Any Video Converter is a
video converter developed by Anvsoft Inc. for
Microsoft Windows
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and
macOS
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. It is available in both a free and paid version. Any Video Converter Windows version won the
CNET Downloads 5 star award in 2012.
Features
The software converts most video files into other formats such as
AVI
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People with the given name include:
* Avi (born 1937), Newbery award-winning Americ ...
, MKV,
MOV,
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The authors of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high-quality d ...
,
VOB
VOB (for video object) is the container format in DVD-Video media. VOB can contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Files in VOB format may be encrypted.
File fo ...
,
MP4,
FLV
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are ...
, WMV, MP3, etc.
This freeware also performs functions such as downloading videos from online video-sharing sites such as
YouTube
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,
Facebook
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,
Vimeo
Vimeo, Inc. () is an American video hosting, sharing, and services platform provider headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices. Vimeo's business model is through software as ...
,
Niconico,
MetaCafe
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, etc. Users can edit videos as they like such as cutting, rotating, flipping, adding video effects, combining multiple videos into one file. It also allows users to create HTML5 videos with embedding code ready to use for websites, burn videos to DVD or AVCHD DVD disc, boost video conversion speed up to 5X faster with CUDA acceleration (
NVIDIA
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video card only. It can also use AMD APP Encoder and Inter QSV for X264/H264, X265/H265 video encoding.
Reception
The software has been reviewed as being "ridiculously easy to use"
and "interface is easy to manipulate".
AVC was featured as
Lifehacker
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's Download of the Day on November 30, 2006.
Windows Vista Magazine had a tutorial on converting video files with the software for viewing on a
PSP in its April 2007 issue.
The software was also reviewed in 2008 by
MacLife
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for its capability to convert files for viewing on an
iPod
The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on October 23, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes ...
.
References
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Windows multimedia software
MacOS multimedia software
Video conversion software