FormatFactory

FormatFactory
Developer(s) Chen Jun Hao[1]
Stable release 2.80  (5 December 2011; 3 months ago (2011-12-05)[2]) [±]
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Available in 56 different languages[3]
Type Transcoder
License Freeware
Website www.pcfreetime.com[1]
www.formatoz.com

FormatFactory is an ad-supported freeware multimedia converter that can convert video, audio, and picture files. It is also capable of ripping DVDs and CDs to other file formats, as well as creating .iso images. It can also join multiple video files together into one. FormatFactory supports the following formats:

Video formats Audio formats Picture formats

3GP (.3gp)
MPEG-1 (.mpg)
Matroska (.mkv)
Flash Video (.flv)
MPEG-4 Part 14 (.mp4)
Audio Video Interleave (.avi)
Windows Media Video (.wmv)

MP3
Ogg
Wave Sound (.wav)
Adaptive Multi-Rate (.amr)
Windows Media Audio (.wma)
Advanced Audio Coding (.aac)

.JPG
.PNG
.ICO
.BMP
.GIF
.TIF
.TGA

Alleged license violation

On June 22, 2009, Format Factory was listed on FFmpeg's Hall Of Shame web page.[4] An associated issue tracker message asserts Format Factory to be in violation of FFmpeg LGPL license.[5] There has been no response from the developers. The issue remains unresolved.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b FormatFactory v2.60, 4 November 2010, About dialog box 
  2. ^ "Format Factory". www.pcfreetime.com. 17 June 2011. http://www.pcfreetime.com/UpdateLog.html. Retrieved 22 June 2011. 
  3. ^ "Languages". Format Factory - Free media file format converter. pcfreetime.com (Official web site). http://www.pcfreetime.com/language.html. Retrieved 19 April 2010.  (Note: Front page of the official web site says: “Supports 56 languages”)
  4. ^ "Hall of Shame". ffmpeg.org. http://www.ffmpeg.org/shame.html. Retrieved 17 February 2010. 
  5. ^ "Issue 1214: Format Factory license violation". FFMpeg issue tracker. ffmpeg.org. 22 June 2009. http://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1214. Retrieved 17 February 2010. 

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