How to Fit the Entire 8.5GB DVD to A Single DVD-RW?

Is there a way to fit a dual layer DVD disc (8.7GB) to a single layer DVD disc (4.7GB) without reducing the video quality and removing not necessary elements? Well, this guide will show you how to shrink DVD with 8.5GB capacity completely to a single DVD-RW disc, maintaining all the extras and menus with the disc.

Requirements

First, you need to have a DVD writer that supports DVD-RW. Second, you need to have a Windows computer. Third, you must have a DVD shrink tool that is able to compress the entire DVD-9 to a DVD-RW.

The most professional DVD copy software CloneDVD supports to compress/shrink DVD-9 to DVD-5 perfectly and quickly. Without complicated settings, CloneDVD auto removes all copy protections (CSS, RC, RCE, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) during the process of copying.

Let’s see the brief steps of shrinking DVD.

Step 1. Insert your DVD-9 into the DVD drive. CloneDVD will show all the information of the disc including titles, release date, subtitle, DVD-Video size, quality, etc.

Step 2. Set the same DVD-ROM as target.

Step 3. Choose copy as DVD and set 4.7GB (DVD-5) as output.

Step 4. Choose “Entire disc” and click “Start”.

Step 5. After finishing, just eject the source DVD, insert a blank DVD-RW into the drive and follow the prompts to finish the compressing process.

DVD Audio Ripper – Extract Audio from DVD with A Few Clicks

Why Extract Audio from DVD?

Ever heard of some sweet and harmonious music embedded in a DVD? Want to rip the audio from the DVD, so that you can play it in your iPod or other music players, or just take it as the background of your blog?

What We Need?

So, how to extract songs from DVD? To convert DVD to audio, you need a DVD audio ripper. CloneDVD can help you achieve the goal. It is the best DVD copy software which can rip DVD to common audio like MP2, MP3, AAC, and AC3.

What Can CloneDVD Do?

High quality DVD audio ripping.
Removes DVD copy protections to copy any DVD to any blank DVD with 1:1 ratio.
Backup DVD contents to computer hard drive.
Supports to rip DVD to iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, etc.
Make customized DVD copies by its humanized features.

How to Use DVD Audio Ripper to Get Music?

These following steps will show you how to extract audio from DVD in MP3, AAC, AC3, etc.

Step 1. Download and run this DVD audio ripper.

Free Download Audio DVD Ripper

Step 2. Load the disc. Insert the disc into DVD drive, cancel autoplay. After a second the DVD information will display.

Step 3. Output settings. Go to “Movie File -> Common Audio”, and click your desired one. Here, I take MP3 as example. Choose an output folder to save music file. Click “Customize” to choose a few chapters which contain the music.

Step 4. Rip music from DVD. When the settings are done, click the  button to start conversion. And then the DVD audio ripper will begin to extract audio from DVD.

Tip: If you just want a clip of audio, you just need to clip it before converting the files. Click  button, set the start time and end time to get the video clips. Then you can rip only clip of audio from DVD.

How to Restore Dell Computer

My Dell computer hard drive crashes, what should I do to restore dell computer to factory settings? Good question. A Dell computer system is very easy to restore to its factory settings. The following will show you details.

WHAT YOU NEED ON HAND

1. A Dell computer

2. Installation CDs of programs and applications for the computer

3. Backup of data and files stored in the computer

BEFORE TO RESTORE DELL COMPUTER

1. Before getting started on the restoration of Dell computer, the first thing you need to do is to back up all data and files stored in the computer. You can backup the data into various places, for example, move your important data that you want to retain into “My Documents” folder and then burn the folder into a CD or DVD, or transfer the data to another prepared computer, or place the data to an external hard drive. Whatever you choose, please remember to back up your “Favorite folder” where your address book and contacts are included.

2. Prepare all the recovery media including Windows operating system CD, various application or program CDs or backup of drivers.

HOW TO RESTORE DELL COMPUTER TO ORIGINAL FACTORY INSTALLATION

Step 1. Boot the Dell computer. When you see the splash screen during the Windows startup, press <Ctrl>, keep the pressing and press <F11>, and then release them simultaneously.

Step 2. When you see the window “Dell PC Restore”, look for “Restore” and click on it. Then press <Tab> to highlight “Restore”, then press <Enter>. A window with the message warning you about the probability of data loss will pop up. When this happens, click “Confirm” or press <Tab> on keyboard to highlight “Confirm” and press <Enter>.

Step 3. Then the “Progress” window will appear, which indicates the restoration process has already started. Please wait about 10 minutes. When the message “The system recovery process was successful” appears, it means the restoration process is done.

Step 4. Click “Finish” or press <Tab>  to highlight “Finish” and press <Enter> to restart. Your Dell computer will be restored to its factory settings.

Free Tip to Make a Blue-ray PS3 Player Region Free

Users can play high-definition games and videos on Sony PS3 because it has a Blu-ray player.  Many people would like to play Blu-ray movies on PS3 because the video quality on PS3 is great.

A region-locked Blu-ray DVD can be only played in the place where it is produced and on equipment manufactured in the same area. If someone lives in US, have had relatives bringing DVDs as gifts from UK, it would be impossible for him to play the disc because the US and UK is in different region. To unlock PS3’s region capability, Sony released a firmware soon after they released the PS3 console. With the firmware, you will get a region free PS3.

Install The Free Update to Unlock PS3 and Play All Blu-rays

1. Turn on your PS3 console and choose “System Update” from the main menu. Choose “Update Via Internet.”

2. PS3 will begin to search available updates. Just wait for it. After it finds the update, press “X” button to start installation. And press the button again to verify and agree to the software agreement terms.

3. After the installation process finishes, press “X” button to restart the PS3 console. Your PS3 player is region free now.

YouTube to 3GP – Download and Convert YouTube Videos for 3GP Phone

Every day a mass of video clips are uploaded onto YouTube. Many of them may be removed soon if they infringe copyright. Why not download some wonderful ones and save onto your computer or transfer to your mobile phone before they are gone forever?

3GP is a multimedia container format, which is widely used on 3G phones, and can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones. Most cellular phones in use support 3GP videos. To download YouTube for 3GP phone, you need either a YouTube to 3GP converter or a 3GP video converter with YouTube downloading feature. Here, I will show you to get around this possibility to download YouTube and convert YouTube to 3GP mobile phone whenever you want.

DOWNLOAD AND CONVERT YOUTUBE FOR 3GP PHONE GUIDE

Before we get start, we need to download Aviosoft 3GP video converter and install it on a Windows computer. This 3GP video converter has a built-in YouTube downloader which can directly download videos from YouTube, Yahoo, etc.

Step 1. Start to Download YouTube

Click on YouTube button, the “Video Download” box will prompt out. Paste the video link in the URL box. Lick “Download” button to begin downloading video form YouTube. Repeat this step to get more videos.

Step 2. Choose Output Folder to Save files

Browse to choose a folder where will save the converted 3GP files.

Step 3. Convert YouTube to 3GP

Check all listed YouTube videos and then hit “Start”  button.

Wait for the conversion of YouTube to 3GP gets to the end. Click “OK” when convert finished, the destination folder will prompt out, and here you can transfer the converted YouTube videos to 3GP phone.

Edit DVD Movie and Video for iPhone Using Aviosoft Video Converter

Do you want to make your own movies and watch them on an iPhone? Use your existing DVD or video to make a special version of mini movie is quite easy today, many people have tried this on their blogs, YouTube channels. But you need a DVD video editing and converting tool to support you with these technical obstacles.

Aviosoft Video Converter has a feature which enables you to edit DVD and video. It offers clipping, cropping, merging. And next, I will show you how to edit a DVD or video using this converter.

Guide on How to Edit DVD/Video

Prepare things you will need: Aviosoft Video Converter (free for download trial version), DVD / video file.

Step 1. Download & Install

Download free trial Aviosoft Video Converter and install it on Windows computer.

Step 2. Load Source

Launch the DVD to iPhone converter, and then load the source DVD onto the program or select DVD folder from hard disk drive.

Step 3. Edit DVD Video: clip, crop, merge, watermark

With the built-in video editor, you can make your videos personalized by cropping, add watermarks effects, subtitles to the videos. To edit your DVD movies, you need to click “Edit”  button  to open a new window.

3.1 Clip: Play the DVD, set the start point and end point to clip a segment from the DVD movie. You can also flip the video horizontally or vertically and rotate the video by 90 degrees clockwise.

3.2 Crop: Resize the DVD movie by dragging the red points, so that you can remove the back bars, thus make it effective on an iPhone display screen.
3.3 Effect: You can adjust brightness, hue, saturation, contrast as you want to make the video brighter, clearer.

3.4 Subtitle: Add subtitle by importing a srt file, adjust the size of font and the position.

3.4 Watermark: Add text watermark, adjust the position and size as you want. There is preview windows to show the effect you have edited.

3.6 Merge: Click “Merge”  button to join the selected clips together.

Convert the Edit Movie for iPhone

Step 4. Set the iPhone Video Output

Here you will find a batch of iPhone device. Moving the mouse on the category of iPhone and select one according to your device, the relevant video settings will display in the right side. You may just select one suitable for your iPhone. Some advanced settings, such as bit rate, resolution, are available for you to customize.

Step 5. Start Converting

Click the button “Start” to start converting of edited movie to iPhone supported formats. After the conversions complete, run iTunes and sync the converted movies onto your iPhone.

Chocomize Now Shipping to the United Kingdom, potentially my belly

First, we have written on Chocomize does step conscious of the importance of disturbance in the chocolate space on measurement. After trying a sample of their production today on day of Tech in New York, however, I have decided that it is probably the best starting place in the world, except that one that lets you connect with friends and family and sharing of photos and other things. And also other with birds. That it is good enough.

But who the heck doesn't like chocolate? The service allows to build a chocolate bar and include various additional toppings including, but not limited to the m & Ms, chili, pretzels, small pieces of metal and crushed peppermint marshmallows. Shipping is flat rate $ 4.95 any bars order how you and the company is now shipping to the United Kingdom for a flat rate of $9.50.

Range of bars included trim prices and the price of scrap metal.

The site has been around since 2009 and is very popular with all of the marriage and the party that enable you to create toolbars custom for guests to the wedding. Founded by graduates of Columbia Fabian Kaempfer, Nick LaCava and Eric Heinbockel, the service has really taken off since the launch, and the founders have a helping hand in the manufacture of chocolate. In short, it is a true artisan start-up.