: Canopus facilitates video conversion for PSP, iPOD, ...

Canopus is the leading company in Japan when it comes to amateur or semi-pro video editing. With the arrival of the PSP, the iPOD Video and the W-ZERO3, the PDA running on WM5, and other products that offer video playback on the go, Canopus tries to make the life of the users easier and they offer software that converts videos in a number of formats that are compatible with your portable device(s). This is not their first product of this kind, but here are the latest ones from Canopus:

MPEGCraft 3 DVD, a PCIe Mpeg2 video capture card that is designed to capture video in real time in DVD quality but also in HD (1080i/720p) and then transform this into DVD quality (not HD) or in 720x480. It can also produce videos that are PSP, PDA or iPOD Video compatible.



For those who want to keep it a bit more modest, Canopus offers softwares called Nandemo Taro and Nandemo Taro Zaurus that are video conversion softwares for the PSP, iPOD and PDA, but also for the Manga video (DA). It supports the traditional formats like MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, WMV or DV(AVI), but a special effort has been made for the Manga (DA). This software can also manage HD video as an input, but it does not offer it as an output (I don't really think the PSP will manage 1080i vids).



Finally for the Zaurus only, we have a software called Kantan Taro.