Xilisoft is a professional software company dedicated to the research, development and producing of digital video and audio solutions. Established in 2004, Xilisoft has focused on delivering high-quality, easy-to-use, innovative and fast time-to-market digital multimedia solutions with a solid reputation. Those products integrate seamlessly with popular portable media players, such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc. With Xilisoft's software products, our customers will enjoy the excellent digital entertainment anytime, anywhere on any devices.

Xilisoft's award-winning product line ranges from the powerful video/audio converter, advanced DVD copy/authoring solution to various media device tools. Xilisoft's flagship products include:

• Xilisoft DVD Ripper, powerful, easy-to-use DVD ripping software, enables you to rip DVD to VCD, SVCD, AVI, MPEG, DivX, WMV, WMA, ASF, etc. easily with multi-options;
• Xilisoft Video Converter, a versatile video converter, converts between all popular video formats including DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and H.264/PSP AVC easily, quickly with high quality;
• Xilisoft iPod Rip, an ideal, up-to-date iPod ripping and management tool, fast and easily rips and copies music, video, movie, photo, podcast and TV program from iPod to PC and vice versa.

Furthermore, Xilisoft has successfully expanded our product portfolio by exploring new consumer-oriented software like personal information management tool, spyware remover, etc. Our products are available worldwide in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian and Chinese, for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Computer's Mac OS X platforms. Xilisoft has also built up an effective marketing network comprising of Xilisoft global websites, local sales agents and resellers.

Developing for years to come, Xilisoft will constantly take more efforts to provide the best, feature rich, yet easy to use software, services and tech support for customers around the globe.

For more information on Xilisoft Corporation, please visit www.xilisoft.com or contact us at marketing@xilisoft.com.

Codec Download

Some necessary codec are requested in the conversion jobs performed by our program. And also, after certain conversion jobs are done, they are required in the playback of final output files. Here we offer 3 important downloading items and some basic information about them.

• DivX Codec downloading:
  http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/
  DivX codec is a brand-name video codec (compression-decompression) technology based on the MPEG-4 standard that compresses video to small size with a high degree of quality. When trying to play video files in DivX codec, you must have this codec installed on your PC so that Windows Media Player can play it.
• XviD Codec downloading:
  http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
  XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec. Originally based on OpenDivX, XviD was started by a group of volunteer programmers after the OpenDivX source was closed. So generally, Xvid would provide a better quality and smaller file size compared with DivX. But it seems that XviD is not used as commonly as DivX.
• Huffyuv Codec downloading:
  http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/download/Huffyuv.html
  A guy named Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote this wonderful little codec which is a lossless compression codec for both YUV and RGB video data. A Video file in such codec will be in a very good quality since it is nearly uncompressed. But its size would be very huge, as well. So it is commonly used in certain video editing program.

Necessary Players and Tools Different video formats may require different playback tools, or you will not be able to play them properly. Secondly, some of them are necessary tools which do the transferring jobs for certain devices, such as iPod and Archos.

• QuickTime Player:
  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/win.html
  It is a playback tool offered by Apple. You'd better play Apple Video and Audio formats, such as MOV, MP4, 3GP and 3G2 with it.
• iTunes:
  http://www.apple.com/itunes/
  It is also a powerful tool offered by Apple. Besides the playback for MOV and MP4, as well as many other functions, it is a necessary tool to transfer video files to iPod. It means you need it to put video files into iPod after the conversion is done.
• RealPlayer:
  http://www.real.com/
  It is a popular player which can support many popular video files. It is a must when watching Real Video files, such as RM, RAM and RA.
• Winamp:
  http://www.winamp.com/player/
  It is an easy-to-use player. It can supports most of popular video formats playback, such as MPEG, WMV and AVI, and audio formats such as MP3, WMA and WAV. It also can detect certain necessary information of the media file during the playback.
• Windows Media Player 10 upgrade:
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx
  If you are using Windows 2000/2003/XP, you'd better upgrade your Windows Media Player to 10.0. Firstly, it is a must for our program to perform WMV encoding. Secondly, it will support much more video formats and codec and will be more stable to play WMV files in higher version. The last but not the least, you need it to transfer/sync video files to Archos.

All staff in Xilisoft Corporation want to thank Ms. Jane who makes a great contribution to the design of Xilisoft Logo and gives useful advice in authoring Xilisoft web page; Sharewareguide.net who authorized Xilisoft Corporation the right to use PSP Video Manager; Gerald Harshany who has composed the Help document for Xilisoft DVD Ripper; Rg12 Toutfr who rendered Xilisoft 3GP Video Converter into French, and David Brana who compiled the French version for Xilisoft Video Converter.