Need simple CHEAPO conversion utility

vicmilt wrote on 7/23/2004, 12:55 PM

I'm at my friend's house and he has no interest in video editing.
What he does need is a simple - cheapo (free?) utitlity to downconvert his videos (.mov) to email to family and friends...suggestions??
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TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/23/2004, 1:19 PM

Windows Media 9 tools are free. TMPGenc 2.5 does free mpeg-1 encoding. You can also use the Divx encoder, or other free AVI codec's.

Windows Media will play on any mac/PC (windows MP9) no problem, and mpeg-1 should play on any system in existance (PC, Mac, Linux, Sun, SGI, etc).

vicmilt wrote on 7/23/2004, 1:34 PM

windows media player 9 would not open the Quicktime MOV files.
Where did I go wrong?

What is TMPGenic 2.5?
where do I get it?
which is the totally EASIEST to use?
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Former user wrote on 7/23/2004, 1:37 PM

You have to have Quicktime loaded before you can convert. And I think you have to have the full PRO version.

Dave t2

stormstereo wrote on 7/23/2004, 6:40 PM

If you're looking for the easiest tool to do this, do a search at download.com, maybe there's something good there.

For TMPgenc, do a search with Google.

Best/Tommy