Shrinking AVI files

BigDave1 · 29-04-2005, 19:34

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

paulyoung666 · 29-04-2005, 19:35

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

BigDave1 · 29-04-2005, 19:37

Fit them onto a 700mb CD-R

29-04-2005, 19:38

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

paulyoung666 · 29-04-2005, 19:40

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Originally Posted by BigDave1

Fit them onto a 700mb CD-R

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

BigDave1 · 29-04-2005, 19:43

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

paulyoung666 · 29-04-2005, 19:46

sorry , i see , not sure you can , but there you go

bobna · 29-04-2005, 20:00

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

bmxbandit · 29-04-2005, 20:45

i use virtualdub, very powerful but fairly easy to use

absthechatter · 29-04-2005, 20:58

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Originally Posted by BigDave1

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

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

bmxbandit · 29-04-2005, 21:15

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Originally Posted by absthechatter

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

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

29-04-2005, 23:10

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Originally Posted by bmxbandit

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

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

mrlipring · 30-04-2005, 00:32

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

Monster Jedi · 30-04-2005, 01:40

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Originally Posted by mrlipring

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

I have no idea

Semi On · 30-04-2005, 11:22

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.