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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: FreeTerran on January 28, 2004, 02:21:53 am

Title: need a good avi compressor
Post by: FreeTerran on January 28, 2004, 02:21:53 am

know someone an free und good avi compressor to compress my avi's with divx ?

Title: need a good avi compressor
Post by: Flaser on January 28, 2004, 02:47:15 am

Firt: avi is a container format so there's no such thing as avi compressor
Second: any video editor would be able to output avi files - the key for compressing video is using the correct codec (encoding-decoding algorythm) in the right way.

I reccomend Virtual Dub, it's free and one of the most advanced softwares out there - not as fancy as some Adobe or other studio but when it comes to pure conversion it's hard to beat the classic.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

d/l - on the site.

However I don't recommend the latest DivX version - use 5.05 or 5.01 not the latest 5.1 versions. - the simple would do, the professional doesn't offer much more and it installs spyware.

The other option is Xvid - it's a free opensource alternate.

Xvid is more tricky but gives you more control then the DivX user interface. - Read up on it before encoding.

Both of those codecs support multiple-pass (or 2 pass) encoding. This is a must be nowadays - it will create a lot smaller files with better quality.

Title: need a good avi compressor
Post by: FreeTerran on January 28, 2004, 04:59:40 am

thanks for help i will try it :)

Title: need a good avi compressor
Post by: Dark_4ce on January 28, 2004, 05:11:23 am

Windows Media Encoder 9 is in my oppinion bloody good...

Title: need a good avi compressor
Post by: karajorma on January 28, 2004, 01:48:02 pm

I'd go with Virtual dub. I found it pretty easy to get the hang of even though I know vitually nothing about encoding.