This MKV converter software provides a great access to converting MKV movies to other video formats, enabling you to enjoy MKV videos without format limitation. Practical invention! I recommend!

Why is everyone so hopped up about it starting at the developer's home page? After all the software is free. Why shouldn't the developer get a little attention? Such a minor thing. I just like free stuff that works great and, based on what Ashraf says, this apparently fits that description.

Good to see strong support for a program for a change as many are around 50 50 for and against.

As a powerful yet less-compatible format, it's a good thing for MKV to find converting and editing software. With the aid of this MKV Video Converter, I have converted my MKV videos to MP4 so that I can watch them on my Kindle Fire HD. Really convenient!

It works on window 8. Really cool and works well. I just converted 6 videos (MKV format) in one time for my iPod and find that the conversion didn't waste my time actually. It just cost me half an hour! And it seems loss no quality compared with original ones. Overall, it's a good app. Thanks

#40 I believe the intrusive behavior is encoded with the key therefore cannot be disabled.

Hi, guess what - no sooner than today's Giveaway of Tipard MKV Video Converter appeared on GAOTD - as if "by magic"...Ashampoo's special offer of Video Converter2 for only..£3.95 appeared in my inbox. Sharp, eh? Have a good weekend sharks:), ease off!

to # 27 you might want to try this program and itt's free EasyHtml5Video.exe

The promo page everytime you run the program is too much. Not only incredibly annoying, the first time it happened it caused me to lose a firefox session with 20+ tabs open. If I cannot turn off this "feature" this software will be removed asap.

Aside: WOT Web Of trust user reviews often misreport web sites as bad when the people mean to say that some of the software available through that web site may have tracking or advertisement, but the web site itself is okay -- as a result, WOT is imprecise and non-determinant of web site safety.

Carry on.

Hmmmmm. 41 comments so far, some each way, but still waiting for King Giovanni to weigh in. Have just recently started to notice "Mike", not sure how long he's been here, but looks like a well thought out addition the the King.

Always grateful for free software. Thanks much!

The comments on your browser being opened and taken to the developer's home page every time you start the program keep me from even downloading this. There is no need for such an intrusive annoyance. (If this "feature" can indeed be disabled, I'm willing to try this program.)

It also seems this program, like so many similar, does not retain the source resolution when converting. I do not know why this is so prevalent but have installed and removed a dozen such convertors in the past couple of years for just this reason.

Tipard-Would be a nice product to add to the toolbox except the opening of promo page upon starting program.IMO said promo would raise less user hackles if performed after program use(as myplaycity does).BAD TIMING

@Andria (#20) No, this program wil not break the "CSS" region code encryption of an Australia (region 4) DVD to play it in North America (Region 1). Although you can switch the region setting for a DVD player, that setting is only able to be changed a limited number of times (usually 4) before the player locks in the last setting made.

The situation is futher complicated in that Australia uses a differing TV standard (PAL) to North America (NTSC) - the two standards are not compatible with each other. Although a computer might be able to play the DVD, a stand-alone player/TV will probably have difficulties with it.

Installed and Registered A-OK on Vista Home Prem., x64.

The Registration was so Slick, the darn User Name and Reg Code automatically popped up already Filled In ... wow! BTW, this is version 6.1.58.

Thanks to TIPARD and GOTD team!

G!:)

Where are the ProRes codecs? I did a quick glance this morning and couldn't find them. HD uses either H264 or mpeg4 as far as I can tell.

"setup files are corrupted. obtain a new copy of the program." Several redownloads changed nothing. Tried on 2 notebooks, both Windows 8 Pro x64. Setup and .gcd in the same folder. Does this message mean, that it cannot be installed on win8 x64?

Installed easily (win 7 64) and I really like that the username and registration were already entered in the registration box.

FYI - I would disable the "update" box in the somewhat spartan "preferences" drop down.

Con: I'm sure there are probably other issues, but what really irks me is (as others have mentioned) that I cannot block the "opening the offer homepage" with each program start-up "sales scheme." At first it was annoying, but the more I tried (unsuccessfully) to block that behavior with Comodo, the angrier I became. That process should be an option that WE can disable. Unless there is some fix for that, I'll probably uninstall. Pity.

I wonder if it does that in the paid version? And aren't we supposed to be getting full (regular) versions???

You can block the original program's access through your firewall "Fingerlakes Dave". Then you usually won't be directed or even redirected to "anywhere". Tasteless programming is what I call it.

On Windows 8 the setup/installation gives an error "Setup files are corrupted..." but the same installation files run fine on Windows 7.

Does anyone know if this product would convert a DVD that is formatted for use in Australia to US? I bought a set of movies on Ebay but wasn't aware there were different versions. The only identifying numbers on the box are DVD9 and EDV18. I have no idea what they mean. If anyone knows if this product would help or any other please advise. Thanks so much!

Installed and registered no problems.

My main complaint is having my browser hijacked EVERY time the program is started. Has anyone found a way to turn this off?

To the Developer,

Thank you for the giveaway and for the helpful instructions how to install your program. Would you be so kind to also address the security issues raised by several posters, before I download and try your software?

Thank you in advance.


Bob

Product is not registering properly. After I register with the proper credentials, I get a "registration successful" message, but after closing and reopening the program, my browser opens to the company's website and I have to register again.

Does anyone know of a converter that can convert swf flv files into html5 mp4 format?

Keep Original means to keep the original file unaltered and separate.
Keep Original Resolution means to keep the resolution of the original file during the conversion.

Doesn't anybody know the difference between updates (automatic or otherwise) and upgrades? You will probably get free updates and almost never get free upgrades. It depends on each company and what they want to do. If they let you do either, or both, go ahead.
I've never heard of automatic upgrades. Even the intrusive Java and Flash Player require your input and approval to install.

Tried to install on Win7 64, got "setup files are corrupted" error

I like to be able to switch off this site add: http://www.tipard.com/special/2013bundle.html

Even after activation it will open every time I start up the converter. Too ugly for words, won't test anymore, will uninstall due to all of this, so I won't know what I'm missing.

installed fine on my windows 7 64bit and my virtual win 8 64 bit.
price is great today "free" but I think 35.00 might be a little high

I love it when the developers don't ask for a e-mail address to spam.
It tell me that they might really be interested in comments on their software and not just out to make extra money on spamming e-mails.

The lack of Original Resolution as an option is surprising in a media converter, having said that this does allow you to manually set the values.
Finding the original values can be a problem unless you have the following free program:-
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

(It has many different language choices at the top of the page. )

This program puts itself in the list of functions when you right click on a file in Explorer or for that matter many other Explorer type programs. It supplies you with more than sufficient information regarding media files.

Philoria, Kuntoria, Winnophia,...!! Wow, that's some pretty impressive fan-base you've got there Tipard! But I won't be fully convinced until Karla shows up as well (or was it Klara?). Now that'd be like the whole Tinseltown gathering over at the GoTD. And yeah, I know Stortch; he's no celebrity, just a regular chap like many of us.

Can it convert to MPEG ? (not mensioned in the list above)

#1: "The output profiles for specific electronic devices are not always up-to-date and is lacking ..."

#3: "... found that it even supports recently-released devices, like iPod nano 7, Apple TV 3, Samsung Galaxy Note 2/Tab 2."

FWIW my experience with Android cells/tabs is that they like AVC/H.264, & that they *may* work better using smaller frame sizes than the device max, though that can mean tweaking aspect ratio settings. Usually the Apple device settings/profiles will work -- older, cheaper, often smaller devices like MP3 players often required special formats, mainly due to processor limitations, but today's cells/tabs are much more powerful so they don't have to reinvent the wheel, don't have to come up with something special. That said, there are loads of different Android devices out there today, most with varying amounts of horsepower & capabilities, while the Android OS can be altered quite a bit by the manufacturer, so if you've got something like a <$75 tablet I'd expect you might have to run several tests to find out what AVC encoding settings & frame sizes works best for you. I've not had any problems with the several Android cells my son's had, but it's really pushing the Galaxy Tab 2 7 if/when you ask it to play the 720p video it's rated for -- it'll only work if the AVC doesn't use most of the optimization settings possible, & you still may get some lag &/or stuttering. It'll work wonderfully however if you use 720 width video frames -- the height can be whatever, as it varies by the aspect ratio the video was shot at since you don't include the letterbox, but it has to be set as or to square pixel, which is usually accomplished with the aspect settings for whatever encoder.

For players BTW I like the mobile version of VLC, though you can't get it in the app stores in the US -- you have to download & use the nightly builds. There are different methods & players you can use to get subtitles, but personally I like Nero Recode to encode the video, & if you feed it a DVD it'll keep the subs, embedding them right in the video file, & VLC mobile will display them, letting you turn the subs on/off as you like.

#3: "As the writer said top, this converter indeed supports convert videos to NLE (non linear edition) video formats for further edition on editing software."

Not really... If you want to do further editing/encoding you want to compress the video as little as possible -- you want to keep all the data intact that you can... it's no different than audio or graphics in that respect, where you don't convert a .wav or flac etc. audio file to mp3 *before* editing, nor do you convert an image to highest compression jpeg & then start tweaking the picture. If you're creating an imtermediate video file you want to edit further [or encode to mpg2 since that's where ffmpeg is a bit weak IMHO], you want to go to avi using a lossless or near lossless video codec, preferably with all keyframes, e.g. HufYUV, or UT Video, maybe Lagarith etc. [there are several good choices really, though DON"T USE Windows included uncompressed video format]. Unfortunately these sorts of ffmpeg-based converters [& rippers] usually don't let you use those codecs, limiting you to Xvid [often labeled DivX] instead, which is really a distant 2nd place as far as quality intermediates go.

#3: "Cons: My computer does not have multiple CPUs, so I can only convert as normal. Nevertheless, the speed is acceptable."

Actually they mean cores -- ideally video encoding will split the work up across all available CPU cores, & you want highest CPU % or usage on each of the cores too. If the encoder uses your graphics card/chip to assist in processing &/or encoding however, CPU % will normally drop. reflecting the work that's being routed to the GPU. If/when you have the option try it both ways, with/without graphics assist to see which is faster -- note GPU assist *may* drop the quality, though *hopefully* not enough to notice.

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#8: "Which is it? As Keep Original Resolution is a highly sought after function for novices who do not know all of the many settings."

Normally with these converters the settings available depend on what profile choices you've made. That said, they tend to do *Very* well reducing frame sizes & encoding to AVC/H.264, but for just (re)encoding the video at the same frame size, not so much -- there you're probably better off IMHO using one of the x264 front ends or GUIs [see sites like videohelp.com]. The encoder will be the same [x264's built into ffmpeg], but you can access [a Lot] more of the encoder settings to do stuff like speed things up or increase the quality [which slows things down].

In the readme.txt file I was stumbling over the following warning:

"Warning from Tipard Studio:

This registration code can be used only for one user. If Tipard Studio finds the revealing of the code, they will make both the code and registered version invalid."

In my interpretation this conflicts with the fact, that the gotd registration data are the same for every user.

Could you please clear this poin. Thanks.

I had to give this a thumbs down (like it matters). I've been using Aiseesoft total Media Converter Platinum V6.3.8 to convert all my DVD's to Mp4's so I can stream them on my roku(s) and using Playon for the streaming agent. So, I thought, ok, lets try something new.

Installation went fine. Intel I7/2600k, 16gb ram.

Two things that got it a thumbs down:

1. There is no LOAD DVD feature as in other media convertor software and when I tried to open a dvd and read it, it came back with all kinds of failures. So, if I want to convert a dvd for streaming, you have to dig through you menus to find it and it has a hard time figuring out a dvd that has multiple episodes on it. As far as the MKV abilities, who the heck uses this format anyway? It's not the goto format for streaming in a home for home theater use or just standard tv viewing.

2. The program hijacks the opening process and loads a webpage every time you load the program. And if you block the program from accessing the internet, it hangs for a long time then causes you to have to close the blank webpage every time.

Free or not, if you provide us a package to evaluate but you FORCE us to your web page every time we open said program, who's to say the purchased software doesn't do the same thing? Therefore, I'm not buying, using or promoting your programs based on this experience. Just saying.

Your software is great, but your prices are downright insane, even with your 'discount'. Good luck making money with that.

Thanks for the 50% off coupon code.

I think I can use this, thank

4 & 5 comments are just so ridiculous...

I downloaded and installed on my Win7pro Dell Vostro computer. No troubles installing and running. However I would like to mention the fact that after clicking on the homepage for Tipard, I am red flagged by my Trend Security software which came with this computer. Even after installation when pulling up the software, it does go to the website of Tipard but it again is redflagged. "Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security claims www.tipard.com is a Dangerous Page Trend Micro has confirmed that this website can transmit malicious software or has been involved in online scams or fraud. I do want to mention that this software does not remove the DRM from your videos, thus it won't convert these files like the previous Leawo giveaway does.
I just wish I could explain further why Trend does red flag pages. I ran the scan of the installation package, and nothing was flagged. Just thought I should mention this.

Tiptard, you may wish to include add/subtract subtitles and extra languages?

Nice program, thanks for sharing this software. I may have a try this one, though I have Tipard video converter platinum which is more powerful and can convert various video formats including MKV files to 3D formats.

Tiptard Studio, A question : The first and third review have a conflict.

One says there is no "Keep Original Resolution" and the Third says that one of the settings is indeed "Keep Original".

Which is it? As Keep Original Resolution is a highly sought after function for novices who do not know all of the many settings.

More Pros:
1A very understandable and readable EULA - THANKS Tiptard
2Registration card was already filled in for me - THANKS
3No problem with the install and Reg. I have Win 7 64
4All 4 quads of my CPU are lit up. Good!
5The software checks for your chipset and graphics card for extra settings for speed increases.
6 Many many output choices for every platform wanted
7Easy user controls for the 4 editing functions.
.

Cons:
1Still have not found a Keep Original Resolution anywhere.
2Check for updates automatically is turned on under Preferences
(Tiptard - I presume it needs to be turned off with the GAOTD?).
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There is one worry. On my nice and wholesome Web Of Trust Advisor, your entire software domain throws up cautions. It may be old news, but it is still something that made me pause. Tiptard may wish to contact them.
https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/tipard.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc

Might be a keeper if NVIDIA/AMD GPU acceleration really speeds converting up. Probably it is wise to turn automatic update off otherwise you might end up with a trial version very soon.(settings) What I don't like is the fact that everytime I start the program I am first redirected to Tipard's webb page.

Shame on every programmer team that produces a video conversion program, freeware or payware, that lacks the "keep original resolution" option. I just wonder, how you guys are not ashamed of yourselves? really?

Thanks for Tipard MKV video converter program and GOTD. Installed successfully and registration went fine. Then I convert my favourite movie which is MKV file to my iPad smoothly.

It is my lucky to meet such a wonderful giveaway as it can convert my videos to MTV format, which most software I used does not support. Thanks GOTD.

To better use Tipard MKV Video Converter, please read the simple operation guide displayed below:
Operation Guide:
Step 1: Download the installation Zip package
Step 2: Unzip the package to get Setup.exe and readme.txt files
Step 3: Read “readme” text for installation steps and registration info
Step 4: Follow the instructions to finish installation and registration
For more details or tutorials about Tipard MKV Video Converter, please visit:http://www.tipard.com/mkv-video-converter.html
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