Avi convertor

**Tha Hombre** · 03-15-2004, 05:43 PM

I need a simple program that will convert my 1gig+ .avi files to .mpg

I've looked but i cannot find. I found one but it was only a 'trial' program so i could only convert 1minutes worth.

Any helpful links??

**Maeveth** · 03-15-2004, 05:44 PM

Do you plan on turning that into a VCD/DVD?

**Tha Hombre** · 03-15-2004, 06:12 PM

Basically what i've done is captured ~3minute music clips from the tv card. The only problem is that they copy in .avi file format and are about 1.5gig in size! I'm hoping if i convert these files to .mpg it'll reduce them to a more sensible 150mb or there abouts.

**frodobaggins** · 03-15-2004, 06:56 PM

Divx or Xvid

**_maelstrom** · 03-15-2004, 07:01 PM

TMPGEnc

**ukchris** · 03-15-2004, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by _maelstrom

TMPGEnc

Try Windows Movie Maker too... or Gordian Knot

www.doom9.org

**Maeveth** · 03-15-2004, 07:40 PM

TMPGEnc is great if you want to make an MPEG 1/2. However what his problem is that his original file is uncompressed. This is not a characteristic of an AVI. AVI is basically a storage standard for Audio and Video Interleaves. To get the best size-to-quality ratio you will want to re-encode the video in either DivX or XviD.

DivX and XviD are both MPEG 4 codecs. VCD are MPEG 1 and DVDs and SVCDs are MPEG2. You wont be able to use TMPGEnc to do a DivX or XviD encoding. I would reccomend using VirtualDub(www.virtualdub.org). Also visit www.doom9.net and www.vcdhelp.com for lots of encoding and decoding information as well as links to everything mentioned above.

Also to shave a few extra bits and bytes off that you will also want to re-encode the video into MP3 or OGG. MP3 may be a better choice because its a wider standard.

Good luck, let us know if you need anything else.

**frodobaggins** · 03-15-2004, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by Maeveth

re-encode the video into MP3 or OGG.

he means audio there for anyone who is confused.

**ukchris** · 03-15-2004, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by frodobaggins

he means audio there for anyone who is confused.

Does Dr.DivX take AVI as input? I'd almost given up on creating DivX movies until I found Dr DivX, it was just all way too involved. Dr DivX works a treat.

www.divx.com

Chris.

**Tha Hombre** · 03-15-2004, 11:11 PM

Thanks for all your help so far.

I've downloaded and tried to use Vidomi, but 2 problems prevail. 1: Mediacar will not read DivX format, so need to convert to mpg, 2: Every time i tried to convert the file, it only converts the sound (no image)?!?