While I’m not a big video user, I do have an occasional need to convert .avi movies to .m4v (or mp4) format so that I can play them on my iPad or iPod Touch. I’ve posted here and here about this before where I’ve mentioned some three free apps available to do just this job.

Now, Lifehacker has come up with a list of 13 further options (although Lifehacker says these are free apps, the only one that I tried turned out not to be free) for conversion from many formats to many others. So far I’ve only tried AVS4You (which is not free) and it worked very well taking just 13 minutes to cleanly convert a 700 MB .avi file to .m4v format.

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