一款功能强大的开源视频转换器

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THERE IS open source software to perform almost every task. But Windows users always expect a fancy graphical interface.

"SUPER" provides just that, allowing you to effortlessly convert video files between every format, for free.

The open source ffmpeg converter is awesome, supporting almost every video and audio codec on Earth. But like every other linux program it's a command line application -also known as "text mode" back in the old DOS days. Command line applications are very powerful, giving programmers and code hackers plenty of simplicity - you can pipe the output from one program to another in the traditional Unix fashion, run it as a web server task via CGI, you name it.

But for the end user, it also means that the current generation of windows "button clickers" feel left out. Not anymore. I found a nice windows graphical user interface dubbed "Super" which includes compiled windows executables of ffmpeg, MPLAYER, ffmpeg2theora along with other related open source libraries into a simple installer for it. The result is "Super", described, pardon the redundancy, as "A simple GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn".



Point-and-click access to ffmpeg, mencoder and ffmpeg2theora, from Windows

Translated to English, this means you to convert back and forth between AVI, WMV, ASF, Realvideo, Quicktime, OGG Theora, even the latest video file formats like .3gp used on mobile phones from Nokia/NEC/Siemens/Sony Ericsson etc. All is done with just a few clicks, as the gui launches the requested open sauce in the background. And everything for free, to boot. Before my surprise encounter with "Super" I was testing several shareware trials, and almost settled on the commercial program "WinAVI video converter", which while promising, now feels expensive and limited in comparison. Of course, with the freeware GUI for the open source encoders, you get no support, so keep that in mind.