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Need a good free program to convert a mpg to wmv or avi
2006-10-07, 3:20 PM #1
I'm doing a speech on movie cliches and I would like to be able to play some film clips directly off of my flash drive. I figure it will be better to directly play the clip from a video file instead of cycling through a bunch of DVDs and trying to get to the right spot. I have been able to rip a scene from a DVD to my hard drive, but it's in mpg format. When I try to convert it to wmv or avi through various programs, I seem to be unsuccessful. So does anyone know of a program I can use to do the conversion to wmv or avi successfully?
2006-10-07, 3:51 PM #2
Originally posted by Cloud:
I'm doing a speech on movie cliches and I would like to be able to play some film clips directly off of my flash drive. I figure it will be better to directly play the clip from a video file instead of cycling through a bunch of DVDs and trying to get to the right spot. I have been able to rip a scene from a DVD to my hard drive, but it's in mpg format. When I try to convert it to wmv or avi through various programs, I seem to be unsuccessful. So does anyone know of a program I can use to do the conversion to wmv or avi successfully?


edit: Forgot about this belonging in the technology forum. Feel free to move it there...
2006-10-07, 3:58 PM #3
Windows movie maker?
一个大西瓜
2006-10-07, 4:01 PM #4
WinAVI
D E A T H
2006-10-07, 4:06 PM #5
VirtualDub

2006-10-07, 4:18 PM #6
windows or Mac?
2006-10-07, 5:17 PM #7
Forgot to mention Windows. Windows Movie Maker would be my first choice, but it doesn't support mpg it seems. I'll give a look into some of those other programs, thanks.
2006-10-07, 5:57 PM #8
*cough*


Why dont you just ask your teacher? ;)
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2006-10-07, 6:15 PM #9
[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]WinAVI[/QUOTE]
Hasn't failed me yet for video converting.
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2006-10-07, 8:51 PM #10
WinAVI would be perfect if it weren't for the fact that it has this stupid message in the middle of the clip. The only way I can remove it is to pay the $30. I can't get virtualdub to open the mpg file so now I'm trying trying MPlayer. I have no multimedia teacher so no luck there...
2006-10-07, 9:37 PM #11
Originally posted by Cloud:
WinAVI would be perfect if it weren't for the fact that it has this stupid message in the middle of the clip. The only way I can remove it is to pay the $30. I can't get virtualdub to open the mpg file so now I'm trying trying MPlayer. I have no multimedia teacher so no luck there...

... You do know that there are alternative ways around that. Right?
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
Are you finding Ling-Ling's head?
Last Stand
2006-10-07, 9:53 PM #12
There is? Oh please do tell.

Edit: Nevermind I think I know what you mean...

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