time if you don't want to convert the whole MXF video and only want to convert only one clip of the MXF video;
Go to "Crop" tab to adjust the playing region or remove the black region of the MXF video;
Go to "Image" tab to set the MXF video image brightness, contrast, saturation;
Go to "Watermark" tab to add text or picture watermarks to this MXF movie files;
Go to "Effect" tab to add video effects like "Black and White" or "Old Film" to the MXF video or to use Deinterlace to convert interlaced video to the progressive video;
Go to "Subtitle" tab to add or remove subtitle for the MXF movie files.
Click the "Setting..." button to adjust the MXF video parameters like bitrate, resolution, size, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio volume, audio channel and etc.



Step 4. Convert MXF to MOV

Click the "Start conversion" button to start and finish converting MXF to Apple ProRes MOV or converting MXF to QuickTime MOV.

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Monday, December 7, 2015

Xmas Promo Code- 20% OFF Backup Chirstmas Blu-ray & DVD movies to Mac

Christmas is the best time to gather people together and make the big sale. As always, iFastime is dedicate to providing high quality and easy-to-use media conversion tools for families and individuals, offering the maximum possibilities for people to share laughter and tears of the year to family members and friends. Every day from December 7th 2015 to 31 January, 2016, iFastime offers 20% OFF on its best-selling iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac to the fans on Facebook. Just seize the last chance!



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iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is a powerful but easy-to-use Blu-ray/DVD/video conversion software. It owns the ability of converting videos to a broad range of popular formats and devices like 4K, H265, m3u8, AVI, MPG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, M4V, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro, iPad mini 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Apple TV and more on Mac OS X. New pop devices are keeping added. It is fully compatible with Mac OS X El Capitan and here is troubleshot-tings.

What are the characteristics that distinguish iFastime from others? The first and perhaps the most important point are the exclusive optimization technique and sharp pictures. It completely avoids the disproportionate aspect ratio and dull color of the output images, and is able to make the output video shown on the portable device in full screen. Secondly, users can select resolutions of the output video by simply dragging the number axis. In addition to the powerful converting function, it is also a video editing software. Like, merge multiple videos; trim and crop video; add special effects to video; inserting subtitles. It is designed and developed to deliver gratitude to your concern and support. We hope it can help you enjoy more Christmas videos and enjoy your life to the full.

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On the basis of computer OS, iFastime products are divided into two categories – Windows solutions and Mac solutions, spanning across video converting, editing and enhancing.

With creativity, expert knowledge as well as cutting-edge technology, iFastime helps consumers throughout the world enjoy more in a digitally connected audio-visual world.

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Stream DVD to Plex for playback on TV

Plex gives you instant access to your media collections - your home videos, photos, music, TV shows, and movies, so you can quickly find and stream what you want to any device, any time. Its platforms include Macs, PCs, Smart TVs, Roku, Apple TV, and more. Whether it’s your movie and TV collection or your music library, Plex makes your media look beautiful by automatically adding movie posters, plot summaries, cover art, and descriptions. Plex also allows you to share it all with your friends and family.

You may have a pretty large DVD collection, and wanna stream DVD contents to Plex Media server. However, Plex cannot support DVD files. Files like ISO or IMG and folder structures such as VIDEO_TS or BDMV are generally referred to as "disk image" formats, they're basically "cloning" the structure and content from a DVD or Blu-Ray optical disc. Simply put, these formats don't fit into Plex ecosystem.

What we need do if we want to share the DVD content via Plex and playback on TV? Actually, it can done effortlessly. what you need to do is to rip DVD into Plex Media Server and TV friendly format like MP4, MKV, etc.

To rip DVD contents for Plex Media Server, iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is highly recommended to help you finish the task. With it, you can easily convert the commercial DVD movies to Plex and TV compatible video files, such as H.264 MP4 on Mac or Windows with high quality and fast speed. This handy tool can also convert Blu-ray, H.265, M2TS, MP4, AVI, MKV, etc to Plex or PS3, Xbox, Roku, VLC, etc. It aims to solve the program by giving us the ability to store our purchased physical DVD discs to local computer, hard drive then stream over a home network via Plex Media Server for TV playback. It's professional in ripping and converting DVD discs, DVD ISO image, DVD copies and more. You can read review to learn more.

Now download the program and follow the steps below to achieve your goal smoothly.

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How to rip and copy DVD to Plex Media Sever for playback on TV?

Step 1. Load the DVD files

First, of all the process starts at the DVD drive, insert your DVD into the drive, then launch the DVD ripper software. Click "Load file" button to upload DVD folders.



Step 2. Decide output format

Click “Format” and choose “H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4)” from “Common Video”, which can be recognized by Plex well. Or you can choose the output format from “TVs”.



Tip: With the right settings you can retain the quality of the original DVD while also saving space. This is particularly helpful when streaming over your network, depending on your network quality. Simply click Settings bar and you can tweak the settings to your satisfaction and even save it as preset.

Step 3. Start ripping DVD to Plex

Hit the "Start conversion" button at the bottom of the main interface to start the DVD to Plex Media Server conversion. Once the conversion is done, click "Open" to quickly find the converted movies. Then, Plex will recognize, catalog, play and stream them on TV just fine.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Watch 3D Blu-ray on Gear VR Innovator Edition 2015 via Galaxy S6 Edge+

Gear VR 2015, also known as Samsung Gear VR. Samsung will name this first generation product as "Innovator Edition", many of which are part of the game software and technology demonstration. It is a virtual reality game helmet, the reason is called "virtual reality equipment", since such products isolate the user's existing scene through a special way to wear, display technology to users through immersive scenes experience, while users in the virtual "scene" are interactive, and one of the main features is cinema. 

If you have some 3D Blu-rays that you may can’t wait to watch them with Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition on your Galaxy S6 Edge+, you've come to the right place. In this article, you will learn how to rip 3D Blu-ray to Gear VR Innovator Edition compatible format movies so that you can enjoy your 3D Blu-ray movies more conveniently.

Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition by default supports most common file formats including 3D MKV, 3D MP4. When you wanna play 3D Blu-ray movies on Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition, Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom 3D video, but most 3D Blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format. So you need a 3D Blu-ray ripping program that can convert a frame packed 3D Blu-ray to a side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down) 3D movie, which can directly play on Gear VR Innovator Edition.

To finish task, here we recommended you to try iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, a professional 3D Blu-ray ripper, which supports latest Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite. With it, you can effortlessly rip 3D movie from Blu-ray disc and Blu-ray folder to Gear VR Innovator Edition supported SBS, Top-Bottom 3D MKV, 3D MP4 videos with best quality easily. Besides ripping 3D Blu-ray to Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition, it can also convert other video formats like ISO files3D YouTube file, MKV, DVD, etc. to Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition supported video formats. Read review to learn more.

If you're using a windows, please turn to iFastime Video Converter Ultimate for windows, which allows you to convert 3D Blu-ray to Samsung Gear VR  Innovator Edition on latest Windows  10/Windows 8.1. Now download the right version according to your situation and check out the steps below.

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Step 1. Import 3D Blu-ray movie

Launch the professional 3D Blu-ray to Gear VR Innovator Edition converter. Click the “Add video” button on top left corner to add 3D Blu-ray movie to it. Double click the movie, you can preview the movie in the right side.



Step 2. Select an output format for Gear VR Innovator Edition

Click "Format" and find "3D Video". there are a lot of format options for you. Here you can recommended to select “MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video(*.mp4)” or “MP4 Top-Bottom 3D Video (*.mp4)” as the output format.



Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change your target video size, bitrate, frame rate and 3D depth. To get best video quality, you'd better switch them to "original".



Step 3. Start to convert 3D Blu-ray to Gear VR Innovator Edition

Click "Start conversion" button, 3D Blu-ray to Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition converter will start to work. Just be patient, it will not take you long time. When the conversion is finished, you can transfer the ripped 3D Blu-ray to your Galaxy S6 Edge+ or SD card for playing on Gear VR Innovator Edition with great enjoyment in 3D effects.

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