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FGEmperor

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5. June 2006 @ 13:45

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OK, I have some video files, and their sizes are just a little bit bigger than it'd fit on 2 DVDs (3 mb each), so I was wondering, what's the easiest (and safest) way of taking out those 3 mb from each file, without having to re-encode the video (because I'd loose a lot of quality that way).
The video is as follows:

Base Type (e.g "AVI"): AVI(.AVI)
Subtype (e.g "OpenDML"): OpenDML (AVI v2.0),
Video Codec Type(e.g. "DIV3"): xvid
Video Codec Name(e.g. "DivX 3, Low-Motion"): XviD
Duration (hh:mm:ss): 00:42:19
Frame Count: 60868
Frame Width (pixels): 640
Frame Height (pixels): 352
Display Aspect Ratio ("DAR"): 1.818
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Video Bitrate (kbps): 1015
MPEG-4 ("MPEG-4" or ""): MPEG-4
B-VOP ("B-VOP" or ""): B-VOP
Audio Codec (e.g. "AC3"): 0x0055(MP3, ISO)
Audio Sample Rate (Hz): 48000
Audio Bitrate(kbps): 132
Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"): VBR
Audio Channel Count (e.g. "2" for stereo): 2

Thank you a lot!

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SOCOMII

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5. June 2006 @ 14:50

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Are these movies? Are the credits encoded? I would cut out some unwanted video as opposed to re-encoding it so that way there would be no quality loss.
Try this guide
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/cut_avi_with_virtualdub.cfm
Hope there is something you can cut out to make the files smaller.
Good luck

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FGEmperor

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5. June 2006 @ 15:13

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That's my problem, the videos are episodes from a series, and there are no credits... I apreciate you taking the time to answer my question anyway! thx! =)

Any other suggestion?

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SOCOMII

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5. June 2006 @ 15:31

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Well maybe you could re - encode the audio to a bitrate of maybe 128 ( though i dont know how much space this will save but should be enough ) the reason is because re-encoding the video would take long and you would probably see a big difference in quality.

TO make tha audio smaller
First intall lame mp3 encoder
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_software/audio_encoders/l...
Open the file in Vdub mod then go to streams > stream list > select the audio and right click > full proccesing mode and under compression select LAMEmp3 encoder @ 128 kb/s ( or pick a bitrate its up to you).
Then go to video and select full proccesing mode.
Then File > Save as AVI
It should not take too long.
You could also convert using besweet or besweet lite (by demuxing audio and the remuxing) but i dont see the need.

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celtic_d

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6. June 2006 @ 04:42

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Remuxing to mkv would save you some space. Perhaps not enough, but at least there is no quality loss.

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FGEmperor

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6. June 2006 @ 12:10

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how do I remux to mkv?

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celtic_d

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7. June 2006 @ 00:19

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Add the file to mmg and save. Since you have a lot of files you could look at the mkvmerge command line from mmg and adapt it for batch processing using for *.AVI, etc. AVI-Mux GUI can also output mkv, so that is another option.

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FGEmperor

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7. June 2006 @ 02:10

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Thanks a lot you guys, I got what I needed! =)

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