good free video file convertor

[laserlover]

does anyone know of one that can convert .mov movie files into videos files usable by windows movie maker (must work on windows vista)

thanks

 

[Things]

Have you tried SUPER ?

It converts almost everything to almost everything. Not sure if it works on vista, but its worth a try

 

[pseudolobster]

I use VLC... it's a media player that has transcoding options... just open your file using the "advanced file open" dialog box and select the "stream/save" button and choose your formats etc. It basically acts as a frontend to the ffmpeg codec suite, which if you have patience, you can also use.. It's just quite a bit more complicated as it has no gui frontend, it's just a command line thing.

Anyways you can download VLC from http://videolan.org... even if you don't use it as a transcoder, it's an amazing player.. Plays just about every single file out there, straight out of the box, no need to download codecs or anything, it's all built in.

 

[laserlover]

that link isn't working for me :-?

 

[pseudolobster]

that link isn't working for me   :-?

oh, it's because I used ellipses ("...") after the link and the board software isn't smart enough to strip them off...

http://videolan.org should work.

 

[laserlover]

downloading now!

 

[pseudolobster]

Just fiddled around with the newest version and realized they changed where the transcoding options are hidden...

It's still the "Advanced Open File" box, only there's this little down arrow by the play button that drops down a menu, select "Convert" from the menu.

 

[laserlover]

k i will try that

 

[nikokapo]

www.zamzar.com

 

[Xplorer877]

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

 

[randomlugia]

I like Prism Video Convertor. You can get it from Download.com, and you can also choose to download the flash audio convertor with it (Which is also really good, and it can convert itunes songs to normal formats.).

 

[k-shell]

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

I must admit, This application is very complicated and has a lot of options! its very nice but im having trouble with selecting a working audio encoder. i can convert a video but i don't get any sound.