This section defines and presents video converter software. So what is It?
Video converter software – well – converts video files. "To what?" you might ask. To any format you might need. There is converter software that converts video files from your digital cameras, camcorders, downloads from YouTube and other video websites to video formats that run on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Sony PlayStation, XBox, Zen, and Zune.
You can break it down even further: There is video converter software that can cross-convert between the different video file formats such as AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (compatible with iPod, Sony PSP, mobiles and other portables), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, VOB, VRO, MPEG 1,2, MPG, DAT, VCD, SVCD, ASF, MJPEG, H.263, H.264, Real Video (RM, RMVB), DVR-MS, MKV, OGM, and FLV.
It basically boils down to what YOU need converted. Below you will find the best video converters that can convert DVD movies and video files to just about any format that you need. As, usual, I will provide a video along with the review of the software.
On this page I critique, test, and review the top five video converter software applications that are able to perform quality video file conversions from DVD movies or video files that will run on the various portable devices, cellphones and popular game consoles.
#1 Cucusoft DVD Ripper + Video Converter Ultimate is one of the best all-around converter software there is. It truly can convert to just about anything. Like Master Yoda said: "There is another." There is another very nice video converter program that rivals this one and you will read about it next. But on to the Cucusoft product.
You can use this software to convert both DVD movies and video files to play on one of the many portable devices such as iPad, iPod, iPod touch, iPod video nano, iPhone, Zune, PSP, XBox, video-capable MP3 players, video-capable mobile phones, Pocket PC, and many many more.
That means, then, that it can convert DVD movies and video files to H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, FLV, SWF, Mpeg-1, Mpeg-2, VCD, SVCD, and DVD, and audio formats AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, and WMA formats. It is truly an ultimate and complete video converter.
It is an extremely no-fuss-easy-to-use program that you will enjoy for many of years. As new DVD and video formats surface, the folks at Cucusoft provide you with free updates. You will really love this one as I do.
The software runs on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 platforms.
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#2 Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate is another video converter that I am thoroughly impressed with. I really hate to give it a ranking of 2 because it is really at par with the Cucusoft product. many would say it that it is better.
It can convert DVD movies and video to just about any format to work on virtually any portable device there is such as AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (compatible with iPod, Sony PSP, mobiles and other portables), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, VOB, VRO, MPEG 1,2, MPG, DAT, VCD, SVCD, ASF, MJPEG, H.263, H.264, Real Video (RM, RMVB), DVR-MS, MKV, OGM, HD, MTS, and FLV. It can even burn video to DVD so it is also a DVD burning or movie creation program as well.
There are over 30 popular video and over 20 audio formats and Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate can convert to them or cross-convert between them. It has one unique feature I really like: it can remove the DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection from movies and music purchased from iTunes, Napster, Pandora, Amazon and others. You want more? You got it!
It can also allows you to create 3D home movies from 2D movies! How about that? In other words, if you have regular 2D movies, run them through this software and you can produce 3D movies that will be playable on almost all popular 3D players.
This software is loaded and very easy to use. You really have to see it to believe it. I will not present software that does not work. It is against my printhables. (Lisp intended)
The software runs on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 platforms.
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#3 iSkySoft Video Converter For Windows is another great video converter software package. It is very similar to Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate. It can perform the exact same conversions. The keyword here is ALL The software supports all popular video formats such as WMV, AVI, MPEG, DivX, MP4, MOV, XviD, 3GP, VOB, FLV and more. It can convert AVCHD (MTS, M2TS) video from your camcorder to any format.
If you have an iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Creative Zen, Archos or other portable device, it can convert the popular video files to the respective formats required to play on these devices.
The iSkySoft video converter can operate on the popular audio files such as MP3, WAV, AAC, AC3, and M4A. You can convert between them (i.e. MP3 to AC3, AC3 to MP3, etc) and you can even extract just the audio component from your video files and save them to any of the audio formats just mentioned.
It is fast and fun.
The software runs on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 platforms.
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#4 AVS Video Converter is yet another great video converter software that works very well. This software – like the ones discussed previously – can convert DVD and video files into AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (inc. Sony PSP and Apple iPod), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, DVD, VOB, VRO, MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, DAT, VCD, SVCD, MJPEG, ASF, ASX, Real Video (RM, RMVB), H.263, H.264, VRO, DVR-MS, MKV, OGM, and FLV format.
Encode High-Definition (HD) video and convert AVCHD to any popular video format. AVS Video Converter has presets to convert DVD movies and any video file to playback in
It also contains an integrated burning engine that allows you to burn these video files to DVD or CD. You can convert DVD and video files to formats that will play on your Sony PSP, iPod, iPad, ARCHOS, Zen Creative, Blackberry and just about any portable device there is such as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android tablets, Sony PSP, Amazon Kindle, smartphones, portable media players and many more.
It works with Blu-ray, too! You can create personal DVD and Blu-ray movies from your own video files and add colorful menus and other cool effects.
You can even convert video to DropBox and play it back on your portable device directly from the DropBox folder.
There is more! This software can convert DVD and popular video file formats to FLV, F4V video for upload to the popular video websites such as YouTube. A feature I like is that the software creates HTML pages with embedded FLV/F4V videos. I can then upload these videos to my websites, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, and Vimeo accounts.
AVS Video Converter can operate on audio files and convert between the popular audio formats and you can extract just the audio component from DVD movies and video files.
The software has tools that let you edit your videos. You can delete unwanted sections of a video files, split large video files or merge many video files to make one DVD. You can even batch convert convert your video files.
The best part is that it is fast and easy to use.
The software runs on Windows XP, W2K, Vista or Windows 7 platforms.
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#5 1Click DVD Converter by LG Software Innovations gets the number five position. It is the most easiest and fastest of the bunch reviewed so far and it is limited in the number of video and audio formats that it can convert to. Here is what it can do.
It converts DVD movies to iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Archos, Creative Labs Zen, Generic DivX, Microsoft Zune (MPEG-4) and Sony PSP.
Using this software is a breeze. Just insert your DVD movie or point to a location where you have a video file, select it, right-click on the user-interface to select the format you wish to convert to, and click START. 1Click DVD Converter is blazingly fast and produces excellent conversions.
It should be noted that 1Click DVD Converter does not perform video file to video file conversions. It only works on DVD movie discs and converts them to the formats listed above.
One of the great features about this software is its speed and quality of the conversion.
The software runs on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 platforms.
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A Final Word
These are my five top picks in video converter software. The first four - Cucusoft DVD Ripper + Video Converter Ultimate, Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate, iSkySoft Video Converter, and AVS Video Converter – are almost carbon copies of each other in their functionality and the types of video and audio files they can operate on and convert; and the types of portable devices they can convert to. The last one, 1Click DVD Converter is sort of an odd-ball only in that it converts only DVD movies to several popular portable devices.
The choice is yours to make. Which one do you like? Whichever you choose, rest assured that it will work.
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