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Convert AVI to Quicktime??

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:36 am
by MorbidKate
I won an ITouch 8 GB at our office Christmas party and have been playing around with it. I'd love to convert AVIs I have (TV shows, Movie Rips) encoded with Divx to Quicktime so I can load it up. Any good options out there?

Thanks,

Kate

Re: Convert AVI to Quicktime??

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:30 am
by The Leather Duke

Re: Convert AVI to Quicktime??

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:45 pm
by Brokenbone
I use something called Vidoera, strictly for iPod related shenanigans. I think I tried SUPER as well, but either couldn't figure it out or didn't like it.

http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

Lot of different tools out there, all seem to have their shortcomings, but I've got along okay with the one linked above.

Re: Convert AVI to Quicktime??

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:42 am
by MorbidKate
The Leather Duke wrote:http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Does it all...
Thanks for the link. Super works just fine though it's slow as hell to convert. Even though their website looks like it was done by a "HTML for Dummies" grad it certainly does the trick.

Thanks :D

Kate

Re: Convert AVI to Quicktime??

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:56 pm
by zicada
MorbidKate wrote:
The Leather Duke wrote:http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Does it all...
Thanks for the link. Super works just fine though it's slow as hell to convert. Even though their website looks like it was done by a "HTML for Dummies" grad it certainly does the trick.

Thanks :D

Kate
If you want to do it as fast as possible with a nice tool, and do it bulk, there's mencoder, from the mplayer package. There is a windows version if you have no access to unix.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/release ... 1.0rc2.zip

Make sure to get the codec pack as well:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/release ... 071007.zip

It's a pretty great video player (its what vlc is based on), but more importantly it includes mencoder.

Check the manual page for more info.

I use this to transcode every little .mov in Lynda.com DVD's into x264 with mp3lame audio, and large chapter files instead of tons of tiny ones.