Best Compression?

[paulc1]

I just captured My "new" son/daughters ultrasound. I used iuVCR to get the vid off the VHS tape.

The resulting file is over 4 GB.

I want to compress it to a common format that is easy to play (I do not want to send codecs to family/friends).

What format/tool will give the best compression/quality.

I know this is a very general question, but intentionally so. I'm interested in any opinions.

I used TMPGEnc to compress to mpg but the file is still almost 200mb. The clip is only about 15 minutes long. I am interested in getting it smaller, and I guess its possible, because I see lots of roughly 700MB movies that are great quality but are perhaps 90 minutes in length.

Feedback? Ideas?

Thanks for your responses.

[sfheath]

CD-R will take 200mb no problem. Is this mpeg2? It should burn happily in SVCD format. What burning application have you?

[paulc1]

Thanks for the reply.

I thought (hoping) like this.

If a 90 min film (with sound) is 700MB then a 15 min clip (no sound) might be around 100mb max. Not sure how TMPGEnc encoded it (ie mpeg-2 or other as you asked), but I took most if not all defaults when encoding so whatever those are.

I'm not that worried about getting it on a CD as I'm sure most techniques will get the file to within 700mb. I'm just hoping to minimise disk space usage and archival media usage.

Not too worried about playing it as a SVCD, DVD, etc either. I expect people would just use standard Windows Media Player to run it on their PC.

[sfheath]

ah, for higher compression then, I think you might fare well looking at DivX/XviD or Ogg. The sub-forum specialising in DivX should help