The first thing I wanted to do when I bought my iPhone was to put my videos on it. The video format that is accepted by iPhone is mp4. There must be countless tools available for windows to do the conversion but I wanted the ability to do it using my current linux setup i.e. using Ubuntu. As usual I started searching a tool that is simple and just does the work. I searched a lot on the Internet but was not happy with the solution for one or the other reason.

Rashmi is a big fan of Hindi movies and this keeps our collection of Hindi movies growing every day. Songs are one of the best features of the hindi movies and Pankhuri is one of the biggest fans of the video songs. I realised that many times I had to keep the whole DVD on my disk just for the sake of one song. Further, I wanted to extract the songs from the DVD and make a video album along with the playlist. This would make every ones life easier.

I shoot my home video with a Sony DCR-PC110 Mini DV Camcorder. This article summarises the steps I perform to capture the video from the Mini DV tape to mpeg file. Please note that I do it on a linux box (running Ubuntu to be precise) and may not be the best way of digitising a home video.

JAlbum is the piece of software, I use to build my photo album and video album. I feel, it is a easy way of building the digital album for web publishing and will stick to it till I find something better. To build an album using JAlbum, what I need to do is to put all my photos under a directory and organise them under various subdirectories.