It can do simple MPEG-1 for NTSC TV.

First click the drop-down arrow for "Output Format:" and click the Video Tab and choose the MPEG/MPG icon.

Then click the gear icon for "Settings" and leaving Video > Encoder > Smart Fit should produce a MPEG-1 for NTSC TV file, or you can enforce the encoder to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2. Click OK button to apply changes.


Sample specs from native Windows 7 sample video file:

MediaInfo for SmartFit: https://imageshack.com/i/eyQBsrPkp
MediaInfo for MPEG1VIDEO: https://imageshack.com/i/idzXFpb9p

Hi MikeOD,

Please try the format "VCD (NTSC)" as output under "DVD/VCD" tag. You can get the MPEG-1 video for NTSC TV easily.

Livy

Hi Hsiu,

Thanks for your feedback. We will fix the issue about Chinese characters in next update.

Livy

Hi Spirit,

HD Video Converter Factory Pro can detect the multiple audio tracks and subtitles for you if they exist. It enables you to select one audio track and subtitle for output file.

Livy

Yes it can convert WTV. I did a couple them this morning.

Hi Kjung,

Yes, HD Video Converter Factory Pro exclusively supports WTV video converting, multiple audio tracks and multi-subtitle settings perfectly. We didn't advertise the information about WTV in the software or our website, but it has been included in this new version. Hope it can be helpful.

Livy

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your detailed test.

We didn't highlight the HTML5 video format in this new version, but you can find it under "Web" output tag.

As we know, video encoding processing always occupies the most CPU resources, especially from SD to HD. In order to get the fastest conversion, HD Video Converter Factory Pro will take advantage of all CPU cores as priority. You can decide how to assign the CPU cores for conversion in setting option if you are about to do something with your computer during the conversion progress.

Livy

That is the nature of the beast. Just finished watching a 20 min. presentation on H265. The speaker says the compression is about 1.5 to one and the extra time needed is around 5:1. He says this may improve in the future if the graphics card makers include the encoding in their future cards.

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback!

Please click the "Web Video" tag, then you can find the HTML 5 Video here.

BTW,we have added another useful format on v8.5, it's M4R, iPhone/iPad ringtone.

Thank you!

HD Video Converter Factory Pro is optimized for HD/SD conversion, video compression, it supports the newest video encoder like H265, VP9.

Video Converter Factory Pro is optimized for normal video conversion, video to portable device conversion.

No offense even hinted at Francis, in practice re-encoding to up-size a video frame is often a bit silly. If you want to fill a TV screen with a smaller frame size than that TV's max, most every HDTV AFAIK handles it quite well all by itself -- the same can be said about tablets & cells & PCs/laptops. Particularly with Standard CRT TVs, there are some restrictions -- mainly the frame size used should be one of the commonly recognized standards. TO go beyond that you can probably find a [usually Android based] media player for ~$30, if the same sort of electronics aren't built into your Blu-Ray player or TV itself, or you can often cast from a cell or tablet, or connect a HDTV to a PC/laptop.

The problem with re-encoding to upsize video frames is that every time you re-encode video you lose quality -- it really can't be helped. If/when you're taking 1080p & going down to an anamorphic 1080, or 720 or 480 etc., you've originally got more quality than the output file will [can] contain, so it's not as big a deal. When you upsize you're losing quality from the re-encode, + you're losing quality from the software guessing at what pixels to add, in what color, where.

That said, if you're interested in re-sizing video with the highest quality, AviSynth, particularly with VirtualDub is in my experience the best choice. There are several methods available, & the way VirtualDub works, resizing is higher quality than any alternatives I've tried. For lossless video formats, there are actually a few -- I like the free UT Video, which handles HD very well, but there are like I said many alternatives that may or may not work better for you depending on original & final output formats. Total RAM isn't that important -- lots of fast disk space is, the faster the better. Hitting the 500GB mark with a single file isn't all that rare when you're storing [what's actually near] lossless HD video.

It can also be helpful to have an Intel vs. AMD CPU, win10 may make better use of an Intel CPU's GPU in addition to a separate graphics card, & depending on the software you choose, you may be better off with an AMD graphics card for OpenCL, or an Nvidia with CUDA. In both cases the more expensive, higher end cards provide more assist -- multiple cards *usually* have no bearing, the possible exception being the free DaVinci Resolve Lite 11.1.3 .

The Download Video drop-down arrow is what you might have clicked on. Try clicking to the left of that... on the actual words.

There is a box to paste the URL and it is very clear. I just downloaded two videos.
If you need to convert to XVID or DIVX, it is under AVI.
Choose AVI output and then adjust the Settings.

UPDATE: Once the converter is restarted, there no longer is a "Source File Information" error thrown as previously mentioned. I hazard the reason is certain settings are saved after initial launch of the program? If so, then initial launch of this program creates settings that are not yet usable until the next session. That being said, there still was no audio on that 1080p video.

UPDATE 2: I discovered that the "Download List" in the drop-down arrow for "Download Video" retains previous downloaded videos. That was not apparent at first, and there was nothing about "Returning to Previously Downloaded Content" in your "Full Guide of HD Video Converter Factory Pro" webpage. Perhaps a one-time message box that tells/reminds the user how to access that list would clear up the vanished downloads from the main converter workspace.

Hi Arttronics,

We appreciate your precious feedback, we will report the errors to our engineers. If there's any issue while you use our software in the future, you can also contact us at support@videoconverterfactory.com.

Have a nice day!

Livy

UPDATE 3: Here is a different bug: When choosing to Add Files from the drop-down arrow, the default file-types are reversed. In other words, selecting Add Videos will produce the browser box that has "All supported audio files" as the preset to look for. For Add Audios, the browser box will show "Add other videos".

For this bug, I initially had to re-download the video since the browser box showed no videos for me to import back into the converter, however that video was there all along... it was just the file-types from Add Videos browser that was wanting to load audio files. I simply changed it to videos.

It's good to know that technical support is an email away, however I'll post whatever I notice here so that it might benefit somebody else.

YouTube often has the 1080p stream "without audio". What they do us mux the video/audio on the fly. I use an alternate downloader and capture the streams separately, then use MP4Box to remux the two.

I'm guessing YouTube does this to thwart HD downloads, and also to reduce bandwidth for users who "listen only".

The odd thing is that the audio that is in the p stream is often at a higher quality (bitwise) than the audio-only stream.

@Holmes, that is a good tip for the makers of this converter, to perform two individual streams downloads and reassemble them if that's the case. Maybe it's the other way around too, where Youtube is serving content that is de-muxed on the fly. I suppose the converter engineers can look at the HTTP content during the GET to see how it's delivered by monitoring network resources (e.g. using Firebug).

I did not know that the separate audio stream is of lower quality, but I think if all audio is parsed from the video, maybe the particular stream you have is for the 480p version (as 720p and 1080p has same audio stream) in which case using a different URL (or modifiying the existing one) to get the correct audio stream type.

FYI: I use a Firefox AddOn simply named Youtube High Definition to download the occasional HD video. Here is a screenshot of the selection that are available for the first link I posted.

The publicly available Youtube API gets updates from time to time, and things migrate often, so I'm sure the engineers are working hard to resolve any issues like "no audio" for videos that are 1080p. Even using 720p audio to be "remuxed" into a no audio 1080p video can work too, since both timecodes are the same.

EDIT: In error I wrote the wrong Firefox AddOn name for the linked screenshot. The correct name is Complete YouTube Saver AddOn which requires an installation of FFmpeg (e.g., a folder having that library) so that the incoming video *and* audio contents are re-muxed together. I actually use both AddOns at the same time, one to enforce 1080p and the other to download the video at 1080p.

To add to what Holmes mentioned above, it therefore appears that Youtube is serving 1080p content in DASH format. A simple solution for the engineers is to remux those two streams back into one via FFmpeg.

P.S. Thanks for your comment here Holmes. I didn't even known I was downloading two streams after all.

Now I know why "noaudio" is seen in the converter. Cheers!

Hi Cecile,

Since the data is stored in your cloud drive, HD Video Converter Factory Pro is incapable of reading it. You can download it to your hard drive and then convert with HD Video Converter Factory Pro.

Livy

Hi PhilS,

Thanks for your nice comment.

According to your feedback, we made a test with the same video file in the same parameters.

http://i.imgur.com/PbKK9iH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PIgCYLF.jpg

Thanks for your test results.

I ran a similar test with a 2 hour or so avi file.

Aieesoft Total video converter - Just shy of 25 minutes
HD Video Converter Factory Pro 8.5- Just over 55 minutes

How about the quality?

Hi Tomcat,

That's a good question.

Converting to HD is really making a MUCH larger file with a long time. I will take an HD picture for instance.

A 1920 x 1080 resolution HD picture has 1920 x 1080 pixels in it = 2073600 pixels.
A 320 x 240 picture has only 76800 pixels.
That means converting 320 x 240 to 1920 x 1080 (HD) means 27 times as much information. Videos are all the same.

So a poor original video file is ALWAYS going to get bad result when converting to HD. That is not the fault of the program, whatever other softwares you use, it MUST NOT reach your expected results. However, you might be satisfied with the effect if you convert from 320P to 480P, 480P to 720P, 720P to 1080P, 1080P to 4K.

Video conversion involves in many factors like video transcoding, compression, etc. Image quality, conversion speed and smaller size - How to keep the balance? That's a shared issue among multi-media developers.

If you increased the definition, HD Video Converter Factory Pro will process your video with the unique conversion technology to get the best result, like enhancing contrast, sharpen, noise reduction and etc.

Hope my answer will resolve your question.

Installed and registered without problems, opened up to an interface I recognised as WonderFox as soon as I went to select the output format, a really sensible design.

I was pretty well ready to slate this converter as soon as I saw converting from SD to HD, but before that happened the developers gave a convincing argument when they answered Tomcat.
Obviously you cannot put information into a video that doesn't exist but you can give a perception of improvement using various effects which apparently the program does with this type of conversion.

Like most of us I have no shortage of video converters but as my vision has deteriorated with old age,
I find that increasing sharpness and manipulating contrast and brightness make viewing so much easier and I wanted to try the effects offered by this program.
I found the increase in sharpness to be very effective but not controllable nor could I combine it with other effects, a serious omission in my opinion.

I really like the interface and I can make use of the effects and so I am going to keep it.

Hi Major Woody,

This is the first release for HD Video Converter Factory Pro new version. The latest version is 8.5.

Livy

Hi Karl,

Thanks for your test.

1. Since it's the GOTD exclusive debut, we haven't updated v8.5 on our official site yet. The information on change-log page is still for the previous version, sorry for the inconvenience.

2. You can shrink video up to 75% compress ratio with original image quality by the advanced encoders like H265, VP9. Hope you can have another try.

http://i.imgur.com/N756E79.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/imx3pvL.jpg?1

@ Livy, I just reinstalled the software for your proposed test.

With the H265 codec, the program simply crashes:
http://i.imgur.com/WqyhKdl.png

With the V= codec, here are the results. still a (slight-see the eyes) visible difference with 71%...
Original : http://www0.xup.in/exec/ximg.php?fid=22097567
MKV-V9 (71%) : http://www0.xup.in/exec/ximg.php?fid=11888471

Again uninstalled...

I have also found that whatever video you add, when selecting H265 the program just crashes and produces a 1k file.

Using W8.1 Pro

Based on user’s feedback and suggestions, our HD Video Converter Factory Pro is improved a lot with new features and optimizations.

Thanks for this offer. I have your version 7.0 and find it one of the better video convertors out there, this new version (major update) STILL doesn't offer HTML5 video as an output option. (Not talking about WebM here.) There really is no excuse for this shortcoming, as some of the competitors are offering this now.

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A word of advice. All Wonderfox products I have used have always had a peculiar quirk of installation (at least for me): if you attempt to install without choosing "Run as Administrator", the installation appears to fail (as you might expect)... but what actually happens is it gets installed lock, stock and barrel into a folder in your Users...AppData area. If you then do an installation "as Admin", you end up with two installations, one in Users and the other in the correct place (PFx86). You only realise this by chance if you happen to be browsing your folders there or browsing your registry. You have to manually delete it from there, as it isn't recognised as an installed application (of course).

I have normal dvd's and BD's and have rippers/converters for both. But I've yet to find a one-stop-shopping solution for HD-DVD's. I know it's an old format but I have over 30 HDDVD's and have to fire up the Xbox's HD external player to watch. I would like to put them on my media server as a backup and retire the HD-DVD player but I've yet to find any marketed solutions to do this. Other than BD's with ACCS to keep you from making a archived backup, most solutions, like todays offer, is cut and dry. ACCS bluray disc's just take longer with the right software but it's a toss up everytime. Anyone got a suggestion for what works with the older HD-DVD's from the obsolete format. And for the record, I never got on the HD-DVD bandwagon. I just ended up with over 30 titles when I got a backup player. After watching one last night, I think HD-DVD is as good if not better as blurays, IMHO.

Just a +1 for the HD DVD ripper request. If any company could release a program capable of ripping HD DVDs (it shouldn't be any harder than BRs) they would pretty much have the market to themselves, and that's a great way to stand out from the competition. HD DVD may unfortunately have been abandoned, despite having certain advantages, but there are still a lot of us out there who own HD DVD collections which we would like to convert for playback on laptops, tablets, etc. If somebody could accommodate this request it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I notice this says your for-sale version is for 3 PCs. Sorry, as a rule, I never buy any software that limits how many computers in which it can be installed. The very fact that it has a limitation like this implies there must be a control mechanism. Therefore I can only assume that the program can only be installed on a computer which is connected to the internet. Since I only have one computer that can be connected to the internet and I have no idea if I will have internet at all when I need to reinstall later, I would never buy this product.

#BenAsp:
Thanks for your constant support! In fact, we have added the HTML5 format in this latest version. You can find it by "Output Format" -> "Web" -> "HTML5 Video".
"HTML5 + FTP" is customized features for Webmasters. To cater to new HTML5 web development trend, create HTML5 video for your website effortlessly now. Automatically upload videos to server via FTP after conversion is done. Save your time and effort!

#tc1uscg and #HD DVD ripper
Our WonderFox DVD Ripper Pro enables you to copy DVD to Xbox, and we recommend you to have a try. If you need further assist, please contact our technical team at support@videoconverterfactory.com, and they will work for you.

Livy