Video Conversion Software

[FN-GM]

Hi,

 

I have a collection of videos here i think they are in .AVI format. I need them to be in .mp4 to go onto iPods. Normally for this job i would use Handbrake. But the problem is i have 50ish files. If i use handbrake i have to select each file individually. To be honest i cant be bothered doing it 50 times. There might be even more to come.

 

Does anyone know of some software that will convert all video files in a root of a folder? Its so it saves me selecting one file, waiting then selecting the next.

 

Does that make sense?

 

Thanks

[Devontechie]

Try Avi To Mp4 Converter You can add more than 1 video with this.

 

Steve

[computer_expert]

Super?

 

Set the correct conversion settings, highlight all source files & drag all videos into the 'drop a valid multimedia file here' box and click encode (active files)

Edited October 4, 2010 by computer_expert

[jsnetman]

You can do multiple files with media coder, we have this deployed in our school environment, it's free and no nag software attached.

[SYNACK]

You can do multiple files with media coder, we have this deployed in our school environment, it's free and no nag software attached.

 

Eeek, after investigating it looks like you want to be sure to use the old version given the SF comments:

 

By the developers own admission this is now CLOSED source and therefore should not receive privileges from sourceforge. Worse it now contains both malware (adware) in its extensions and bundles with Open Candy to trick users into installing toolbars during application install it is nefarious and ought be boycotted until it returns to OpenSource thereby not being in GPL violation

[round2it]

try this it is nice and free

 

Free Video Converter - Any Video Converter Free Version - convert video to any formats, avi to MPEG, avi to MP4, flv to MPG

 

it lets you convert to loads of formats and has a nice youtube download feature.

 

watch on the install for toolbars etc but the software seems pretty solid and quick

[FN-GM]

Thanks for your guys input. I will try them soon

[Sylv3r]

Slightly hijacking this thread but does anybody use any converting software for all users? I'd love to put the onus on the end user to convert their own files when created.

[bossman]

@Sylv3r:

 

You may be able to role this out as its free:

 

Free Video Converter - Any Video Converter Free Version - convert video to any formats, avi to MPEG, avi to MP4, flv to MPG

 

Let me know what you think

[FN-GM]

Slightly hijacking this thread but does anybody use any converting software for all users? I'd love to put the onus on the end user to convert their own files when created.

 

This is a good one to use. HandBrake

[jsnetman]

Slightly hijacking this thread but does anybody use any converting software for all users

 

Yes we use media coder, runs from a share off a server no need to deploy to stations, but as pointed out the latest version may have some nasties bundled with it. I installed media coder about 2 years ago and it was a going project on sourceforge. But if there is no support or they are not developing now you might want to try the alternatives mentioned here.

[Admiral208]

Another vote for Any video Convertor!! Its really easy to use and it will output to most formats

[Sirbendy]

Pazera. He does lots of freeware ones from one format to another. I use it a lot.

[SpuffMonkey]

Super and Format Factory - we make FF available to users

[plexer]

Latest version of Handbrake doesn't support AVI anymore.

 

Ben

[sjatkn]

In answer to the two questions here, I use WinFF (WinFF - Free Video Converter), you just queue up all the files you want to convert and let it get on with it. For all users there is a portable version which runs from our shared applications drive.

[fawkers]

you could try a little scripting (powershell)

 

$path = "M:\Source\"
$List = Get-ChildItem -path $path -Name
foreach($item in $list)
{
   $input = $path+$item
   $output = $path+$item+"output"
   .\HandBrakeCLI -i $input -o $output --preset="Universal"
}

 

This needs to be run the the DIR of the Handbrakecli.exe file

Edited October 7, 2010 by fawkers

[sturgeo]

We use Any Video Converter on a few machines here but arent having much luck packaging it up for distribution on a RM CC3 Network, has anyone got it to work?