Yes, these videos are in-depth and full of details. The essentials were back there, you must've passed them, or you are looking for something we didn't cover. You ought to find it here. Some of these use older versions of ErgVideo to demo the features, but you'll get the idea, for sure.
On Feb 13, 2025, our streaming service partner made a change that breaks ErgVideo streaming playback in the desktop application. It came as an unannounced surprise.
The ErgVideo application has been out of development for several years and supported only for current subscribers. Costs to update and further maintain the application and web services infrastructure now exceed revenues.
As such, we have:
Refunded any subscription that was affected by an outage Feb 13. That is, any subscription that renewed after Jan 13, 2025.
Terminated all recurring monthly subscriptions as of today, Feb 17, 2025. You will see no new charges.
Further, on May 31, 2025, we will:
Remove all web services and the website. This means that the free ErgVideo desktop software will stop working on that date.
Be assured that these are not temporary measures while the outage exists. We are no longer investigating a fix. It is truly the end of the ErgVideo application, web services, and support.
If you purchased a legacy video license (DVD or one-time download), you will still be able to playback videos in any desktop player like Windows "Films and TV" app, or "Windows Media Player"**. What won't work (after May 31) is the desktop software ("ErgVideo 6.009") that controlled your trainer with its own synchronized video player. Since our first release in 2007, we've always provided, maintained, and supported the desktop software for free.
Thank you for your business and understanding,
Paul Smeulders
ErgVideo Inc.
** If you did a standard install, the video files are in .wmv format and located in subfolders of C:\Users\Public\Videos\ErgVideo. Each subfolder is named by the title of the video.
Yes you can use ErgVideo software to do for FREE what you pay other companies a subscription fee to do!
WHA-WHAT?
Indeed. You can ride ergometer Power vs Time files in the .fit, .erg, and .mrc formats with ErgVideo, without purchasing anything, no subscription fee. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Here's a video we produced for our new free-mode users that summarizes a ton of things in all the other videos, all in one package. It's long, so if you are looking for a specific topic, have a look around.
This section covers how to select rides in ErgVideo. You have plenty of choice, including by using any of several training plans. We thought that topic deserved its own page, so read about training plans here.
We presented some "feature quickies" on the essentials page. These videos go into more detail for those features. Some are the same as on the essentials page, but repeated here because here is where you may be looking for the topic! (and we'll note here that Strava has finally permitted picture posting from a browser, and we'll be looking into getting them auto-posted through ErgVideo sometime soon).
Okay, the very deep details on connecting your hardware and any of a buh-zillion combinations and permutations. The first is the full-on general view of how the whole thing works for any combination of a multi rider facility, and the second talks about the simpler single-rider optimized and simpler case. You may fall somewhere in-between, so you may want to look at the specific use-cases for which we've recorded a separate videos.