bobbo, Freemake Video Converter 3.0.2.9

Thanks Mirek, I'll give it a try with fingers crossed.

Made a test run: Will not trim/cut in lossless fashion and as far as I can see I HAVE TO convert the edited file to another format. Thats "ok" but the edited file will not play...not even in Freemake. Maybe a glitch...maybe can't work with .ts files? Hope I don't have to rely on it......

but worth the look. Fun to see how different programs do what they do: the level of intuitiveness is different.

bobbo.

Steve Behrens, no, it's just a GUI front end to an unlicesed FFMPEG distribution.

James Etherington, Sounds like a waste of time to me, you cannot add back quality that has already been lost.

James Etherington, the big question is WHY? recompressing an mp3 audio stream with a different (hopefully better) mp3 encoder even if one selects 320kbps will NOT result in any more quality as the source is already lower than CD or DAT quality and any further use of any mp3 encoder will further degrade the audio even if it ends up in a bigger file. You cannot recover discarded audio data from the resultant stream. You'd need to go back to the lossless source material and re-encode with the best mp3 encoder you have. OR re-code the lossless source material into something like FLAC files and obtain a player that can play FLAC files.

James Etherington,

I'm going to assume you mean FLAC files, because LAME is media encoding software, not an audio codec or file type.

FeMaster, Oops. Thanks. I meant to say FLAC.

TK, I'm doing this not to get better audio quality obviously, as FLAC is higher quality but to use it on my mp3 player that does not play FLAC files.

Duncan Barrett, I'm converting it to mp3 because my portable mp3 player doesn't play FLAC files.

James Etherington, now you are saying FLAC instead of LAME your post makes sense! Obviously. I did not make FeMasters assumptions becaue LAME is not the best MP3 encoder engine about so you could have been thinking what you had written!

To do what you want you could use any number of free FFMPEG GUI's Xmedia Recode is what I'd use as it handles batch operations and pretty much all mp3 bit rate operations such as variable bit rate min 32kbps max 320kbps and lets you select ALL in list and apply same paremeters to all FLAC files in the list. It also converts the files tags if the FLAC files have them embeded.

blakes, nothing makes this any better except maybe that the license is non-expiring but it is just the same type of thing, a closed source GUI on top of an unlicensed unathorised distribution of FFMPEG, in this case quite an old version so it will operate under XP too.

No. They have DVD rippers here quite often so, you can wait or you can find some by searching 'free DVD rippers' or use a program like Gordian Knot or Handbrake. (more complicated that ones found here but they work great.) Today's software is for converting a video from a format you can't use on some device to one you can. e.g. .avi to MP4 to watch on for ipads or a camcorder format like .MTS to .mkv to watch on one of the many devices that can't read .MTS. Good luck and remember to only get files from trusted websites.

Joe Handsome,
You can convert it to MP4 format.

Playing video displaying subs from a USB stick/drive...

DVD & Blu-ray subs are are graphics rather than text, though DVDs may have CC embedded in the mpg2 video as well. It is possible to include Blu-ray subtitle streams in a MKV container, but playback options are limited -- I assume there's a way to include DVD sub streams too, but I've never seen or tried it. If you don't alter the original mpg2 video on a DVD with CC, a Few players can display embedded CC. The simplest way is to just copy the DVD or Blu-ray to the USB stick/drive, and use VLC [available for just about any device, including Kindle HD (!)] Otherwise, once you've copied the DVD or Blu-ray to your HDD [to remove DRM], the most common way to do it is to OCR the subs into a text-based .srt file. There are a few free apps to do just that, e.g. SubtitleEdit. If that .srt file's name matches the video file, e.g. MyVideo.mp4 & MyVideo.srt, & both are in the same folder, most players, including native players on Android devices, will let you turn sub display on/off. Because the graphics-based sub streams are contained in DVD VOB or Blu-ray .m2ts files, you can also create a new DVD or Blu-ray re-using the original subs streams/files, or just put the re-encoding [converted] video in a .m2ts file along with the original subs, but you have wider player compatibility using .srt files.

mike, you can download subtitle files for most movies, and easily use them with PotPlayer -- for those who want to watch a movie with subtitles.

ricohflex, This maybe from the origin of developer - it said from US, but actually from CN (according to the domain register information)

ricohflex, It's a false positive. I just installed it and no problem.

ricohflex, this dosen't mean the software is bad just not recognized by Google Chrome or Windows 10. I usually
scan the software after download then create a system restore point . I wait about 15 mins and create another restore point and then use an uninstall that can trace all files being installed.

ricohflex, Because of it being a ZIP file only.

Blakes, I do similar but why do you create 2 restore points, the later one 15 min after the first ?? Isnt the first Restore point sufficient ? Thanks

mark, I make two restore points because i have found that windows 10 has sometimes create corrupt
restore point and i have even had some disappear. So i try to be as safe as possible.

blakes, thanks for your reply, yes you are right I have seen the same, and might adopt your procedure also, plus i use uninstaller software also.

Greg, It supports NVIDIA GPU Acceleration

Greg, For that you need Win HD Video Converter DeLuxe 5.16.00, which has hardware Accelerator for Intel, nVidea and AMD.

Greg, it is limited by the age and build options of the unlicensed FFMPEG this converter is based around.

Larry Blanke, Any converter, basic or not that does not come with hardware acceleration for all 3 main GPU vendors is a waste of time.

When the free Handbrake can do a better job you might as well not bother tying to sell something inferior.