December 13, 2009This giveaway is not available any more.
Icepine Video Converter Pro is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for converting between almost all popular video and audio formats.
| User Rating: Rate It! | 23 comments |
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| System Requirements: | Windows XP (SP2 or later), Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7 |
| Publisher: | Icepine Systems |
| Homepage: | http://www.icepine.com/index.h... |
| File Size: | 9.04 MB |
| Price: | $25.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on December 13, 2009, this giveaway is not available any more.
You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.icepine.com/index.h....
Terms and conditions
Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.
THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
The Good
* Supports audio and video conversions.
* Supports many input and output formats.
* Supports output profiles for various electronic devices.
* Supports the ability to do stream copies.
* Has abilty to mux and demux.
* Has built in PSP transfer-er and DVD/SVCD/VCD burner.
* Can do various video including but limited to watermarks, trimming, and adding effects.
* Can do various audio edits including but not limited to trimming, and adding effects.
* Gives user large freedoms in terms of selecting codecs to use.
The Bad
* An error window pops up when trying to set video height and width as “original” for some output formats.
Free Alternatives
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These converters are two a penny, and mostly free but I will give anything a try. This is a little different from the others in that it has demultiplex/multiplex (which apparently only works on avi files?).
So, I chose a clip of one and half minutes and first of all de-multiplexed it, which means separating the audio and video. Well, no choice of formats! But it worked.
Next, put it back together (multiplex). Again, only goes back as an avi! It should have been identical to the original, and it was as far as I could see and hear although the file size was a few bytes less. So far so good!
Now to convert it – I tried mpeg4 but it didn’t like that – so mpeg1 was attempted. Seemed to have a few brief stops during the conversion, probably memory problems, but it completed successfully.
Finally, play the end result!
Oh dear, the audio is a whopping nine seconds ahead of the video! I’ve never had that bad audio/video sync before! However, quality is good.
Looks like a work in progress to me. I hope the developers will also change the general layout because a number of “features” simply were not easily visible. I will stay with the free stuff for now.
A smart little tool, but it seems highly priced for what it is. As Ashraf said, there are two FREE alternatives!