Showing posts with label MP4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MP4. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Why Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13 Won’t Import MP4?

As a consumer-based nonlinear video editing software designed for the PC, Sony Movie Studio makes it easy to import and edit movies, images and music for creating your next video or audio masterpiece. But the problem is, when you plan to edit the MP4 file with Sony Movie Studio, it's failed even MP4 is a listed supported format by Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13. So what's the matter? How to import MP4 files to Sony Movie Studio flawlessly?



In fact, Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13 may not work with some MP4 files, that probably caused by the unsupported codec or other reasons. To fix the problem, a more practical way recommended online is to transcode MP4 to a more editing-friendly format for Sony Movie Studio. Once you have, you can add them to Sony Movie Studio (Platinum 13) and use MP4 like any other file Sony Movie Studio supports. After testing, Dimo Video Converter Ultimate was found to be an easy-to-use yet powerful high-quality MP4 video converter, player and editor. By running it, there is no need to to set the codec yourself, the program has an optimized preset for Sony Vegas. 

Besides that, it not only can handle MP4 files to be compatible with Sony Movie Studio (or other NLEs on PC, like Windows Movie Maker, Premiere Pro, After Effect CC, Davinci, GoPro Studio, FCP, Avid MC, etc) quickly and easily, but also offers some cool video editing features like cropping, rotating, cutting, adjusting effects, adding watermark, and so on. Now download to start MP4 to Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13 conversion. 

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How to Convert MP4 to Sony Movie Studio more compatible file formats?

Step 1 Add MP4 file to Sony Movie Studio converter

Load MP4 files to this Sony Movie Studio Converter program by clicking "Add File" button, or drag the MP4 videos to the software directly.

Step 2 Choose output compatible format

Click "Select Format" bar and choose "Format" > "Editor" > "Sony Vegas" as output format on the drop-down menu. Or AVI, WMV as output video format from "Format > Video" Category. In addition, to import high definition MP4 video like 1080p, 720p to Sony Vega, select WMV HD, AVI HD from "HD Video" Category.



Tip: Before conversion, you can click the "Setting" to customize the video/audio settings Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc. for Sony Movie Studio.

Step 3 Convert MP4 to Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13 compatible video

Click the "Start" button under the main interface, and the program will start transcode MP4 to MPEG-2, MP4, WMV, AVI or DV, which is compatible for Sony Movie Studio Platinum 13.

Afterward, you can find the converted file on your computer by clicking the "Open" button within several minutes. And then you can import the converted MP4 files to Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 13 easily.

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DVDmate (Win/Mac)

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Videomate (Win/Mac)

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8K Player (Win/Mac)

A mixture of free HD/4K video player, music player, Blu-ray/DVD player, video recorder and gif maker. 

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Top 5 Mac MP4 Players to Play MP4 on Mac OS(Sierra) Smoothly

The importance of a powerful media player can be well understood by movie freaks who wish to enjoy their favorite videos in best quality. Majority of videos over Internet are available in MP4 format and thus MP4 players are the most commonly used players. Even though Mac‘s default media player, QuickTime, supports MP4 video playback, sometimes you may find that you could not play MP4 video with QuickTime. This is because MP4 videos may be encoded with different codec. 

Then the player may try to download an appropriate codec to play back the file. However, if fruitless, you will have to install other MP4 player to play your videos, or convert MP4 to other video format, like MOV. In this article, I will share my experience and offer two commonly used methods to help you open MP4 videos on Mac for enjoying with ease.



Play MP4 files on Mac with the professional MP4 player

To watch MP4 files on Mac (OS macOS Sierra and El Capitan included), one feasible method is take professional Mac MP4 players to use. There are top 5 best Mac MP4 media players of 2017 we would like for you to recommend as follows: (based on some online opinion polls)

Top 1. 8K Player

8K Player for Mac is a great alternative to VLC and Apple QuickTime to play any MP4 files on your Mac no matter what codec they deployed such as H.265/H.264, MPEG etc. Lots of friends think 8K Player for Mac runs after VLC and Apple QuickTime player, offers smoother playback when other media players show choppy video. With fully compatible with Mac (up to macOS Sierra), it has more concise and decent interface, economizes more resource, and takes less occupancy on CPU memory of your Mac. Thanks to the support for tons of video/audio codecs, it can play any movie/music videos smoothly and directly. Moreover, it performs well in playing SD/720P 1080p HD/4K UHD, DVD and Blu-ray region-free media source in any format, such as, MKV, M2TS, TS, MOD, TOD, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, M4V, MPEG, H.264, FLV, etc. No noisy ads to distract you with opening movies. Windows version is here.



Extra features of 8K Player, the No.1 video player for Mac

* Act as a free music player to play videos music in MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, AC3, etc;
* Work as Blu-ray, DVD player software to play regular and strictly encrypted disc movies;
* Function as a free online video recorder to create professional-like video tutorials and screencasts;
* Play the selected video or audio single or segment in a continuous loop;
* Choose the language for audio and subtitles when files have multiple subtitles and audio streams;
* Breakout to play any movie and video even the general video players can ONE-KEY to make GIF;
* Visual screenshot to capture every moment you love in the video.

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Top 2. VLC Media Player

VLC was voted into the top 5 of the best MP4 video players for Mac, which is a FREE and open-source multimedia player compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, etc, over ten operating systems written by non-profit VideoLAN. This is the really amazing thing for all sorts of platform-users. Technically, VLC media player for Mac supports video in nearly all types of file formats, like MOV, MP4, QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, some WMV, DVD ISO file, etc. Also, you can use this best Mac video player to play DVD, CD, and VCD. This is the first free video player for Mac and Linux that can playback encrypted DVDs. Incomplete or damaged videos can be played as well. But it is a little delayed while playing, "Each time I click on run video network it plays other audio and dvds etc and after a million times it finally plays the YouTube video." but as a whole, it is a best video player Mac.

Top 3. QuickTime

QuickTime Player is Apple's flagship best media player. This best MP4 media player for Mac is slick and easy to use, allows editing and conversion. QuickTime lets you view Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media. However, it is a bit slow to launch, has limited video formats supported, for more formats available, you have to install external plug-in Perian.

Video Format: QuickTime Movie (.mov) MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v) MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later) MPEG-1 3GPP 3GPP2 AVCHD (OS X Mountain Lion or later) AVI (Motion JPEG only) DV
Audio format: iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p) MP3 Core Audio (.caf) AIFF AU SD2 WAV SND AMR

Top 4. MPlayerX

Many Mac users take MPlayerX media player as a standard part of their toolbox simply because it works properly and all most popular codecs are in it. No fuss or headache of codec installing or updating. Seriously, you will not be frustrated with such practical video player on your Mac OS. Problem like disappearing of title bar in QuickTime never happens. When playing AVI file on Mac/MacBook, this best Mac MP4 media player performs great without stuttering while Divx player cannot recognize the file sometimes. Well, system crash things happen randomly, which should be tackled properly.

Top 5. Movist

Movist is a simple and best MP4 video player Mac, it supports QuickTime and FFmpeg and also supports subtitles. It is pretty excellent for those that need to encode and decode QuickTime and FFmpeg formats. You can do some general and advanced settings for better and convenient video playback. However, this best video player for Mac has been designed as a replacement for Quicktime, but it supports limited formats.

Alternative to MP4 Player to play MP4 files on Mac (OS Sierra)?

A Mac mp4 player can help you open and play MP4 files on your Mac, but still can't avoid some incompatible issues and it's impossible to adjust the video quality as you like. To make the most of your MP4 video files such as your downloaded from Twitter or Facebook, you'd better convert MP4 files to Mac or any other device, editing software, and media player friendly formats. To do it, you can try Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac.

It enables you to convert MP4 to MOV or compatible MP4 for playing on Mac (OS macOS Sierra and OS X El Captain) easily without any quality loss. Besides, it lets you directly convert MP4 videos to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Final Cut Pro, Avid MC or many some other media devices, video editing programs friendly format with the best quality. Furthermore,the built-in DVD/Blu-ray ripper is huge plus, the resulting video quality is excellent, especially when paired with the barebones editor that allows you to trim, crop, and layer video effects for a more hands-on approach. Along with the IP address sharing technology, you could also take your Mac as home media server radio to share the MP4 from Mac to TV or other mobile devices easily by ONE-KEY touch.

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Step 1. Import MP4 files by Clicking "Add File"

Step 2. Choose a proper output format for your source MP4 file in the menu of "Select Format" with tons of video formats available including Lossless MP4.

Step 3. Press "Start" to finish MP4 conversion on Mac.

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Still got trouble of watching MP4 on your Mac, then contact us to get online supports.

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Monday, January 9, 2017

How to Play MP4 Files on Sony Bravia TV via USB Drive?

On my latest Sony Bravia TV, running the latest firmware and app, I find that the message of "Unable to playback" file appears mostly for MP4 files this seems to be the case, after loafing up via USB Drive. Even though a smart Sony Bravia TV is a big entertainment in our daily life. Nowadays it is convenient to put movies on USB drive and play on Sony Bravia TV via USB port or stream over DLNA. And Sony claims the Smart TV support MP4 files, however, we still encounter Sony Bravia TV won't play MP4 issues listed as the beginning. What'a the matter? In fact, it's refusing to play an MP4 file because of the unsupported either video or audio codec in the video file.



Actually, that happens and as common, not only to you! Why can't Sony TV play MP4 videos? As we all know, MP4 is simply a container video format. Different MP4 files tends to contain different video and audio codecs. If your MP4 files are encoded with unsupported video or audio codec and resolution certainly can't be played on the Sony Bravia TV. According to Sony official website, Sony TV supports formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4(Part 2 and 10), DivX SD, etc. You could get more compatible video file formats details of Sony here. 

And it's hard to find the right codecs and install them accordingly. Frankly, there is a smarter way to get rid of the incompatibility issues quickly - encode MP4 to Sony TV friendly format. To convert MP4 to Sony TV seamlessly and effortlessly, the solution for you is to find a third-party tool to make everything easy, if you insist on viewing the files on Sony Bravia TV via USB storage device.



The all-in-one and easy-to-use toolkit Dimo Video Converter Ultimate should be a great choice for you! With it, you don't need to know what is the earth video and audio codec in the MP4 format that'll be best for your Sony Bravia TV. You just need to choose the among the optimized presets for Sony Bravia TV and this program will do the rest for you. 

A while later, the video conversion will be finished and you'll be able to watch the awesome media content on Sony TV without having to compromise on the quality. Moreover, it can also allow you to make conversion from any video formats like AVI, MKV, MOV, VOB, TiVo, MPG, FLV and more to Sony TV compatible videos in simple clicks of mouse. Plus, with the built-in video editor, you can also choose to trim, crop, add watermark to your original videos. If you are Mac users, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac (Mavericks, Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

No more talking, let's go straight in. First you need to download this program and get it installed. 

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How to Convert MP4 files for Playing on Sony Bravia TV

Step 1 Load .MP4 files

Drag & drop MP4 files to the top MP4 to Sony TV video converter program directly. Or go to the "Add file" to locate the MP4 files you want to add. You can add several files to do conversion at the same time.



Step 2 Select the output Sony Bravia TV USB supported MP4 format.

Click "Select Format" bar to choose "Sony TV" as output format from "TV" which is so easy. Or select the format from "HD Video" or "Video" and choose MP4 or "HD MP4" as target format. Besides, you can also choose AVI, WMV, MP4, etc. if you want to get a relatively smaller output file.

Tip: To change the video size, video codec and bit rate, you can just click the "Settings" button. The video will be converted in the original video size if you start to convert the video now without any change. If you keep everything default original, the video can be converted without any quality lose. What's more, you can trim or crop the unwanted parts and then merge them into the new one by clicking "Edit" button, also set the aspect ratio at 16:9 or 4:3 as per your video needs in the "Adjust" interface to avoid any black bar. 



Step 3 Start to convert video to Sony Bravia TV

To start video to Sony Bravia TV conversion, click the "Start" button. It will take less than 10 minutes to convert a 1 hour length HD videos. Because this software can convert 30X faster than other converting program.

Step 4. Save the output video to USB disk

When the video conversion finished, open the folder and transfer it to your USB extra disk. Then plus your extra disk to Sony TV through the USB port, On your TV, find the menu to access this USB disk, and locate the MP4 video. Orstream it directly via Dimo Media Server. Your video should be playable for Sony Bravia TV now.

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The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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DVDmate (Win/Mac)

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Videomate (Win/Mac)

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8K Player (Win/Mac)

A mixture of free HD/4K video player, music player, Blu-ray/DVD player, video recorder and gif maker. 

Still got trouble of watching MP4 on your Sony Bravia TV via USB, then contact us to get online supports.

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Monday, January 2, 2017

Why Can't I Play MP4 on Xbox One (S)? Solved

MP4 is a container format and can store video, audio and other information, has capability to shrink large video files to be much smaller. So, it is a highly sought after and popular format of video. Some game entertainment devices like Xbox One S coming with the natively support to play MP4 files via USB or DLNA, but that does not guarantee that the all MP4 video and audio data can be played correctly. So some tweaking has to be done to play MP4 in Xbox One S in this article.


Why can't play MP4 on Xbox One (S)?

Although MP4 format is listed as one of the compatible video file formats for Xbox, you may also come across the Xbox One (S) MP4 playback issue. That's because different MP4 files tends to have different video codecs and the codecs might not be compatible with the console. Probably some video & audio parameter doesn't fit the device. 

Easy way to fix MP4 fail to play on Xbox One (S) issue

Well, how can you play those incompatible MP4 files on Xbox One (S) S then? Anyhow, you can resolve this problem easily by Dimo Video Converter Ultimate. Being a professional video converter program, it can finish the MP4 to Xbox One (S) conversion task. 

This video converter offers quite effective solution for you to convert almost all the videos including MP4, MKV, MOV, MTS, FLV, TiVo, VOB, MPG... to Xbox One (S), Xbox 360 friendly videos without quality loss. It also allows you to adjust the video, audio parameter to get a decent output video that you want. For mac users, it has an equivalent Mac version entitled Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which can convert MP4 to Xbox One (S) on Mac(OS Sierra included). Check the following guide to know how to change MP4 format for playing on Xbox One (S).

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How to convert and play MP4 files on Xbox One (S)

STEP 1: Load MP4 files to the converter

Launch MP4 to Xbox Converter, and click "Add file" button to import your source materials  or directly drag it from your computer to this program's left pane. If you have several MP4 files, you can add them one by one.



STEP 2: Select Xbox One compatible formats

Click on the drop down menu of the Select Format, select "Device"> "Game" > "Xbox One S" as the target device.  

Xbox Media Player Supported File Formats:

Video formats: 3GP video, 3GP2, AVI DivX, DV AVI, AVI uncompressed, asf, AVI Xvid, H.264 AVCHD, M-JPEG, .mkv, .mov, MPEG-PS, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 HD, MPEG-2 TS, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 SP, WMV, WMV HD

Audio formats: 3GP audio, AAC, ADTS, MP3, WAV, WMA, WMA Lossless, WMA Pro, WMA Voice

Tip: If the default video/parameters can't meet your needs, just click Settings icon to adjust the video codec, bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc to get a decent video as you want. In principle, the larger input values, the better output quality, but the corresponding larger file size.



STEP 3: Start converting MP4 to Xbox One (S)

Click the "Start" button to start and finish the MP4 to Xbox One (S) conversion. After the conversion, click "Open" button to quickly locate the generated video. Now you can transfer or stream the converted MP4 videos to play with Xbox One (S) or TV easily.

How to stream movies from PC to Xbox One S?

1. Make sure you have the video application open on your Xbox One S.

2. Check your PC network settings and ensure that Xbox One S is visible on the network. If it is not, make sure both devices are properly connected and configured to see one another.

3. Check your Xbox One S Preferences under Settings and make sure "Play To" support is enabled.

4. Select a locally-stored video file on your PC. Most popular video file formats should work.

5. Right click the file or files you wish to play.

6. Select the "Play To" option.

7. A drop down menu should appear listing all compatible decides detected on your home network. You should see your Xbox One S listed among them.

8. Select your Xbox One S. The stream will load and then begin playing.

The Xbox One S's video controls will then take over, allowing you to pause and play the stream without touching your PC again.

Hands-off-PC method:

Follow the above until step 4. Using Skifta on your Apple or Android device, select the source of your media, then the Xbox One S as the target device.

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Friday, December 30, 2016

Can't Play MP4 files on Blu-ray Player? Resolved

MP4 is a popular and widely-used video format. If you have got .mp4 video files and want to watch it on home Blu-ray player with big screen, your Blu-ray Player will say that MP4 is not the format Blu-ray Player recognizes sometimes. In this article, we will offer you the reason and an easy way to get MP4 files to play on Blu-ray Player without problems.



Blu-ray Player has the ability to play DVD, Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray movies, it also offers USB ports to extend the Disc Player's media capabilities. The USB port can allow you to play music and video stored on your USB drive or external hard drive. As we know, MP4 is really supported by Blu-ray player, but you must know Blu-ray player has strict requiements on the file codec, container, resolution, frame rate, bit rate and audio codec. If your MP4 file contains a Blu-ray player unsupported audio or video codec, it can't be recognized or read. 

To solve MP4 files won't play on Blu-ray Player problem, a widely recommended solution is to convert MP4 to Blu-ray Player more compatible format. To finish task, there are tons of video converter apps out there. Here we highly recommned Dimo Video Converter Ultimate to get the work done. 

The software is able to convert MP4 as well as virtually all video formats like MKV, AVI, VOB, FLV, WMV, MTS, MOV, etc to Blu-ray player friendly file formats like .divx, .mp4 without quality loss. Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for media players including Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Gear VR, Oculus Rift, Samsung TV, Xbox, PS3, PS4, etc to meet your different needs. Before conversion, you can also edit MP4 by trimming/cropping or adding watermark/effect to MP4 with the built-in video editor. If you are Mac users, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. Download the software and we will share a quick solution with you.

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How to Convert and Play MP4 on Blu-ray Player

Step 1. Load MP4 files

Simply drag-and-drop your MP4 video to the program window or click "Add file" button to load MP4 files. You can add multiple files one by one for conversion.



Step 2. Choose output format

From the drop-down list of "Select Format" you can select AVI or MP4 from "Format > Video" category as the output format. When you have selected the output format, you should select a destination folder for the output file by clicking "...", you can also let it be the default one.

Step 3. Customize output profile parameters

By clicking the Settings button beside Profile, you can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want. You can adjust the output file size as 1920×1080, frame rate as 6-30fps, bitrate as 30Mbps, audio codec as MP3.



Step 3. Start conversion

Click the "Start" button to start converting MP4 files to Blu-ray Player immediately. Once the conversion finished, click the "Open" button on the main interface to pop out the folder with converted files and then transfer the generated files to your USB drive, plug the USB drive into Blu-ray Player’s USB port for playing MP4 files on Blu-ray Player. Or directly share onto Blu-ray Player via wifi.

Tips: If there are no USB ports on your Blu-ray player, you can opt to burn MP4 files to Blu-ray disc for directly playing on Blu-ray players with the following 3 free Blu-ray creator.

Tiny Burner: An excellent freeware app that works with CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The installer also comes with a 32-bit and 64-bit version and will install the appropriate version automatically. Just load your disc into the drive, drag and drop the files you want and click the Burn icon to burn the disc.

StarBurn: A nice full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning app. It has a nice GUI interface that splits your burning options into audio, video, and data. You can burn images and build ISO images also. Unique features include the ability to erase a disc and to compress audio. 

True Burner: It can burn standard, multi-session and bootable CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. It’s got a very simple user interface and not a whole lot of settings. It doesn’t have a lot of advanced features like ImgBurn, but it gets the job done and it works well.

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The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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