debra, that's not very good advice... on the browser I used the three fields were not even named! And what about those that never receive the email and there are ALWAYS some bcause even if the vendor does send the email it may never be delivered because the vendors email server has a bad reputation or is non-compliant with currently used additions to the old SMTP mail headers to include sender validation protocols etc.

TheBigOldDog, yeah you can run it as unregistered for upto 3 clip conversions per session, you just need to reset the registry value
in the key HKLM\Software\CotoMe\ to 0 each time you exit the program, why should we honor their copyright when they do not honour the copyrights of the core open source software they use or our security measures built into our operating systems by demanding it runs as an adminsitrator just to crop a video clip?

Sim, Found it Registerd ok!

TK, further to that discovery that their renamed FFMPEG.EXE to ffconver.exe that is NOT vista or XP compatable but just a bog standard Windows 7 or above ripoff of official open source repository... I have a build of 4.1 FFMPEG.EXE gleaned from a differnt Chinese developers video converter product that has been modifed to remove the Windows 7 and above dependancies but keeping the main functionality so can be used as a drop in replacement for this programs incompatible ffconver.exe

Now about what I was going on about GPL license etc I am sorry to say I cannot provide the source for this build, I would love to be able to but the vendor that distributed this executable in their closed source commercial product did not respond to my requests for the source code for the build environment under the GPLv3 license terms at all. So whilst it is GPL derived I cannot honour the license terms because the hacker that originally built it did it as closed source even though they built it using the GPL build switches.

For now the FFMPEG.EXE executable is renamed to ffconver.exe so you can just drop it in to replace the bad one in this and it will work as the system requirements state in at least Vista... and *should* operate in XP too if the reset of the program does.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ai4kUYFAeZV7gVnqQrMKiKEUVhzX

From virustotal shell extension I use:

Scan Date: 2019-05-09 21:11:17
Hash: 00805f43c4b1f4ee6562dce72ff47e65
Detections: 0/71

File had no detections

Feel free to use it with any other 32bit FFMPEG.EXE GUI front end that is using an older version of FFMPEG.EXE

TK, And now LOL just hacked the cutome.exe so it no longer forces us to run it as an administrator AND no longer tries to write to HKLM hive so does not need admin rights to even launch... It now uses

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CutoMe

Which is what it should do.

It still needs read/write access to files within its installation folder to be able to run and that can be arranged by installing it onto a non-program files subfolder. I don't exepct many will want to keep this program as it really is a one trick pony and is more trouble than its worth even for free.

I have not looked into it specifically but I doubt I'd be able to patch the access to the pair of .db files in the installation folder to point to an %appdata% subfolder due to lack of patching space. But I've done what was possible using intuition and logic.

Admitadly I have had to edit the executable to do this and that has broken Tenorshares original digital signature BUT this combination of edits lets you install the progrm on a non Program Files location and run it with the renamed FFMPEG.EXE file I have provided the link to in the previous comment. This patched file is avaaiable at:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ai4kUYFAeZV7gV1k0kFEliqjM2dX


Scan Date: 2019-05-09 23:40:57
Hash: 4ec8ac6610badb0b06762f1103244a30
Detections: 0/72

File had no detections

NOTE The file is SELF SIGNED to let VIrusTotal show it has no detections... with the broken original Tenorshare signature due to the modifications it triggered two detections based solely on the broken signature but no detections of any other issues.
My self signed certificate will not be known on your systems certificating authority store, just accept that and move on... DO NOT INSTALL my self signed certifcate or anyone elses self signed certificate into your own CA store as that opens you up to vulnerabilities do not install certificates unless instructed by a trusted data provider... and that's NOT ME or anyone on a comments page or internet forum.

I will only keep this file at the above URL for a limited period of time to honour GAOTD business model.

Blackhat, That is what I though too... I note a complete lack of acknowledgment of the many developers that have put in thousands of programming hours of work making the open source product that this software would not exist without.... I do not see a single copy of any version of the GPL license or any of the other open source license that FFMPEG can be configured to be built to be distributed under and no mention of FFMPEG at alll in their license.txt file in which they pretend they are the copyright owners of it all!


"CutoMe
Copyright (C) 2007-2017 Adoreshare Software. All Rights Reserved.

LICENSE AGREEMENT

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions
before using this Software.

The CutoMe is shareware.

You may use unregistered version of this Software as long as you wish.
If you wish to use CutoMe without functional
limitations, you MUST register it.

Once registered, the user is granted a non-exclusive license to use the
Software for the purposes described in the Documentation.

All copyrights are exclusively owned by the legitimate owners. Except
where otherwise noted, all of the documentation and software included
in the CutoMe package is copyrighted by
Adoreshare Software. Adoreshare Software have the right, at its
discretion, to change, modify, add or remove provisions from this license
agreement at any time without notice. Changes shall be effective immediately.


Installing and using CutoMe signifies
acceptance of these terms and conditions of the license.

If you do not agree with the terms of this license you must remove
CutoMe files from your storage devices
and cease to use the product.

_______________________________________________________

Adoreshare Software
http://www.adoreshare.com"

TK, I have to agree with you. Over the past 10 or 12 months, I've downloaded maybe 5 video editors from GOTD. Now that number is down to 2, deleting the rise of them. They all do pretty much the same thing, so it comes down to who's interface do you like better. I'm not saying Adoreshare CutoMe is bad!!! Just that market is flooded with good video editors and many are freeware.

Jim C, http://www.videotovideo.org/download/

OS XP, Vista, W7. Also works in Windows 8.1. Does not know the H 265 codec.

"Why? You can do this in almost any video editor or video converter free or paid..."

"They all do pretty much the same thing, so it comes down to who's interface do you like better... that market is flooded with good video editors"

FWIW... from what I've read, it's common in China to take an existing design and use it as the basis for your own product, modding &/or tweaking it to make it better or cheaper to produce. I *think* that someone(s) figured that they could include ffmpeg's concatenation features to include lossless video cut/join in their video converter, making it stand out from all the others. And so we see the trend spreading to other brands. Lossless cut & join is a bit iffy, so one of the converters with this added feature **may** work better for some video files, and probably worse for others, depending on the ffmpeg methods & script used [there's more than one method of file concatenation].

That said, in the past [pre-HD] lossless cut/join was more useful because video was very often lower quality & couldn't go through re-encoding and still be watchable. CPUs were also much less powerful, so re-encoding something that today takes minutes took hours.

I think fewer people are even converting video nowadays -- because with increasing use of DRM, you have less to work with, because ARM CPUs are more powerful [even a cheap Kindle can play Blu-ray w/out DRM as-is just fine], there's no need to reduce frame size &/or bit rate just to get it to play, because fewer people are willing to hassle with getting files >1 GB transferred to their phones, & because there are so very many more ways to watch video, there's much less need to work at or for it.

mike, there still is a need to edit/convert video's taken with ones cmaera phone at HD or better resolution and high quality before posting smaller file size on face book etc. Most people do not want to spend a day and a couple of gig bandwidth uploading their party video or latest racist police excessive violence... the main video needs to be best quality for evidence purposes but the viral video needs to be small enough to get online quick and good enough to show what happened but not enough to count the hairs on the victims eyebrows.