Batch convert videos from MPG to AVI

Question

I have a few hundred short MPEG files (each ~10 seconds) that I need to batch convert to AVI. What would be the best way to do this?

I've tried using WinFF but the quality was very subpar.

WinFF uses FFMPEG. Pretty much what most other general conversion tools use. You just need to specify the setting you want. — Force Flow, Sep 27 '10 at 23:32

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 17 '12 at 21:07

7

With FFmpeg, which will not re-encode the videos in any way and therefore preserve quality:

ffmpeg -i file.mpg -c:v copy -c:a copy file.avi

In a batch file, e.g. for Linux:

while IFS= read -d $'\0' -r file ; do
  ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:v copy -c:a copy ${file%%.mpg}.avi
done < <(find . -iname '*.mpg' -print0)

In a batch file, e.g. for Windows:

for /r %%i in (*.mpg) do (
ffmpeg -i %%i -c:v copy -c:a copy %%i~n.avi
)

The last example requires the Windows build of ffmpeg.

edited Jul 17 '12 at 21:07

Richard

answered Jul 15 '12 at 13:36

slhck

1

+1 for ffmpeg. I've heard rather scary stories about Super wanting to modify files in the `Windows\System32` folder so I avoid it like the plague. Plus if you want to use batch, then command line applications is the way to go. – Richard Jul 17 '12 at 21:00
+1 Yeh, from personal experience Super acts rather suspicious and takes an insane amount of time to load just for a winforms application. Not sure what it does in background to justify this but it doesn't do anything with videos which can't be achieved with open-source solutions IMAO – James Jul 17 '12 at 21:11
I use ffmpeg too, but... I still don't understand why people who created it didn't released some productive official GUI. Many GUI programs with ffmpeg are full of adware, malware etc. I don't know which is safe to use, and which will infect my computer with SweetPacks or other crap. – Kamil Nov 20 '14 at 09:19
@Kamil The developers have enough to do already, and are continuously improving the tool. Adding a GUI would be a massive overhead, and would probably require a second project of almost the same scale of FFmpeg, if it should be FOSS and cross-platform. – slhck Nov 20 '14 at 11:23

Mehper C. Palavuzlar · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-23T16:26:23.110

3

SUPER © (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) can do it. One of its features is multiple batch file processing by simple file drag and drop, and it's freeware.

edited Oct 23 '10 at 16:26

answered Sep 27 '10 at 19:48

They need to make downloading that software from that site a little easier, its a treasure hunt to find the link...direct download here...http://www.erightsoft.biz/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe – Moab Sep 27 '10 at 21:07
@Moab: Free but tiring to download :) Thanks for the link by the way. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar Sep 27 '10 at 21:11
I guess I shouldn't complain about free software. :-) – Moab Sep 28 '10 at 01:35

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 17 '12 at 19:54

0

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows.

answered Jul 17 '12 at 19:54

broomdodger

3 Answers3