converting avi to mpeg format

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need to this on a mac. any free program suggestions? thanks

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Quicktime Pro is the most convenient way. Not free ($30?), although I've never known anyone pay for it, if you know what I mean. Failing that, I imagine ffmpegX can do it.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

do you need to convert? if you download VLC and make it the default for .avi playback you can watch virtually anything on it. i prefer it to quicktime anyway.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

i prefer it because it "feels" more like DVD playback - no frame to the image etc.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Bear in mind that avi isn't an equivalent "format" to mpeg. It is just a shell in which all manner of compression data formats can sit, including mpeg in its various flavours.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

so why is is not integrated into quicktime by now? i mean they update quicktime about once a week now.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 30 March 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

It is integrated into Quicktime, but it's disabled unless you regsiter it and pay the $30 for Quicktime Pro (or crack it).

It's completely idiotic. For what is virtually a rounding error in the cost of a new Mac, they create ill-will and a bad impression on people who've just spent an awful lot of money. Grr.

― Mike W (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

you can play some avi's in quicktime - just depends on which codec was used

jed is right - get vlc

mike is also right - ffmpegX will convert them if that's what you want

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

yeah ffmpegx is what you want

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

how do i make vlc default?

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:35 (twenty years ago)

click on the avi file icon just once so that it's highlighted but not open. then do apple+i which will bring up the info box

open with "vlc player"
then click "change all" just underneath.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

thanks! (that was such a basic question it's embarrassing)

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

here's another embarrassing basic question!

how do i ~~shot~~ put my lovely avis on to a dvd so that i can watch them on my television?

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

for mac?

get toast titanium.

http://www.roxio.com/

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

porn's never going to look good on your big-screen, dude.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

i've got titanium!!

can it all be so simple?

hey broheem, this is no porn, this is 'weeds'.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you can do it on toast - it works fine and is easy but it takes ages to do (3 hours + to process the file plus burning time) so i would recommend doing it before you go out for the day or go to sleep.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

piracy is some hard work.

also wtf is it with macs and dvd-rws!!!?! this time i deliberately didn't get the wrong type of dvd, but ended up with the wrong type anyway.

they should teach people about computers at school, instead of bullshit history etc.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

i would recommend getting a divx-capable dvd player and just burning data discs... CHANGED MY LIFE>

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

presumably i could plug my laptop into the television... or just go legit. more4 have just started with _commander in chief_ (shown on abc1 in july ffs) and it's no s60 till next year. THEIR FAULT NOT MINE.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Does anyone know how to make a dvd of an avi file on a mac please thanks!

― I know, right?, Monday, 10 December 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, free.

― I know, right?, Monday, 10 December 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

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