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By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:52:21 +0000

It works.

With so many video converters out there, not much to say about it. But its not the best. Just a bit messy.

By: Justin iPod Fan

Justin iPod Fan — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:32:45 +0000

I like this software for downloading and using it on my iPods. Thanks for the giveaway too! This will be added to my collection and worthy of a writeup review!

By: graham toal

graham toal — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:26:49 +0000

I suspect I must have installed something after this which broke it, but I’m damned if I can think of what that would be. I put very little software on this machine. I guess I should go look at some datestamps and try to work it out…

The only thing I had installed after this was Photoshop 5.5 (reinstalling my old copy because my original porty where I usually use it died this week), but it looks like one of the dlls from “MP3 Recorder Studio” installed last week from GAOTD has a timestamp from when the bad stuff started happening, so I’ll be looking into that quite closely too.

By: graham toal

graham toal — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:36:00 +0000

This initially worked fine for me on Vista (32 bit – Walmart BF Acer 5315 portable) but two days later I started getting errors about “COM Surrogate has stopped working” and then the converter started blowing away when you started it. I followed the advice in this article: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fix-for-com-surrogate-has-stopped-working-error-in-vista/ and also added VideoConvert.exe to the exception list, and got it working again. However I can only convert to mpg, rmvb and vmv – the avi and mov conversion *seem* to run but don’t generate any output.

I suspect I must have installed something after this which broke it, but I’m damned if I can think of what that would be. I put very little software on this machine. I guess I should go look at some datestamps and try to work it out…

It’s a shame because when it worked, it was great (and their previous DVDCopy giveaway has performed flawlessly). I converted HD video from my shiny new christmas present (Samsung HD recorder) to play on my other shiny new christmas present (JXD301 mp4 and game player) :-) (Thank you Santa)

By the way can you generate ASF files with this? The Plato web page seems to say you can but I don’t see it in the software.

By: coldmile

coldmile — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:37:54 +0000

Not even close to being as good as Super which is free.

By: EDI

EDI — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:02:24 +0000

This software is useful for me. when i had to convert movies, e.g. AVI to MOV all like the other user found. I’m a great fan of free as well. I wanted to ask though is there any way to add watermarking ? or have is it in there already?

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:14:22 +0000

Doesn’t play with Vista.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:24:04 +0000

Hmm… got 1 file converted, now every tmie the program starts, my computer restarts. Bummer, ause it did do an excellent job with the 1 file. Bummer…….

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:28:07 +0000

goog software

By: james

james — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:23:29 +0000

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