Question

Does anyone know of a good and free AVI->MPG converter with no restrictions?

I downloaded a trial version of ImToo AVI MPEG converter, but it only allows you to convert 5 minutes of video.

Answer 1

Handbrake or SUPER will do what you want.

Answer 2

For a superuser command-line approach with more control, FFMpeg will do this. You can find all of the more advanced tweaking options here. A basic conversion would look like so:

ffmpeg -i myfile.avi -target vcd /tmp/vcd.mpg

For a GUI Avidemux is great:

Both are free and open source, don't think it gets any less restrictive than that.

Answer 3

Try Quick Media Converter. No restrictions at all, and very little it can't handle.

Answer 4

mencoder (part of mpalyer) uses FFMpeg and other supporting library, and supplies a uniform command line interface.

Answer 5

use media-convert.com it works very well, but the downside is its online. VLC can also do it, but I'm not exactly sure how. (its got to be a very recent version of VLC)

Answer 6

The open source MediaCoder can convert pretty much anything and has a nice Windows GUI