What is the best video converter software?

[SergeyGor]

Hi everybody!

What software for converting of video do you use? What can you advise? What pluses and minuses of one or another product?

I am interested first of all by simplicity of the use and speed of work.

Config

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processsor 3800+ 2.00 GHz
4 GB Dual Channel RAM
Windows 7 32bit

 

[Ken g6]

Handbrake is pretty simple and fast. But you're never going to get a lot of speed out of that rig.

What do you want to convert video to/from?

 

[SergeyGor]

Handbrake is pretty simple and fast. But you're never going to get a lot of speed out of that rig.

What do you want to convert video to/from?

Converting AVCHD to MP4

 

[lucia]

Converting AVCHD to MP4

Handbrake can handle a few HD video formats like AVCHD. As for easy-to-use video converter, I'm in favor of using Vidcoder (built in HandBrake as its encoding engine) and WinX Free Video Converter, supports 1080p multi-track video MKV, M2TS, AVCHD, HDTV and BDAV.

 

[bononos]

I didn't find any minimum requirements on the handbrake website but encoding on an 10yr old Athlon x2 is going to be real slow.

 

[xgsound]

If you have an AM2 socket, there are X2-5600+s on ebay for about $20 or less. This gave me about a 50% increase in CPU power with the same cooler. Look for one from the United States with 65w 65 nanometer (not 84w 90 nanometer) and use new thermal paste.
My MSI K9ngm2 AM2 board specs said it needed a new bios (not advisable to update bios in MSI of that era) but it worked fine without one.
This improved video smoothness at 1080p and decode time for MP3s.

Jim

 

[John Connor]

I use Freemake.

 

[cirrrocco]

i use super..Npt the new versions which is loaded with bloatware but go to oldversion.com and download versions from a few years ago. Lots of options

 

[sweenish]

I use handbrake.