Shrinking AVI files

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:54 pm

My digital camera can record AVI videos, but the output file sizes are crazy huge (350+mb for a 10 minute clip at 320x240, 30fps). Anyone have recommendations for free software to reencode those as smaller files with similar quality? TIA.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:34 pm

Check into XviD if you don't need to share them with others (not a lot of people have the XviD codec installed). Otherwise you might need to go hunting for Windows Video (WMV) encoders.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:34 pm

www.doom9.net will have all the info you require.

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:55 pm

Thanks Krom, looks like VirtualDub has what I need.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:03 pm

I've been using virtual dub for a couple of years now. It's good. DivX 6.0 is a much better codec than the old 5.x DivX - so I recommend you use that.

Virtual Dub often can't open AVI files directly, and you will need the 1.74 version of "VFAPIreader" (Not 1.76 or 1.82 - these don't make usable D2V files).