Does anyone know of a good MPEG to AVI converter (preferably free or trial download). I have tried googling this and tried all the ones google gave me, basically they were all crap because they didnt work, or they only converted half of it.

So if anyone know of any good converters, please tell me

Does avi2vcd solve your purpose?

Mencoder

Has no GUI, but it's VERY customizable and fast.

I use it too, and it might seem hard to use but the basic functions are pretty straightforward and you can set up profiles, for example if you set up a profile for avi files, you simply do

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mencoder.exe -profile avi <input file> -o <output file>

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Originally posted by Felu
Does avi2vcd solve your purpose?

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Originally posted by Ezra
Mencoder

Has no GUI, but it's VERY customizable and fast.

I use it too, and it might seem hard to use but the basic functions are pretty straightforward and you can set up profiles, for example if you set up a profile for avi files, you simply do

code:

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mencoder.exe -profile avi <input file> -o <output file>

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Originally posted by Ezra
Mencoder

Has no GUI, but it's VERY customizable and fast.

I use it too, and it might seem hard to use but the basic functions are pretty straightforward and you can set up profiles, for example if you set up a profile for avi files, you simply do

code:

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mencoder.exe -profile avi <input file> -o <output file>

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Originally posted by Th3rmal
That seems to be AVI to MPEG...unless im missing something...

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Originally posted by Felu

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Originally posted by Th3rmal
That seems to be AVI to MPEG...unless im missing something...

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Opps yea, I guess I read it the other way around. Sorry .

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Originally posted by SonicSam

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Originally posted by Ezra
Mencoder

Has no GUI, but it's VERY customizable and fast.

I use it too, and it might seem hard to use but the basic functions are pretty straightforward and you can set up profiles, for example if you set up a profile for avi files, you simply do

code:

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mencoder.exe -profile avi <input file> -o <output file>

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/mewig/

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MPEG is a set of codec standards, and avi is a container format, so what you're saying could be interpreted in many ways...

if you mean you'd like to convert a DVD (MPEG-2) into a smaller format that is stored inside the avi container and playable on your PC (using xvid or H264 as codec for example) then get Handbrake.

if you want to convert from VCD (MPEG-1) into a smaller format ... etc, then perhaps avidemux, VirtualDub, manually using mencoder or using mewig as linked to above.

I've been using WinAVI for some time now, I think it's been really effective, at least for the uses I've put it to...

You can get a free trial from their website:

http://www.winavi.com/en/download/download.htm

It'll do MPEG - AVI at least.

Hope this helps

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Originally posted by Divine Dragon
I've been using WinAVI for some time now, I think it's been really effective, at least for the uses I've put it to...

You can get a free trial from their website:

http://www.winavi.com/en/download/download.htm

It'll do MPEG - AVI at least.

Hope this helps

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http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/   is what i tend to use for the majority of my conversion needs