Video Transcoding : What is the best freeware ?

[Rouxenator]

What freeware video transcoding tool is currently the best? I have been using MediaCoder for about a year or so but recently tried Freemake Video Converter which seems a lot nice and more robust. Are there any alternatives I should be considering?

The majority of my transcoding is to MPEG4 ASP and AVC with the occasional 3GP and MPEG2 (DVD) convert.

 

[LazyLion]

Super!

 

[rimmoah]

What freeware video transcoding tool is currently the best? I have been using MediaCoder for about a year or so but recently tried Freemake Video Converter which seems a lot nice and more robust. Are there any alternatives I should be considering?

The majority of my transcoding is to MPEG4 ASP and AVC with the occasional 3GP and MPEG2 (DVD) convert.

"any video converter" from download.com

 

[medicnick83]

"any video converter" from download.com

Seriously... they couldn't come up with something MORE original?

 

[kissingmybbgoodbye]

Just found the following as well

http://www.macroplant.com/adapter/

 

[nic777]

I use WinFF for most of my transcoding, mostly extracting audio out of mp4s but recently converted mp4s to avi for a dvd. Its based on the great open source program ffmpeg and WinFF itself is open source. It should be able to help you.

http://winff.org/html_new/

 

[cerebus]

Any video converter is good, so is Handbrake. But the easiest option by far is to find a media player that can handle more than a handful of codecs - so if you're using an Android or an IOS device I could recommend a few good ones, but if you're still with Nokia you're on your own...

 

[NomNom]

+1 on any video converter, does the job.