freeware video/audio converter??

[guitarbum41091]

just wondering what a good quality, fast audio/video converter is... im mainly looking for .m4p to mpg and m4v to mpeg also wma/wmv to mpg... basically an anything to mpeg converter (has to b completely free) thnx

[Shinigami-Sama]

:search: :readfaq: :readguid:

yeah
look in downloads section of the main site
more than you can shake a stick at

[video_magic]

You may also find the Avisynth application useful.

This program is like a frame-server:, and essentially you can serve the frames of your source video into an mpeg encoder.

You can usually manage to get almost any video that you can play on your system to decode through Avisynth... you will need an mpeg-encoder that can accept the avs script files that are used with Avisynth.

Anyway, I am kind of new myself, but I've read around a lot, you should take a look here:
www.avisynth.org

[guitarbum41091]

ok sry.. i no i must be doing something stupid but i cant download avisynth... i download it from the site, then click on avisynth.exe where i saved it then i go thru the installion but when its done it doesnt open and i cant find the link to run the actual program... and b4 u reply i want to b sure b4 i go thru the trouble, does it for sure convert .m4v to .mpeg files cause thats what i really need. also anybody know anything to convert mpeg4 to mpeg (im trying to beable to do more stuff with downloaded music in itunes, which comes in .m4p)

[jggimi]

If I were you, I wouldn't get tangled up in trying to figure out AviSynth first thing. Instead, I'd try to figure out what it is I clearly wanted to accomplish. To say you want to convert various formats to "mpeg" doesn't clearly state a final result we can all understand, since there are so many mpeg video encoding formats, data structures, video discs, etc.

That said, AviSynth is a powerful tool, but ... it is an adjuct tool to encoding, it is not a program you execute. Thinking of it as "middleware" might be helpful.

It allows text files containing scripted commands to be treated like an .avi video by many applications -- players, editors, and encoders. The commands in those scripts include things such as video and audio sources, cropping, resizing, starting and ending frame numbers, and all sorts of "filters" that modify video.

You can open these files in text editors and edit them -- or programs can create these text scripts -- but when opened as if they were .avi files by encoders/players/editors ... video (and sometimes audio) appear.

Many of the encoding suites used here include AviSynth as part of the ensemble -- automatically generating scripts, and sometimes allowing customization. Many of our members script with it manually, and use it for the extremely flexible "filter" operations that allow a great deal of control over video processing, for analysis or for encoding.

[guitarbum41091]

ok thnx i was really confused there for a second
-more specifically what i want to convert:
-.mp4 (MPEG-4 audio file protected) to .mp3 (MPEG layer 3 audio)
-.m4v (MPEG-4 video file) to .mpg (movie file MPEG)
-wmv to .mpg and wma to mp3

any ideas? thnx

[magicclue]

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