With so many video-hosting services available, as well as an increasingly diverse product base of portable media players, consumers often need a quick and easy way to transcode video from one format into another. HeyWatch.com, an online service, lets users upload videos and transcode them to any of a number of formats.

With HeyWatch’s free service, users are allowed up to 10 encode sessions per month, and can host up to six hours of raw video and 12 hours of encoded video, with a maximum video length of 10 minutes. Premium services offer more encode sessions and increased hosting capacity.

HeyWatch also lets you grab a video straight from a Web site (including popular video sharing sites like YouTube) for transcoding. There's also a podcast client that lets you receive your encoded videos as soon as they’re ready, instead of having to check back on the site.