How to Compress AVI Files
Video files on the Internet are increasing rapidly. As content continues to hit all time highs, the ability to transfer these large files faster is a great concern. Most AVI files climb to larger than 1 GB in size, which becomes impractical to transfer. Changing the type of file can reduce the size of the file but sometimes reduces the quality as well.
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Compress the AVI file with standard compression utilities like pkzip or .rar files. These utilities will gain a reduction in file size of about ten percent. These types of utilities are good choices due to the built in error checking for the file transfer.
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Open the AVI files in a program such as Virtual Mod, Xvid or DivX. Select the compression details and select the resulting file size you desire. These programs will yield a saved video file with a 40 percent reduction in file size. This becomes much more manageable.
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Consider that although you can reduce the size of the file by choosing a particular compression program and output file type, you can also achieve reductions in file size by changing the sampling rate, frames/sec and resolution of the video. The problem with dropping the resolution of the file, the resulting file is very grainy. It may still appear clear played on a computer monitor, but it is very fuzzy on a normal size TV and even worse on a big screen TV.
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Thank u
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gwardell
Sep 15, 2010
> The problem with dropping the resolution of the file, the resulting file is very grainy. It may still appear clear played on a computer monitor, but it is very fuzzy on a normal size TV and even worse on a big screen TV. Obvious this tip if very dated since current computer monitors are very high resolution. In fact I'm writing this on a computer attached to an HDTV running at 1920x1080.
