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I have a kid but no camcorder (yet).  That leaves me with my Blackberry when I want to take videos.  Blackberry actually does this very well (considering it's a telephone), but it leaves me with odd .3pg files.  Not sure if anyone else in the world can view them, so I'd like to convert them to a more common format.  But I'm not a video whiz and I want something quick and easy.

The solution: WinFF.  Available for Windows and Linux.

Frankly I was surprised.  It's fast, it's simple, and it's free.  It'll take pretty much any video format known to man and convert it into anything you want.  I know such programs often exist in the Windows universe as funky shareware, but Linux seriously lags behind Windows when it comes to desktop video.  But WinFF does it, and it does it well.