Freeware AVI to MPG converter with built in codecs

[frs]

Hi,

I cannot unfortunately add codecs in my computer (no admin rights).

I'm looking for a:
- AVI to MPG converter;
- with built in codecs.
- freeware.

Do you know one?

Bye
frs

P.S. The ultimative target is to load this prog on a USB stick and make it portable everywhere...

[guns1inger]

SUPER can be installed to a USB stick and run from it. It carries a huge range of codecs in it's libraries. However this all-in-one-ness comes at a cost - the quality is not as high as alternate methods using single task software.

But given your restrictions, I believe it will work.

[celtic_druid]

Could also just use mencoder or ffmpeg by themselves.

[frs]

Thanks.
After experimenting it seems that SUPER is unfortunately not full-portable on a USB stick.
If you do not have administrative rights, the installation stops and the partial installed files do not work (the program requires to install the file super.chm on a protected directory).
Likewise, installing SUPER on a USB stick having admin right is possible, but when running SUPER on another PC, the program searches for the missing files he left on the hard disk during the installation and does not start at all.

Further results:
- mencoder: without admin right I could not succeed in install it and working with it properly;
- ffmpeg works but it is not really user-friendly;
- a full portable encoder I finally tested is Mediacoder (the interface is however amazingly "strange").

frs

[guns1inger]

I had no problems running SUPER off a USB key, however it was an earlier version

[Abond]

Maybe avidemux (the zip file, not the installer)

[celtic_druid]

mencoder doesn't have an installer. Almost as un-user-friendly as ffmpeg though.

[Soopafresh]

Winmenc is a good front end to Mencoder and requires no installation

[prof_unto]

Also try WinFF, a front end to FFmpeg