5 Best Free Video Converter Software
1, Avidemux
Avidemux is a free, open source, cross-platform, slim and easy using video editor that provides users the ability to cut, join, transform videos easily. You can use it to split, merge the videos you specified, then play the output video on your favorite devices like Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Optical Disc( DVD, VCD, Super Video CD ), Sony PlayStation Portable.
Suppose that you want to cut a video file, just open the file with Avidemux, drag the slider thumb to a position and hit the “A” button to define the start position, then drag the slider thumb to another position and press the “B” button to define the end position, then click the “Save video” button on the toolbar to let Avidemux clip the video for you.
Features
- Easy to install and use.
- The supported input media formats include: Flash video, AVI, MPEG, ASF, MPEG4, 3GP, MP4, QuickTime files, OGM, Matroska, H.263(+) video stream, Nuppel Video, OpenDML, etc.
- The supported output formats include: avi, m1v, m2v, mpg, mpeg, ts, ogm, mp4, mkv, flv, etc.
- Support batch processing.
- Support processing video files using your own filter.
- Using SIMD for hardware acceleration( MMX, MMXEXT, 3DNOW, 3DNOWEXT, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 ).
- Allow to customize the frame rate( PAL, FILM, NTSC, User defined value ).
- Postprocessing: Horizontal/Vertical deblocking, Deringing, Swap U and V.
- Multiple video filters available:
- Transform( Add black borders, Resize, Crop, Fade in/out, Resample FPS, Reverse, Rotate, Vertical flip, etc. ).
- Interlacing( Donald Graft Bob, Decomb Decimate, Deinterlace, Drop, Keep even filed, KernelDeint, Merge fields, PAL field shift, Pulldown, PAL smart, Stack fields, Swap fields, TDeint, etc. )
- Colors( Blend Removal, Chroma shift, Adjust contrast/brightness/colors, Color curve editor, Luma equalizer, etc. )
- Noise( FluxSmooth, Median(5×5), Light denoiser, Temporal cleaner, etc. )
- Sharpness( Gauss smooth, Soften, Sharpen, etc. )
- Subtitles( DVB sub, ASS/SSA subtitle, VobSub, etc. )
- Miscellaneous( Whirl, Add frame number, etc. )
- Multiple audio filters available:
- Resampling.
- Frame rate change.
- Gain.
- Mixer.
- …
- Video frames can be splitted in 3 types: Intra frame, Predicted frame, B-Fram.
- Supports manipulating video files using script.
- Portable version available.
- Command line available.
- And many more…
Avidemux works on Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux.
Avidemux is a 10.5MB download available from SourceForge.net and CNET.com( Windows version ).
2, Hamster
The video convertion field is a crowded one, there are both online and offline video converters, Hamster Free Video Converter is one of the most easy to use one, it does the job fast and supports a wide range of media formats.
To convert a video, just drag the source file into the manager list, you could add multiple files, remove files by clicking the cross button. After you have added them, click the edit tab at the top, and specify the format and device of destination video file, you can customize the Video codec/quality, resize the video, etc. Finally click the convert tab at the top and press the “Press to convert” button.
Features:
- It's totally free and has no ads.
- Custom interface colors.
- Preview the video selected.
- Supports Drag and Drop.
- Converts to 3GP, MP3, MP4, AVI, MPG, WMV, MPEG, FLV, HD, DVD, M2TS and others! Integrated video player!
- Converts any video to iPod, iPad, iPhone, PS3, PSP, Blackberry, xBox, Zune, Apple TV, iRiver, etc.
- Changes codec/System type/De-interlaces your video file.
- Converts many video files in batches.
- Adjusts audio video bitrate, frame rate.
- Supports Windows XP(x86 and x64)/Windows 7(x86 and x64)/Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/Vista(x86 and x64).
- Supports 40 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc.
Download Hamster Free Video Converter from CNET or the author's website.
3, iWisoft Free Video Converter
iWisoft Free Video Converter is a free program that offers users the ability to convert videos between most mainstream formats, besides that it can also cut, merge, crop the video or audio file.
There are lots of video converters and video editors on the web, however most of them are commercial software or function limited freeware, iWisoft Free Video Converter is a totally free one among them, it's easy to use, powerful, completely customizable, there are no any limitations, it's really a hidden gem, you might not believe that it's free!
Features
- Easy to install and operate.
- The supported input media formats include: 3gp, 3g2, asf, avi, dat, dv, dif, vob, flv, mp4, m4v, mkv, dvs-ms, mjpg, mjpeg, mpg, mpeg, ts, mov, qt, nut, h261, h264, rm, rmvb, xwmv, yuv, wmv, mpv, nsv, mod, m2ts, mts, aac, aif, aiff, cda, ac3, ape, au, cue, flac, m4a, mpa, mp2, mp3, ogg, ra, ram, wav, wma, etc.
- The supported output media formats include: avi, mp4, 3gp, vob, wmv, mov, mpg, mpeg, rmvb, flv, mp3, wav, ogg, flac, ape, m4a, amr, etc.
- Support high-definition video conversion.
- Support batch conversion.
- Support drag and drop.
- Allow to add watermark to the final video, you can specify the transparency, horizontal space and vertical space of the text or logo.
- Allow to trim/cut the selected part of the video or audio.
- Allow to modify the gamma, contrast, brightness, saturation of the output movie.
- Allow to crop the video to your specified area.
- Allow to merge multiple videos into a single one.
- Highly customizable: you can tweak the codec, size, frame rate, bitrate, ratio of the output video and the codec, bitrate, channel, sample frequence, volume of the audio track.
- Dozens of predefined profiles for your devices: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Mobile Phone( BlackBerry, Gphone, Palm Pre ), Windows Mobile, Xbox, Portable Multimedia Devices( Walkman, Zune, Archos, Creative Zen, iRiver, Wii and NDS, HD Video, DVD, etc.
iWisoft Free Video Converter works on most major Windows platforms like Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc.
iWisoft Free Video Converter is a 8.74MB download available from CNET and the developer's website.
4, XviD4PSP
XviD4PSP is a free and open source video conversion application, it’s specially designed to convert videos to iPhone, BlackBerry, iPod, DVD, Computer, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360 compatible formats.
Features
- The supported source media formats include: AVI, 3GP, MPEG, FLV, WMV, ASF, MOV, DIVX, MPG, MPE, M2V, VOB, MKV, OGM, DVR-MS, RM, RAM, TS, M2P, D2V, QT, HDMOV, SMIL, RMVB, RPX, SMI, PMP.
- The supported target media formats include: MP4, AVI, FLV, AC3, AAC, WMA, WMV, ASF, DV, MKV, MP2, MP3, M4A, MPEGPS, MPEGTS, OGG, WAV, MP4 iPhone, MP4 PSP ASP, MP4 iPod, MP4 iPod Touch, MP4 iPod 640, MP4 PS3, MP4 Xbox 360, MP4 PSP AVC, AVI DV PAL, AVI Hardware, AVI DV NTSC, MPEG-2 PAL, MPEG2-PS, MKV, MPEG-2 NTSC, MPEG2-TS, PMP AVC.
- Multiple video codes available: COPY, ASV1, ASV2, DVVIDEO, FFV1, FFVHUFF, FLASHSV, FLV1, H261, H263, H263P, JPEGLS, LJPEG, MJPEG, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MSMPEG4V1, MSMPEG4V2, MSMPEG4V3, PNG, RAWVIDEO, SVQ1, WMV1, WMV2, DIRAC, THEORA, H264, XVID.
- Mutiple audio codecs available: COPY, AAC, AC3, FLAC, MP2, SONIC, SONIC_LS, VORBIS, WMAV1, WMAV2, PCM_ALAW, PCM_MULAW, PCM_16, PCM_24, PCM_32, PCM_U8, MP3, AAC, VORBIS, etc.
- Customizable motion estimation methord, maximum ME search range, Subpixel ME quality, Direct Prediction mode, encoding mode, bitrate, optimization level, B-frame bias, adaptive B-frame decision, … for the output video.
- Customizable encoding mode, bitrate, optimization level for the output audio track.
- Multiple resolutions available: 1920×1080, 1280×720, 640×480, 480×320, 320×240, etc.
- Multiple interpolation types for the output video: LANCZOS, SPLINE, FAST_BILINEAR, BILINEAR, BICUBIC, X, POINT, AREA, BICUBLIN, GAUSS, SINC.
- Use Aero theme.
- Supported stream formats: Progressive, TFF, BFF, FILM.
- Video aspect ratio: 16:9, 4:3, 1.850, 2.353.
- View the detail information of selected video file: format name, duration, stream count, major brand, minor version, compatible brands, codec tag, bitrate, resolution, interlace, aspect, pixel format, frame rate, channels, sample rate, etc.
- Plus many more.
XviD4PSP is compatible with most major Windows OSes like Windows 7, Windows XP, etc.
XviD4PSP is a free download available from http://code.Google.com and Softpedia.
5, FormatFactory
We often have the need for making a video clip playable and adjusting the size of video to make it suitable on iPhone / PSP / BlackBerry / iPod / Android, if you do not want to fork out cash to buy a commercial video converter software, then you should not miss FormatFactory, which is an all-in-one, super easy to use, powerful and multifunctional video converter / audio converter / image converter.
FormatFactory has an outlook style navigation pane, and supports drag-and-drop, this makes it very simple to use. You maybe need to install k-Lite or other codec package to convert to RMVB format if you encountered an error message.
Features:
- Support converting all popular video formats to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
- Support converting all popular audio formats to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
- Support converting all popular image formats to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
- Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
- MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
- Supports RMVB,Watermark, AV Mux.
- 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 56 languages.
FormatFactory supports Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows NT/ 2000/2003/Vista.
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