Any Video Converter

Any Video Converter (AVC) is a massive, deeply entrenched, and highly popular desktop software that acts as a primary, heavyweight rival to Freemake and Wondershare UniConverter. It has built a massive global user base by offering an incredibly powerful free tier (AVC Free) that provides staggering format support, combined with a highly advanced premium version (AVC Ultimate) for power users. The core differentiator of Any Video Converter is its "Massive Input Format Resiliency." It is famous for its ability to ingest almost any broken, corrupted, or highly obscure video file that crashes other software, repair the container, and successfully convert it into a standardized MP4 or MKV. It boasts native support for over 200 input formats and outputs to highly optimized device-specific profiles (Apple, Android, Sony). Furthermore, AVC includes highly robust video downloading capabilities (supporting extraction from over 100+ sites), CD/DVD ripping, and basic video editing (clipping, cropping, merging). It aggressively utilizes NVIDIA NVENC and AMD AMF hardware acceleration to ensure that local conversion does not bog down the user's computer. For consumers seeking a highly resilient, format-agnostic local video toolkit, AVC is a long-standing standard.