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FormatFactory Kicks Media Conversion Ass and Takes Names
What could be better than a program that will convert audio, video, and image files from and to just about any format you can think of? How about one that does it all batch-style with minimal clicking? FormatFactory doesn't care what files you want to swap in what order, just feed it your sources and watch it go to work. Unlike a lot of similar apps, this one doesn't limit you to only video or audio, or even to one file at a time.
Dump in as much as you want of whatever you want, and FormatFactory will do all the heavy lifting. It even supports the iPhone and PSP, and 3GP as well - making it a great way to cram multiformat goodness onto your favorite portable player.
Conversion speed is decent, and the overall quality is damn good. JPEG to ICO conversion was a real surprise, and worked much better than anticipated (it's pretty freaking hard to get a 24 bit image to look good at 16x16 pixels, but FormatFactory did one hell of a job). You can even tag, rotate, and resize your images on the fly.
Yes, the interface is a quarter past ugly, but who the hell watches a batch conversion app while it works anyways?
[ via FreewareFiles ]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsBoxOfSnooJul 6th 2008 12:32PM
Very good! I usually fall back on Super (C) but this one is close, and much more friendly. It does MPEG2 (most don't) and you can customize some of the AVI parameters in the output settings window.
DVD to video actually seems to work, though no chapter selection.
Conversion is quite quick, too! 31min, 1 GB MPEG2 on a Dual Core 1.8GHz/2GB RAM took about 25 minutes to convert to DivX, on very good quality... the conversion was set to low priority too.
baz.karimJul 6th 2008 1:45PM
I'm trying to download it but it seems the link is broken. Am I the only one who gets the 404 page?
baz.karimJul 6th 2008 1:38PM
Nevermind - I didn't see the link that someone put up there. I'll repaste it here in case there are others like me who missed it
http://tinyurl.com/58oxef
@harmx - thanks for posting the link.
Lee MathewsJul 6th 2008 1:48PM
DDL: http://www.wznfo.com/Multimedia/11823_download.htm
thomasJul 6th 2008 3:47PM
Whoops, looks like it doesn't support file conversion from TiVo...
RileyJul 6th 2008 5:18PM
It doesn't work with Wine :(
edwardJul 6th 2008 7:29PM
Aww man no X64 support! Can't Vista and XP X64 Run X86 programs???
cub3Jul 7th 2008 1:55PM
This is why i still have not bothered to install x64 Vista. Many of the cool softwares are always written in x32 still. Even though the processors are on x64 we are not, come on people are still complaining about vista and dont want to move on from XP