Recently my father met a big trouble. He has a bunch of AVI files off a miniDV cassette. When he played the DV footage with Popcorn Hour C-200, it seemed that Popcorn Hour C-200 can not work the DV format. Since the DV files have special commemorative significance, I decide to help my father solve it. So I tried all the possible ways to hunt an easy-solution to play DV with Popcorn Hour C-200. Hard work pays off. I found a good method to realize it, which is to convert DV files to Popcorn Hour C-200 workable formats through a reliable DV converter.
First, let’s view Popcorn Hour C-200.
Popcorn Hour C-200 is the most powerful and versatile member of the Networked Media Tank family. With Popcorn Hour you can stream or playback digital media content from a variety of sources, such as your PC, network-attached storage, digital camera or USB storage (Flash drive, HDD, DVD drive). Now it expands the ability to add a Blu-ray drive to turn your Popcorn Hour C-200 into a full-featured Blu-ray player. However, Popcorn Hour C-200 has its own limitations. It can directly play finished movies but raw footage like DV format. Therefore, it is necessary to convert DV to other supported format. Here I recommend you converting or encoding your DV files to C-200 at a high bitrate in MPEG-2 or AVC HD/H.264 which will convert your DV with excellent output quality but not lossless.
"Then, I will share with you the steps of converting DV to H.264 video (mp4) or MPEG-2 video (.mpg) via a good video converter or a good Mac video converter."
Preparation: Free download this video converter or Mac video converter here, install and run it.
Step 1: Click the "Add" button to add DV files into this DV converter program
Step 2: Select output format from the drop-down list "Format" as well as set location from the "Output". If not, the output files will be saved in the default path by automatically.
Here I just choose H.264 mp4 for an example.
If you want to combine or join several DV files into a big one, just tick the "Merge into one file" box to achieve it.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click the "Settings" button, a profile window will pop up. From the profile, you can easily and freely adjust audio and video parameters like bit rate, frame rate, codec, size, resolution, etc.
Remember the bigger bit rate, the bigger file size.
Step 4: Convert
Once all the settings are done, you can click the "Convert" button to start DV conversion. And all the conversion will be done in a little time for this video converter’s multi-encoding technology.
When you get the converted files from the destination folder, you can play then with your Popcorn Hour C-200 with ease. Or you can play your DV on other media players or portable devices by converting DV to those workable formats of your players with this reliable video converter.