Earth FLV Converter - Convert MKV, MPEG, AVI, 3GP, MP4, RM, RMVB, MOV, M4V, WMV, ASF, MP3, MP2, M4A, AC3, AAC, RA, WMA, APE, OGG, ETC.

Pros: Earth MKV converter handle the Matroska video files. Matroska files are envelopes that can have many audio, video and subtitle streams so that a complete movie or CD in a single file. Some features of these files are fast seek, high error recovery, chapter entries, selectable audio and subtitle streams, streamable over Internet and menus. Those advantages would give rise to many situations when converting to MKV is a good option. This application is able to convert various video formats to MKV as well as MKV to the other video formats. This application can do very fast conversion maintaining image quality. With the integrated video player, you can convert only the sections of the video you need after preview. It also has a shutdown function to take care of unattended conversion. Provided with a task list it can convert a set of files in a batch. File formats supported include AVI, MPG, XVID, H264, MOV, QT, WMV, ASF, FLV, DAT, VOB, RMVB, RM, MP4, MKV, OGM. There’s one really interesting option available that sets CPU related settings such as if you have a dual core CPU you could enable that for faster conversion speed.

Cons: With so many formats being handled it is always possible that some conversion combinations would have problems. Benchmark the application with the formats you use most often.

Overall the application gets a 3 star status.