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convert .mov to .avi

bjlockie

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My sister's camera saves .mov and she wants to burn it to a DVD but her DVD needs .avi.
If I find a free converter will it lose information by decoding the .mov and recompressing as .avi?
Would it be better just to convert the .mov to .mpg?
I want Windows freeware.
 
Is this a JVC by any chance? Is so, no need to re encode anything. Just rename the extention to .mpeg.. Might work on non JVC's as well. No need to spend hours or even a few minutes re encoding. I learned the hard way. lol
 
Is this a JVC by any chance? Is so, no need to re encode anything. Just rename the extention to .mpeg.. Might work on non JVC's as well. No need to spend hours or even a few minutes re encoding. I learned the hard way. lol

JVC camcorders use .mod files, not .mov files.
I'm thinking: Sony & Canon cameras use .mov files for video.
Quicktime Pro can convert from .mov to .avi.
 
Did not know that about handbrake. why the change?

Why did you drop AVI output?

AVI is a rough beast. It is obsolete. It does not support modern container features like chapters, muxed-in subtitles, variable framerate video, or out of order frame display. Furthermore, HandBrake's AVI muxer is vanilla AVI 1.0 that doesn't even support large files. The code has not been actively maintained since 2005. Keeping it in the library while implementing new features means a very convoluted data pipeline, full of conditionals that make the code more difficult to read and maintain, and make output harder to predict. As such, it is now gone. It is not coming back, and good riddance.

It was on the FAQ for their site...
 
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