I don't care if the software is free or if I have to pay for it, but if somebody could give me some links for some reliable software, I need to covert AVI video files to MPG (or MPEG if there is a difference).

Any ideas?

Thanks

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...o+MPEG&spell=1

That depends on what kind of AVI and what kind of MPEG you want
http://www.videohelp.com is that place to start
For software: I'm a big fan of canopus pro coder and TMPGenc

Hi Mr Film,
Basically you need any Video editing program (even Windows MovieMaker) or any DVD creation program (most will do it) and you need to tell us why you want to convert and what the mpeg file will be used for.
Then we can tell you whether to use mpeg1 or mpeg2 or even mpeg4 and we can suggest the right parameters for best results.
Regards.