How do you think of transcoding video source to the h.264 and MP4 besides FLV, preparing it for adaptive mobile video delivery like iPhone, iPad and Android mobiles. Recently, SourceTec Software Company (SothinkMedia.com) has released Sothink Video Encoder Engine 3.2. It is a highly effective server-side video converter and video sharing solution. Combined with free full source like demo sites, source code, manuals and SDK, the program releases you from the most hard and crucial script part and make everyone start building YouTube-like video sharing sites!

Different from video converter in PC, Sothink’s video server software allows you to setup a video sharing website that converts multi-format video to Apple iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad compatible formats on server-side, and enables you to output FLV, MP4/F4V, and H.264 HD video with HTML5 supported as well. It is absolutely fresh for you and free you of technical constraints. Let you focus on monetizing your video content.

1. Make Apple Devices Viewable Video Content Sites

Currently, the online FLV videos cannot play directly in Apple devices, so it is not convenient enough for the iPhone/iPad users to visit the video sharing sites. However, Sothink Video Encoder Engine can solve the problem. This server side Video Encoding SDK for iPhone/iPad/iPod can output MP4 videos, which help you easily create YouTube-clone sites, delivery quality video content and run business for great profit, and it makes all videos play successfully on any PC, Apple iOS devices, Android and other mobiles.

2. Support HTML 5 Video Tag

Now Sothink Video Encoder Engine supports HTML 5 – the future of the web. It supports HTML 5 browser-based video playback via <video> tag and play videos without Flash plug-in. The video server software for HTML 5 is a good choice for those who want to create such kind of websites.

Google’s YouTube division voiced strong support for Flash this week in a blog post aimed at Web developers, arguing that the emerging HTML5 standard isn’t yet ready to fully replace Adobe’s Flash platform.

“We’ve been excited about the HTML5 effort and <video> tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player,” Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) software engineer John Harding said in a post at the company’s YouTube blog for developers. “This work has shown us that, while the <video> tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash Platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution.”

While HTML5’s <video> tag points the browser to a video file, Harding said Flash offers the precision YouTube requires for displaying video effectively.

Harding gave several other examples of why YouTube still favors Flash over HTML5 for now.

Another area Harding said favors Flash is full-screen HD video. “Flash Player provides robust, secure controls for enabling hardware-accelerated, full-screen displays,” he said. “While most browsers have a full-screen mode, they do not allow JavaScript to initiate it, nor do they allow a small part of the page (such as a video player) to fill the screen … While WebKit has recently taken some steps forward on full-screen support, it’s not yet sufficient for video usage (particularly the ability to continue displaying content on top of the video).”

There is also the issue of video content creation. The simplest and most common YouTube videos are recorded directly from within a user’s browser using a Webcam, a process Harding said wouldn’t be possible with Flash.

“Camera access is also needed for features like video chat and live broadcasting — extremely important on mobile phones, which practically all have a built-in camera,” he said. “Flash Player has provided rich camera and microphone access for several years now, while HTML5 is just getting started.”

Harding’s post continues Google’s public stance to distance itself from Apple’s hard-line dismissal of Adobe’s Flash. While Flash is widely used across the Web to play video and multimedia content, Apple has banned it from the iPhone and iPad because of what the company said is subpar performance and security concerns. Instead, Apple is backing HTML5, which others — like Google — argue isn’t ready to fully replace Flash.

Google does concur with Apple’s view that HTML5 has a bright future, however, and has released its own HTML5 player for YouTube earlier this year.

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We recommend Sothink’s another free YouTube Downloader tool for you.If you are interested, you can also try it stand-alone free youtube converter software, which is completely free.

When iPad 2 came out with 720p video record capability, we knew that the thinner, lighter and faster new generation of iPad could even create movie besides enjoy video. And if we would like to play some PC video on iPad 2, we may find some free iPad 2 video converter software to convert the video to iPad 2 formats. It is familiar to us.

But, what about the old movies on DVD discs we collected before? Can we play them on iPad 2’s high-resolution screen? How?

As we know, there is no built-in DVD-ROM or DVD player on iPad 2. And iPad 2 is only available with MP4, MOV, H.264 video format and MP3, M4A, WAV audio format. So, if we want to enjoy our old film on iPad 2, we need to rip our DVD discs and convert those DVD movies to iPad 2 compatible formats. It sounds complicated and not convenient at all. Relax. The truth is that, it is just easy to enjoy DVD on iPad 2 as long as you launch a professional DVD Converter for iPad 2.

Following is a brief tutorial about how to convert DVD to iPad 2 with Sothink DVD Converter. (As for the detailed guide, you may click to view: http://www.myconverters.com/dvd-converter/dvd-to-ipad-converter.htm.)

Step 1: Import DVD

Launch DVD Converter, “Open DVD” on the top tool bar to open a DVD disc in your driver or a DVD folder in your PC.

Step 2: Edit DVD

There is special benefit of using this iPad 2 DVD Converter: it can edit DVD movies before conversion, like cut the unnecessary part, crop the movie picture to strengthen the focus, adjust Bright/Contrast/Saturation and attach watermark.

Just select a DVD movie title listed on the interface, go to the toolbar to click button “Edit” and then edit the movie in the appeared window.

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Days before, kicked off by a hipstertastic soiree at the SXSW convention, the final build of Internet Explorer 9 was made publicly available. You can now download it from the Beauty of the Web site. Till now, users respond well to this benchmark web browser of IE. Don’t wait to have a try!

What’s new in IE 9 final release?

Installation Changes
3 Microsoft has split the installer for IE9 into four versions, depending on your operating system, so be sure that you download the correct one. Different versions are available for Windows 7 x86, Windows 7 x64, Windows Vista x86, and Windows Vista x64, and Microsoft’s site ought to auto-detect your OS. While not the most convenient download, it’s not the kind of thing for which we would dock the score.

Interface Improvements
The browser interface has undergone an enormous change, following the trend of minimizing the layout to maximize screen space. Microsoft takes an approach interestingly different than its competitors, which placed the tabs above the location bar. In IE9, the tabs reside by default on the same row as the location bar, although you can switch this via a context menu. However, if you choose the Show Tabs on a Separate Row option, the tabs will move below the location bar–not above it, as Chrome, Firefox 4, and Opera have them.

Sites As Apps

Internet Explorer 9 lets you turn your favorite websites into launch icons on your taskbar, essentially creating Web apps. All you have to do is grab the tab of the site you’re visiting, and drag it down to the taskbar. This creates an icon in your taskbar based on the site’s favicon (the little picture that sits next to the address bar). If a favicon is not available, then Windows uses the standard IE logo.

Jumplists

Pinned sites may have a few minor problems at the moment, but the new jumplist feature is a great addition to IE9. Once you’ve pinned a site such as Twitter, Facebook or even PC World to your taskbar, just right-click on the icon to see a selection of shortcuts for that site. Right-click on Facebook, for example, and you have quick access to your Newsfeed, Messages, Events and Friends list. Twitter’s jumplist options include the ability to write a new tweet, see your direct messages, mentions, favorites and search.

Software Compatible

Some products have been tested and surely supports IE9. To be specifically, they are listed as follows.

YouTube Video Downloader from Sothink works to download playing video on any web browser like IE, Firefox, Maxthon (don’t support Chrome now) and save to all popular formats MP4, AVI, WMV, MP3 and all popular portables. It is not only a youtube downloader, but can also do the youtube video converter jobs to convert any downloaded flv to other formats. If you are interested, you can also try it stand-alone free youtube converter software, which is completely free.

Also recommend a related free YouTube Downloader tool – Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox.

More software’s benefits: Now “Like” Facebook pages of Sothink video software or “Follow” Sothink Video Converter on Twitter, and you may have the opportunity to get 25% discount for full license of Video Converter, Best DVD Ripper, YouTube FLV Converter and more. Don’t hesitate.

The new iPad 2 has been finally unveiled. Although some users complained that it was underwhelming since there was no great changes and it still didn’t add SD or USB slot, you can’t deny that iPad 2 feature an all -new design along with new features.

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Did your Valentine’s Day always be about flowers or chocolate? You can treat your lovers food, champagne and good electronic software too. The Valentine’s gift is the perfect way to say your love. If you are searching for the fits for a long time, you can try the following tips. I think making a good love video story will be marvelous. Don’t know to start making your own love movies?

If you have never done video stories before, you can now firstly use your camcorders or cameras to record what you think is interesting, such as many good ones, JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Cannon AVCHD/Mod camcorders, Panasonic, Flip or Kodak Video cameras. And if you are Windows user, you can use Free Movie Maker by Sothink or Windows movie maker to edit, convert and burn videos to DVD. Or use Some AVCHD or Blu-ray Creator to convert and burn videos on Blu-ray Discs with high definition.

If you did not have much skill on camcorders, you can also try free addons, youtube downloader tools or even online downloader website to capture the video clips you like from YouTube, MySpace, MSN, Google and use video editing tool to split, edit, merge the clips together. Your lover, friends, families may like the funny videos you collect for her.

Furthermore, the following video & DVD software or hardware will be perfect assistant to make romantic movie story to express love. Of course, all of them are now selled with valentine’s special discount.

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Combined with sales at brick and mortar stores, you can get some super deals without spending a fortune! That way you can still splurge on a nice dinner without going broke. Check out Jennifer King’s Spend Less, Shop More for some other great frugal Valentine’s Day gift ideas.

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Since there’s never lack of free software to be found online and some of the freeware are really excellent, it’s not necessary to spend money on those function similar products. Here picks top 10 freeware related with antivirus, DVD burning, photo editing, etc. Those freeware are all popular in 2010 and absolutely qualified to be considered as the Must-have software for your PC.

1. AVG 9 Antivirus – Free Antivirus Software

AVG is a freeware anti-virus tool that will scan and protect your computer from malware, spyware and viruses. It is a free replacement for commercial antivirus software such as Norton and McAfee. It also features an antivirus module but also modules for detecting spyware, basic anti rootkit protection, email and phishing protection as well as the AVG Link scanner to provide safety ratings for websites.

2. Movie DVD Maker – Free DVD Creator Software

Sothink Movie DVD Maker is a free DVD creator. It can fast burn any video to DVD movies on all kinds of DVD discs. It is very easy to use and even beginners could create DVD movies from AVI, MP4, WMV, RM, 3GP, FLV, MOV, MKV, M2TS, etc. Since this DVD creator supports all popular video formats and all DVD discs, it is a good choice for DVD back-up. As for video editing and DVD menu customizing, those DVD authoring functions make it also a wonder choice for DVD movie creation.

3. Recuva – Free File Recovery Tool

Recuva is a simple to use and effective data recovery tool. It recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. The supported recoverting items include: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems; Removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.); External ZIP drives , Firewire and USB Hard drives; iPods and other MP3 players; Emails deleted from Thunderbird.

4.      Picasa – Free photo organizing software

Picasa is a great free utility from Google that lets you organize all photos and other images (jpg, png, gif and tif files etc) on your hard disk, and also, if you choose, publish the pictures for free on an Internet web site. Simple photo editing tools are also available, such as rotate, crop, straighten, redeye, auto contrast, auto color, fill light, highlight, shadows, color temperature, and many more. Also support photo tag now.

5.      Gtalk – Free Instant Message Tool

Gtalk is another application by Google. It is the cutest and cleanest chat tool on desk and it works excellent on both text chat and voice chat. It also could be used through your Gmail and supports file transfer.

6.      PDFXCHANGE Viewer – Free PDF Reader

The free version of PDFXCHANGE, which simply has the features of the Pro version disabled, has enough capabilities to satisfy all but the most demanding of users. The toolbars can be customized to suit user taste, even the performance of the application, maximum memory usage, number of threads and so on can be tuned.

7.      CCleaner – Free Hard Drive Cleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.

8.      VLC Media Player – Free Media Player

VLC is a powerful media player, playing most of the media codecs and video formats out there.

9.      FreeZip – Free Zip Utility

FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories in Windows 95/98/NT. FreeZip integrates with Windows Explorer and uses file associations and context menus to zip or unzip files, including long file names and subdirectories. If you know how to use Windows Explorer, then you do not have to learn anything new to use FreeZip.

10.   YouTube Downloader – Free YouTube Video Downloader

Actually YouTube Downloader is a free add-on for Firefox browser. It is small and very useful. When you with Firefox to open a web page containing some online video, such as YouTube, it will automatically capture and download the video for you to enjoy offline.