Converting MPEG 4 Video into ANYTHING!

[Ensign]

I have some MPEG - 4 vidoes that I want to put onto a CD-R and play in my DVD player.

What (free?) software can I use to convert the video/audio of the MPEG - 4's?

Either directly in to the VCD format

Or into some other format that then can be turn into a VCD

Ensign

[SaSi]

Well, the easiest way to do this is use Nero to create a VCD. Drag the AVI files into the project and Nero will recode them for you.

Try that for starters.

If you don't really like the quality, then you can use Tmpgenc to recode the AVI into MPEG-1 (VCD) to add into a Nero VCD project. Several guides in the forum can help you in using Tmpgenc to create a VCD video.

[Ensign]

I have tried both NERO and TMPGE.

Both keep "saying" that my MPEG-4 file is not a MPEG file.

Even somthing like AVICODEC will not even attempt to inform me of the Codec used.

The file ends in .MP4 so I assume is a MPEG-4

If this is so, then what else can be used

[bugster]

before you can convert it, you need to be able to play it.

Can you play it.

Can virtualdub open it?

[teegee420]

You should be able to open mp4 in TMPGEnc if you have the Quicktime reader plugin installed. Get it here. When you browse for your mp4 make sure you move the file type slider to "All Files". Make sure you already have a current version of Quicktime installed as well.

[Ensign]

I donwloaded the quicktime plug in

It works

Now I can put this MPEG-4 onto a VCD and kid one of my friends on how the world (or in this case GM) thought of itself in the year of his birth .

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