Not Great… But Works
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the Youtube app on the iPhone is great when you’re bored and looking for something to entertain yourself, but for real video viewing, you need real videos. And for videos, you need a way to get your videos in a format that your iPhone can play.

Videora is one of the many apps out there that does just that. I decided to try this one because it was completely free - you just need to suffer a few banner ads in the application (the interface looks like a poorly designed website). But quickly you find yourself ignoring the ads and in general it works great.

Videora allows you to convert 3 types of files - DVDs, video files (AVIs, MPEG, WMVs, etc.) and online videos into various iPhone compatible formats. Once you select the type media you want to convert, it’s pretty straight forward. Select the format you want to convert to (I tend to use the H.264 format as I found the compression difference is negligible compared to other formats and I know H.264 always works.), and press the convert button and come back in 15 minutes. You can also hit the “Show Progress” link which shows a progress bar, and allows you to control the CPU usage (anything above “Above Average” and your computer slows down so much you can’t even surf).

Overall, Videora has been working quite well for me. 99% of the files I’ve tested works (files with built-in subtitles do not; they either crash, or the subtitles are not converted). The program tends to crash after you press the complete button when the you’re done converting, but I usually don’t care since it’s done it’s job.

Verdict

Videora’s not a great app in by a stretch, but it works; and because it’s free, I’ll keep using is instead the variety of shareware apps out there.

App Review Score: 2.5 out of 5.

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