Sometimes if you buy graphics card or other CPU, they will bundled the free Power DVD with you.

Hi.. I'd like to add SoundTaxi and Media Buddy to the list. The website is http://soundtaxi.org

Can anyone recommend me a virtualdub alternative that is able to read fraps video and audio ?

For some weird reason, virtualdub never fails to crash my windows each time i am compressing a video for youtube from a fraps'd video source.

As far as I know, fraps uses their own codec/uncompressed codec and IIRC alot of video editing softwares like vegas or premiere pro are unable to process the audio from from a fraps'd video source. The only method that I know of is compress it using vdub and then load the compressed video on to either of the retail video editing softwares.

Ever since installing Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, virtualdub always crash/freeze my windows without fail every single time. So..what is the alternative to virtualdub that can read fraps video and audio

This post has been edited by Nosferatu: Feb 26 2011, 03:41 PM

MeGUI, or the other alternatives are, SUPER or Mediacoder, These are called front end, the back-end program which does all the decoding stuff is libavcodec IIRC.

thank you. will give megui a try:)

This post has been edited by Nosferatu: Feb 27 2011, 01:09 AM

Hey guys whats the best video format converter software that fully utilize Nvidia CUDA technology? I find that even with Sandy bridge 2500K CPU it is still gonna take a while.

This post has been edited by billytong: Mar 4 2011, 09:53 PM

Badaboom (nvidia, aint free) or Mediacoder (use cuda), but dont expect good quality from them....
IIRC x264 with fast-preset encoded video quality still better than the above 2
Pray to god and hope X264 will use DirectCompute or OpenCL in the future

OR, intel quick sync http://www.intel.com/technology/quicksynch/index.htm kekekekekek~!

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Mar 4 2011, 10:27 PM

Done. Please check on the 1st page.

which format can i convert from >250MB to <50MB ? current format .mpeg

need help!

Thanks in advance.

You could try MeGUI and use x264 to compress, but dont except you can retain the original quality if you wan to convert down to 50mb, you have to use very low bitrate/high compression and you might need to resize to video to 480p or 320p.

Thanks guys, most software DOES it job but with ridiculous huge file size after converting.

it is because the bitrate setting was not set properly or they didn't set it to a lossy format, it happens

Lossless files are HUGE

no Xilisoft and Audacity?

dont know if this counts.. but its good for people who wans to audio only http://www.video2mp3.net/

i want to convert avi files to vob,will use nero burner then to burn..

i know theres variety of choices @ 1st page but i lazy to click it 1 by 1,4 the experienced,which 1 the best?

guys, any suggestion of a bluray converter to mkv container? got a few bluray that i want to convert. any suggestions?

as others have suggested, megui. personally use it myself.

did some browsing, i found a bluray to MKV converter. it's called MakeMKV. very usefull and we can have a 30 days trial. all you need a bluray rom and the software. very easy step to do conversion for noobie like me.

hi guys, i've been watching avi files via usb thumbdrive on my Philips HTS3510 home theatre system. i want to watch HD videos with 5.1 audio (encoded).

i have a few 720p/1080p videos but in mp4 extensions. can't play on the HTS system.

was wondering if i convert to .avi using a proper converter, would it work? i'm very much more interested in having the 5.1 audio for my surround system.

appreciate your thoughts

You could try Divx to transcode the h264(most likely) to Divx MPEG4 ASP video, since the Philips HTS support up to Divx only.
You can leave the audio untouched so it wont suffer quality degradation from transcoding, and probably can mux it back to the final transcoded video.

Or just connect your pc to the HTS via HDMI, but i have no knowledge/experience about it, FFdshow support HDMI/SPDIF pass-trough so you could try it as well, configuration might be complicated, but it will save alot of time compare to transcoding a video that usually will take 10~20 hours that depending on your cpu processing power.