Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Super Duper Video Converter
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 PM
"THERE IS open source software to perform almost every task. But Windows users always expect a fancy graphical interface. "SUPER" provides just that, allowing you to effortlessly convert video files between every format, for free. The open source ffmpeg converter is awesome, supporting almost every video and audio codec on Earth. But like every other linux program it's a command line application -also known as "text mode" back in the old DOS days-. Command line applications are very powerful, giving programmers and code hackers plenty of simplicity - you can pipe the output from one program to another in the traditional unix fashion, run it as a web server task via CGI, you name it. But for the end user, it also means that the current generation of windows "button clickers" feel left out. Not anymore. I found a nice windows graphical user interface dubbed "Super" which includes compiled windows executables of ffmpeg, MPLAYER, ffmpeg2theora along with other related open source libraries into a simple installer for it. The result is "Super", described, pardon the redundancy, as "A simple GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn". "
Super is not really a converter program, but instead is a pretty front end for some of the best free converts out there. It looks like it seamlessly lets you use lots of different tools without having to bother with the command line interface. Have any of you tried out this program yet? If so, what do you think of it?
Super is not really a converter program, but instead is a pretty front end for some of the best free converts out there. It looks like it seamlessly lets you use lots of different tools without having to bother with the command line interface. Have any of you tried out this program yet? If so, what do you think of it?
