Filed under: Audio, Video, Windows, Freeware
Convert audio and video files in 2 clicks with Oxelon Media Converter
by Brad Linder Oct 29th 2009 at 3:00PM
Oxelon adds two shortcuts to your Windows context menu: one for transcoding audio files, the other for transcoding video. All you have to do is right-click on any media file in Windows Explorer and select the file format you want to convert it to. Oxelon will open a new window and ask you where you'd like to save the file. You can also change audio and video codecs, framerate, bitrate, and video dimensions as well as other settings. But all you really have to do at that point is hit the "Conversion" button to start converting your file.
The free program does have a few quirks. The most annoying one is that every time you close the program, Oxelon Media Converter will open its homepage in your default web browser. The other is that I had trouble converting some of the video files I had shot with my digital camera. The only way I could get them to encode was by selecting the "no audio" option, although it's possible that if I had spent more time fiddling I could have found another option that would have worked. Admittedly, my digital camera records audio at an odd sampling rate.
Oxelon recommends downloading and installing a plugin file to add support for a wide variety of audio and video formats. You can find a picture of the settings screen after the break.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hugo said 5:26PM on 10-29-2009
Correct me if I am wrong but it misses the most important ones: x264 / H.264 / AVC / mkv...
Does it?
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Brad Linder said 5:28PM on 10-29-2009
H.264 is available as a video codec option under the media format AVI (and also the PSP/MP4 format and possibly some others).
Evan said 10:48PM on 10-29-2009
Doesn't seem to have context menus in Windows 7. Also if you don't want the annoying window pop up just change that in settings.
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