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Old 19 June 2014, 09:22 PM
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I have a avi file security video saved to the hard drive and its 25gig 29 mins and what sorftware can i use to srink the file down to like 700mb or less but keeping the quality good
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25G? You'd be lucky to get that under 700M, why 700M anyway? Every PC in the world at least has a DVD player now and thats 4.3G

Anyhoo whatever you decide, get 'Handbrake' then checkout this simple howto: http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblear...ing-handbrake/
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Yeah. 25.1g. Used windows compression zip and got it down to 11gig. Thought 700 would be ok for 30mins. Will give it a look
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You can fit a 2 hour film on 700M. God only knows why its 25G to start with for 30 mins!!

Handbrake should get 30 mins down to a couple of hundred megs if you dabble with the settings.
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25gig !!!! What resolution is it?
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Im guessing the security gadget stores the vids uncompressed, thats why they are huge.
Probably a setting somewhere to select a codec to save the files with, who know were just guessing.
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this is what i have. but playing around with it today i changed the encoder from non to the only one selected saying VC-1 and thats brought it down to 500mbon the hight quality setting
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What other encoders are available? divx? etc?
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