This robust video converter ably packs a number of file formats into the Flash video format and is stylish to boot. Riva FLV Encoder works well with the usual suspects: AVI, WMV, MPEG, and MOV files. With a graceful, well-designed interface that shows its developers care about details, this video converter also offers a healthy set of conversion options. Frame rate, bit rate, and audio-compression options all can be set to your preferences. The program can "cut" video files into JPEG images, if needed.
Another nice detail is the inclusion of several presets depending on your network type (ISDN or DSL, for example). What's more, you can easily save settings to save time later. Overall, Riva is a great freeware application for Webmasters looking for a reliable (and inexpensive) way to convert video files to the Web.
Here's a list of the supported input formats and codecs (remember, the output will always be .flv):
AVI
Cinepak Codec by Radius, Cinepak by Supermac
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft RLE
XviD
DivX 3 Lower Motion, DivX 4, DivX 5
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC)
MPEG
MPEG-1 (VCD)
MPEG-2 (SVCD.DVD)
MPEG-4 (XviD, MP4, 3GPP)
Quicktime
Sorenson Video 3 Pro with the audio codec MP3, IMA 4:1 (nicht QDesign Standard und Qualcomm PureVoice) or wihtout audio
Exported from Quicktime Pro
Not supported: Exported from Adobe Premiere
Not supported: QDM2 Audio Codec
Windows Media Video
WMV 7, WMV 8
MPEG-4 V3
ISO MPEG-4 V1
Not supported: WMV 9
Another nice detail is the inclusion of several presets depending on your network type (ISDN or DSL, for example). What's more, you can easily save settings to save time later. Overall, Riva is a great freeware application for Webmasters looking for a reliable (and inexpensive) way to convert video files to the Web.
Here's a list of the supported input formats and codecs (remember, the output will always be .flv):
AVI
Cinepak Codec by Radius, Cinepak by Supermac
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft RLE
XviD
DivX 3 Lower Motion, DivX 4, DivX 5
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC)
MPEG
MPEG-1 (VCD)
MPEG-2 (SVCD.DVD)
MPEG-4 (XviD, MP4, 3GPP)
Quicktime
Sorenson Video 3 Pro with the audio codec MP3, IMA 4:1 (nicht QDesign Standard und Qualcomm PureVoice) or wihtout audio
Exported from Quicktime Pro
Not supported: Exported from Adobe Premiere
Not supported: QDM2 Audio Codec
Windows Media Video
WMV 7, WMV 8
MPEG-4 V3
ISO MPEG-4 V1
Not supported: WMV 9
