Conversion Software

Revision as of 04:04, 1 January 2015

Multi-Format Converter Suites

Archives

• The Unarchiver (cross-platform, open source, website)
• 7-Zip (open source, [1])
• CFX (for a variety of CP/M archive/compression formats)

Audio

• Audacity (cross-platform, open source, website)
• CDXtract (Windows, Mac, commercial, website)
• MediaCoder (Windows, adware, website)
• SoX (cross-platform, open source, website)
• SUPER (Windows, freeware, website)
• VLC (cross-platform, open source, website)
• WinAMP

Binary Data

Character Encoding

• Iconv (various implementations)

Document

• librevenge (Library to make document-format converters, open-source, [2])
• MacLinkPlus (68K and PowerPC Mac, commercial, discontinued, [3])
• Pandoc (multi-format document converter, specializing in markup and word processor formats, open-source, [4])
• WinConv (Windows, commercial, [5])

Ebooks

• Calibre (cross-platform, open source, website)

Graphics

• dcraw (Cross-platform, open-source, website
• GraphicConverter (Mac, commercial, website)
• ImageMagick (cross-platform, open source website)
• Netpbm (cross-platform, open source website, formats)
• RECOIL (formerly FAIL)
• XnView and XnConvert (cross-platform, freeware, website)

Interactive Fiction

• scott2zip (cross-platform, open source, download)
• UnQuill (MS-DOS, open source, download)

Saved Games

Video

• FFmpeg (cross-platform, open source, website)
• HandBrake (cross-platform, open source, website)
• MediaCoder (Windows, adware, website)
• SUPER (Windows, adware (installs lots of annoying toolbars and stuff), website)
• VirtualDub (Windows, open source, website)
• VLC (cross-platform, open source, website)
• WinFF (cross-platform, open-source, website)