converting mpeg-4 to AVI?

[corumz]

I have a video that was done with ffdshow mpeg-4 codecs. Could not get converters or TMPGEnc to convert to mpeg-1 or to AVI as they would not recognize it and open into their software. All I could do with it was encode to Divx in the Divx converter.

How can I get this video file to a standard AVI?

Thanks

[Baldrick]

try raise the directshow priority in tmpgenc if you can't open files, www.videohelp.com/tmpgenc#problems

[yoda313]

Hi,

???

Technically there is only uncompressed avi not STANDARD per se.

You could use virtualdubmpeg2 and open the original file and select uncompressed rgb from the compression menu list. That should give you a full uncompressed avi. BUT those are HUGE files.

What are you trying to do with it? What's your final destination? You may not need to do that. Also virtualdubmpeg2 can read mpeg files to make any avi you have a codec for.

Kevin

[corumz]

I wanted to make it a VCD.

When I tried to cert to VCD in a converter or in TMPGEnc, I believe the former could not open or find the file and the latter did nothing.

I believe I also tried to do it in Nero6.3 but got nothing. So far the only thing I could do was to convert it to Divx6.0 using the latest Divx converter. I don't know if from there I could go backwords with the Divx6.0 by trying to encode with Cinamatic. I just did that with a Divx5.0 AVI and it worked. From that I converter to VCD in TMPGEnc and got a better quality one than the one I got through Nero.

Thanks

[celtic_druid]

What container does the file use?

[corumz]

I am still new at this. What do you mean by container?

[celtic_druid]

Well you say that it uses libavcodec MPEG-4 video and that it is presumably not an avi. So either it is a raw m4v stream or it is in some kind of container; mp4, mkv, ogm, nut, dsm, etc.