Why a .AVI extension not .MP2?

[ArthurDaley]

I transfer using DV and keep the HUGE .AVI files in case wonder CODECs come out in the future.

In the meantime for sharing, I make MPEG2s using uLead software (not the greatest quality BTW). It creates files ending .MP2 as expected.

Today I switched to using the free "any video converter" and it creates mpeg2 files but names them .AVI

Why?

[redwudz]

I have no idea why it would do that, but it seems a good reason not to use it. There are several other freeware encoding programs that would likely do a better job. Try HC for one or QuEnc. Or even SUPER if you need different format outputs.

EDIT: I did give Any Video Converter a try. I didn't have a DV file available at the time, so I ran an Xvid through. It converted OK to MPEG-2 with a new title of xxxmpeg2video.mpg from an original title of xxx.avi. Are you sure you have ''Hide extensions for known filetypes' unchecked in 'Tools>Folder Options>View'? Otherwise you aren't seeing the extension. The program seems to be about the same as SUPER. It uses several freeware tools to do the conversions.