On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:39:21 GMT, wrote in
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In rec.aviation.piloting Larry Dighera wrote:
Has anyone got a freeware .M4V to MPEG or AVI converter?

I've had reasonable luck with MediaCoder http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ .
I don't know if it speaks .M4V, but I suspect it does or can be made to.

Matt Roberds


Thanks, Matt.

MediaCoder looks interesting. From this information in their web
site:

Supported Fomats [sic]

MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+, AAC+v2, MusePack, Speex, AMR, WMA,
RealAudio, mp3PRO* FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, OptimFrog, AAC
Lossless, WMA Lossless, WAV/PCM H.264, Xvid, MPEG 1/2/4, Theora,
Flash Video, Dirac, 3ivx*, RealVideo*, Windows Media Video AVI,
MPEG/VOB, Matroska, MP4, RealMedia*, ASF, Quicktime*, OGM* CD,
VCD, DVD, CUE Sheet*

* supported as input only

It's not clear if MediaCoder can read ITunes M4V flies.