Digital stills camera that records movies in a decent format?

[nath]

Howdy all,

I've got a client who has been trying to get her little videos from her digital stills camera on to her ipod video. It turns out that the video it records is in MJPEG format and labelled as an AVI. This is completely useless with respect to getting on an ipod - I've tried videora and it completely fails on these files where it succeeds on standard AVI's.

Basically I'm trying to find out if there's a decent stills camera that records videos in a more sociable format? If not, does anyone know how to convert an MJPEG in to something more useful? I've tried using VirtualDub to convert it to an xvid, and that appears to work, but where videora works on other Xvids on these converted ones it fails completely.

Any help appreciated!

 

[smurkin]

Media coder has a function to code video for iPOD, etc

MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder

I used to use it a lot for other transcoding requirements mainly mkv to XviD. As free software goes, its ace.

/actually I just looked at the site and there is now a bespoke software version for iPODs.

 

[nath]

Thanks for that mate, I'll give it a shot but I expect it'll behave the same way as Videora when it comes to these MJPEGS - I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[nath]

Smurkin, you rule. That software is fantastic, works perfectly and very quickly. Thanks a million!