Shrinking AVI files

Originally Posted by bmxbandit

i use virtualdub, very powerful but fairly easy to use

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.

[jtwn]

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.

Originally Posted by jtwn

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

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?

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior

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?

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.