Whether you haven’t heard of this particular file format that you have on your desktop or you haven’t got the appropriate tools on your system, Format Factory is what we recommend trying out, it’s a freeware and probably the last file conversion tool you will ever need to search for!

Format Factory currently handles 12 types of video formats, six audio types, eight image formats and DVD/ISO conversions.

As you can see, it doesn’t look difficult to use, in fact quite simple, although spiked with format-icons and a big banner announcing the program’s name for no reason other than to put lipstick on the pig. The left navigation menu has collapsible links to the various formats you can convert to, based on type: video, audio, image, mobile device, and ROM device. Below the massive title banner, the central pane sports decorative icons until you start the conversion process.

Once you’ve selected your files, you can change the output quality to presets or custom settings. Hit Start on the Toolbar of the main window to begin the process, which is surprisingly fast for smaller video files. FormatFactory excels at batch conversion without error. It does, however, eat up much of your processor while it’s running even one conversion, that’s probably what I think is the only downside.

Because there are so many new file formats / codecs out there being ‘created’, it could be possible that FormatFactory will fail to convert for your needs at some point. However, FormatFactory is free and should help you do the trick for the most common file types, and there is nothing lost if you don’t like it after giving it a go!

The latest version of Format Factory is currently in 1.40 supports Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vist, so far there have been 28,369 downloads since its release from the end of July…

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