Sunday, September 14, 2008

FormatFactory: A multifunctional media converter

These days the internet has transformed itself into a large source of media content (apart from other things), be it video, audio or images. However with so many media formats, it often becomes necessary to be able to convert from one type to the other. FormatFactory is one such tool that can assist you in [...]

These days the internet has transformed itself into a large source of media content (apart from other things), be it video, audio or images. However with so many media formats, it often becomes necessary to be able to convert from one type to the other.

FormatFactory is one such tool that can assist you in most of your media conversion needs.

FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter that supports:

  • Video Conversion:
    • From all formats to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
  • Audio Conversion:
    • From all formats to MP3/WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV.
  • Image Conversion:
    • From all to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/PCX/TGA

Using FormatFactory you can not only convert between all the various formats but you can also perform certain other functions like reducing multimedia file sizes. This can be done by shortening the video/audio (by changing the duration) or by changing the quality with which you want to encode/convert.

You can also attempt to repair damaged audio and video files that just won’t play in your players.

FormatFactory has a special section for converting media files specially for your portable players. FormatFactory allows you to convert your media files to formats supported by your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and 3GP for supported devices

Last but not least you can use it to rip CD/DVDs to video files or convert them to ISO images.

Usage:

  1. Download and complete the simple installation.
  2. Choose the category and file format you want to convert to from the side bar.
  3. Add in the desired files. Optionally you can change the output settings (click on output settings).

  4. Once you have them all queued up hit the start button.
  5. You can also play with the options that allow you to tweak the overall settings and output folder for all your conversions

Let us know what you think of FormatFactory in the comments. Do you have another preferred program for your media file conversion needs?

(By) Varun Kashyap - Programmer, Blogger and Tech enthusiast, who blogs about tips, tricks, tutorials, latest on the web on his TechCrazy Blog

Tags:audio, conversion, iphone, media, Mobile Apps, video

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