Why compress AVI

[KETAN]

Why do we compress AVI ?
Other than space is there any benefit.
I feel SVCD made out of compressed AVI losses some quality, whatever may be the form of compression.
Request your views.
ketan

[Mac Sidewinder]

The biggest advantage of compression is space. For example, an hours worth of digital video taken from my camera in uncompressed format takes up 13gb of space. By compression, I can get close to the same quality and put it on a single 800mb cd.

Now if you are talking about converting a divx avi (already compressed) into a svcd then I think the only advantage is that you can play it on a standalone dvd player. You will have some loss here in quality.

I personally wouldn't convert the divx avi - I simply output the divx through my video card (tv output) to the tv and watch it that way.

Mac

[LilCalvin]

not everybody has a video out card to their TV, though. But I have heard that DVD standalone players will support the DivX format pretty soon. Thats partially why I haven't bought a card or a player yet (I mainly need to save $$ for when i move away to college)

If anybody can confirm or deny the thing about DivX on a standalone DVD player, let me and everybody else know.