My bad, it says,

"Failed to connect, please try again later."

maddog, gpu acceleration if it works at all on target host GPU's is dependant upon the encoding using a hardware supported codec and to my knowledge no 3rd party developer has produced their own codecs but rely solely upon the GPU vendors SDK sample GPU accelerated codecs, usually only h264. Also there are various GPU acceleration SDK revisions which render different driver revisions support obsolete or incompatible.
So if they use Cuda SDK that works on older drivers they will not work on drivers with NVEnc(ode) libraries that use the lastest Cuda SDK that is designed to work with current drivers in higher end cards and visa versa...It's pretty much down to a roll of the dice if any given programs GPU acceleration supports any given Nvida GPU and driver combination.

See the thread at https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/solution-for-cuda-problem-in-nvidia-drivers.393338/#post-4926155

OhZone, stay with it...it disappears and then comes back

Bonnie Liu, sounds like a communication error with the GAOTD key server used to validate a giveaway and obtain the key to decrypt the setup.gcd package, check your network connections integrity and try again.

Ootje, thanks once again for sharing your real-world tests. Conversion capabilities don't appear good for this software! Would like to see the developer's explanation, are there some video types that work better than others?

And I can guess why it won't download YouTube videos, they change their process often and have more things locked down than ever before. Unless a program is updated often, it simply won't work on YouTube. Anyone have a different take on this?

Mr.Dave, in the past I did use this one to download video's:
Ashampoo® ClipFinder HD 2: www.ashampoo.comukeurpin0255multimedia-softwareclipfinder-hd-2
You do need a account to get the SN
But there are more programs to download video for free. Also websites.

Jim Koup,
I am just guessing. It could be your firewall, as it was in my case.

Jim Koup, the setup.exe portion of the wrapper only tries to make the authorising connection to the GAOTD server the once so if your firewall pops up a prompt to allow the network access or not it had already block THAT connection attempt and even if you aprove internet access for SETUP.EXE it will fail that time and the program will throw the error alert you saw, now if you do not let the firewall remember your choice for the program the request, block and ask and give permission loop will happen each time you run the setup.exe program... you must let the firewall remember the choice and re-run the setup.exe If you are not getting prompted to allow the connection or not then you'd probably need to temporarily disable outbound connection filtering on your firewall and try again. You could also have Internet Explorer or Outlook switched to offline mode and that could also disable setup.exe from being able to make outbound connections too.

Jim Koup,

As for downloading from YouTube, it does download provided that your Firewall does not block the program. I agree the error message (Error! Please check your network connection, then try again) is a poor description of the error, because so many seem to think it implies their basic Internet Connection, which their browser proves is working. A check does not consist of seeing if your browser can connect to the Internet. It means you need to check your network connection for the program attempting to access the Internet; in this case, the WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro program (WF-HDVCFP). Of course your Firewall allows your browser to access to the Internet, but it may block other programs. I found that by default, my Firewall (WinPrivacy) was blocking the program. After allowing access, the program was able to download from YouTube.

My ASUS ROG Maximus Extreme VIII died on me, and does not allow access even to BIOS, so everything I tested was on an old XP computer, with older graphics card (way before 4k). Since the program claims it can download 4k videos, I chose a 4k sample file on YouTube. By default, WF-HDVCFP suggested a size of 1280x720/mp4, however using the drop-down, I was able to select the 4k option (3820x2160 webm). When the download was complete, it is listed in the Tasks list. At the left of the item is a Play button (right-pointing triangle). The background of the Play button is typically a snapshot of the first frame of the video; mine was black, but that is understandable since I downloaded this onto a computer that does not have a high resolution video card. Regardless, I clicked on the Play button but was instantly informed there was an error: List index out of bounds. Also, VLC player could not play the file either.

I wondered if I could at least do a convert on the 4k file. Attempting a convert, the program also displayed the same List out of bounds error, but an Analyzing bar implies the program was still working. After 30 minutes, I concluded it was not doing anything (very low CPU usage).

I was able to download the 1280 version of the video, and everything worked just fine.

If your computer has the ability to play 4k video, I suspect the program will work with 4k as advertised. I purchased the program some time ago with lifetime updates, so when a better motherboard arrives, I will be able to install this update.

TW, please note that today's giveaway is from WonderFox, not Wondersoft . . .

Not quite as user friendly as I had hoped. It seems as though it will take at least as much poking and prodding as it did with the above listed ConvertXtoHD to generate useful output. Time to have fun.

Johnny, Ditto.

You have said much better what I was trying to say. :)

Johnny, will it combine videos after converting them? If not do you know of a free on line priogram that will combine videos?

LM, There is a check box that lets you combine separate video files that are in the cue into a single video file.

Authorized User,

If you are using a VPN, try turning it off.

I keep getting the same error message.

@CD, thank you for your answer, but I'm not using VPN. Must be something else?

Authorized User,

I get the same error message and don't use VPN. Would love to know how to fix this.

CM, Any Update on how to fix this ?

Did you contact the author? My installs have also deauthorized themselves after upgrades. The author(s) have to change their licensing method periodically as cracks become available for their software. But I've never once had any problem that wasn't resolved by simply sending them an email along the lines, 'Hi, my software LIC# xxxxx-xxxx-xxx suddenly became unlicensed when I upgraded' Invariably a few hours later, an email arrives with an explanation of why it happened and a new license.

Bruce, mine did this as well. I didn't think to email tech support because most of these giveaways specifically state that they don't come with it.

davies, the popup for software informer always come up when the program thinks it has been installed. You probably need to disable your anti virus.

From readme file

IMPORTANT: please note that due to the Themida wrapper usage your installation might be blocked by your antivirus (AVG, Avast or Kaspersky)!

This will result in no program installed on your PC even if your antivirus reports no files are blocked.
In order to install the program, you'll have to temporally disable your antivirus.

If you have Kaspersky antivirus, disable it and restart the computer.
Please make sure it won't start automatically with the computer.
Now please download the program archive once again and try to install it.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

TK, You mean sftp as secure file transfer protocol.

TK,

I believe the 160 ftps mentioned is two typos. As proof for my conclusion, on the developer's product page (http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/hd-video-converter/), in the section with the heading "What Else Makes It Stand Out," there are subsections. One of those subsections states:
"Support for 60 fps Conversion
Converted videos will just get better. Make them higher-quality."

Even though some devices are getting the ability to have higher fps rates (as Mike mentioned), 60 is pretty high currently. I am sure that as the demand increases, the converters will increase their capabilities as well. I am not an iPhone user, so I wonder if there is any software that can handle/convert their higher fps rate.

Joe Schmoe, no SFTP is SSH File transfer protocol while FTPS is FTP over SSL or TLS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS

From the readme.txt in the download -

1) No free technical support
2) No free upgrades to future versions
3) Strictly non-commercial usage

Appears to be a fully licensed version apart from that.

Eriksson, wonderfox giveaways are as yet not known to be expiring, currently no need to expect this giveaway to be any different, I'll leave it to those with time to spare to alter their system clocks to years ahead to confirm or report otherwise.

Tried to find a release history type page/list on their site but could not find any.. it may exist or may not... sorry can't help with specifics or say whether it is just two new features or twenty two.

TK, perhaps this is the page of "release history" >> http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/hd-video-converter/update-log.html

Quach Phat Thang, thanks, would have seen that if they had included the section tabs in the Overview page which is the home page for the product... I guess they have no beta testers for their website!

Kim Olsen,

I think the publishers are the same too. They just change their names to appear different.

alireza,

Handbrake is a excellent program for converting videos once you have mastered the controls.
It's limited however to MKV and MP4 video outputs but these are common video formats.