AVI to MPEG Converter - Convert AVI files to MPEG on Windows(Windows 7 included)

Why to convert AVI to MPEG?

Since most AVI files are compressed with different codec, it is common that your computer can play some AVIs without any additional software needed and meanwhile refuses to play some AVIs.

This is simply due the fact that those AVIs have been compressed using a different codec and your computer has a codec installed already for the ones that work. Although still supported in Windows and suitable for certain formats like DV, it's not a good general purpose container, and even Microsoft uses other containers for their own video formats.

Why would you want to do convert AVI to MPEG? Well, there are many popular multimedia devices available today, including iPods and iPhones, MP3 and MP4 players, cell phones, Blackberries and so forth. If you want to share your videos, watch them on other media, or even edit them, you need conversion software to help you do that. Otherwise your video files will only run on those devices that use that particular multimedia file type.

Tips before converting AVI files to MPEG

Turn OFF your screen saver, it will slow your .AVI to .MPEG conversion down for hours.
Close any program running in the background, especially if you have a slower computer.
Re-boot the computer just before the conversion which will give you the best condition as possible.

How to convert AVI to MPEG on Windows(Windows 7 included)?

iSkysoft video converter is the video converter software you are looking for if you are planning to convert AVI to MPEG. With a large and rich codec collection, iSkysoft detect and analyze your AVI file, encode file from AVI to MPEG for you directly. All you need to do is install iSkysoft video converter, then set the output location and finally click "start".

Video Glossary
About AVI
Audio Video Interleave, known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video.

About MPEG
MPEG-1- Audio and video compression format coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbit/s. MPEG-1 is the video format that has had some extremely popular spin-offs and sideproducts, most notably MP3 and VideoCD.

MPEG-2- MPEG-2 is not a successor for MPEG-1, but an addition instead -- both of these formats have their own purposes in life; MPEG-1 is meant for medium-bandwidth usage and MPEG-2 is meant for high-bandwidth/broadband usage. Most commonly MPEG-2 is used in digital TVs, DVD-Videos and in SVCDs. Some Blu-ray films have MPEG-2 transfers but not many as there are better lossy compression formats such as VC-1 or MPEG-4 AVC.

MPEG-4- MPEG-4 is one of the latest (audio and video) compression method standardized by MPEG group, designed specially for low-bandwidth (less than 1.5MBit/sec bitrate) video/audio encoding purposes. Probably the best-known MPEG-4 video encoders are called DivX and XviD, which both are nowadays fully standard-compliant MPEG-4 encoders.

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