WinFF Review

WinFF 1.1.1 Review

Handheld devices like mobile phones, PDAs and ultra-mobile PCs are getting more and more ubiquitous, as almost everyone has in their pocket a device that can do multimedia playback at various levels of quality. The problem that most owners face is getting the audio or video content that they want to enjoy into the proper format for the device. Some of them require specific video and audio codecs, fixed bitrates and framerates, while others are more lax in their requirements, but they still represent a problem for less tech-inclined users. Simply, you can't hope that a mobile phone will play DVD-quality media off of its memory card, or at least not yet. The way to go: transcoding the media into a format that is appropriate for the device. In Linux, the options are both feature-rich and with limited graphical interfaces, you have powerful media manipulation utilities, but most of them require typing very long and intricate commands into a terminal, then waiting (in some cases quite a long time) for the transcoded file to be completed, so you can check if the settings you gave were correct. So, what would you prefer, something along the lines of "ffmpeg -i infile.avi -deinterlace -vcodec xvid -ac 2 -ar 44100 -acodec libmp3lame -r 23.97 -s 320x176 -vb 512k -ab 128k -f avi Outfile.avi" or a nice graphical user interface to get all those command switches ...