Video conversion tool

Hello,
Looking for some great video convertion tool (free if possible) that would allow me to convert sime video files from my computer into a format that will be allowed by iTunes (in order to watch the movies on my AppleTV)!!!
Thanks!!!
P.S.: I'm on a PC (for now) running Windows XP.

And on the the video encoding front, is there any nice frontend to ffmpeg that allows for easy transcoding between various formats?
There's ffmpegx ( http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ ) but it isn't free, and it's for mac. Are there any good alternatives?

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Should become very popular with the 5G iPod coming out soon.
http://handbrake.m0k.org/index.php
(cvs pkgbuild would be nice, since there's no source for the current version, and the last stable before that seems to be kinda old)

And on the the video encoding front, is there any nice frontend to ffmpeg that allows for easy transcoding between various formats?
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I have the Pantech Hotshot. The screen resolution of the phone is 400wide x 240high. When I convert a video to that resolution the phone always reduces it to 320 wide instead of filling the screen to the 400 wide and makes the 240 high even smaller. If I convert the video to a larger size it makes the video on screen even smaller. The only video resolution that works decent is 320x240 which fills the screen top to bottom but leaves black bars right and left. If its the phone software that's doing it than what's the point of having a screen 400x240 if you can never view a video in that screen filling resolution? And the video player has no option to zoom or fill the screen. What is the best resolution to convert a video to view on this phone to fill the screen completely like every phone I've ever had was able to do? Thanks

"The screen resolution of the phone is 400wide x 240high. When I convert a video to that resolution the phone always reduces it to 320 wide instead of filling the screen to the 400 wide and makes the 240 high even smaller. If I convert the video to a larger size it makes the video on screen even smaller."
I think you have not found the solution to your situation. We have a non-smartphone (Samsung u370) that, like your phone, has a screen resolution of 400x240 and, like your phone, seemingly won't play a video at the correct resolution when the video is a resolution that exceeds 320x240.
On this u370 phone while playing a video, there are icons on the screen one of which looks like an "X" with arrows at the end of each of the ends of the "X". Tapping this icons causes the video player to expand the video so that now it's playing at the full horizontal resolution of 400.
The video player on our flip phones works the same way. Our LG vx8370 has a 320x240 screen. When I play a 320x240 video, initially the video players plays the video at a resolution of 240 x something. When I push up on the directional pad, then the phone expands the video and then plays it at 320x240.
One more thing. My experience on two different Verizon non-smartphones is the same when it comes to playing widescreen videos -- when I play a video of a resolution such that I have to select the option to expand the video so that the video is playing at the full horizontal resolution of the video, the video player won't show the correct vertical resolution of the widescreen video. Instead, the video player stretches the video to fill the vertical resolution of the phone's screen. While that is tolerable to me for a 16x9 video, my preference is that I find a stretched 2.35:1 video to look unwatchable. The only way that I can preserve the aspect ratio of the widescreen video is to use a video conversion tool that lets me pad the video with blank lines. FFmpeg and mencoder are two tools that have this padding option. So this is what I came up with. Suppose I have a 16:9 widescreen video. The video would need to be about 400x224. Since the video player software on the Verizon non-smartphones will play incorrectly by showing a video stretched to fill the whole screen, I'll need to use the padding command in ffmpeg and add 16 blank lines -- 8 lines above the video and 8 lines below the video. The ffmpeg command for that is
scale=400:224,pad=400:240:0:8
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http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Avanti
http://www.pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor/
Pazera uses an older version of ffmpeg which can be updated after installing pazera by, if I remember correctly, just deleting the older ffmpeg file and replacing it with the new one.

Conversion tool:Flash2Video

Flash2Video is an easy-to-use flash to video conversion tool,
which supports the conversion of Macromedia Flash SWF files into
AVI (uncompressed/compressed using any available codec including
DivX and Xvid), and VCD, SVCD, and DVD compatible MPEG files.
This program also supports personalized dimensions for
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world. Well, you will also get the movie formats you want with fine
image and sound quality. Quite popular! Why not have a try?Z
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Great but I recommend editing your press kit and promotional
content so that all references to
"Macromedia" are changed to "Adobe" (since Macromedia doesn't
exist since Adobe bought them over a
year ago).
Chris Georgenes
Adobe Community Expert
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www.keyframer.com
www.howtocheatinflash.com
hely0123 wrote:
> Flash2Video is an easy-to-use flash to video conversion
tool, which supports
> the conversion of Macromedia Flash SWF files into AVI
(uncompressed/compressed
> using any available codec including DivX and Xvid), and
VCD, SVCD, and DVD
> compatible MPEG files.
> This program also supports personalized dimensions for
exported videos. Since
> no manual operation in the conversion process,
Flash2Video may have the fastest
> conversion speed in the world. Well, you will also get
the movie formats you
> want with fine image and sound quality. Quite popular!
Why not have a try?Z
>
http://www.MySuperSoft.com
>

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Not a problem
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