AVI to MPEG

[Radiant]

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but it is for an AGS cutscene...

Does anyone know a good tool that can convert AVI files to MPEG, to save space?
I've downloaded half a dozen tools I found with Google, but all of them had problems (didn't work, could only input MPG but not output it, could only output 10 seconds until you paid them money, etc).

[AJA]

Have you tried TMPGEnc?

[Pumaman]

Converting AVI to MPEG is unlikely to save you any space. MPEG is a rather low-compression format, and using an AVI codec such as DivX will give a much smaller output file than MPEG.

[jetxl]

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I've downloaded half a dozen tools I found with Google, but all of them had problems (didn't work, could only input MPG but not output it, could only output 10 seconds until you paid them money, etc).

I looked for video tools too, some time ago. All I found were 30 days trials, converters that think it's funny to stamp their websites on the video's and half working shareware that convert without sound or with the video upside down (and don't say I got the wrong codex, because it displays only correct without the right codex).

Is pineapple studios any good?

[Mr Flibble]

If this for a game, you could import it into PSP's animation studio, then export it as a flic animation.
It saves a lot of space.

(Importing the flic frames increased my file size by 4 mb, but just using "Playflic" added about 1/2mb.)

[Eggie]

I use puremotion editstudio. I got it free with a magazine...

[Candle]

Upload it someplace and PM me the link and all do it for you .

[Radiant]

AJA -> yes, but for some reason it refuses to open my AVI files. That's probably a missing codec error, I suppose.

Pumaman -> Oh, I didn't know that. That's a good point... in that case I'll just have to find some software to convert AVI to another codec.

JetXL -> exactly. I find it surprising that a seemingly trivial operation like converting video formats would be so hard to find. Especially since the codecs ARE usually freely available...

Eggie -> which mag? It normally costs $100+ according to their webpage.

Candle -> thanks for the offer, it is several megabytes though, would that be a problem?

[Candle]

PM you my email send it there .

[James002]

Pumaman -> Oh, I didn't know that. That's a good point... in that case I'll just have to find some software to convert AVI to another codec.

If you want to recompress an AVI file, try VirtualDub or its big brother VirtualDubMod.  VirtualDub may be freeware, but it's still better than any shareware utilities at what it does.

Kinda like AGS

[Darcness]

If you have windows XP or ME, you can use Windows Movie Maker to convert your AVIs to WMV format which saves you a heck of a lot of space. I use it myself, and it's got good compatibility with AGS.

[Gilbert]

Not if the media player of the computer is updated enough. For example, after you update to the newest possible version for WIN95, it still can't play all WMV movies.