Can you suggest me some good and easy to use media converter ? I need to convert between various file formats. Open source or free solution would be better. I have seen mencoder and transcode for linux, but the learning curve seems to be steep! I am not very knowledgeable in how the codecs work or how many passes are required etc. A good introductory tutorial would be helpful as well. Thanks, Suman.
What media do you need to convert - video or audio? Are you using Linux? If you're talking video, then www.afterdawn.com is a good place to start.
I use mainly Linux, but I have access to Windows as well. I need to encode a huge .mp2 file from a handycam video into MPEG-4 so that I can upload it to Google video or Youtube. Any suggestion is welcome.
There's an MPEG2 mod of VirtualDub here: http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/ Can probably do what you need.