How to Convert MKV to WTV format for Windows Media Center

Most people have the need to convert recorded live television in wtv format to other video type, such as mov, mkv, avi, mp4, etc. However, if we try to manage media using Windows Media Center, sometimes, we have to transcode other format videos to wtv for playing or streaming videos to television set or certain media devices, such as Xbox 360. I googled and found a few converters that have been upgraded to support conversion to wtv, such as Bigasoft WTV Converter version 4.2. Here I'll show you the steps I tried to convert MKV to WTV.
1, Download and install WTV Converter.The software is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7/8.
2, Launch the Converter and add the MKV video which I want to add to Windows Media Center. Click Add File button or just drag and drop the MKV into the main interface of Bigasoft WTV Converter. Then the video will be listed and you can set other settings before the conversion.
3, Select WTV Windows Media Center Video(*.wtv) profile. Also, video size, bitrate, framerate and other parameters are available on Advanced Profile settings panel.
4, After all settings done, click Convert button to start the conversion to WTV.

A few minutes later, you will be able to enjoy and stream converted WTV videos to your Windows Media Center. Besides converting MOV, MKV, AVI, MP4 or other video formats to WTV, this WTV Converter also can help you convert WTV videos to other file type(MKV, AVI. MOV, MP4) for playback on media players or portable devices, such as iTunes, QuickTime player, iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet.
Get more features about Bigasoft WTV Converter.

Easy way to convert FLV to HTML5 video, WebM, OGV, MP4

 
Do you encounter issue in adding FLV to HTML5 sites? Want to make all your videos compatible with HTML5? How to convert FLV to WebM, OGV or MP4 as HTML5 supported formats? Here, I will show you a HTML5 Video Converter tool to make it available to play any format videos on HTML5 sites.

HTML5 is the fastest growing web development trend. More and more people build HTML 5 sites. YouTube and Vimeo adopt HTML5 too. HTML5 video as a part of HTML5 becomes the new natural way to show video online. It is better to view videos without any flash plugin installed. And for web owner, it is easy to add video using HTML5 syntax.
<video id="sampleMovie" src="HTML5Sample.mp4" controls></video>

According to Wikipedia, OGV, MP4 and WebM are supported in HTML5. If most of the viewers of your website are using computers to visit, I recommend you to try VP8 WebM format. Or if they prefer to view your site on Android or iOS portable devices, H.264 MP4 is a better choice.

FLV was popular online video format before. And even now a lot of download videos from internet are still in .FLV format. If you have such format videos and want to upload to your HTML5 website, a HTML5 Video Converter is needed. Acting as an ideal FLV to HTML5 video Converter, Bigasoft Total Video Converter can help you convert FLV to any HTML5 supported video formats, such as H.264 MP4, OGV and VP8 WebM. Besides converting from FLV to HTML5 video, it also helps convert any video formats to HTML5 video and vice versa.

Free download and install Bigasoft FLV to HTML5 Converter. For Mac user, here is the page for Total Video Converter for Mac. The rest are simple. Just drag FLV to the interface and select WebM or H.264 MP4 profile. Then start the conversion with a single click. After a few minutes, converted HTML5 compatible will be saved on your disk.

Moreover, this Bigasoft Video Converter also can help you convert HTML5 videos to other popular formats, such as MOV, AVI, MKV or extract audio to mp3. Get more features about Bigasoft Total Video Converter.

How to play MKV on Nexus 7?

Nexus 7, with up to 9 hours of HD video playback and 323 pixels packed into every inch, is a great tablet to enjoy movie anytime and anywhere. Besides viewing online movies on it, sometines we also want to enjoy local movies on Nexus 7.  Most local movies I have are in MKV format. Matroska format (MKV) is an efficient digital video storage format which can contain several video, audio or subtitle track. It will let you get smaller file sizes for video and audio and keep the same quality.
However, the mkv videos can not be played on Nexus7. I searched on Internet and found Nexus 7 only could support MP4, DivX, Xvid, H.264, H.263 and WMV format.

What I should do is converting my MKV movies to a Nexus 7 more supported format to playback MKV movie on Nexus 7, such as mp4 or wmv. Bigasoft Total Video Converter seems to have the ability to convert from MKV to MP4.  I added all the mkv videos into the software and select HD H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4) profile. I want to keep HD quality to get best view on Nexus7. It finished the converting fast. Great! The converted mp4 videos from MKV format can be played on my Nexus 7 without any issue.

It seems that Bigasoft Total Video Converter also can convert my other videos, such as DVD vob, FLV or Webm videos from website to Nexus 7 more supported format, such as mp4 or wmv. With this MP4 Converter, all the videos will be played well on Nexus7. In addition, I also find MKV Converter on Mac.  If you are mac user, this one will be a good choice.