Requesting Conversion Software Recs

[neadods]

Can anyone recommend a good free or shareware Windows program to convert .avi files to .mp4 files?

Comments

[easy-living.livejournal.com]

If it's a one-time thing, would it be easier to find an MP4 version of the file? The .mp4 format seems to have largely supplanted .avis in cough many places online.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Let me rephrase... my last two magic fairies got taken out back and shot and I don't know which magic fairy to be in league with next. I also don't know where any remaining ones might point me to the magic cabbage patch where Brimstone grows.

[easy-living.livejournal.com]

Checks own magic cabbage patch
Hmm, my preferred cabbage patch has the entire run but only in .avi format, probably because it's a 1998 show. I shall check a few other cabbage patches,,,

Another cabbage patch with the entire run in .avi, and two patches with nothing. Bah. Sorry, it was worth a try.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That would be my problem. I have the avi (and a retro-legitimizing DVD set, for that matter). But I can't watch it on the ipad :(

I think the magic cabbage patches are getting nervous on account of what happened to my two.

[easy-living.livejournal.com]

The magic cabbage patches I visit don't seem to be getting nervous - they only let in cabbage-eaters they know, not the internet public at large, which keeps them a bit safer. But they typically don't upload old shows in new formats if they already have the older format available. .avi used to be the most common lower-def format, that switched to MP4 maybe a year or so ago and it's relatively unusual to find .avis of new shows now. But there's not a big demand for MP4s of old shows, I guess.