In most of the cases the problem is that you don’t have the correct codec installed on your computer. Not all video files are the same, especially those with a .avi extension. A codec is a special bit of software that tells your computer how to play a video file.

The easiest solution is to use another video player. I recommend VLC media player which you can download here. There’s no spyware or anything like that and it can play just about any type of file you throw at it.

First you need to crop the mp3 file down to less than 200kb. You can use Audacity (free) to do this.

I won’t go into the gritty details but you will need to open the file in audacity, crop it down to about 20 seconds and then save it as an mp3 at a bit rate of about 80kbs. Remember the new file need to be less than 200kb. You can be a little clever and crop the file in such a way that it will sound good looping.

Find the file on your hard drive in windows file explorer and make sure the size is less than 200kb. You may need to crop the file further and save it again. Change the extension of the saved mp3 file to .mid and copy it to your microSD card and place the card back into your cell phone.

On your phone browse to the new .mid file, it will be in your sounds directory,and select the option to send it. Send it to yourself. When you receive the call there is an option to save the file as your ringtone. That’s it!

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I’m not sure if this works for all videos or just newer ones that have been uploaded since Youtube changed their encoding methods.

The first step is to download and install DVD Flick

Next click on the “Add Title” button to browse to your DIVX file.

Next are some optional steps to edit the title. I like to at least change the name to something I can read easily. You may need to change the target aspect ratio as well for your TV. You can also choose to add chapters if you’d like.

Next You may want to edit the menu settings for the DVD

Next you will want to open the project settings. I usually burn straight to disc. Place your blank DVD in your burner and select the burn speed. I selected 2X since I use rewritable DVD’s and mine are only 2.4x speed. All the other options can be left to their default settings.

Now select the “Burn DVD” button. Click through the confirmation screens. At this point it may take a while to convert the DIVX file to a DVD. The time depends on how powerful your computer processor is.

You can minimize the screen or click the “Entertain Me” button for some fun.

There is a fre program called VOBTOMPG which can convert VOB to MPG files.

Once the VOBS are converted to MPG they can be imported into Windows Movie Maker

YouTube accepts most common video formats including WMV, MPEG, MOV and AVI.

I created a test clip and then encoded in different formats and rates.

You can see the clips here
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=03E42D05F3584B4A

Everything looks pretty good at 640×480 or higher. I think the AVI clips looks the best but it was almost a 200meg file for a 53 second video. Depending on your software I would likely choose the 3Mbs WMV or MOV format. Also if you create a file in H.264 format I’m pretty sure Youtube will still re-encode it anyways.

You can download Super here. Look for the link at the bottom of the page.

Here is a screen shot of my settings in Super to convert to WMV.

A multi-volume archive will come with extensions like .rar, .r00, .r01, .r02 etc.

To play the video files on your computer you will need to reconstruct the archive into one video file.

A popular choice to decompress RAR files is WinRAR. However I’m going to show you how to decompress RAR files with one of my favorite tools 7-Zip.

You can download and install 7-Zip from here. One thing I really like about 7-Zip is that’s it’s FREE and open source software. It is incredibly easy to use and handles just about any type of compressed files you can throw at it including ZIP, GZIP, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.

Locate the video files on your computer. In the case of multi-volume archive all you really care about is the file with the .rar extension.

Right click on the .rar file and select 7-zip\Extract Here. 7-Zip will begin to combine all of the smaller files into one large video file and place it into the current folder.

You can then play the video file with your favorite video player. if you’re having a problem playing the video, especially if you are using Windows media player you likely don’t have the right codecs installed on your computer. I recommend you download the VLC media player. It will play just about anything you throw at it.