Digital media downloads

Looking for an easy-to-use audio/video converter? Check out PC User RockPod 2. For the first time ever, our popular media converter is yours to download for free – for a limited time. RockPod 2 isn’t the latest version, but it still offers plenty of must-have features, including:

PDF and ebook .epub files are popular ways to access information. However, managing these files can be an issue and it’s one that Adobe Digital Editions can help you solve. It's a free application that can be downloaded from www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions. When you install it, you’ll be prompted to enter your Adobe ID. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for one or skip it at this stage. The program needs access to your internet connection to install correctly, so make sure your firewall gives it access.

For the most part, video conversion is a pretty easy process: one file format goes in and another file format comes out. However, every now and then, more often in creating rather than converting, a media file just doesn’t work. It happens in converting with most formats if you try to stop the conversion before it’s finished.

I received a reader email recently asking for a solution to this problem: how do I play any media file without worrying about codecs? Media codecs are something the online world has been struggling with as recently as January when Google announced that it was removing H.264 support from its upcoming Chrome OS. H.264 is about as popular as a codec gets, but for reasons best known to Google, it’s decided to remove it, most likely in favour of its own WebM format. And that’s the problem — every company seemingly has its own codec to push or vague patent issues cloud the use of others.