convert uncompressed matlab avi to mp4

[Ben]

This isn't exactly a Matlab question, but I have several Matlab generated uncompressed avi files that I would like to convert to mp4. The files were created using the avifile() function. Has anyone found a free converter, preferably with a GUI, that can do this on Mac OS X?

I have tried Handbrake and Miro Video Converter, but neither of them properly read Matlab uncompressed avi files. I can get a nice compressed avi using the XVid codec in avidemux, but, for whatever strange reason, avidemux (v 2.4.4) converted mp4 files play back very choppy. (The more recent avidemux v 2.5.4 crashes upon trying to load Matlab uncompressed avi files.)

I'm no expert in video converting, but it seems like nearly everything should be able to read uncompressed video files, because, well, they're uncompressed. What gives?

[Ben]

Hmmm...

I guess no one else has had this problem.

[Ben]

Update: handbrake does actually work. It took several minutes for handbrake to read in the file. I just didn't give it time to finish before. (Avidemux only took a few seconds for the same file.)

[Onomitra Ghosh]

Just another update: With R2012a, you can directly write MPEG-4 files from MATLAB using VideoWriter

Post by Ben
Update: handbrake does actually work. It took several minutes for handbrake to read in the file. I just didn't give it time to finish before. (Avidemux only took a few seconds for the same file.)