About
OggConvert is a small, open source utility for converting audio and video files into the Vorbis audio format, and the Theora and Dirac video formats.
The main selling points are:
- It’s extremely easy to use: two clicks and you’re done
- It can handle audio files, video files, and even videos with multiple audio tracks
- With the right GStreamer plugins, it can handle just about any media format as input
- It preserves all metadata when converting (for example artist and title info on an MP3)
- It’s fully internationalised, and available in 30 languages
- It has a fully multithreaded design to take advantage of dual-core systems.
OggConvert is written and mostly tested on Linux, and also runs well on BSD. An experimental Windows version is also available. It should also work on Solaris and Mac OS X (once you’ve installed all the prerequisites), but I haven’t got any of these systems to hand, and no-one’s been in touch yet to let me know one way or the other.
OggConvert is free software and is released under the GNU LGPL (2.1 or later).