ASF to AVI

[benderman]

I converted an asf-video to avi by using VirtualDUB with direct-stream-copy for audio and video. The asf-video had a size of 162 MB but the avi-video had less than 100MB. The quality seems to be exactly the same, so what happened? Had asf used the 62 MB for nothing?

[mattward2k]

Better compression on the AVI file perhaps? In all honesty, it should be bigger, but then the whole DV business can be completely bizarre and defy normality sometimes. I multiplexed the same file (or two files ) using two different multiplexors, and one came out at around 700MB, the other at 900MB. So, where was that 200MB coming from?....