Testers Needed - Spesoft Free Video Converter

[Tom Speirs]

Hi All,

I am not far off releasing a new freeware product. I thought I would ask the crew here to give it a once over before release to make sure there is not something stupid wrong with it or if there is some useful feedback.

If you have time Id appreciate anyone who can check it out and report.

Many thanks.

Here is the link:

http://www.spesoft.com/SpesoftVideoConverterSetup.exe

[Adultery]

I have a bunch of camcorder videos from our vacation I'd love to test this out on. I'll be playing with it tomorrow.

[Draco1962]

I downloaded the file. Made my first avi to mp4 conversion and this was successful. The only pain was having to search for ffmpeg.exe on the web, but once that was done, it was perfect. BTW, if anyone needs it it can be found on Sourceforge.net.

[Adultery]

What exactly is that? Is it some sort of codec? I'd look it up on my mobile but I'm working and SourceForge is not mobile friendly.

[massop]

I love the speed of this, I had a problem with my old video converter (Aimersoft dvd studio) where converted .mp4 vidoes would show up distorted and green on my iphone 4 but the same videos would be fine on PC and iphone 3.

Making this my primary converter as I just did a vid that works on all systems.

Very good stuff

[massop]

Found a bug.

If your converting multiple videos in a folder and 1 vidoe fails to convert for whatever reason, the converter will automatically skip the remaining videos marking them as failed even though it can convert them on an individual basis.

I just had video 10 out of 24 fail and the remaining 13 was skipped and labelled as failed but when I ran them through again skipping video 10 it worked.

EDIT

I dont know if its possible but it would be good if the converter told you why a video failed

[mesk]

@ Draco I found FFmpeg to.but it didnt solve the problem,it converted the files but without sound.

what did you do with ffmpeg,put it in the folder of spesoft converter?

[Draco1962]

@ Draco I found FFmpeg to.but it didnt solve the problem,it converted the files but without sound.

what did you do with ffmpeg,put it in the folder of spesoft converter?

I selected the H264 option along with mp4. I then downloaded ffpmepg when prompted during the conversion process. I extracted ffmpeg to its own folder (c:\ffmpeg) along with the supporting files and folders. I selected the H264 option. Also I browsed to the ffmpeg folder and clicked on ffmpeg.exe then OK.

That is about it, my file converted from avi to mp4 with full sound.

[mesk]

Nice thanks Drac,I cant imagine what I did wrong the first time

Anyways nice piece of software Tom!No problems here! Now I can replace the other program I was using to convert videos that was acquired through "questionable means"....xD

Now I will be off to kick some a$$ with the blind swordsmen Kenshi in MK9!Some telekinetic sword beatdowns are on the horizon!

[Adultery]

Seems like this is an ample replacement for my video conversion software too! Thanks for this Tom! It's working great so far, I'm about 25% through vacation videos. I'll let you know if I hit any bugs.

[headkaze]

Are you sure you can't include ffmpeg.exe? I know "Videora TiVo Converter" does so perhaps there is a way to include it without breaking its license. Generally Open Source software requires you to include the source code to any changes you make and include the license agreement with the software. This is to keep the application Open Source but does not require you to Open Source an application that uses it unless it is linked to your executable (either by a statically linked library or dll). Since you are using an unmodified binary which you call externally by command line you would most likely not be required to include any source code. I had a look at their license and it doesn't say anything about including the executable. I would contact them and ask. I notice they have a page dedicated to shaming developers who have broken their license so it's best to ask them to be sure.

BTW In your app you call it FFMpeg but it's actually FFmpeg.

[Tom Speirs]

Its an issue with licensing the technologies not the actual ffmpeg software.