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best free iPhone video converter?

Best iphone 3gs video converter?

Best iphone 3gs video converter?

That can convert high quality video fast and easy?

Thanks.
 
Thanks but apparently VisualHub, AudialHub, and iSquint have been discontinued.

So I need the best free video converter available, and I just got the new Snow Leopard so it should work on there too :)
 
mac: i use makemkv (in beta) to rip the dvd uncompressed and then convert for iphone using videomonkey. i've had more success (easier/quicker/better quality) with this method than using handbrake.

windows: makemkv to rip the dvd, otherwise videora to convert any video i have for the iphone. all of these are free at this point.
 
Quick question re. Handbrake-- is it just me who finds it almost too insanely slow to be worth using? For years, I've used Super with no problem; recently, however, it's been incredibly unstable and unreliable, only successfully converting about 1 out of every 6-7 files (erroring out on the rest after wasting at least an hour "converting" them, and these are all files that it converted with no problem before) and/or crashing and/or crashing my entire system. Decided to give Handbrake a try and it's now, after about 2.5 hours, up to 1.72% done with a file that's about 2 GB total. I let it run last night on a file that's 1.33 GB and after 15 or so hours it wasn't even 1/3 of the way done.

Basically, are there any settings or anything I should be optimizing, filetypes to avoid, that kind of thing? I use DVD Decrypter to rip the files from DVD on my Vista system, so I'm looking to convert .VOBs to .mp4, ideally. I've heard people from several forums rave and rave about Handbrake, so I'm hoping there's just something goofy that I've done incorrectly.

ETA: Or if somebody knows of a reasonably-priced paid software that works well, I'm not above that option, either. I'm trying to rebuild my video library that my piece of $%$$@$%&&^* Seagate 1.5 TB hard drive cannibalized in August and am getting desperate. :)
 
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studentmac said:
Search for Handbrake in google, a great program i've been using to convert my films for iphone use (it has a built-in iphone preset).
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Love handbrake. Plus if you have TiVo, there's an app called iTivo. It ROCKS!
 
OK, so after downloading a couple of other freebies that didn't work, I dragged my old-ass, slow as hell XP laptop out of the spare room and tried the One Click Video Converter that I'd installed on it 3+ years ago when I had my first iPod Video. Stunningly, it still works, and is infinitely faster than Handbrake was running (at least for me) on my current laptop. So while it's something of a PITA to have to keep moving files from one PC to the other via external hard drive, it's better than having my system crash constantly after teasing me with hints that this time, maybe, just maybe, I might actually get a usable file out of the encoding process!

Grrrrr. I hate sh*t that used to work and no longer does for absolutely no discernible reason.
 
Moi un Mouton said:
I've been really pleased with the results of MediaCoder iPhone edition on Windows, it's open source and does just what it says. Auto-sizes, auto-crops, the lot :)

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net
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Natesac said:
I like mediacoder. Works really well on multicore PC's it will max out your PC's power to get the job done quick.
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+ 10.
I had some older videos, that were 16:9 widescreen, but they had the black bars top and bottom, because the videos(with bars included) were in 4:3 ratio, for when I had my iPod Video.
I put them into Media Coder to convert them, just selected the 480x272(16:9) ratio, thinking that the black bars would still be there, resulting in a super-squashed image), but no - the bars were automatically cropped out! Awesome.
It also converts(and can cut from) almost any file format too. It's ideal for files already on your computer.
Obviously, for full DVD conversion, I use Handbrake, 'cos Ilike having the chapters.
 
BergerFan said:
+ 10.
I had some older videos, that were 16:9 widescreen, but they had the black bars top and bottom, because the videos(with bars included) were in 4:3 ratio, for when I had my iPod Video.
I put them into Media Coder to convert them, just selected the 480x272(16:9) ratio, thinking that the black bars would still be there, resulting in a super-squashed image), but no - the bars were automatically cropped out! Awesome.
It also converts(and can cut from) almost any file format too. It's ideal for files already on your computer.
Obviously, for full DVD conversion, I use Handbrake, 'cos Ilike having the chapters.
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Thanks for that input. I'll try messing with MediaCoder again when I get back in town. Tried it last night and it failed immediately on the first file I tried to convert. Argh. (Same file subsequently converted just fine with One Click, FWIW.) But after watching a review of MC on cnet, it looks like it should be pretty easy to use, so I'll cross my fingers. :)
 
lPHONE said:
considering that it's free... :rolleyes:
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Nice reviving a year old thread.

Anyways, Videora is good and all, but the sound produced from it is horrible. It's like trying to go mono but the left one is a millisecond late. So you get an echo thing going on.
 
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