#23 Gmman

But not when he gets it wrong on almost every occasion. It's not useful at all.

#21 malimar snoot is exactly right.

# 9 - geedeepee (is that really a name ?)

No reason to beware !
And you were not hijacked !

You just went far down the webpage and downloaded an adware/spyware packet,
although the icon clearly said: "CARE", and the text said: "If you want to keep your
system healthy, we recommend Advanced System Care".
And then you clicked on the small-lettered: download

How have you escaped today's GOTD's text, screenshots, ratings, system
requirements, publisher, homepage, file size, and price ?

Right underneath this it said with BIG LETTERS: "Download Icepine Video
Converter Pro now" and a button was provided

It's beyound me !

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# 17 - Bestvisrtersoftsre (is that really a name ?)

Your link's no. 4 software is broken and does not lead to anything

Correct link is: vdownloader.es

This eminent programme downloads amoung others YouTube, Google Video,
Blip.tv, MySpace, PornoTube, YouPorn etc. etc.

The recent Nov. version has the new YouTube parser and can even download HD

It also downloads RTMP streams from MTV, CBS, RTVE etc.

Saves videos in many formats, see full description and screenshots on their
neat webpages

Already 2 mio downloads from Brothersoft and 3,5 mio from themselves
and download.com

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# 18 - Cal-el

.FTV also supported on abovementioned programme

Greetings from Tobiasson, Oslo, Norway, Europe

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@21: Calm down. At least what he's doing is somewhat useful. It's not just for himself. Having a quick review of a giveaway helps people decide whether or not to try it. Sure, he's getting a bunch of clicks from here, but it's just a side effect. You can't prevent people from reviewing programs just because they link to their own site.

Normally I wouldn't want to post without commenting on the software, but mike, I really don't think you get enough credit for your excellent and detailed analysis and explanations of many of the giveaways, especially the media related ones.

Thanks again for all the help.

@#1 -Ashraf --
I checked your site on Alexa.com ... you are getting 41+% of your visitors from Giveawayoftheday. That's almost half of your traffic!! So your strategy of driving traffic to your site from this one is paying off handsomely. Do you think everyone else who comes here realizes that's what you're doing?

- Mali.

Might be just me but.. converted MP4 file to avi - vision is great .. but no sound at all. Tried twice with the same result- is this a bug?

To those people who keep recommending the "freeware" program, "Super:" super is total crap! If you want to junk up your system, use "super." Never again!

It looks like it doesn't regognize .flv files at all.

SUMMARY: – Strengths outweigh weaknesses. Program is definitely a keeper. Thumbs up. Thanks, GOTD & Icepine Systems.
FREEWARE OPTIONS:
HandBrake
Super
MediaCoder
Great, top 10 free video converters,
http://www.freevideoconverter.org

I was looking for something like this earlier this week. So, I have played around with a lot of similar software. It seems to do fairly well, and is defintely not as complicated as erightsoft.com (the leading free software for video conversion). However, for whatever reason I can only get it to convert a little over a minute of the video. I assume it is a problem on GAOTD's side with the activation key. I will uninstall and reinstall and see if that helps.

Does this software work with MTS files created by many HD Camcorders these days. Any preferences for editing MTS files? JVC doesn't provide editing software with their GZ-HD300

Vista 64 bit. Very fast conversion, quality is very good and many choices available. As I do many conversions this is a keeper. Thanks GOTD!

oops! that should be USE not ise

what format does a standard dvd video player ise to play videos on your tv? why all the conversion programs if there is one standard for playing videos on your tv/.

Program installs easily (XP3). Activate works after installation as per instructions. I really like what I see here. THANKS for the PROGRAM!

Just want to say that this app installs perfectly on Windows 2000 (pro sp4), though this isn't mentioned anywhere by Icepine. A nice little program, seems to work well so far, but still testing it. As HappyPerson mentioned, there's good a local help file.

PROS:

* Downloaded, installed, activated fine on Vista x64 OS.
* Activation "activate.exe" file must be run before opening program.
* Registration is successfully displayed in program.
* Detailed, complete local Help File provided within program.
* support email address provided in Help File.
* GUI is simple, clear, easy-to-navigate, easy-to-understand.
* supports numerous input/output video & audio formats.
* Program may be installed on 2 computers, as long as user operates only 1 instance of the program on 1 PC at a time.
* supports drag-and-drop for source video/audio files.
* allows for multi-plexing and de-multiplexing.
* allows for preview of source file.
* supports subtitles.
* fairly easy and simple to use - i.e., low learning curve.

CONS:

* window may not be maximized or re-sized.
* video input format (moonshell DPG) not supported.
* video output formats (AVCHD, DV, OGM, Matroska MKV) not supported.
* audio output formats (CDA, other playable in WMP) not supported.
* subtitles (DVD, SRT, SSA, ASS, VOBSUB (IDX/SUB)) are not supported.

SUMMARY: - Strengths outweigh weaknesses. Program is definitely a keeper. Thumbs up. Thanks, GOTD & Icepine Systems.

FREEWARE OPTIONS:

HandBrake

Super

MediaCoder

Small size install pack, and superb powerful! Works perfect under Windows XP, SP2. Different from Ashraf, my favorite alternative convert tool is FFMpeg, a free cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video, and I love command-line tool.

A smart little tool, but it seems highly priced for what it is. As Ashraf said, there are two FREE alternatives!

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.

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
iWisoft Video Converter
FormatFacotory

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