Need Software to Convert MPG to AVI

[Butter Bandit]

I need a program that will convert an MPEG into an uncompressed AVI. Anyone have any suggestions? The "free-er" the better.

[nekrosoft13]

virtualdub

that will do mpeg1, probably not mpeg2, not sure ;)


btw, do you know how big uncompressed avi will be? that is not wise ;)

[Butter Bandit]

virtualdub

that will do mpeg1, probably not mpeg2, not sure ;)


btw, do you know how big uncompressed avi will be? that is not wise ;)

They're 30 second commercials, and I realize they will be 900mb ^_^

It is for work. My video editing software can't import MPEGs for some reason, and I need to import an mpeg so I can tag a commercial...usually I get videos in .mov, .avi, .wmv, etc...but god-damn those bastards who made MPEGs.

[Butter Bandit]

DAMNIT.

All of my videos are MPEG2 files (I used TMPGEnc to encode everything)

I need to convert MPEG2 to either .mov, .wmv, or an uncompressed .avi (divx/xvid codecs won't work)

Any other suggestions?

[nekrosoft13]

do WMV, pretty much any PC will play them, and files will be small

[shilk]

I use XVid4PSP (http://winnydows.com/news.php).

I haven't had any problems converting any video format to another with this little program. :)

[ViN86]

u search sourceforge?

www.sourceforge.net

[wwec]

Vdubmod can handle mpeg2: http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

[Shamrock]

Total Video Converter, will convert over 14 different videos, and like 8-10 audio

[nemecb]

If you get really desperate you can try the Windows version of MPlayer. I'm assuming it comes with MEncoder like the Linux version does, and it will convert from practically anything to quite a few formats. It's not the most user-friendly, but I could give you a command line to convert from anything to raw AVI.

[pavgater01]

I need a program that will convert an MPEG into an uncompressed AVI. Anyone have any suggestions? The "free-er" the better.

As we know, AVI can be encoded by different codecs, such as BGR24, RGB555, YUY2, UYVY, and RGBA32, which are all uncompressed video codecs.

Below are some useful information of these six codecs:
RGBA32 completely stores 4 color components: R (Red), G (Green), B (Blue), and A (Alpha). If a video does not include alpha channel, the alpha channel here will not come into effect.
BGR24 completely stores 3 color components: RGB. If a video does not include alpha channel, the effect of RGBA32 is the same as BGR24, but the output file with RGBA32 will be a quarter larger than that with BGR24. If a video includes alpha channel, but is encoded with BGR24, the alpha channel will be lost, i.e. there is no transparency.
RGB555 does not store all the 3 color components: RGB. There are 5 bits for each color component (8 bits for that of RGBA32 and BGR24). It does not display the gradual color change effectively.
YUY2 is different from RGB series. It uses YUV color space with 3 components: Y (luminance component),
U (chrominance component), V (chrominance component), not RGB. The file with YUV2 is a bit worse than that with RGBA32 or BGR24, but better than RGB555.
UYVY is the same as YUY2, but the storing sequence is different. The file with UYVY is the same as that with YUY2.

The output quality differs slightly. The following comparison works as a reference.
RGBA32 >= BGR24 > YUY2 = UYVY > RGB555

If you want to convert MPEG to AVI, you need some video converters. I am not sure whether Pavtube Video Converter can convert mpeg to uncompressed AVI videos.

[Butter Bandit]

As we know, AVI can be encoded by different codecs, such as BGR24, RGB555, YUY2, UYVY, and RGBA32, which are all uncompressed video codecs.

Below are some useful information of these six codecs:
RGBA32 completely stores 4 color components: R (Red), G (Green), B (Blue), and A (Alpha). If a video does not include alpha channel, the alpha channel here will not come into effect.
BGR24 completely stores 3 color components: RGB. If a video does not include alpha channel, the effect of RGBA32 is the same as BGR24, but the output file with RGBA32 will be a quarter larger than that with BGR24. If a video includes alpha channel, but is encoded with BGR24, the alpha channel will be lost, i.e. there is no transparency.
RGB555 does not store all the 3 color components: RGB. There are 5 bits for each color component (8 bits for that of RGBA32 and BGR24). It does not display the gradual color change effectively.
YUY2 is different from RGB series. It uses YUV color space with 3 components: Y (luminance component),
U (chrominance component), V (chrominance component), not RGB. The file with YUV2 is a bit worse than that with RGBA32 or BGR24, but better than RGB555.
UYVY is the same as YUY2, but the storing sequence is different. The file with UYVY is the same as that with YUY2.

The output quality differs slightly. The following comparison works as a reference.
RGBA32 >= BGR24 > YUY2 = UYVY > RGB555

If you want to convert MPEG to AVI, you need some video converters. I am not sure whether Pavtube Video Converter can convert mpeg to uncompressed AVI videos.

Thanks for the info :cool: