avi. conversions

techumseh · January 5, 2001, 04:11

Can anyone help me figure out how to convert MPEG files into AVI files? Is there a shareware or freeware program which will do this? I've found one which will convert AVI to MPEG, but I need it the other way around. This is for some AVI movies for my ToT scenario about the Vietnam War.

techumseh · January 5, 2001, 19:07

Thanks Paul, I got it and made the conversion. However, it doesn't compress the resulting AVI file. So now I have a 276MB AVI file on my hard drive

, which ToT won't run. Do you know if there's any freeware or shareware for compressing AVI files? Thanks again.

Paul · January 6, 2001, 01:55

VirtualDub will do what you want. http://www186.pair.com/vdub/index.html

Paul · January 6, 2001, 04:38

Under the Video menu go to Compression. Here you can select the appropriate compressor (I believe Civ2 uses the Intel Indeo compression).

zyxpsilon · January 6, 2001, 17:22

GIF movie gear 2.51 and further versions readily available at SHAREWARE.COM and at many more sites.

techumseh · January 7, 2001, 02:41

Why, I oughta be in pictures! Thanks Paul. It works just great. What a blast to make your own movies for Test of Time. Too bad the files are so big. I did get it down to 5 MB or so for a 50 second clip. Now I need to add sound. I think maybe the Doors for the sound track.

Move over Oliver Stone!