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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Free MP4 Downloads - It's Easy!

By Dana Goldberg

With this short guide to free mp4 downloads, you will find that the many benefits of the mp4 format will allow you to store compressed video media just as the mp3 format allows storing compressed music and audio media. The format has become a big hit with users of portable media players by allowing them to store a huge number of video files on their portable players which occupies much less space than when compared to traditional formats such as AVI or MPEG.

You can entertain yourself during long journeys if you have a portable media player that can play video files by downloading a few favorite movies in mp4 format and saving them on your player. The number of movies that you are allowed to store would depend on the memory capacity of your player. In order to do this however, you need to download the media first. Finding the right sources to download is therefore the first step.

Mp4 format files, both audio and video can be downloaded for free from hundreds of sites on the internet and stored onto your computer. You can then transfer these files onto the memory on your portable media player. Most of these sites lets you search for the content in their data base or provides download links to the media that is hosted on an online file sharing website such as rapidshare or megaupload.

The only problem is that most often than not the files you download from the database on these websites could be infected by viruses, spyware or Trojans that could harm both your computer as well as you IPod or PSP. On the other hand if the file is downloaded from the above mentioned popular online file hosting websites, then the possibility of them being infected is much less.

Another method is to register with one of the premium mp4 content providing websites that can be found online for either a monthly fees or a onetime registration fee. These sites let you download media that is of a superior quality and is also virus and Trojan free at the same time.

If you are looking to freeload and do not want to spend money on buying media for your portable player, then it would be a good idea to explore the possibilities offered by file sharing and peer to peer networks. You can download mp4 files form networks such as kazaa or limewire if you have a client installed on your computer. Here again, there is a possibility of virus or Trojan infection.

Using torrent clients such as bit torrent, u-torrent, azureus etc is another option. Always use trusted websites like mininova or pirate bay to download the torrent file from. The quality and safety of the files need to be ascertained by reading user comments by other downloads before you proceed to download it yourself.

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