5Star Mobile Video is a simple, useful and inexpensive tool allowing convert a usual video file for your hand-held computer or phone.

Hand-held computers haven't been something new and unusual for a long time. We can see people peering tensely into a miniature screen in increasing frequency. These pictures can be observed everywhere — in a cafe, in subway, in the next car during the traffic jam. Even a mobile phone hasn't been longer a simple telephone, approaching by its abilities to a computer. The functionality of these devices is high enough and increases every day. There are organizers, e-books' managers, games, even mp3 and video file players.

Nevertheless, wide variety of different models entails the problem of formats. How to preparer your favorite video for watching on the smart-phone or your brother's palmtop? There are specials programs — video files converters — developed exactly for the decision of this problem. In particular, 5Star Mobile Video is a simple, useful and inexpensive tool allowing convert a usual video file for your hand-held computer or telephone.

5Star Mobile Video has an excellent interface. Being simple and useful, at the same time, it doesn't loose in functionality and allows tuning a large amount of aspects of the process of convertation, namely, the abilities to choose a concrete special device of the impressive list, to point at soundtracks and subtitles being in use, to tune up the quality of a received video and audio (here, there is an opportunity to use predefined templates: Low, Meduim, High), to set a desired resolution and to split a converted file into the parts of a user-defined size. The last ability may be very useful if there is a wish to watch a video of a big size with the help of a palmtop, for example, if you want to enjoy a movie in the train.

5Star Mobile Video supports the convertation of a great amount of formats, namely, MPEG -1/2/4, DivX, XviD è Video-DVD, what is pleasant for me, since it covers all films in my collection. Thus, to convert DVD or video files, it's enough to add them in the appropriate list with the help of the simple manager.

However, there are a couple of small shortcomings in this manager. First of all, 5Star Mobile Video doesn't support the names of files containing international characters.

Also, from my point of view, the removal of files of a formed manager's list is realized very unnaturally. Particularly, it is necessary to drag a mistakenly chosen file out of the list zone to remove it. It may be better to duplicate this action by a context menu or a button. What is more, a given functionality finds a reflection neither in pop-up promptings nor in a status line.

Generally, it may be assumed, 5Star Mobile Video is pour enough in respect of a user's instructions. There isn't any "Help" file; in addition, FAQ page on a developer's site is empty.

It seems to me to be a heavy shortage, because if you try, for example, to convert video to a computer without necessary codec, you may receive the following picture.

The absence of any messages about errors and resources, which could help to solve the given problem, may disappoint an inexperienced user.

Thus, having created the list of converted files, you may press the button "Start" and after the lapse of some time, voila, you'll receive the demanded result.

The availability of the checkbox, letting turn off the computer with this process completed, may be very useful, because the convertation can take much time. For example, the convertation with the maximum quality of 20 min of the compressed (MPEG-4) video for my phone took about 15 min. I think that owners of more powerful computers will have much less number than me (Intel Celeron 1.7GHz).

With the help of 5Star Mobile Video I converted several small video fragments for the phone "Siemens SXG-75" and the pocket computer "Palm Tungsten T3". In both cases I got an excellent quality at the small size of files.

Unfortunately, 5Star Mobile Video converts chosen files only into a one united for all files format. In my case, I had to launch the process of convertation two times: one time – to convert it for the phone, and another – for Palmtop.

It is marvelous that 5Star Mobile Video can play already converted video. However, it would be better, if this functionality was realized in the form of "Preview", i.e., if it allowed to watch several seconds of the result. In that case, it could be more exact to make the tuning, while optimizing the ratio "quality/filesize" or "quality/elapsed time" according to your needs.

The possibility of converting not all file but some its part is a very good idea. It allows, for example, economizing the size of a received file, to remove the titles of a film without resorting to different video editors.

However, again it seems to me that this remarkable functionality is realized unnaturally and without any tips and instructions. Setting out the moments of the beginning and the end may be just with the help of player buttons reminding outwardly the rewind "back" and "forth".

Also, in my opinion, it would not be out of place to add the ability of the cancellation of this action, that is, to combine the beginning of the convertation with the beginning of the file and the end of the convertation with the end of the file by one click.

5Star Mobile Video has the forum of technical support, where you can put an urgent question or describe an originated problem. The product is being actively developed; the list of supported mobile devices is incessantly replenished, what makes it very attractive for clients.

In the whole, 5Star Mobile Video creates an impression of a very useful, relatively inexpensive tool, which can come in handy to all owners of mobile devices. Before purchasing I recommend to check up the list of programs that can be bought with discounts on a Softpile website.

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