Shrinking AVI files
 

What software is good at shrinking avi files to a size of your choice? Thanks

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

first question is , why do you want to shrink them ??? :)


edit :- a little bit of googling says that you will have to turn them into a kvcd :shrug: :D

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

Fit them onto a 700mb CD-R

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

Get a copy of Real Producer and shrink them down to about 1/7th of their original size!

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

did a bit of googling and as i edited above , you will need to turn them into a kvcd or split them :)

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

I just wanna put the files on the CD as Data. I don't wanna play them in my DVD player. Thanks for the help :)

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

sorry , i see , not sure you can , but there you go :erm: :D :D :D

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

goto www.videohelp.com, it will answer all your questions there on shrinking video files or converting them to another format

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

i use virtualdub, very powerful but fairly easy to use

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

If you just want to shrink the data, can't you use Winzip??

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winzp will barely do anything to already-compressed data, plus they you'd have to decompress it before use...

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

I tried it using the XP built in zip thingy - a 55MB avi file compressed to 50MB ;)

decompressing should not be a problem, the OP only wants to store the files.

Converting to divx would compress the file size, but it is a 'lossy' conversion.

I would 'bite the bullet' & save them as the native files - and get a dvd writer, so much more versatile :)

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

Ok, first things first, what codecs is the file currently using, what resolution etc, what length and size is it just now?

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

I have no idea:D

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

Download and install GSpot - it lists information about AVI files.

But first things first, is it a single AVI or several that you want to fit on the disc? If it's more than one, I'd just use an extra disc. If you want them smaller you'll have to re-encode them, which will take time and lose quality, though how much will depend on how much smaller the file(s) need to be.

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

Dunno about easy to use, but seems pretty useful.

I did some editing the other day, but ended up with a file almost 2x big - now I'm rather new to this stuff, so when presented with 8 or so different codecs, I have no idea what to choose.

Any hints?

And where to find additional codecs? For example, there isn't one for WMV (as far as I can tell)

I had a look around for these and additional filters, but not found those yet either.

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

You'll want to look to use divx, wmv or xvid.

You should be able to search for some calculators which'll tell you what bitrate you should choose to get the filesize you roughly want.

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

I've found a divx codec, where would I find the others?

Also I've got some WMV files that work fine on my system (XP) but won't work on a Windows 95 with a rather ancient version of Media Player.
Is there any way to 'downgrade' these files so they'll work on the older media player?

Re: Shrinking AVI files
 

No, but somewhere on http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx , there are codecs you maybe able to install on the 95 machine.

Re: The original poster's request. Have you looked at Windows Media Encoder? This gets similar, if not better, results than Real Producer and is also available from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia.