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    Red face Help compress video file

    Hi can some one help me how to compress video file with out loosing the quality, as some movies or so are about 700mb and they have good video quality.
    I have wedding video of 3 HQ DVDs I need to convert all of them on 1 DVD.
    How to do that what software.
    I used Handbrake but not so good I get bigger file or small video file with bad picture.
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    Try and search for AVS video converter, it has heaps of different options.

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    Hi it's no good.

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    ok well, good luck then

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    give Format Factory a go, it's free applications and can handle pretty much most of the video and audio files, with lots of options to convert them to many formats.
    see how you go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by baseel View Post
    give Format Factory a go, it's free applications and can handle pretty much most of the video and audio files, with lots of options to convert them to many formats.
    see how you go.
    cheers
    Hi thanks baseel I did try Format Factory it makes the files to big or small with bad picture, I did try avi.NET it's no bad, any another software available that is not to complicated to use that will compress the video file and keep the quality good .
    Last edited by roma; 02-03-12 at 10:12 PM.

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    maybe try a dual layer DVD so you don't need to compress the hell out of it

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    Default Try using USB memory

    With this amount of compression you will end up with poor pictures.

    Why not copy them to a 16GB USB stick.

    Most modern TVs have at least one USB port into which you can plug memory sticks or even portable HDDs.

    You can then play most video fromats using the TV remote.

    I've stopped burning DVDs and put movies on a USB3 2TB external drive for playing back- so much easier than swapping discs -and there is no limitation on file size.

    I haven't done the math but at $100 for 2TB, external drives are probably cheaper than DVDs anyway!

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    ffmpeg is a very powerful command line tool under Linux.

    I see that there is a Windows how to install .

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    Quote Originally Posted by roma View Post
    Hi can some one help me how to compress video file with out loosing the quality, as some movies or so are about 700mb and they have good video quality.
    Compressing a video without loosing quality simply isn't possible at all.
    might be of interest for you.

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    What about using DVD shrink to fit the converted files to a DL dvd ?

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    Typically, as its name implies, you use freeware DVD Shrink to shrink videos originally stored on Double-Layer-DVDs so they can be burned on Single-Layer-DVDs ( 8,5 GB => 4,7 GB ). AFAIK, the qualtity loss mostly is higher than using a regular MPEG-2-encoder.

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    External drive is really the only way t6o preserve quality. At the price of media these days, I never burn DVDs or Blu Rays any more.

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