video compression tools

Hanamichi · 11-04-2006, 10:48 AM

does anyone knows a good freeware software that can compress a lot of things into a blank CD.I have a collection of good movies and are much bigger in size than 700MB so i can't burn it.

PC eye · 11-04-2006, 11:03 AM

Besides WinZip and WinRar there are some freewares for creating archives as well as file extraction tools found at http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/downloader/fwzip.html

Video on the other hand runs in the gigabytes where the only means of actually compressing the size is to process video files for dvds or video cds. Vcds only go as far as about 70min. max.

**The_Other_One** · 11-04-2006, 11:16 AM

Do you want to be able to play them from the disk or what? If you want to make the video files smaller, I'd suggest using a program called SUPER.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

PC eye · 11-04-2006, 11:43 AM

A software like that will most likely convert video files into other formats for easier compression. But even that will see limits on how much any one video type can be compressed. Other types of files can be compressed far easier with both freeware and sharewares available. I'll have to give SUPER a whirl here since the storage partition is growing in size lately.

Hanamichi · 11-05-2006, 04:03 PM

I use dial up connection and i gets the speed of 45.2 kbs .So downloading super is not possible for me.Is there any smaller one?

PC eye · 11-06-2006, 12:00 AM

Even if you are able to compress a 10gb video file down to 2gb you still won't that one single file onto a cd-r. The most effective type of file compression for video is dvd burning software since it breaks down one file into several smaller ones in different formats for both audio and video. You can take a large video and edit into segments for several video cds. For simply saving large video files to disk you would still need a dvd burner to create data dvds. But even those only hold 4,2gb.

Hanamichi · 11-06-2006, 06:06 AM

I would be happy if i can compress one movie into a single data CD.

PC eye · 11-06-2006, 08:58 AM

With 32-38mb of space used up for just one minute of video you can look and look for something that will take a 10-13gb video file and shrink it down to 700mb. The best compression seen so far was taking a 1.86gb video and seeing it compressed to roughly 675mb on a video cd project. That was 58min. long from a camcorder.

11-04-2006, 10:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
Hanamichi Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 479	video compression tools does anyone knows a good freeware software that can compress a lot of things into a blank CD.I have a collection of good movies and are much bigger in size than 700MB so i can't burn it.

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The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 24 Posts: 12,382	Do you want to be able to play them from the disk or what? If you want to make the video files smaller, I'd suggest using a program called SUPER. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

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11-04-2006, 11:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,483	Besides WinZip and WinRar there are some freewares for creating archives as well as file extraction tools found at http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/downloader/fwzip.html Video on the other hand runs in the gigabytes where the only means of actually compressing the size is to process video files for dvds or video cds. Vcds only go as far as about 70min. max.

11-04-2006, 11:43 AM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,483	A software like that will most likely convert video files into other formats for easier compression. But even that will see limits on how much any one video type can be compressed. Other types of files can be compressed far easier with both freeware and sharewares available. I'll have to give SUPER a whirl here since the storage partition is growing in size lately.

11-05-2006, 04:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
Hanamichi Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 479	I use dial up connection and i gets the speed of 45.2 kbs .So downloading super is not possible for me.Is there any smaller one?

11-06-2006, 12:00 AM	#6 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,483	Even if you are able to compress a 10gb video file down to 2gb you still won't that one single file onto a cd-r. The most effective type of file compression for video is dvd burning software since it breaks down one file into several smaller ones in different formats for both audio and video. You can take a large video and edit into segments for several video cds. For simply saving large video files to disk you would still need a dvd burner to create data dvds. But even those only hold 4,2gb.

11-06-2006, 06:06 AM	#7 (permalink)
Hanamichi Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 479	I would be happy if i can compress one movie into a single data CD.

11-06-2006, 08:58 AM	#8 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,483	With 32-38mb of space used up for just one minute of video you can look and look for something that will take a 10-13gb video file and shrink it down to 700mb. The best compression seen so far was taking a 1.86gb video and seeing it compressed to roughly 675mb on a video cd project. That was 58min. long from a camcorder.