Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Video format conversion softwares

Process of coding a video or audio file into a particular format is known as encoding, the codecs used for this purpose is know as encoder. Encoding can be done using software or using specialised hardware. Different encoding methods produce different output file sizes by varrying picture/sound quality, compression etc.

Decoding is the reverse process of converting back the encoded file contents into the original playable video/audio. Many types of Media player software use different decoders to play media files. Newer encoding techniques create highly compressed media files which require specialized hardware support for decoding them back.

As there are new and old video formats available the need arises to convert them into different formats. For this many software solutions are available some of which provide basic functionality for free some others provide professional features. Any video converter is one of the free tool available on the internet. It provides an easy to use interface and many different formats are supported.

Xilisoft video converter is a professional conversion tool which provides extra features like video clipping, more supported media formats, resolution and bit-rate calculator etc. It also supports nvidia CUDA for 5x faster processing.

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