Converting avi to mpg

[Nick]

My father in law has sent me a disc with loads of videos of my kids. For some reason these are in .avi format. I want to play these on my DVD player, which cant read avi but can read mpeg, so how do I convert them from avi to mpg?

I've tried opening them in media player and saving as .mpg but all that lets me do is change the extension on the end of the file name, not actually save as an mpg.

Any ideas?

[elneckio]

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

should do it. Failing that there is a load of tools and tutorials @ http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

[TeePee]

another good video encoding resource is @ http://www.doom9.org

[Nick]

Elneckio... cheers for that link.

My god does mpeg get big or what? I'll need a damn DVD burner at this rate!!!

Even a lowest res and spec I'm looking at some HOOOOOOGE files!

I reckon it might be better to look at a shuttle for a media center type system...

[directhex]

or.....

load Nero, start a new VCD

drag any old files (i.e. AVIs) into the new disk, it'll convert them to MPG

--jo

[sparrow]

why not sell u r old dvd player and buy a player that play
avi
i used to convert them but gave up afer about 40 hours or so with the p.c being tied up............couldent play games on it or nothing
i used to do it through the night


regards


sparrow

[Volcano]

Maybe he aint got any cash?

[Agent]

Originally posted by directhex
or.....

load Nero, start a new VCD

drag any old files (i.e. AVIs) into the new disk, it'll convert them to MPG

--jo

Dont you need to be the encoder plugin for that though ?

[Nick]

Agent, yep, you do, as it asks for it if I try that.

Sparrow, my DVD player is about 5 months old, its a Philips jobby that plays eveything else, perhaps I'm just recodring the disc wrong?

And Volcano, nope, aint got the wonga... not with two kids and Christmas looming!

[Trickle]

Heh, mpeg encoding was my excuse for buying a faster 2nd PC

Some mpeg4's can be as much as 1/10th the size of mpeg2 they have been ripped from - obviously with noticeable degradation at those compression rates though and jumpy if things are moving fast on screen.

[thet2]

are there such programs for linux, something like tmpgenc would be nice

cheers