Media Conversion

WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is the first paid software I’ve written about. Its main job is video conversion, and one feature I personally think is pretty nice is that it can download videos from YouTube~ But to be honest, before writing this post my thinking was: “Conversion software? There’s tons of free stuff like that online—who would dare charge money for it?” But… when I actually used this software, I found it wasn’t as ordinary as I’d imagined XD ...

This post shows you how to turn a “video” into “music.” Often you might download a great music video from a video-sharing site (for example, YouTube), but the file is in a video format such as MP4 or FLV. In that case, you can use the audio track extraction feature built into MediaCoder to convert the video into an audio file! ...

MediaCoder is a very handy video converter. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and it’s free. But those aren’t the main point. The real highlight is that it can use the GPU (graphics card) to do the conversion work. This technique is called GPGPU. With it, you’re much less likely to run into the problem of CPU usage spiking past 100% and the computer crashing during conversion, and conversion is ridiculously fast. I often convert videos while playing online games, and everything runs smoothly. ...