This is a fairly common problem especially among the growing number of us with video enabled cell phones. You grab your phone to take some video footage and turn it to the side to get a "landscape view." Not much of an issue if you are just going to watch it on your phone, but if you want to transfer it to your computer to watch or burn to DVD, the video is rotated 90 degrees. Needless to say, this can make watching it comfortably an issue.
Well, here's a couple of fairly simple solutions. One is VLC Media Player. The other is Windows Movie Maker. (Now, know as Windows Live Movie Maker). These are two free applications that allow you to rotate the video for playback or converting and burning to DVD respectively.
For all the juicy, 90 degree details, check out my article on rotating video 90 degrees (or more) at How-To Geek.
DVDFab's HD Decrypter is one of my most essential video conversion tools. Although, it can be rather confusing to understand just what HD Decrypter is when compared to DVDFab. So, I thought I'd take the time to walk through it and explain just what it is and what it does. 
Don't let the videophiles fool you. DivX and XviD are not dead yet. Most of that propaganda tends comes from the folks who feel like if they accidentally look at video that isn't in 1080 HD that they have somehow soiled their eyes. Don't get me wrong. I don't begrudge those that want the best quality they can get. And sure, there is better quality video out there, but that doesn't mean that AVI/DivX doesn't have it's place. Anyway, down off my soapbox...
Are you looking to create your own short film but need to remove the audio from some video clips? 
