I’ve been using MPEG Streamclip for some time now to convert video files to different formats. For example a .mov file to .mp4. It’s free to download and use, and it’s just plain great.
From the www.squared5.com site
“MPEG Streamclip is a powerful video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies.
MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.”