Converting video formats is one of the banes of the digital home. Transcoding video files to .mp4 format (H.264) to work on the unmolested Apple TV for example can be a royal pain. Mac users have long had the solution in VisualHub (although sadly no longer in development). In a recent episode of the Windows Weekly podcast there was a recommendation for “FormatFactory” and after some playing with this free app, it does indeed appear to be the windows tool I’ve been looking for.
“FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below:
- All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
- All to MP3//WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV.
- All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/….
- Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
- MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
- Source files support RMVB.
FormatFactory’s Feature:
- Support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
- Repair damaged video and audio file.
- Reducing Multimedia file size.
- Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
- Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
- DVD Ripper.
- Supports 35 languages”
www.formatoz.com [Now www.pcfreetime.com]
see GeekBrief TV 464 mentioned AH in connection with this ..
It seems something happened to the Format Factory’s website. Was it too good to be true? Did their domain expire? It was up a few days ago but is not today. Do you know what happened? Do you have another video conversion recommendation?
Ed
http://www.formatoz.com is working fine for me.
M.