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The NetShow authoring tools include a DOS command line utilitity:
VidToAsf
which converts AVI files to ASF files, preserving whatever compression
was used. VidToAsf can also convert .mov (QuickTime) files to
ASF files. Like AVI, ASF files support many audio and
video compression schemes.
The NetShow Tools include a Microsoft Windows graphical application
called the ASF Real Time Encoder which can also convert AVI and WAV
files to ASF files. The ASF Real Time Encoder is installed under Microsoft
NetShow in the Start | Programs menu under Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0
ASF Real Time Encoder
For more information including software:
http://www.microsoft.com/asf/
http://www.microsoft.com/netshow/
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Sources of AVI Video Clips on the Web
What good is all this technology without something to watch?
Accordingly, some sites with AVI content.
The Official Babylon 5 Web Site has a large number of AVI files
from the popular science fiction television show.
http://www.babylon5.com
Paul Bauer's Multimedia City contains a large list of sites with
video clips.
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/2876/index.html
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Low Bit Rate AVI for the Web
A major limitation of video on the Web in general and AVI in
particular is the limited bandwidth available. Currently most users
with Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) have 28.8 Kbits/second or 33.6
Kbits/second connections to their Internet Service Provider. The new
generation of K56Flex and X2 modems from U.S. Robotics and Rockwell
may eventually provide 50-60 Kbits/second over tradiational analog
telephone lines. A Basic Rate Interface (BRI) ISDN connection
provides 128 Kbits/second.
Although very high speeds are possible within the LAN's and WAN's of
major corporations and other well-endowed organizations, the so-called
Intranet, the actual rates achieved over the world wide Internet are
generally much less. Not necessarilly better than the rates for POTS
or ISDN.
For example, currently (7/20/97) a Web browser at NASA Ames Research
Center in Mountain View, California can attach to my Web site at an
Internet Service Provider in nearby San Jose at a sustained data
transfer rate of 15 KBytes/second or 120 Kbits/second. NASA Ames
is home to the Federal Internet Exchange (FIX), the
government's main switching center for the Internet, for the West Coast
of the United States. This is the heart of the Silicon Valley. This
is probably much better performance than more outlying parts of the
Internet. This gives a sense of the current limitations of the
broader Internet.
These Internet rates are very low bitrates for video. The prevailing
block Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based video codecs such as MPEG-1,
H.261, and H.263 perform acceptably at 384 Kbits/second but frequently
exhibit unnatural artifacts at 128 Kbits/second for 30 frame per
second 320x240 pixel video. These block DCT based codecs match or
exceed the performance of Cinepak, the reigning king of AVI codecs.
Ultimately, faster Internet connections and better codecs will combine
to resolve this problem and allow convincing, realistic video over
the Internet.
In the meantime, Web authors planning to use video must provide highly
compressed video at low bitrates. To do this, options are:
- Use smaller frame sizes (e.g. 160x120 pixels)
- Use lower frame rates (10 - 15 frames per second)
- Push the standard codecs such as Cinepak as far as possbile.
- Use one of the newer codecs such as:
VDOWave
Indeo 4.1
H.263
This overview contains a detailed section on the many codecs available
for AVI files:
Video for Windows Codec Section
This overview also has a section on effective video for the Web. Note
that there are practical limits on how low resolution, frame rates, and
video quality can be pushed before the video becomes ineffective.
Effective Video for the Web
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Limitations of AVI and Video for Windows over Networks
AVI and Video for Windows were developed for playback of audio and
video from hard disks and CD-ROMs on personal computers. They are
also adequate for downloading a video file from a remote site on the
Internet for subsequent playback from the computer's hard drive. They
are not well suited for real-time or streaming video playback over
networks. This means videoconferencing or broadcast video over
networks.
The AVI file format lacks time stamps embedded in the audio and
video streams. There is no mechanism to resynchronize the audio and
video streams if data is lost. In a network, sometimes packets are
lost in which case the audio and video playback will lose track of the
time. With time stamps, the application can resynchronize the audio
and video playback.
Microsoft has a new generation of products in the form of the Active/Advanced
Streaming Format (ASF), NetShow, NetMeeting (videoconferencing), and
ActiveMovie (DirectShow) with improved support for video over
networks. Microsoft provides utilities for converting AVI to
the new ASF format.
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How can I convert an AVI file to a sequence of bitmap images?
VidEdit
Microsoft's VidEdit video editor can convert AVI files to a sequence
of Microsoft DIB files, such as test.avi --> test00.dib, test01,dib, etc.
Further information on VidEdit is available in the section of the
AVI Overview on editing AVI.
AVIRIP
There is a freeware DOS program called AVIRIP that can convert
non-compressed AVI files to a sequence of TGA (Targa), RAW, or
DIB files. AVIRIP is available with the convmpg3 freeware toolkit
for converting AVI to MPEG and MPEG to AVI. Further information
on convmpg3 is available in the section of the AVI Overview
on converting AVI to MPEG.
Phade Software's MPEG Site has CONVMPG3
http://www.mpeg1.de/msdos.html
Jih-Shin Ho's Display
Display by Jih-Shin Ho
Available at
ftp://info.nic.surfnet.nl/mirror-archive/software/simtel-msdos/graphics/disp189a.zip
or other Simtel mirror sites.
This is a 32-bit MS-DOS program that can read and write many image
and movie file formats.
DeBabelizer Pro
Equilibrium's DeBabelizer Pro for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 reads and
writes about 90 common and not-so-common image formats. DeBabelizer Pro
also reads and writes AVI files. DeBabelizer Pro can read an AVI
file and export it as a sequence of still images in the many image formats
that it supports.
On August 3, 1998, David Gartner of Equilibrium wrote:
Equilibrium adds AVI with sound support to DeBabelizer Pro 4.5
**AVI Video with Sound**
DeBabelizer Pro 4.5's new full AVI support enables users to batch process
legacy Video for Windows files for use on most any Macintosh and Windows
systems for the Web, CD-ROM or kiosk. Video for Windows (AVI) was built
into Windows 95 and NT and runs only on Windows machines. Now, with a few
keystrokes, DeBabelizer Pro 4.5 users can automatically optimize, convert,
and compress tens, hundreds or thousands of videos to QuickTime 3.0,
animated GIFs or a variety of other cross-platform video and animation
formats.
DeBabelizer Pro has many other features beside file format conversions.
Equilibrium has a demonstration version of DeBabelizer Pro on its Web site.
This is definitely demonstration version. The demo version plasters the
word Equilibrium all over any images that it processes.
DeBabelizer Pro ($595 Suggested Retail Price)
Equilibrium
475 Gate Five Road, Suite 225
Sausalito, CA 94965
1-800-524-8651 or (415) 332-4343
http://www.equilibrium.com/
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Smacker (.SMK Files)
Smacker is a special 8-bit color video format from
RAD Game Tools used for video and computer games.
Smacker files usually use the file extension .SMK
RAD Game Tools provides free Smacker Utilities at
their Web site:
http://www.radgametools.com/
The utilities can convert an AVI file to a Smacker video file (.SMK file).
The Smacker utilities calculate a good 8 bit palette
for the input video.
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Progressive Networks RealMedia Streaming Format (.RM Files)
Progressive Networks has a streaming media format known as RealMedia
with the file extension .rm using RealAudio audio compression and
RealVideo video compression (RealVideo, also known as ClearVideo, is
Iterated Systems fractal video compression). Progressive
provides a product known as RealEncoder to author RealMedia
files. RealEncoder can import AVI files!
http://www.real.com/
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How to convert a sequence of bitmap images to an AVI?
Note: A number of Windows applications can convert a sequence of still
images in one still image file format, such as TIFF, to a sequence of
still images in another format, such as Windows 3.x BMP. These are
discussed in the How to Convert a Sequence of Still
Images in One Format to a Sequence in Another Format section of
the AVI Overview.
Use these still image conversion programs to convert a sequence of
bitmap images into a format supported by the various programs below
such as VidEdit which can convert sequences of still images in
a particular format to an AVI file.
VidEdit
Microsoft's VidEdit software (16 bit Windows) can read in
sequences of Microsoft .DIB files and convert them to an
AVI file. More information on VidEdit is available in the
section of the AVI Overview on editing AVI files.
Video for DOS
A shareware program called Video for DOS (VFD) can convert sequences
of Targa files (.TGA) into AVI. (11/8/96) Video for DOS can be
downloaded from
http://www.dc.ee/Files/Graf
Thanks to John Avis for information on Video for DOS.
AVI Constructor
Michael Caracena's AVI Constructor is a shareware program that
Michael Caracena (Oct. 3, 1997) writes...
The newest version of AVI Constructor can:
- Make AVI files from bitmap (*.BMP), JPEG (*.JPG),
and TARGA (*.TGA) files.
- Insert audio from a .wav file into the AVI.
- Extract images from any AVI.
etc.
AVI Constructor can be ordered and a demonstration version downloaded
from:
http://www.henge.com/~caracena
MainConcept's MainActor
MainConcept's MainActor can import sequences of BMP images and export
them as an AVI video file. MainActor can import and export many other
video and still image formats as well.
http://www.mainconcept.de/
DeBabelizer Pro for Windows 95 and NT 4.0
Equilibrium's DeBabelizer Pro can read and write about 90 common
and not so common image file formats. DeBabelizer Pro can also
read and write AVI files. DeBabelizer Pro can read in sequences of
image files in many formats and convert to an AVI file.
Equilibrium has a demonstration version of DeBabelizer Pro on their
Web site. This is a demonstration version. It adds the words Equilibrium
to any images or movies that it processes.
DeBabelizer Pro ($595 Suggested Retail Price)
Equilibrium
475 Gate Five Road, Suite 225
Sausalito, CA 94965
1(800) 525-8651 or (415) 332-4343
http://www.equilibrium.com/
Smacker Utilities
RAD Game Tools distributes free Smacker utilities
at their Web site:
http://www.radgametools.com/
The Graphics Processor can convert a sequence of bitmap images
in several common bitmap image formats into an AVI file.
NOTE: this AVI file uses an 8 bit color palette selected by
the Smacker utilities for best picture quality.
RAD Game Tools licenses a proprietary 8 bit video format
called Smacker for use in video games. Their focus is on
compression achieved through proper selection of an 8 bit
color palette, rather than 24 bit color. Smacker is popular
in the gaming industry.
RAD Game Tools
850 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Voice: (801) 322-4300
FAX: (801) 359-6169
mkavi (PPM to AVI)
mkavi is a Unix utility with source code to convert sequences of
Unix PPM (Portable Pixmap) files into AVI. As of 11/7/97, the
documentation describes mkavi as alpha code.
ftp://www.va.pubnix.com/staff/stripes/code/
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How to convert QuickTime MOV files to AVI?
Power Macintosh:
The Video for Windows 1.1 Apple Macintosh Utilities from Microsoft is a
collection of utilities and system extensions for the Macintosh that add
support for Video for Windows file formats. One of the utilities is VfW
Converter which converts QuickTime MooV files to AVI files playable
on the PC.
The Video for Windows 1.1 Apple Macintosh Utilities are available at:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/Jumpstart/VfW11-Mac/
VfW Converter is more powerful than Intel's smartvid PC application.
It can convert video formats. For example, VfW Converter can
convert a raw uncompressed 24 bit QuickTime Movie to a raw
uncompressed 24 bit AVI Movie (or do various compressions).
Uncompressed QuickTime and uncompressed AVI files use different
video formats. VfW Converter also converts audio from QuickTime
audio to AVI audio.
The Video for Windows 1.1 Apple Macintosh Utlities file is
variously named:
vfw11.sit
video-for-windows-11p.hqx
Apple's QuickTime Web site contains links to sources for
Video for Windows (Macintosh) as well as other useful
video utilities.
Apple's QuickTime Web Site
Video for Windows (Macintosh) has the virtue of being free, unlike:
Adobe Premiere (Macintosh)
---reportedly can save QuickTime movies as AVI files.
On PC/Microsoft Windows:
TRMOOV.EXE (see below)
can translate MOV to AVI, but I found problems playing back
the AVI files on my 486 PC. It does not change the
interleaving of the audio and video streams in the conversion from
.MOV to .AVI. TRMOOV preserves the half-second
interleave of QuickTime movies which is not appropriate for AVI. AVI
wants each video frame interleaved with the audio for that frame.
With the half-second interleave of QuickTime the audio will playback for
a half-second while the video is frozen, followed by a half-second of
video with no audio, repeated for the duration of the AVI playback.
The interleave can be fixed using VidEdit. VidEdit contains algorithms
to properly interleave the audio and video. Load the offending AVI
file into VidEdit, Select File | Save As ... and give the file a new
name. This triggers the interleave algorithm. VidEdit will reorganize
the audio and video to interleave frames instead of half-seconds.
Intel's SmartVid (see below) can convert .MOV to .AVI It appears to
convert the audio video interleave from one format to another, something
TRMOOV seems to have problems with.
Adobe's Adobe Premiere 5.0 for Windows 95/NT can import and export
Windows AVI and Apple QuickTime video files.
Adobe
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Converting Autodesk Animation Files (FLI or FLC) to AVI
VidEdit:
Use Microsoft's VidEdit editor. This editor can read FLI or FLC files.
Then save the files as AVI files.
Launch VidEdit. Select File | Open ...
This brings up the Open Video File dialog box. Under List Files of Type,
select Autodesk Animation from the pulldown list.
Then, choose File | Save As ...
VidEdit will save the file as an AVI file.
Further information on VidEdit is available in the section on editing
AVI files, including where to get VidEdit.
MainActor
MainConcept's MainActor for Windows 95 and OS/2 Version 1.00
can load Autodesk Animator FLI and FLC files and save in AVI
format. For further information on MainActor, a shareware
program that converts many video and animation formats, see:
http://www.mainconcept.de/
or e-mail
info@mainconcept.de
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Converting MPEG to AVI
CONVMPG3/VIDEDIT (FREE)
Use the CONVMPG3.ZIP package of MPEG and AVI utilities. CONVMPG3
is available for download at the Phade Software MPEG site:
http://www.mpeg1.de/msdos.html
(1) Run DMPEG to convert MPEG-1 to a sequence of RAW still images.
(2) Use RAWRIP to convert the sequence of RAW still images to a
sequence of DIB's.
(3) Use VidEdit to convert the sequence of DIB's to an AVI file.
(or another video editor). VidEdit is not bundled with
CONVMPG3, but is available elsewhere.
Go to VidEdit Section The VidEdit section
of the AVI Overview includes links to sites to download
VidEdit.
Ulead's MPEG Converter can convert MPEG-1 to AVI.
Ulead is:
Ulead
970 West 190th Street, Suite 20
Torrance, CA 90502
Voice: (800) 858-5323
FAX: (310) 523-9399
http://www.ulead.com/
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Converting Animated GIF (GIF89a) to AVI
MainConcept's MainActor for Windows can load animated GIF
files (GIF89a) and then save these files as AVI files.
MainActor is available in a shareware version or as a fully
functional paid-for version.
On the Web:
http://www.mainconcept.de/
By E-Mail:
info@mainconcept.de
GIF Movie Gear (Gamani Productions)
GIF Movie Gear from Gamani Productions can reportedly convert
Animated GIF (GIF89a) to AVI and vice versa.
On the web:
http://www.moviegear.com/
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How to Convert a Sequence of Still Images in One Format to a Sequence in Another Format
At this time, there are hundreds of different graphic file formats
for still images, such as Windows BMP, Windows DIB, Targa, GIF, JPEG,
Unix Portable Pixmap (PPM), and many others. In creating an AVI (or
MPEG or MOV for that matter), some authoring programs may create a
video as a sequence of still images in some graphic file format
which is not supported by the graphic file sequence to AVI
conversion utilities listed elsewhere in this Overview.
Fortunately, there are freeware, shareware, and commercial programs
which provide batch conversion of sequences of still images from one
file format to sequences in another file format. For example, you
might generate a sequence of Unix PPM format files with one
utilitity and need to convert to a sequence of Windows BMP files.
PC/Windows
PixWizard is a shareware Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 image viewer
with image processing and conversion capabilities from PixVision
(formerly Pixel Vision) Software. PixWizard reads and writes the
following still image file formats:
o BMP (Windows 3.x, OS/2 1.1, and OS/2 2.0)
o Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
o Interchange Format File (IFF)
- including HAM and SHAM modes
o JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)
o Kodak Photo CD (PCD)
o Macintosh PICT (including PICT/JPEG)
o MacPaint
o PCX
o Portable Pixmap (PPM/PGM/PBM)
o Targa
o Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
PixWizard has a batch conversion of a list of files to a specified
format feature. Select Batch Conversion... from the File menu in
PixWizard 1.07. A 30-day trial version of PixWizard is available at
the PixVision Web site.
WinJPEG is a shareware Windows 3.x utility from PixVision (formerly
Pixel Vision). WinJPEG reads and writes most of the same file formats
as PixWizard. It has a batch conversion feature.
PixVision Software Home Page (PixWizard and WinJPEG):
http://www.pixvision.com/
Paint Shop Pro is a shareware and commercial Windows utility from
Jasc Software. Paint Shop Pro reads and writes most graphic file
formats. It has a batch conversion feature.
The shareware version of Paint Shop Pro has a thirty (30) day
evaluation period.
Jasc Software Paint Shop Pro Page:
http://www.jasc.com/psp.html
Power Macintosh
GraphicConverter is a shareware Power Macintosh utility with
very extensive support for graphic file formats and some video
formats. It can read and write roughly a hundred different
file formats including some pretty obscure formats. It has a
batch conversion feature.
GraphicConverter Web Site:
http://www.lemkesoft.de/
Unix
I've not identified a Unix utility with explicit batch conversion
features. However, there are some utilities for bitmap conversion.
The Portable Bitmap Utilities can easily be used for batch conversion
through a script.
PBMPLUS: Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit
by Jef Poskanzer
A collection of utilities for converting to and from Jef Poskanzer's
Portable Bitmap (PBM), Portable Greymap (PGM), and Portable Pixmap (PPM)
file format. FREE and widely available on Unix systems.
For example, to convert a GIF file to a TIFF file.
1. giftoppm myfile.gif
2. pnmtotiff myfile.ppm
giftoppm is a utility program to convert GIF to PPM
pnmtotiff is a utility program to convert PBM/PGM/PPM to TIFF
The PBM utilities can be invoked from Unix scripts
(Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, C Shell, Perl, etc.) for batch
conversion of a sequence of bitmap images.
PBMPLUS is available at a number of ftp sites such as:
ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/
There are many files in this directory. PBMPLUS is:
pbmplus10dec91.tar
pbmplus10dec91.tar.Z
John Bradley's xv (shareware)
xv is a Unix X-Windows shareware utility for
viewing, manipulating, and converting bitmap images
on Unix X-Windows systems. xv supports many common
bitmap image file formats.
The xv Version 3.10a Manual states:
"Since xv has absolutely no command-line or batch
conversion abilities..."
xv is available from a number of sites such as:
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv
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How to convert AVI to QuickTime files?
Microsoft Windows
Intel's SmartVID, a DOS and Windows application, can convert
.AVI to .MOV files. SmartVID is codec independent. This means
that SmartVid preserves the video compression scheme from the
source .AVI file.
http://www.intel.com/pc-supp/multimed/indeo/smartvid.htm
TRMOOV.EXE
Windows 3.1 Program
Converts AVI to QuickTime for Windows movie.
The QTW movie will play on a Macintosh with QuickTime 1.5 or later.
Note: My experiments converting some .MOV files to .AVI seem to
playback ok, unlike the .AVI to .MOV conversion.
Source: Found on CD-ROM with the "How to Digitize Video" book
(see below).
On Net: ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/jfm/avi/trmoov.exe
Please Note: TRMOOV and SmartVid preserve the compressor used in the
source file. For example, if the AVI file was compressed with
Cinepak, the MOV file will be compressed with Cinepak. Since Cinepak
is supported by both Video for Windows and QuickTime this is not
a problem. However, if the compressor exists only in Video for Windows
or only QuickTime, then there will be a problem.
Mainconcept's Main Actor can load many video and animation formats.
It can also save many video and animation formats. The Windows version
of Main Actor can load AVI and save the file as QuickTime.
http://www.mainconcept.de
Adobe Premiere 5.0 for Windows 95/NT can import and export both
AVI and QuickTime.
Adobe
PowerMacintosh
On the PowerMacintosh, Microsoft distributes the Video for
Windows 1.1 Apple Macintosh Utilities. These include an
AVI to QuickTime conversion utility.
The Video for Windows 1.1 Apple Macintosh Utilities include:
* Read Me file.
* QuickTime-to-AVI conversion program.
- this utility is called "VfW Converter"
* Utility for moving AVI files to the Macintosh.
- this utility is called "AVI to QT Utility"
* Windows Compressors system extension, which contains
compressor/decompressors (CODECs) for Microsoft RLE,
Microsoft Video 1, and Microsoft Full Frame formats.
- this component is called "Windows Compressors"
To retrieve the Video for Windows 1.1 Apple Macintosh Utilities:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/Multimedia/Jumpstart/VfW11-Mac/
On the PowerMacintosh, the program AVI->QuickTime can convert AVI to
QuickTime. At least, it can convert the video successfully for
subsequent playback with Apple's MoviePlayer. I have seen problems
with the audio. This application is available at various Web and ftp
sites in the file avi-to-qt-converter.hqx This may be the same
AVI to QuickTime converter included with the Video for Windows 1.1
Apple Macintosh Utilities; I have not confirmed this.
One site with AVI->QuickTime is:
ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/gst/mov/avi-to-qt-converter.hqx
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How to convert AVI to animated GIF?
GIF Construction Set
Gif Construction Set from Alchemy Mindworks reportedly can convert
an AVI file to an animated GIF file.
Alchemy Mindworks, Inc.
Web http://www.mindworks.com/alchemy/alchemy.html
E-Mail: alchemy@mail.north.net
FTP: ftp://ftp.mindworkshop.com/pub/alchemy
Microsoft GIF Animator
Microsoft's GIF Animator for Windows 95
product can reportedly convert AVI to animated
GIFs (GIF89a format). Information on GIF Animator
including a dowloadable version is available at
the Microsoft Web site (11/7/96) on the Microsoft
Image Composer page.
Web http://www.microsoft.com/imagecomposer
MainActor
MainActor, a shareware software product for Windows 95, Windows NT, and
OS/2 reportedly can convert AVI to animated GIF.
http://www.mainconcept.de/
Ulead
Ulead reports that is has added AVI to GIF to
Ulead's PhotoImpact GIF Animator 1.2 Beta (11/16/96)
http://www.ulead.com/products/framens.htm
Ulead Toll Free Number: 1-800-858-5323
Adobe Premiere
There is (Feb. 1998) a free plug-in for Adobe Premiere 4.x
to convert AVI to Animated GIF. See the Adobe Web site
to download this and many other plug-ins for Adobe products:
http://www.adobe.com/
GIF Movie Gear (Gamani Productions)
GIF Movie Gear from Gamani Productions can reportedly convert
AVI to Animated GIF and vice versa.
http://www.moviegear.com/
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How to convert AVI to MPEG?
AVI to MPEG Conversion at a Glance
Company/Author(s) Product Price URL
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Corel PhotoPaint $500? http://www.corel.com/
Ulead MPEG Converter $249 http://www.ulead.com/
Xing Technologies XingMPEG Encoder $89 http://www.xingtech.com/
XingMPEG Encoder 2 (May 6, 1997 release)
CeQuadrat PixelShrink $199 http://www.cequadrat.com/
Vitec MPEG Maker $125 http://vitechts.com/
MainConcept MainActor shareware http://www.mainconcept.de/
avi2mpg1 Unknown freeware http://www.mnsi.net/~jschlic1/
Stefan Eckhart and others CONVMPG3 freeware kit http://www.powerweb.de/mpeg/msdos.html
Ligos Technology LSX-MPEG Encoder $179.95 http://www.ligos.com/
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Further information, reviews, and live links follow:
The following posting from the comp.graphics.animation USENET
newsgroup provides a good answer to this question. I have retained
the header to insure proper credit to the author.
Note: LW refers to the Lightwave 3D animation software package.
From comp.graphics.animation Wed Oct 30 18:16:34 1996
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From: Valery
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation
Subject: Re: AVI to Mpeg converter
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:15:14 +0100
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Mariusz Jesmanowicz wrote:
>
> Hi, I use LW to do animation, and basically I am not happy with any of the
> compression engines aviable for avi. Those codes suck. So what I want to do
> is make an UNCOMPRESSED AVI and then translate it to MPEG. anyone know of
> any good converters to MPEG or hoe about plug-in for LW to be able to do
> MPEG files from the start.
>
> Thank You
Hi,
you're right, every single AVI compression codec is lame.
5 years of the AVI format existance and zero progress so far.
If you're talking about freeware or budget-priced MPEG codecs,
it's a tough task, to find the damn thing. I'm busy in this area
quite for a while already, and here are my findings:
1. XING's MPEG encoder is a classical name on the scene. Had
compatibility problems before, not anymore, I believe. Can cost
you $150 or more, not sure. Scan for 'XING' on the Net, you'll
definitely find some tracks (www.xing.com doesn't show up).
2. Stefan Eckart's CMPEG (DOS) encoder is FREE and GOOD, and stays
so for a couple of years already. Can have troubles converting
some particular streams, but generally not worse than many
commercial programs. (You need to make a TGA sequence first out
of your AVI, though). Again, scan for CMPEG, or use my bookmarks
found on the site Im introducing below.
3. To my surprise, Corel Photopaint 6 has got very decent built-in
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