Best Video Converter

Which of the great variety of utilities can claim the title of the best video converter? Determining the best program is probably not easier than determining the "best man". Each of us has its own pluses and minuses, so are the programs. So the title "best video converter" in some cases can be delegated to the work of one company, and in other situations completely different.

The thing is that there are a lot of video and audio formats , and not every specialist in this field can boast of knowing what are the differences of each of them from others. Or than a new converter from avi to 3gp is better than a dozen already existing ones.

In addition, corporations are very fond of releasing "their" versions of existing formats. Just to then get a solid deduction from those wishing to use this format in their work. And to firms like Apple, new formats are needed in order to incorporate them into their devices and products. In such an elegant way, two questions are solved at once: the new format brings in revenue, and the company gets rid of the need to license other formats for its products. For example, you can not play DVD-encoded movies on iPod or iPhone, in order to view them, you will have to convert the source file to the MP4 supported by these gadgets.

All this leapfrog generates, naturally, a bunch of programs for transferring multimedia from one format to another. With the subsequent attempts of poor, confused users to determine the best video converter (that is, correctly working) from all available utilities on the market (and at best half performing their functions) with the name ending in the word "converter".

Converters are divided into two large subspecies, the first paid, the second free and hacked. Most people in the CIS, when there are needs for video recoding, choose paid, but hacked versions of known programs. Absolutely not taking into account, that the hacked software often conceals in itself the big danger not only for solid firms, but also for the home user. The reasons for this phenomenon are beyond the scope of this article. In short: pay for the program is expensive, messing around with free ones, which are very bad with the interface and little supported formats out of the box is not hunting. I want the best video converter and preferably "on the ball."

This approach, as practice shows, is not justified. There are free programs that can quite qualify for such a characteristic as "the best video / audio converter"

For example - the application "MediaCoder", the capabilities of this encoder just surprise. It perfectly copes with the most complex types of encoding, and the options in the extended mode of tuning many times override all the usual needs of the potential consumer. You will be able to set the start and stop time of the encoding, select very rare codecs and their combinations, crop the video and map the channels. In a word, with MediaCoder, even the most difficult work seems to be a common thing. He can re-encode almost any format, not only the most common, with both in both directions, so for this program, converting mkv to avi will not be a problem. Although, usually, everything is encoded just in the opposite direction.

But there are disadvantages to this utility. So, for example, there are situations when an inexperienced user install mutually exclusive settings, as a result, instead of a working file, nonsense may turn out. Also, there are certain stability issues, sometimes the program hangs or issues errors. Some users complain that finding settings is difficult because they are not located where it would be logical to arrange them.

But all these defects are quickly eliminated by the development team when new versions are released, so I think that soon MediaCoder will become an excellent product and it can be recommended even by the most fastidious encoders of video files.