Compressing movie collection?

wildest_jjk · 25 Nov 2013 at 11:55

Hi guys,

Does anyone compress their digital movies?

It might not make any difference but I'm just curious!

Thanks!

Makhaira · 25 Nov 2013 at 12:19

Typically a high quality .h264 rip will be around 1Gb for DVD or 6-8Gb for a Bluray - so yes, a massive difference

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wildest_jjk · 25 Nov 2013 at 13:02

Thanks for the response. So we are talking actual filetype compression as oppose to 7-Zip etc?

wildest_jjk · 25 Nov 2013 at 16:36

Anyone?

Thanks!

tom_e · 25 Nov 2013 at 16:52

You can't compress(zip,rar, etc) a video file as it's already a compressed file (technically you "can" compress them as in you will end up with a .zip file but it won't be noticeably smaller than the original)
The only way to save space is to reencode using a different codec.

wildest_jjk · 25 Nov 2013 at 17:27

Thanks for the response.

I thought that was the case.

Is there a particular type I can encoded all of the films in just for storage?

Do they convert back or would you just play them in the new encoding?

Thanks!

Caged · 25 Nov 2013 at 17:44

Video is already compressed to fit a DVD or Blu-ray. There isn't really anything you can do to make it take up less space and then be able to recover it back to the original quality.