How do i convert avi to h.264?

i have quicktime pro 7 and i would like to convert some of my home movies which are avi files to h.264 file but it wont play the avi files or convert them correctly. can anyone help with a solution?

Open your AVI in quicktime
Select window > Show movie info
This should tell you what video and audio codecs have been used to encode your AVI (remember, AVI's are just containers)
Go onto google and do a search for those codecs.
Install, reboot, and quicktime 'should' be then able to export your AVI as H264 (mpeg4, etc)
If you can get QT to play it, then you're most of the way there
If QT cannot give you the information you require, search for gspot which is a great utility for finding out everything about a piece of media.
regards,
Paul

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