[HPFGU-OTChatter] A computer video software question.

[Kathryn Cawte]

> You really don't want to convert .avi to .mpg unless the file in
> question is relatively small -- I mean if it is not some pirated movie
> ;-).

Well not a pirated *movie* - tv shows more like - and I entirely blame my
need to download them on the tv companies involved since British TV does
show most of the US shows I'm addicted to but so much later than in the US
that unless you join an English only discussion group it's difficult to have
a clue what anyone is talking about.

Created mpgs will be huge and you might expirience serious
> degradation of quality. [But this is outside my usual area of expertise,
> so I might be wrong].

Quality would bother me - bu unless they end up doubling in size they'd
still fit on a cd and I wouldn't care.

> There are plenty of tools which do want to achieve. You just need to
> know what we geeks would call such program. Try do a Google search for:
> avi2mpeg or avi2mpg ;-). First hit is: http://www.ush.de/avi2mpeg.htm
> [As a side note: yes, program converting doc to rtf would be doc2rtf,
> and there are txt2html, ps2pdf, dos2unix etc..]
>

Thank you - I'm afraid i don't speak fluent geek ;) although I did share
with a computer studies guy while at uni so I can generally make educated
guesses. Apparently not educated enough since I didn't find anything. Will
go and look again now - thank you kindly :)
> >
> Most players are just Windows Media Players embedded within different
> skin and I suspect it is the same is with Power DVD -- you can easily
> check if this is an issue if same problems appears within WMP.

Usually the problems don't occur - and it's what I resort to when PowerDVD
is sulking.

You might
> want to check some different player -- namely this
> http://www.divx.com/divx/player/index.php from divx.com as this bypass
> WMP to watch offending movie. Such problems as yours usually occurs when
> there are too many codecs installed, and some of them doesn't like the
> others. If you can, try uninstalling those codecs, and give a try those
> I recommended earlier. If you can not uninstall those, I am afraid the
> problem is too complicated to be solved remotely.
>

Hmm I'm fairly certain I've only had to download and install one codec but I
may try that too.


> Hope that helps,
>
>

You are as always a font of helpful information.

K