M4V to Flash

Over the releases of new versions of Flash, Macromedia has made Flash more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store. Macromedia argues that Flash is the way to go instead of HTML because of the following reasons:

1:Flash movies load faster and save on download time because Flash is vector based whereas HTML is not.
2:Flash intelligently ‘caches’ it’s movies so they don’t have to be reloaded.
3:Flash gives the user (the person viewing/using the Flash movie) a more responsive ‘rich-client’ like experience.
4:Convert M4V to Flash with M4V to Flash and M4V to Flash for Mac


M4V is a file container format used by Apple’s iTunes application. With Flash, users can draw their own animations or import other vector-based images.

M4V is a file extension for a container file defined in the systems part of the MPEG-4 standard (ISO 14496-1), as downloaded by iTunes.  An M4V file can be renamed to the more common extension of MP4 to be played on other media players if not protected content.

H.264 offers significantly greater compression than its predecessors, up to twice the compression of the current MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile), in addition to improvements in perceptual quality. The H.264 standard can provide DVD-quality video at less than 1 Mbps, and is considered promising for full-motion video over wireless, satellite, and ADSL Internet connections.

An MP4  file can contain an audio and a video stream in any number of codecs but most commonly uses H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding). MP4 also supports multiple audio streams and video streams, subtitle streams, 2-D, 3-D graphics and advanced interactive content.

MOV and MP3 formats

MOV
MOV video file is common multimedia format often used for saving movies and other video files, uses a proprietary compression algorithm developed by Apple Computer, compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

MOV files format is the common multimedia format that often used for saving movies and other video files; uses a proprietary compression algorithm developed by Apple Computer; compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (e.g. for subtitles).

Each track either contains a digitally-encoded media stream (using a specific format) or a data reference to the media stream located in another file. Tracks are maintained in a hierarchical data structure consisting of objects called atoms. An atom can be a parent to other atoms or it can contain media or edit data, but it cannot do both.

Because both the MOV and MP4 container formats can use the same MPEG-4 formats, they are mostly interchangeable in a QuickTime-only environment.


So many people ask how to convert MOV to MP3 Mac, I just do it with audio converter for mac and now, I want to share more about MOV and MP3.


MP3
MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of its MPEG-1 standard and later extended in MPEG-2 standard.

MP3 files are similar to WAV files but are compressed to 1/10th the size yet maintain high sound quality. A typical 3 minute song file is about 3.5MB, can be downloaded in less than 10 minutes over a 56K modem connection. Even if you don't understand what a Megabyte is, understand that 1/10th the size:

The fact is, if you want to play mov video on mp3 player, you will need to convert mov to mp3, then import the extracted mp3 audio from mov files to mp3 player. Both are the most popular formats, one is for audio, another is for video.