Copyright © 2008 Just Another iPhone Blog. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2008/07/20/iringer-free-full-featured-iphone-ringtone-maker/. Just spotted this one via a post over at Gear Diary, and watched a video demo of this new iPhone ringtone making application called iRinger. iRinger looks like a very good free option for ringtone creation - offering a very easy to use interface and a good, complete set of features - even down to letting you choose to export a newly created ringtone direct to iTunes or using SSH to directly transfer it to the iPhone. This one is a Windows only application for now, so I’ve not given it a try as yet (too lazy just now to get iTunes setup on Fusion) - but it looks awfully good in the demo.  Here’s some of the highlights of its feature list:

• Three Steps: Import, Preview then Export. Done.
• Convert virtually any audio format into an iPhone ringtone
• Extracts audio out of video
• Choose which section of the audio you want to hear
• Adjust ringtone length, volume, fade in, fade out and loop gap
• Export to iPhone ringtone format and import right into iTunes
• Export to iPhone using SCP/SFTP and skip using iTunes
• Use audio effects: Delay, Flanger, Boost, Reverse, etc.

For more on iRinger, see its home page, or check out the demo video HERE … Via: Gear Diary ShareThis

You need this article  to get started, it covers the mp4 and h.264 encoding in some detail using mediafork (now known as handbrake).

So far I’ve no idea how it pans out, I dove right in to the encoding - fingers appropriately twisted, we’ll see tomorrow :)

 Update: Headfirst didn’t pan out for me, first pass encoding went fine but the second pass just dumped screens and screens of errors, will have to find a smaller vid to experiment with, or read the article :)