mpeg3 convertion to mpeg1 MADNESS ?

[stunt bum]

ok so everyone wants to compress their video files nowdays
well i dont ! i wan to rebel against the conformists and defend my right to be totally against the grain
albeit wrong and mostly unsucessful
and needing a bit of help actually
i have downloaded a video of the interweb and i am unable to
convert it to vcd the only program which will play the file has so far been
VIDOMi i suspect it is a mpeg3 or 4 format saved as an AVI
i hav tried numerous codecs and no will work
if you think you might be able to help
Please try ,any sujestions
even about my spelling FINE
i have tried PROMEDIA as well as nero and dvdws and Windows dum media player and dvdit
i cannot accuratly find the compression format

[mats.hogberg]

Try gspot. It will tell you what kind of file you are dealing with.

/Mats

[stunt bum]

ok so now i know the audio compresion is mp3
and the video compresion is mpeg4 version3

[stunt bum]

oh and thanks Mats ,what a nifty little prog!

[mats.hogberg]

My pleasure!
So, In fact it's a DivX 3 AVI with MP3 encoded audio.
This should play using a DivX player, and VirtualDub should be able to open it for frameserving to an MPEG encoder if you'd feel like turning it into a (S)VCD.
If Virtualdub refuses to open it, install the Nimo codec pack.
Or use DVD2SVCD in AVI mode.

/Mats