convert avi files to mpeg

[NoOp]

On 10/30/2008 12:28 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Hello all,
>        I captured a bunch of video files in kino and placed them in 
> cinelerra. The first couple I saved as AVI. I had thought I would 
> recapture them later as mpeg and delete the avi files but this is a good 
> time to learn to use ffmpeg to convert avi to mpeg  I copied a couple of 
> commands from  web sites but was unable to get ffmeg up and running.  I 
> also tried Averdimux but it seems not to like avi files.  A little help 
> with a good tutorial might be a big help.
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> Doug                                                                    
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I recommend WinFF:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/05/22/easily-convert-videos-with-winff-and-ffmpeg/

Use:
http://code.google.com/p/winff/
  http://code.google.com/p/winff/wiki/UbuntuInstallation