MPEG to AVI conversion

I have done it before for a short clip with an mpeg prog that can save out each frame as a bitmap and an avi prog that can make bitmaps into an avi. Guess you would like something easier though.

Road Warrior

John,

  Take your pick here:

http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/video.html

http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/multimedia.html

Dankh, thanks for the tip, but although there are many applications on this site, none of them will do the specific job i am looking for though, Mpeg to Avi conversion.
Roadwarrior: I have tried before with a very simple DOS program and it is very cumbersome. Uses a lot of disc space to temporarily store the BMP files too. Nonetheless, do you still know which program you used for it?
John

How about this...Graphics workshop professional:
http://www.softseek.com/Graphics_and_Drawing/Graphics_Viewing_Editing_Painting_and_Conversion/Review_7663_index.html

You didn't mention if you required the soundtrack or not.

With out knowing the your current situation, I can only recommend the best program i have seen do this.

Corel Draw 8 - photopaint
Works very nicely and you can choose what type of recompression you need in the avi format.


Netmage

Check the FAQ section here.  http://www.hypertech.co.uk/video/digvid.htm

Thanks for all the information. However (I am not easily satisfied), a few remarks: Graphics Workshop can read Mpeg, but not convert it to any other file, not even a thumbnail.
Corel Draw and Ulead's MediaStudio will no doubt do the trick, but it feels like i am buying a toolshed while I only need a screwdriver!

Why are there so many possibilities to convert Mov to Avi, Avi to Mpeg etc etc, surely there must be simple program to do that trick for MPEG to AVI, or am i to naive here?

BTW, Netmage, I need it to keep the soundtrack as well.

John

When I saw your question, I did a search, and found allot of people looking for the same thing.  I saw a few links to programs that supposedly work, but the links were invalid.

Good luck.

Thanks Jason, appreciate your and everyone's help in this!
John

I'll have a look for some utils i used to work with, i do remember ar one time having to do a similar project and couldn't justify the cost of a toolshed either.

I'll get back to you.

Netmage

Hi JohnJans,
Please visit this site <http://www.colorfilm.com/mpegavi.html> there are utilities which u can download to convert MPEG to AVI.
 If this solves Ur problem Please inform me.
Suresh

There are many tools for this. Think one of the best is the ulead media studio, but maybe you'll ask the people at ulead.

You have to know that the quality of the output  will be not so good as the input because these two formats are working with loosy compression.
The best way is to generate avi from an umcompressed resource.

There are many tools for this. Think one of the best is the ulead media studio, but maybe you'll ask the people at ulead.

Maybe you know this already but you have to know that the quality of the output  will be not so good as the input because these two formats are working with loosy compression.
The best way is to generate avi from an umcompressed resource.

johnjans:  Any progress on this?

Jason,
In short: NO. The solutions given were either programs that do not do what I want (I checked all the proposals and URL's given here) or are far too expensive for such a sImple requirement (although i realise that it may not be simple, at least not as simple as converting Mov to Avi and back).
I downloaded a trial version of Uleads Media Studio (quite a lot of MB's) and it does conversions to MPEG, but being a trial version only a certain number of seconds can be saved and it gets a big red cross through the picture too! I do not want to spend so much money for a program that otherwise I have no need for (though Media Studio certainly looks great I must say).

Should I just forget about it?

johnjans:  You may then want to reject the current answer so the question get more visibility.

see my comments to Jason S

I've had a good long look arround for you and have been unable to find any free mpeg>avi converters that will store sound.

There is a free mpg>avi picture converter but is very laborious to use and requires you convert the mpg to slides and recompile it in avi format . It was written a few years back so the screen sizes you have available are abit limited also and colour control is a guess at best.

Regards Netmage

Thanks Netmage for looking around. The only thing I could find was something like you say. It stores a bmp file for each frame (so takes up a lot of temporary diskspace even with small movies) and you later compile the bmp's into an avi. It is indeed laborious, but sofar the only thing i have come across, apart from Ulead's software, that will convert Mpegs.

I think I will leave it here. Thanks all for your help in this. I appreciate it a lot. Experts Exchange is a great site, I could not do without.

Now.... how do I close the question and grant the points. I think Netmage and Jason S both deserve my points. Any suggestions how I do this??

John

To split up the points, go to Customer Service, and post a zero point question asking for help with dooing this.