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Are there any truly free video files converter out there? I have seen many that give you a trial version but for the full version you must pay. I am trying to convert MOD files from my camcorder to something I can watch on WMP.

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Frames from the latest MythBusters episode, an explosion where they fuse some plates together. You can see the phantom flash high above the explosion place. What is it? It appears to be in a right place for a lens flare, but doesn't look like one.

Sometimes a concept that I'd been trying to understand for about half an hour I grasp in about 5 seconds by watching an animation of it in action. Videos are a rapid way to learn in my opinion. Heres a really good site I've found http://videos.howstuffworks.com/ Anyone know any other good sites...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQNpucos9wc&feature=rec-HM-r2

This video is not anything new to anyone on this forum, but I still thought it was a good video worth watching.

Hey I found these video lectures from Calc I & II awhile back from NC state, they might not be the greatest as the classes seemed to be oriented to learning how do problems not really learning the theory behind things. But they come in handy if you miss a lecture...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7917295.stm This video is just amazing. Police officers are supposed to be showing an example to the rest of society, and not abusing their power. This guy should be locked up!

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=5929 Seen this linked on a site. Most of us have figured it out, can you? Considering the nature of these forums, you guys should have no problem figuring it out.

My wife and I have cell-phones that take really good video. Unfortunately, the videos are in the ".3G2" format, and when we try to download them to our computers, the computer can't play the video. It is my understanding that we could play them with Apple's QuicktimeTM, but I had that software...

dose anyone know a website that has a video about how to find centroids?

So: I do a "game of the year" poll every year. The poll gives you a list of nearly every game released last year, and asks you to make a list of your favorites (up to your top 20). If you would like to vote in it (and if it's okay for me to link this) you can click here to vote. For...

Is there any way to fix this? I tried converting the mp3 files to wmv files last night, but it reduces the picture quality by a lot so the picture quality looks all fuzzy. Is there any other free video editing software out there that supports mp3 video files?

Hi, I'm looking for video lectures for the classic MIT course Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. While MIT OCW doesn't have any videos for this course, on the internet there seems to be at least two different sets of videos claiming to be of this course. It seems that one is...

1.1 The Space Shuttle from a Systems Engineering Perspective http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Aeronautics-and-Astronautics/16-885JFall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm

is there any video lectures source which is about statistical physics or quantum physics like MIT Lectures. I found some lectures about quantum physics but these are only related with it and it couldn't be considered as essential source.

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/The_Clock_and_the_Quantum/Abstracts/ The week ending 2 October there was a conference on time and quantum theory at Perimeter. Some who gave talks were Lee Smolin Roger Penrose Neil Turok Leonard Susskind William Unruh Rafael Sorkin ... The link gives...

I don't know if anyone's posted this already, but it was sent to me and it's pretty damn funny: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Long winded, but nicely done. The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ&feature=related

Like a diamond in the sky... (with video) Rosetta Spacecraft Passes Asteroid Steins . Garth

Hello, Since we see a 1 lightyear -away from us- star how it was 1 year ago, Is the light emitted from surface of Earth traveling the same way? What about the effects of atmosphere? If first is afirmative, Is it physically possible (with the proper technology) to capture that light in a...

I recently bought a GeForce FX 5200 for a secondary computer. I installed as suggested and the screen flickers slightly now. I've read that there are some adjustments that can be made to the bios but i am unsure as to how to do this. does anyone have any ideas? the screen comes up fine but...

My pc restarts everytime I watch a video after 5 minutes (e.g. on youtube or if I watch a video with the windows media player) . a) I've already done a memory test (the memtest ran for 6 hours and didn't show any errors) b) I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows XP...

hi, PHers, I found a site: http://videolectures.net/ which contain a lot of video lectures and tutorials. There are a lot video there. When it is playing a video, the slides will change synchronously.:rolleyes: I'm major in Computer vision and image Processing, hope we can communicate each...

Hey Everyone My knowledge of computers is pretty much near to nothing. I've just put Counter Strike on my laptop, which is a PC game played online. The game sometimes has to reboot due to the fact that my drivers need updating, even when I start the game it says that I may need to update...

http://www.nasa.gov/mov/260502main_nir_green_blue2.mov You may remember Deep Impact was launched in 2005 with the mission of blasting a 370kg bullet into a comet. Now it has taken a remarkable video from a vantage point of 50 million km away of a spinning earth, complete with visible...

I'm trying to build a motor like the one in this http://youtube.com/watch?v=h6Ev64h49wg&feature=related". I can't seem to figure out how the split ring works. From what I can tell, only one solenoid would be powered at a time, but wouldn't that be inefficient? Also if only one is powered...

LQC is the dominant approach to quantum cosmology these days, if you gauge by recent peer-review publication and citations in the professional literature. So anybody who wants to know about quantum cosmology could be well advised to get an introduction to LQC. Parampreet Singh is one of the...

http://www.woodencigars.com/vwftp.html I don't get it... my face was like O_O at the end of the video he uses e=mc^2 to explain how his "energy" goes into produce "mass". But can it be explained from a more mathematical/geometrical perspective too?

A guy claims to have video of an alien, and he's going to show it to some people tomorrow. He won't let the public see it because it's going to be included in a documentary. http://media.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/content/purported-ufo-video-be-shown-friday.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw" The lyrics and video had me laughing so hard. Very well done. I want one of those robots!

the stuff that comes after calculus 1 about convergence etc.. and building a function on 3D ?

Coleman's QFT lectures on video! Everybody check out John Baez TWF 264 where he reports Coleman legendary QFT lecture notes are now online!

I made a video for you tube. When I type in the tags it doesn't show up under the searches. Please help me fix this.

Gerard 't Hooft video lecture--Perimeter http://pirsa.org/08040000/ online video of lecture 't Hooft gave on 7 May, 2008Black Holes and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Gerard 't Hooft - Spinoza Institute for Theoretical Physics "The theory of Quantum Mechanics requires 'completeness'...

Hey I am looking for some video tutorials, all are level 1, or freshman level, so nothing to involved. - Vibration - Bending (Beam) - Stress / Strain - General Mechanics ( Vectors, Momentums, Torque, Free Body Diagrams, Newtons Laws, Shear Force) - Thermodynamics - SFEE ( Standard...

www.freevideolectures.com I found this a few weeks ago and it's a definite gold-mine. It's a relatively new website and they get new submissions all the time so hopefully the sections that lack extensive material expand. I've been using the calculus section which is pretty good.

Homework Statement I want to know how fast this jet, bird, UFO is traveling at around 1:51. It appears to the right of Dana's head in the interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvDAeosvDNw&eurl EDIT: I guess this forum doesn't do embedding?Homework Equations No idea, but here's a...

I'm interested in determining the trajectory and spin of a ping-pong ball for a project for class. I plan on getting a decent resolution video camera and record the ball (with the camera stationary). Afterward, I'll analyze the video on my computer. My question is: what kind of algorithm can I...

<- Paul Berg's Protein synthesis: an epic at the cellular level Chances are if you took a biology class where you learned about the cell, you saw this video when you went over protein synthesis at the ribosomal level. In the beginning of the video Paul Berg provides a very brief overview of...

Some of you guys have probably seen this before, but I thought this was really interesting: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6626464599825291409

Back from Florida! Keep in mind the launch was much more intense then the video! It was 2:30 am, and it lit up the pitch black skies and then sunk into the clouds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFR_sXs4KjQ".

I have a Sony Ericsson w810i phone. The screen dimensions are 220x176 px. So.. there are two ways i can view a video clip with 16:9 aspect ratio: either vertically: http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7227/cellvideo2og3.jpg videoRes: 176x99 or horizontally...

Hi, I am currently working on an art installation for my degree show that involves projecting a video image onto a two-way mirror so that the viewer on the other side can simultaneously see their reflection and the video image, but am having problems with the technicalities of this. Does...

AMCAP... error message...sorry, you have no video capture hardware?? Hi, Just bought a webcam (pc14-8 led 1.3 megapixel web cam. All I want to do is record some video for youtube but I know little about video capture hardware/software. According to the manual I have the correct system...

Does anyone know of any decent, free video converter, mpg to 3gp/mp4 ?

Hi, I found it is a good video lecture in : http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/CourseHome/ so, as a beginner of linear algebra, It is a good stuff for you! All video can be downloaded to your PC. And Professor Strang is so nice speaking!

Deconstructing an ant colony. The ants moved 40 tons of Earth and dug to 26 feet. http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=4pem1alfgy

The http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/" is an initiative funded by the Government of India. They've put up video lectures from various courses in engineering and science which were taught at the Indian Institute of Science or the various Indian Institute of Technologies on youtube. This is analogous to...