There are tons of programs, websites and browser plug ins that allow you to download videos from streaming websites like Youtube, Metacafe, Myspace, Hulu and others. Even though most of them work fine, some video providers, especially Hulu and Myspace Video constantly try to protect their content by encrypting their feeds, often making direct downloading impossible. In this guide we will use Replay Video Capture in order to record directly the video you are watching, a method that always works regardless of the source. Of course the quality of the video provided this way is not the best so you should only use this method when direct downloaders (like Replay Media Catcher) fail to get your media.

Recently MySpace changed their music player and encrypted the audio feed in order to make it more difficult to rip. As a result most, if not all, the methods you could use to download the music files to your PC are not working any more. In this guide we will use Replay Music 3 in order to record the songs directly from the sound card. The reason we decided to use this program is that it can split the tracks automatically so you don't have to attend while it records and the special audio driver it uses in order to record music just from the browser and not the rest of the PC sounds. Surely there are many similar solutions around you can try but we 've found Replay Music 3 to work the best. You can download it here.

After the indisputable success of the Apple iPhone, most manufacturers now offer mobile phones with much bigger and better screens than before. As a result watching a whole movie on your mobile is now actually possible without hurting your eyes by a tiny screen, which means that instead of just converting some small clips most users now want to know how to convert a DVD from their collection to a file playable on their iPhone or other device.

Handbrake is a freeware video transcoder that until recently was best known and used among Mac users. The later Windows versions however are much improved, improving the GUI and fixing most nasty bugs. In this article we will guide you through the steps of creating an mkv or mp4 file using H264 codec. Handbrake now accepts most video files as input but in our example we will use a DVD disc as a source.

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