- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-second trial, watermark on output); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 01, 2004
- Total Downloads: 20,438
- Downloads last week: 4
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 5 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This basic audio and video converter garners points for its ease of use, but the trial version's limitations may be too strict for some users. DirectConvert supports a number of popular video and audio formats, including MPEG, AVI, WMV, MP3, OGG, AC3, WMA, and WAV codecs. Transforming files is a breeze, since the program walks you through the process in step-by-step mode. When converting video files, you can specify width, height, and frame rate, as well as audio and video compression schemes. If you're working with audio files, you can select the quality, though the demo appears to disable support for the space-saving VBR format. You can also extract audio from video clips or choose to convert only a certain portion of files. That all sounds great, until you find out the trial version limits all audio conversions to 30 seconds and places a watermark on video files. If it weren't for that letdown, we could get more excited about this otherwise capable application.Publisher's description
From Essien Research & Development :DirectConvert is a media-conversion tool that converts your video files to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 (in standard or in DVD, SVCD, and VCD formats), to AVI format (including DivX), and to the WMV/ASF format (allowing you to use a pre-defined profile or to define your own profile). You can convert your audio files to MP3, WMA, OGG, AC3, or the uncompressed PCM format. In both audio and video conversions, you can specify specific ranges (time values) of the video or audio files. DirectConvert allows you to convert from many input formats, including Real Media, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, MPEG, AVI, ASF/WMV, and WAV, as well as any other DirectShow supported format.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.3 stars out of 5 votes
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Version: DirectConvert 3.2
Pros: Nice options and menus...
Cons: ... but when you finally click "Convert"... IT DOESN'T WORK! What a waste of time.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: DirectConvert 3.2
"rmvb to vcd does not work and NO refund!"
Summary: I paid the 25$ to buy the product. BIG mistake! It cannot convert rm or rmvb to vcd. The author insisted that it is real encoder problem even HT encoder, EOVide and other converters using the same real encoder and working prefectly on the same machi... read more >>
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Version: DirectConvert 3.2
Summary: Does not read VCD video files as per the summary. These are the files it accepts as input:
Windows Media (.asf, .wmv)
AVI
MPEG
REAL MEDIA (.rm, .ram)
MP3
WAV
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Version: DirectConvert 3.2
"It worked first time and did was it was supposed to"
Summary: This was the fifth MPEG converter I had downloaded. I had problems with all of them until this one.
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Version: DirectConvert 3.2
Summary: Works well, and is quite fast.
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