We will be confused as there are so many video formats with so many file container formats. It's a fact that different hardware support different video formats. WMV, for instance, is available to RIM's PlayBook, but the iOS tablet, iPad 2 can't playback it directly with the build-in player. Luckily, video converter tools make things simpler to handle. Suppose we want to playback a WMV video in iPad 2, then we will have to convert it to iPad 2 supported vdieo formats first like H.264, while a cross-platform multimedia player need time to upgrade in order to be installed on your new device. Same thing is applied in case of iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Xoom, etc. So, there must be a good software which is able to convert a video into various desired formats. Here is a list of five best Windows applications able to convert videos among all common video formats.
1. Format Factory (free)
It is an ad-supported freeware multimedia converter that can convert video, audio, and picture files. It is also capable of ripping DVDs and CDs to other file formats, merging video files, as well as creating .iso images.
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2. Aneesoft Free video converter (free)
Aneesoft is a popular digital multimedia software company makes powerful Windows media related applications. Aneesoft free Video Converter is fast and effective video converter and gives a lot of options for conversion and combining videos. It can convert videos to almost all formats such as MPG, AVI, MP4, ASF, FLV, MPEG1, MPEG2, RM, etc.
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3. Hamster Free Video Converter (free)
Hamster free video converter is able to convert many video files to AVI, MPEG, WMV, FLV, MP3, 3GP. To save time, you can convert many video files in batches. It’s easy to use. It does not require special knowledge. There is Wizard for beginners.
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4. Handbrake (free)
Handbrake is a well known open-source DVD ripping and free video transcoding application. It’s designed to convert MPEG video into an MPEG-4 video file in .mp4 or .mkv file format. Although HandBrake's traditional form of input is DVDs, you can use HandBrake to convert any kind of video file it recognizes, not just DVDs.
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5. Total Video Converter (trial)
Total Video Converter can convert videos to many formats such as mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi etc. This application is specially built to make videos for mobile devices and it converts video optimized for mobile phones. It can also read gaming video formats such as PlayStation videos.
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