Convert mpeg files to mkv or avi

Hi,
I have some videos made with a digital camera in mjpeg format and I want to convert so something else, into xvid, mkv or I dont know, just to made them smaller without quality lose. So is there something GUI for this, or I need to start reading the mencoder man page?

I dont think you need to read it, because you task is impossible. Converting to a lossy format aways lose quality.
But, if you really mean without appreciable quality loss, so this is possible. And I recommend that you first learn about codecs and containers (mkv is a container, xvid a codec). Read the mencoder html documentation for examples. But I think that ffmpeg is more direct for most cases.
I really recommend that you use something modern like h.264, ffmpeg have some profiles to help.
And you need to read the docs, either you use a GUI or not. Or you risk to not have the best result.

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