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Offline Taristin

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Reply #20 on: January 13, 2005, 08:18:45 pm
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #21 on: January 13, 2005, 08:27:31 pm
yes, he has one
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Offline Fury

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Reply #22 on: January 13, 2005, 11:19:56 pm
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Originally posted by Fractux
7-zip is a very good compressor as well. I use it all the time. nd, it's totally free :)

http://www.7-zip.org/

Cheers!

7Zip is superior to WinRAR because it can do LZMA compression.
 

Offline BlackDove

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Reply #23 on: January 14, 2005, 12:32:30 am
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Originally posted by redsniper


Close. X-files episodes actually. WinRAR couldn't compress them very much (3GB to 2.8GB) and I don't have a DVD burner. It's okay though, I'll probably never watch them again, at least not soon. If there's no easy way to super extremely compress them I'll just delete them. No big deal. You can now hijack/derail the thread. :)


See, there's your problem. Everyone knows that video's don't compress well unless you go about them in the huge roundabout way, which just simply isn't worth it.

Get the DVD burner. The **** is cheap today, and it solves SO many issues for us multi-media oriented people (*cough*) in regards to backups.
 

Offline Scuddie

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Reply #24 on: January 14, 2005, 12:47:59 am
Get a harddrive.  Much easier and cost effective than swapping several DVDs to make backups.
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Offline BlackDove

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Reply #25 on: January 14, 2005, 01:41:34 am
That.....doesn't sound smart. For so many reasons I'm not even going to list, they should be obvious :wtf:
 

Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #26 on: January 14, 2005, 02:37:04 pm
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Originally posted by Mr. Fury
7Zip is superior to WinRAR because it can do LZMA compression.

Bah. BrundleZIP is superior to all because it can do quantum entanglement compression.
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Offline Clave

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Reply #27 on: January 14, 2005, 06:00:16 pm
Stuffit... http://www.stuffit.com/win/index.html

Win Mac Linux - It's cross-platform and supports 25 formats....
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Offline Tiara

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Reply #28 on: January 14, 2005, 06:53:28 pm
.7z archives rule! :D
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #29 on: January 14, 2005, 07:42:41 pm
I tried 7zip on one of the episodes. 139MB to 132MB on Ultra LZMA compression. I guess AVIs just don't compress well. Anyway, thanks to everyone who's tried to help so far. The effort is appreciated. :nod:
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Offline Tiara

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Reply #30 on: January 14, 2005, 08:02:28 pm
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Originally posted by redsniper
I tried 7zip on one of the episodes. 139MB to 132MB on Ultra LZMA compression. I guess AVIs just don't compress well. Anyway, thanks to everyone who's tried to help so far. The effort is appreciated. :nod:

Compressing movies very much rely on the method used for movie compression when trying to archive them. Some video compression methods are basically the same as rarring/zipping/etc. It would be like rarring a rar. :p
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #31 on: January 14, 2005, 08:15:36 pm
so basically... an AVI is already compressed. Am I right?
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Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #32 on: January 14, 2005, 10:11:28 pm
:nod: They're sort of like jpegs - already compressed significantly (compared to a bmp for example).
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Offline redsniper

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Reply #33 on: January 14, 2005, 10:14:18 pm
then, out of curiosity, what would be the video equivalent of a bitmap? just pure uncompressed video?
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Reply #34 on: January 14, 2005, 10:35:30 pm
An uncompressed AVI.
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #35 on: January 14, 2005, 10:49:49 pm
an mpeg you twit...
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Reply #36 on: January 14, 2005, 10:53:27 pm
No, you twit, it's an uncompressed AVI.

MPEG's have MPEG2 encoding.
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Offline Thorn

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Reply #37 on: January 15, 2005, 12:27:56 am
AVI=raw data. an0n is correct.
 

Offline Flaser

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Reply #38 on: January 15, 2005, 03:45:55 am
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Originally posted by Thorn
AVI=raw data. an0n is correct.


Wrong.

AVI = Container
1 video + 1 audio stream.

Video can be uncompressed (dunno whatitsname) while the audio will be in some kind of PCM format if no "compression" is used.

WAV is a container just like that, but it can only contain a single audio stream.
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Reply #39 on: January 15, 2005, 02:36:15 pm
Yes, but if you have an audio and video stream both running uncompressed, you put them in a ****ing AVI file.

Every video-editting program will give you the lowest possible option as 'Uncompressed AVI'.
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