David.R.Gilson

Tip of the week – 3rd April 2009

Apr 3

How-To Guides David No Comments
bbc, conversion, iplayer, multimedia

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[Windows Freeware - MultiMedia Conversion]

Quick Media Convert is a straigth forward, dare I say idiot proof, multimedia transcoding tool.

It has a simple drag and drop interface for adding the files you want to convert, along with a row of readily identifiable icons to choose the format you want to convert your content to. If the simple interface doesn’t give you enough control, there is an advanced interface which allows you to handle every specific detail of the conversion.

It can even handle Flash video files. Which is perfect if you just have to have that skate boarding dog from Youtube on your mobile phone or PMP. From some preliminary* testing I’ve done, it even seems that it can miraculously handle BBC flash video files too!

*(Note: So far I’ve just tested an episode of EastEnders, although it was a painfully slow conversion, which I guess is due to the DRM method they use.)

It isn’t an open source application, but it is free of charge. It also has a webcam and DV cam capturing mode, as well as a screen capturing mode; (I haven’t tried these so I can’t say much about them).

I would be interested in feed back about this one from non-Windows users. Can you make it work under Parallels (for Mac) or WINE (for Linux) ?