Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Mobile Video Converter

The mobile phones today are primarily a source of entertainment. With advancements in multimedia technology and storage space, mobile videos are hot favorites of everyone. The mobile phones features now comprise primarily their ability to handle multimedia. The better the phone’s ability to play multimedia audio/video, the higher the demand and hence price. The mobile phone companies are specially introducing mobiles having ability to play high quality audio/video. Many audio and video mobile formats are now introduced.


I have been searching for a software to convert multimedia audio/video files into mobile formats like .3gp, mp4 etc. One of the most user friendly software is Alive 3GP Video Converter. Alive 3GP Video Converter has the ability to convert almost any multimedia audio/video file into mobile formats like aac, mp4, avc, 3gp etc. The size and quality of the converted multimedia files can also be adjusted according to mobile’s storage space and its multimedia playing capabilities. I have used Alive 3GP Video Converter to convert files for Nokia 6300, Nokia 7610, and some Motorola phones. The result is stunning. The videos are crystal clear. Alive 3GP Video Converter can also convert any audio/video to mp3 and even Divx Video format and its very fast. Alive 3GP Video Converter can also handle .rm files


Alive 3GP Video Converter can convert video up to 30 frames per second and at a video bit rate of 192 to 8000. The audio files can be converted at a bit rate of up to 320 and a sample rate of 48000Hz. It also has a Mono/Stereo option. The video size can be adjusted according to the mobile screen size.

The best audio/video multimedia file conversion options for Nokia 6300 are as follows:

Output format: MP4 MPEG-4 video

Video Settings

Video Bit Rate: 256

Frame Rate: 15fps

Frame Size: 176*144


Audio Settings

Audio Bit Rate: 320

Sample Rate: 48000 Hz

Channels: Stereo

Download Alive 3GP Video Converter

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Boost slow internet connection speed

There are many softwares available on the internet today who have big claims of boosting slow internet connection speed but in fact none worked in reality. Some even claim to boost modem speed.

I am using dialup internet connection for over three years and I was constantly searching for softwares to boost my slow dialup internet connection. All of us know that the bandwidth of dialup internet connection is low and on top of that the connection usually stops transporting data after a few minutes. Most of the time one has to disconnect and redial. Having experienced all this I decided to tweak slow internet connection myself.

I tried several attempts and observed the results. Finally I found the solution.

Mentioned below are practically tested and verified steps.

There are many steps involved in order to boost internet connection speed. One thing to remember is that all of these are relevant to Windows XP service Pack 2.

Download and Install freeware cablenut software.

Double click "adjuster" and add the values as shown in the figure below.






Download and install freeware FreshUI software

Run fresh ui and expand "Windows System"

Expand "Network Settings"

Click on the key "Change PPOE the MTU Size".

In the "Protocol type size", "PPP Protocol Type" and "Protocol MTU Size" type zero in all the three fields.

Click “Change the Client Side DNS Caching Timeouts” in the “Network Settings” type zero in the “Change the DNS Cache timeout for negative responses” field

In the 'Network Settings" Click "Manage the reserved QoS Bandwidth"> Reserved Qos Bandwidth> change it to 0%





Open Windows XP registry. For this type "regedit" in the "Run..." in the "start" button.

Find this key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider" and

Edit the following values

"DnsPriority" to 1

"HostsPriority" to 1

"LocalPriority" to 1

"NetbtPriority" to 1


Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Remote Computer".Delete the key "NameSpace" and also the sub keys.

Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Software\Microsoft\MSMQ\Parameters”

Create the following two dword values and set to 1

DeferredInit

TcpNoDelay



Click start > Connect to "your dialup connection" > Properties > General > Configure > Uncheck all.

Click Connect to "your dialup connection" > Properties > Networking > Click QoS Packet Schedular under TCP/IP and uninstall.

Also under the "Networking" tab click settings of "Type of dial up server I am calling" Check "Enable LCP Extensions" and "Enable Software Compression"

Click TCP/IP > Properties > Advanced > Uncheck Use IP Header compression

Open Device Manager and click modem properties > Advanced > Change Default Preferences

Port speed 115200

Data Protocol Disabled

Compression Disabled

Flow Control None

Reboot your system.

These settings have helped me a lot to make my slow dial up internet connection into a significantly high speed dial up internet connection.