MP4 with AVC content - converting to uncompressed AVI

[SenorKaffee]

I digged a nice hole for myself. ;)

I produced a video for work that I have two "end formats" - MPEG2 on a DVD and MP4 for presentations on PCs.

But now I need to get them back to AVI for converting a few of the animation for our web page and want to use the higher-quality MP4 files as a source.

Is there a tool that can convert MP4 AVC to AVI except of Quicktime PRO?

[SenorKaffee]

Hmm - I could use SEARCH. o_O
Trying SUPER now.

[Hyper Shinchan]

You could use directoshowsource plugin with AVS if you need to reencode it (I doubt that you want to keep it as AVC into AVI, it su##s).

[Dark Eiri]

Maybe you can use MP4BOX to extract the RAW video. Don't know how exactly, but might be possible.

Then just use AVC2AVI to get it on .avi container.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I digged a nice hole for myself. ;)

I produced a video for work that I have two "end formats" - MPEG2 on a DVD and MP4 for presentations on PCs.

But now I need to get them back to AVI for converting a few of the animation for our web page and want to use the higher-quality MP4 files as a source.

Is there a tool that can convert MP4 AVC to AVI except of Quicktime PRO?

Just re-encode your MP4s with MEncoder. MEncoder supports MP4 as input and put's out AVI. And you can select "uncompressed" as video-codec (−ovc raw), so you should get exactly what you need...

D:\MEncoder>mencoder -ovc raw -oac pcm -o D:\Out.avi E:\Videoz\Trailer\Superman.mp4

[Blue_MiSfit]

I bet you are trying to convert these files to flash video format (since you are embedding them into a webpage).

Install avisynth, and the flash encoder, then make a script like this example:

directshowsource("C:\video.mp4")


and open that avs file in the flash encoder and do what you need.

This will save you the time and hard disk space of dealing with an intermediate format, as it will decode to uncompressed on the fly, and feed it to the flash encoder.

~MiSfit