Our lives have turned into a big media center. Each of us likely have our own set of desktops, laptops, mobile phones, portable media players, handheld consoles, and MP3 players. The many video formats needed to run our gadgets just add more stress to our already media-entangled lives.

With so many video formats and too little time to organize our video files, we need an easy-to-use and intuitive video converter that handles all our video files on the go. Let us look at 5 of the best freeware video converters that will keep your video collection a little less insane. For converting other files, you can choose an online file converter that were covered earlier.

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I have used MANY video converters over the years. DVD to MPG or DVD to AVI and then I needed to convert AVI to WMV and many other combinations. Every time I was forced to find a different application to convert my damn video files! It was pretty annoying.

So when I happed upon VideoSpiritLite and saw that it could convert video files from and to any of these formats, VCD / SVCD / DVD / MPEG / AVI / DivX/ASF / WMV/DAT / SWF / FLV / 3GP / RM / MP4 / MOV, I was pretty happy and I hadn’t even downloaded the application yet.

While I started downloading the LITE version that is free from here I read through its features and it does some really neat stuff, other than converting, like extracting audio or still pictures from video. They do have a PRO version that costs money the only difference between the two products is the ability to edit the videos. Let’s take a look at what we can do with the free version.

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There are times that you want to show your PowerPoint presentation to someone quickly and easily. The best way to achieve this is to convert your Powerpoint file into a video file.

With that video file you can post it to YouTube, send it along  to another user via email or post it on your blog as a tutorial.

What ever you are going to do with the finished product this free 6.6mb application will make your life MUCH MUCH easier!

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iPod’s are the most popular of all portable media players available today. YouTube is the most popular internet video service today.

Despite both services prominence, when I first got my iPod I was a video-deprived user. I didn’t want to buy videos that I would only watch once, and downloading them from file sharing programs is highly risky given the amount of viruses circulating on them, not to mention falsely named files that waste your time.

As time went on, I just kind of abandoned the video function on my iPod and used it mainly for listening to music. However, every now and again such as when I was going on a plane journey or just bored around the house, I would wish I had a few short videos to keep me busy. Around eight months ago I discovered DVD VideoSoft promising YouTube to iPod video. I was sceptical.

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All Office Converter Platinum is an easy-to-use and professional document conversion tool. It can support batch converting documents, web and images with high good quality for business and individual to improve the work efficiency. With this powerful converter, you can create PDF file from versatile formats and convert PDF file to other versatile formats with super output quality and effectively. More, you can convert between different office document formats, web, images. It can support comprehensive formats: Word(doc, docm, docx), Excel(xls .xlsx. xlsm),PowerPoint(ppt, pptc,pptm), PDF,XLS,RTF,TXT,HTM/HTML,Website, JPG,BMP,GIF,TIF,WMF,EMF,TGA, RLE,PNG etc.

Features
* Provide the customized Command Line service for server/developer.
* It can simultaneously convert different formats to one certain format once.
* It can convert the webpage on the website or your computer.
* Easy to use. Convert with one click.
* More setting options to let you control the output file more accurately.
* Save the imported file list.
* Support encrypted PDF.
* Create PDF and Image with high good quality.
* Open *.HTM or URL as the following framework to convert.

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