Software for Video Conversion

[Vivaldi]

Hi,

Can you recommend me a software to handle various video conversion:

- MKV, MPEG, MP4 to AVI

- Reduce an AVI with big resolution to a smaller resolution

- Re-encode an Xvid AVI of 640x360 25 frames per second to a QVGA format to be played in an MP3 player like Zen, Cowon or iRiver.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Avidemux:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=126164

MEncoder with or without front-end:
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

MeGUI with Avisynth:
http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/Main_Page

[Vivaldi]

I am very novice. Are those 3 different softwares which can handle video conversion one independantly from each other? Or should I use all 3 of them in order to complete a video conversion?

In the case where only one of them is enough, which one is more convenient for a novice?

Thanks

[dat720]

if you have never encoded videos before a better option may be starting with vitrualdub or something like it, read about it here (http://www.virtualdub.org/), also look at tmpgenc look here (http://www.tmpgenc.net/), these 2 programs are where i started many years ago.

avi demux is useful for splitting and muxing streams, does not do any compresion or resizing.

mencoder is absolutely awesome, but not the realm of total newb's you could try with a gui but the masses of options may confuse you.

me gui is very good aswell but i dont have too much to offer on that as i never use it.

[Gaby83]

I often use Total Video Converter... u can try it too, I always use MPEG-2 compression, so this way I can convert to AVI without lossing quality. I use it for converting RMVB to AVI and it works for me, I never tryed to convert Mp4 but this video converter accepts too may files format.

Greetings!
Gaby.-

[Vivaldi]

Hi,

Thanks very much for your help. I am going to review the softwares you suggested and will settle for one.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I am very novice. Are those 3 different softwares which can handle video conversion one independantly from each other?
Yes, they are!

* Avidemux is a graphical video editor and should be able to do what you want.
* MEncoder is an alternative, but it's a CLI application. So you might want to use it with a front-end.
* MeGUI is a powerful encoder front-end, but requires Avisynth as input...

avi demux is useful for splitting and muxing streams, does not do any compresion or resizing.
If you are referring to "Avidemux", then you are completely wrong!
Despite the name, Avidemux is a powerful video encoding and transcoding tool. It's similar to VirtualDub, but less limited with container support.
See my link above for more information...

Screenshot:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3007/fileadmgtkplushf3ij2.png

[dat720]

sorry i mis read your post, i was thinking of Avi-Mux for some reason.

[Vivaldi]

Another friend has advised me to have a look at SUPER (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html)

Just tried it and succeeded to convert a DivX5 1280x720 to 640x368 XVid. The results looks good apparently. What do you think about this software?

[LoRd_MuldeR]

As far as I know, SUPER is a front-end to MEncoder and a bunch of other CLI tools. Should be suitable for simple transcoding tasks...