Do you know any free alternatives to Format Factory?

[Nikhil]

WinX HD video Convertor Deluxe, its not free though.

[jelson]

I overlooked this one: Oxelon Media Converter

I've used this a couple of times and found it quite satisfactory.

For instance, ripping audio from some youtube videos with other programs resulted in mp3s with incorrect time length, but OMC extracted the mp3s with correct duration.

Here's some info from their webpage

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Oxelon Media Converter is FREEWARE
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Version 1.1

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista


The program allows to convert video/audio files into the following formats:

Video Formats: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DV, DVD MPEG2, FFM, FLV, GIF, MOV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, NUT, PSP, RAW YUV, RM, SVCD MPEG2, SWF, VCD MPEG1, VOB, YUV4MPEG, M1V, M2V, M4V.

Audio Formats: AC3, AAC, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MMF, MP2, MP3, OGG, VOC, WAV.

With the following INTERNAL codecs:

Video Codecs: BMP, DV Video, FFV1, FFV HUFF, FlashSV, FLV, GIF, H261, H263, H263+, HuffYUV, JPEGLS, Theora, XviD, LJPEG, MJPEG, MPEG1 Video, MPEG2 Video, MPEG4, MS MPEG4, MS MPEG4 V1, MS MPEG4 V2, PAM, PBM, PGM, PGM YUV, PNG, PPM, RAW Video, Real Video 10, Real Video 20, SGI, SNOW, SVQ1 Sorenson Video, Targa, TIFF, VP6, WMV1, WMV2, ZLIB, ZMBV.

Audio Codecs: AC3, ADPCM IMA WAV, ADPCM MS, ADPCM SWF, ADPCM YAMAHA, FLAC, G726, AMR NB, AMR WB, AAC, GSM, GSM MS, MP3, MP2, PCM ALAW, PCM MULAW, PCM 8/16/24/32 bit, SONIC, SONICLS, VORBIS, WMA V1, WMA V2.

It works in two modes:

Automatic Mode - the program shows carefully filtered list of supported parameters and codecs for each video/audio format. It is used by default.

Manual Mode - the program shows the list of all available parameters and codecs for each video/audio format. You can enable this mode by choosing the "Show all" option.

Fast conversion of many files on multi-core processor systems

Oxelon Media Converter is one of the few video/audio encoding tools that can use four threads to take advantage of quad-core multi-processor systems. The great news is that you can adjust maximal amount of threads in the Settings. So, it is possible to take advantage of high-speed multi-conversion even on an eight-core system (and more).

Windows Explorer integration

Seamless integration with Explorer allows you to keep working with files as usual. You can right-click on the selected files, choose "Oxelon - Convert to Video" or "Oxelon - Convert to Audio" from the menu, and select the media format.

It is easy to reduce the file size by adjusting bitrates or by changing video width/height
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Direct Stream Copy
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Possibility to extract audio streams from video files
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Drag and Drop support
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Settings
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