This video and audio conversion software, 4Media Video Converter Platinum 5 can help you to convert between video files and between audio files. You can convert WMV to AVI, convert WMV to MPEG, and convert TS to WMV HD.

Pros: 4Media Video Converter Platinum is designed to meet all your needs of converting video files between AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, 3GP, RM and MP4 formats. Audio conversion from audio and picture/ audio extraction from video are fully supported. It is capable of clipping and merging your video segments at will to get flexible output with the ability of clipping and merging segments selectively. You could capture images from video too to create thumbnails for the movies in your collection. Once clipping of a video is done, you can preview the segment, as well as the snapshot and the source file. It is possible to merge multiple clips to create one.

There’s a lot setting possible when working on conversion of files. These include details of video and audio profiles settings. Details include codec used, bit rates, video size, frame rate, aspect ratio and so on for video while for audio one can set bit rate, sample rate, number of channels being encoded and so on. Audio conversion features include converting CD to any other audio formats. The application produces good quality of video and audio both. Main interface is clean and simple enough. One defines the profile to which the input file is to be converted. The range of profiles that can be defined is very large and include video formats for such devices as PSP, iPhone, general video, Apple TV, iPod, Xbox, mobile phones, HD video and user defined. Video and audio quality can also be defined qualitatively on the front panel. The application is claimed to multithreaded. That would imply large speed improvements in conversion as the current multi core processors are used. The application can process several videos in a batch.

Cons: With so many formats being involved there’s always a possibility some combinations could give rise to problems. I needs to watch out for it.

Overall: This is a nice and simple application though the underlying power is undeniable. It is able to convert between so many formats. This rates a 4 star quite easily.