compress .avi's

A2Z · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:01

are there any good programes to compress a 350mb .avi to make it smaller? 200mb or so

dave00 · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:06

350mb is very small to begin with. Whats it for? PSP maybe.

tom_e · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:14

theres no way to compress it as such you will need to rencode it

A2Z · 12 Nov 2006 at 19:18

dave00 said:
350mb is very small to begin with. Whats it for? PSP maybe.

need to transfer some files on my USB stick

theres no way to compress it as such you will need to rencode it

thanks for the info

bledd · 12 Nov 2006 at 20:06

use autogk

you can choose the filesize

the quality will obviously deteriorate the more you compress it

dave00 · 12 Nov 2006 at 23:05

Could you not use Power ISO, And compress them.

Jotun · 12 Nov 2006 at 23:16

IIRC, you won't be able to compress it by much as AVI files are already compressed. Any program which rencodes the file will cause a loss of quality. Have you considered splitting the file in to 2 to fit? (assuming cd isn't an option)

bledd · 12 Nov 2006 at 23:27

how long is the video? is it a file from a home video camera ? (if so, it'll probably compress a lot more)

Energize · 12 Nov 2006 at 23:34

Evil-Penguin said:
IIRC, you won't be able to compress it by much as AVI files are already compressed. Any program which rencodes the file will cause a loss of quality. Have you considered splitting the file in to 2 to fit? (assuming cd isn't an option)

Avi files aren't compressed by default.

Just use virtual dub to compress it with x.264 and ogg audio and you probably wont even see a quality loss.

Avalon · 13 Nov 2006 at 02:06

AVI's are heavily compressed by default, your best bet is to use winrar to split it if you need to move it in smaller chunks No loss of quality and it'l spit out whatever size chunks you tell it.

bledd · 13 Nov 2006 at 09:45

Avalon said:
AVI's are heavily compressed by default

no they're not

Podfather · 13 Nov 2006 at 10:53

This is how i would do it. Download a free converter and compress it into .wma file format, should do the trick.

uv · 13 Nov 2006 at 12:31

bledd. said:
no they're not

avi's, per ce, are not compressed, as they are a container. the files inside the avi, *can* be, and usually are compressed - ie audio and video.

you'd be best of splitting the file using winrar as said above, but failing that, x264 and ogg reencoding in gordianknot is about the best option you have.

any idea what codecs the file uses?

ps
if reencoding to x264 and ogg, you'd be better using mkv as the container rather than avi