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Don't buy any video converter before trying this freebie
"SUPER" provides just that, allowing you to effortlessly convert video files between every format, for free.
The open source ffmpeg converter is awesome, supporting almost every video and audio codec on Earth. But like every other linux program it's a command line application -also known as "text mode" back in the old DOS days. Command line applications are very powerful, giving programmers and code hackers plenty of simplicity - you can pipe the output from one program to another in the traditional Unix fashion, run it as a web server task via CGI, you name it.
But for the end user, it also means that the current generation of windows "button clickers" feel left out. Not anymore. I found a nice windows graphical user interface dubbed "Super" which includes compiled windows executables of ffmpeg, MPLAYER, ffmpeg2theora along with other related open source libraries into a simple installer for it. The result is "Super", described, pardon the redundancy, as "A simple GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn".
Point-and-click access to ffmpeg, mencoder and ffmpeg2theora, from Windows
Translated to English, this means you to convert back and forth between AVI, WMV, ASF, Realvideo, Quicktime, OGG Theora, even the latest video file formats like .3gp used on mobile phones from Nokia/NEC/Siemens/Sony Ericsson etc. All is done with just a few clicks, as the gui launches the requested open sauce in the background. And everything for free, to boot. Before my surprise encounter with "Super" I was testing several shareware trials, and almost settled on the commercial program "WinAVI video converter", which while promising, now feels expensive and limited in comparison. Of course, with the freeware GUI for the open source encoders, you get no support, so keep that in mind.
Windows builds of the command-line executables are in there, of course.
Those are just called in the backgroun
I have successfully used this GUI to convert -using ffmpeg- from the proprietary "Flash Video" format -FLV- to MPEG4 AVIs using the open source XVid codec, a binary of which you can download over here, it worked very well. Conversion from the proprietary ASF and WMV formats to the open MPEG1 to play back on my Prismiq Media Player on the telly, also worked well.
Drop-down menu listing the container formats supported
It should be noted that I preferred to use the "ffmpeg" encoder and others options were not thoroughly tested. As the author of this nice GUI points out "the quality of the rendered files or the played files DOES NOT depend on SUPER © The speed, rendered quality or the variety of the codec selection are the result of the great work achieved by the respective authors of ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora, MusePack (mpc), libavcodec library & the theora/vorbis RealProducer's plugIn. The whole credit SHOULD go to these authors for their great ongoing projects".
Drop-down menu showing the codecs supported
The only drawbacks? When you start using it you wonder where your converted files went. Well, it's easy, move the mouse pointer over the "Super" program window and right click, there's a pop-up menu, and one of its options is "Specify the Output Folder Destination". Also, selecting "Mencoder" as the conversion engine did not provide good results in one of my tests, so I switched to ffmpeg for the rest of the testing. And finally, this program will try to access the internet to find out if there are newer versions, you can simply block that request with your personal firewall application and make it a permanent rule, if you wish so. The program will work just fine, even without internet access.
Playing back a FLV video converted to a Xvid AVI in VLC Media Player
Now that I'm speaking about video formats, I highly encourage everyone to have the VLC media player from VideoLan.org installed into every system (it's open source, and of course free 'as in free beer', and available for Windows, for Linux, and for MacOS-X) as well. It includes support for formats like H.264, FLV, Quicktime, Vorbis and Theora, and also relies heavily on ffmpeg. If you're comfortable without formal paid support, with the VLC Media Player plus the free "Super" grphical front end for ffmpeg installed, there's really little reason to buy a video format converter application.µ
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Hi, it seems cool.
I went to their page and cant get to the download link. Is it hidden?
YUP; DL link IS pretty hidden on their site, dont know why. Try again :)
There's a guide to download it. Scroll down, at the bottom of page click link "Here's a dowanload help guide" (open on other tab/window).
Gue: you wrote "Here's a dowanload help guide" (open on other tab/window). 

I don't see that line anywhere. Bottom right? Left? nothing
Robt, this is the download link: http://www.erightsoft.info/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe

I just downloaded it today, i´ll see how it works.
hi i m using torque engine. and i want to use ogg converter for my application. i found some binaries from this website http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/download.html. and its working but its exe.. i need source code for windows.
is there any website from where i can buy it this kind of converter.??
Could not download using the other posted link. This is the one that I used. Click the "Download SUPER © setup file" near the bottom of the screen. http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html
Try this instead of the hassle of the looping webpages... nice redundancy - morons.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_encoders/super.cfm
i am not able to download from the erightsoft website by any of the ways
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_encoders/super.cfm

thanks Maxx!
I, pleased to see the link of Super converter. Maximum sites are faking with users so thaks a lot. I am very glad....................


PK Adhikary
Oh my god. It puts an uninstaller on my desktop and installs in my program files directory even when I tell it not to.

Not to mention the horrible website that looks like one of those GET THIS AMAZING OFFER websites.

What bastids
"But like every other linux program it's a command line application -also known as "text mode" back in the old DOS days."

This is not correct.
The day-to-day linux user need not ever see a command line application, and there exists several very good frontend applications for both ffmpeg and mencoder, just like "super", for linux.
The statement in the article is the same as saying that Mac OS X is entirely command line oriented, it simply isn't true.
This is by far the best piece of conversion software I have ever come accros, I had a whole load of wma files that didn'tplay and nothing would convert them to mp3 untill i found this. Give it a try, works a treat.
Super is a great program. I've tried a lot of trial software out there and I'd say only 2 out of ten work for my needs and this one is free so it's an easy choice for me!
A great set of features! But incomplete.
Try to open a .flac file. Then convert it to apple lossless (alac) within an mp4 container. Super won't do either part of this conversion (it will open the flac file only if you drag and drop it). Yet the current FFmpeg includes the avconvert lib that will handle this conversion easily. Disappointing that this is missing.
I recently re-downloaded this app and was appalled at ALL of the nasties-viruses-that came along with this program.
My AVG kept popping up ALL the time with this and led to major file corruptions.
BEWARE!!!