These days, media abounds.
You can download video, audio, photos, images, compressed archives of folders filled with more files.
Once you get them to your PC, there are many times when you need the actual content, but not in the file format that it currently resides in. So how do you go about getting what you want?
Once you discover file conversion, you’ll start to think about what videos you’ll want to push to your cell phone, etc.
This is when you need file conversion software. And there are a bunch of great applications for various circumstances.
However, as always, there are online services that will do the trick for you without installing any software. Zamzar.com and media-convert.com are 2 of my favorites. But I just found another one that seems to handle almost anything you can throw at it. . .
YouConvertIt.com seems like one serious jack-of-all trades file conversion service. It handles tons and tons of different file types. And as an added bonus, you can also enter urls for online videos from youtube, metacafe and google video for downloading to your computer.
Just look at all the file types that YouConvertIt.com can handle. This is one site you need to bookmark now:
AUDIO
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding File)
AIF (Audio Interchange File Format)
AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3)
OGG (Ogg Vorbis Codec Compressed Multimedia File)
RA (Real Audio Sound)
WAV (Windows Waveform Sound)
WMA (Windows Media Audio)
DOCUMENT
CSV (Text CSV)
DOC (Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP)
EPDF (Encapsulated Portable Document Format)
EPI (Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format)
EPS (Adobe Encapsulated PostScript)
EPS2 (Adobe Level II Encapsulated PostScript)
EPS3 (Adobe Level III Encapsulated PostScript)
EPSF (Encapsulated PostScript)
EPSI (Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format)
EPT (Encapsulated PostScript Interchange TIFF Preview)
HTM (HyperText Markup Language)
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
INFO (UNIX GNU Info Reader File)
ODG (OpenDocument Drawing)
ODP (OpenDocument Presentation)
ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet)
ODT (OpenDocument Text)
OTG (OpenDocument Drawing Template)
OTP (OpenDocument Presentation Template)
OTS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet Template)
OTT (OpenDocument Text Template)
PDF (PDF-Portable Document Format)
POT (Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP Template)
PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP)
PS (Adobe PostScript file)
PS2 (Adobe Level II PostScript file)
PS3 (Adobe Level III PostScript file)
PSD (Photoshop Format)
RTF (Rich Text Format)
SDA (StarDraw 5.0)
SDC (StarCalc 5.0)
SDW (StarWriter)
SHTML (Hypertext Markup Language client-side image map)
STC (OpenOffice.og 1.0 Spreadsheet Template)
STI (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation Template)
STW (OpenOffice.og 1.0 Text Document Template)
SVM (SVM – StarView Metafile)
SXC (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet)
SXD (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Drawing)
SXI (OpenOffice 1.0 Presentation)
SXW (OpenOffice.og 1.0 Text Document)
TXT (TEXT)
VOR (StarWriter 5.0 Template)
XHTML (XHTML)
XLS (Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP)
XLT (Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP Template)
IMAGE
ART (PFS: 1st Publisher)
AVS (AVS X image)
BMP (Windows OS/2 Bitmap Graphics)
CIN (Kodak Cineon Bitmap File)
CUR (Microsoft Cursor Icon)
CUT (DR Halo)
DCM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) )
DCX (ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image)
DIB (Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap)
DPX (Digital Moving Picture Exchange)
EMF (Extended (Enhanced) Windows Metafile Format)
EXIF (Exif digital camera binary data)
FAX (Group 3 TIFF)
FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
GRAY (Raw Gray Samples)
ICB (Truevision Targa image (ICB))
ICO (Windows Icon)
ICON (Windows Icon)
JNG (JPEG Network Graphic Bitmap)
JP2 (JPEG-2000 JP2 File)
JPC (JPEG-2000 Code Stream Bitmap)
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (62))
JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
MIFF (Magick image file format)
MNG (Multi-image Network Graphic Animation)
MONO (Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order)
MPC (Magick Persistent Cache image file format)
MSL (Magick Scripting Language)
MTV (MTV Raytracing image format)
MVG (Magick Vector Graphics)
OTB (On-the-air Bitmap)
P7 (Xv`s Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format)
PALM (Palm pixmap)
PBM (UNIX Portable Bitmap Graphic)
PCD (Photo-CD Image)
PCDS (Photo-CD Image)
PCL (HP Page Control Language)
PCX (ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file)
PDB (Palm Database ImageViewer Format)
PFA (Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII))
PFB (Postscript Type 1 font (binary))
PGM (Portable graymap format (gray scale))
PICON (Personal Icon)
PICT (Macintosh Quickdraw/PICT Drawing)
PIX (Alias/Wavefront RLE image format)
PNG (Portable (Public) Network Graphic)
PNM (PBM Portable Any Map Graphic Bitmap)
PPM (Portable pixmap format (color))
PTIF (Pyramid encoded TIFF)
PWP (Seattle File Works multi-image file)
RLA (Alias/Wavefront image file)
RLE (Utah Run length encoded image file)
SGI (Irix RGB image)
SUN (SUN Rasterfile)
TGA (Truevision Targa image (TGA))
THUMBNAIL (Thumbnail)
TIF (Tagged Image Format File)
TIFF (Tagged Image Format File)
TIM (PSX TIM file)
UYVY (Interleaved YUV Raw Image)
VDA (Truevision Targa image (VDA))
VICAR (VICAR rasterfile format)
VIFF (Khoros Visualization Image File Format)
WBMP (Wireless Bitmap File Format)
WMF (Windows Metafile)
WPG (Word Perfect Graphics File)
XBM (X Windows system bitmap, black and white only)
XCF (GIMP image)
XPM (X Windows system pixmap)
XWD (X Windows system window dump)
YUV (Color Space Pixel Format)
VIDEO
3GP (3GP Video File)
ASF (Advanced Systems Format Media)
AVI (Microsoft Video for Windows Movie)
FLV (Flash Video File)
IVR (Internet Video Record File)
MOV (QuickTime Movie)
MP4 (Mpeg-4 Video)
MPEG (MPEG Video File)
MPG (MPEG Video File)
RM (RealMedia File)
RV (Real Video File)
SWF (Shockwave Flash)
WMV (Windows Media Video)
ARCHIVE/ COMPRESSED
7Z (7Z File)
ACE (ACE File)
ARJ (ARJ File)
BZ2 (BZ2 File)
BZA (BZA File)
CAB (CAB File)
GZ (GZ File)
RAR (RAR File)
TAR (TAR File)
TGZ (TGZ File)
YZ1 (YZ1 File)
ZIP (ZIP File)