GOM Video Converter is a tool that can encode various video formats to AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV and OGM files.
After a brief installation in which you can enable the program to download some codecs, you have to select presets every time you initiate the application (e.g. Apple, Sony, Android, Blackberry, Microsoft).
You can add one or more files (batch conversion is supported), configure output format and settings, set the output destination, and start converting.
However, if you add an unsupported format to the list, the program will crash. It happened when we tried converting a RM file.
You can configure output settings for the video codec (codec name, bitrate, key frame interval, video quality, resize filter), audio codec (codec name, format), video (size, ratio, frame, color settings, video effects), audio (sample rate frequency, normalizer), subtitles (font, color, position), but you can also attach a logo to the video and set its start and end point, transparency level, position and size.
In addition, you can merge videos, use a screencap tool or create a snapshot preview (by using the right-click menu), but you can also extract audio from a video file (by setting the output type to MP3 or AAC in Output Settings).
The encoding process does not take very long - it depends on the source file size and output format. For example, GOM Video Converter managed to encode a 107MB FLV file to a 172MB AVI file in one minute and thirty-eight seconds (by using the default settings).
While the software is converting a file, you can view elapsed and remaining time, conversion speed, set GOM Video Converter to move or copy the output file to a specified directory, shutdown PC, minimize to tray, show an error message if conversion fails, show a message when all conversions are complete, and more.
The bottom line is that GOM Video Converter is a great tool for encoding, merging video files, and extracting audio from them. The features could have been more organized for faster and better understanding of its usage.

Limitations:
· A working internet connection is required every time you run the trial version.
· A GOM Video Converter watermark will be embedded on all videos converted with the trial version.
· The function enabling users to split files based on a percentage of time is unavailable.
· The bit rate is locked at 128kbps when converting files into the MP3 format.
· The option enabling users to create an MP3 file when converting to the AVI or FLV format is unavailable.
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release:
Corrections to the 12/21/2012 (1.1.0.56) Update:
· The following issues present in version 1.1.0.56 update have been corrected.
· A Korean language pop-up would appear when launching GOM Picker and Internet Explorer.
· The Trial Version 10 minute output limit was not removed after successfully registering the Full Version via the [Config.] window.
· When attempting to use the Set Segment function together with the Merge function on the Trial Version, the Merge function could not be used if the input video was over 10 minutes long, even if the total time of the output video was set to under 10 minutes.
· If additional conversions were performed after completing a conversion using the iPhone Ringtone preset, a 30 second time limit
· was applied, even if another preset or different output settings were applied.
iTunes 11 Support:
· Corrected an issue where iPhone Ringtones created with the GOM Video Converter preset could not be added to iTunes after updating to iTunes 11.
· Changes related ...