AVI File Size Compression

[dfective]

Some of my AVI's are larger than 700 mb and this is too large to place onto a normal CD-R. Is there a program which will scale down the size of my AVI's so i can place them onto cd's?

[gs0666]

Try to chop off some of the end credits with VirtualDub.

[dfective]

still above 700mb, i dont really want to cut any of the film off though, isn't there a way of decreasing the quality to minimize file size?

[dfective]

Virtualdub wont load my film anyway as it cannot load films encoded with xvid. Says it wont work with directshow codecs.

[Batman]

Virtualdub if fully compatible with the XVID codecs.

The reason why you can't open the xvid files in virtualdub/nandub or virtualdubmod is because you don't have the xvid codec installed. NOTE: FFDSHOW (available in most codec packs) can playback XVID content in media player that use directshow filters, but Virtualdub requires a VFW compatible codec. So, install the xvid codec.

[dfective]

how can u get this codec as i have been on the xvid.org website and it tells me you can only download their source codes? i had this problem b4 and when i asked this forum how to overcome this, someone told me to install ffdshow and my xvids worked fine after

[chickeneater]

get it in the nimo codec pack in the software section of this site.

[Batman]

I would refrain from installing the NIMO CODEC PACK, just do a search and you can see some of the problems that it has caused. Instead, do a custom install of the codec from the TSUNAMI CODEC PACK, or install it seperatley.