AV Converter - CS491B Project Mads Moeller CS 491B December 8, 2006 California State University, Los Angeles

Agenda Introduction Motivation & Goals The Project Technology used Design Demo Future Work

Introduction Viewing / downloading video content –Fast growing online-community –YouTube, Metacafe, Google Video Creating your own video content –Convert videos to friendlier formats –Resize files for transmitting via the Internet –Make your own YouTube ;-) Help is here!

The Project AV Converter –Video conversion tool –Designed for the novice user –Ability to create your own settings for later use –Built with FFmpeg as the back-end

Motivation & Goal Easy conversion between common video formats A free alternative Create an intuitive and easy to use UI

Technology used Visual C#.NET Framework 2.0 FFmpeg – –Open source audio/video codec library MediaInfo – –Open source tool to retrieve tag information from a video or audio file

Design Main Window Source file – QuickTime, MPEG, Windows Media Video, AVI (DivX, XviD) Input File Info Video Output – Advanced option Audio Output – Advanced option

Design -continued Main Menu File – Open File – Exit Settings – Load – Save Current

Demo!

Future Work Fix bugs Expand support of more video formats for in- and output Ability to burn video files directly to DVD, SVCD or VCD