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Tomnbflo
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7. September 2007 @ 18:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sorry if this question has been answered elsewhere on this site but I couldn't find it. Admittedly, I am used to asking my wife to find everything for me though.
I converted some old home movies (VHS) with DVD Xpress. The MPEG files that I created are rather large (about 2 GIG per tape). I have copied them to disk but would also like to leave them on my hard drive but not as large as they are. Does anyone know of a good program to make them smaller. I'm not entirely interested in quality (video or sound) nor am I interested in converting the larger files to several smaller ones. If they don't remain as MPEG that is fine as well.


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jony218
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7. September 2007 @ 18:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
When I have large mpeg2 files, I always use winavi converter to batch convert them all to XVID (avi). I always convert them to 640x480 and typically a 2gb file will convert down to 1gb with no lost of quality.
Theres other programs that can do this, I only use winavi, because it's the fastest and it's not prone to crash. The XVID files will play on every avi video player I tried them on.

http://www.winavi.com/en/video-converter/video-converter.htm
srtyp
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26. September 2007 @ 03:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
there's another way:-

1.download divx
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/

2.download dr.divx
http://www.divx.com/divx/drdivx/

3.convert the mpeg files to avi files by dr.divx.
about half size reduced, takes some time though.
lavet
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1. October 2007 @ 06:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by jony218:
When I have large mpeg2 files, I always use winavi converter to batch convert them all to XVID (avi). I always convert them to 640x480 and typically a 2gb file will convert down to 1gb with no lost of quality.
Theres other programs that can do this, I only use winavi, because it's the fastest and it's not prone to crash. The XVID files will play on every avi video player I tried them on.

http://www.winavi.com/en/video-converter...uote]
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this software store the converted file to your hardrive so you can add more than one file to a DVD?
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skyhaha
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11. October 2007 @ 00:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So far as I know, winavi can store the converted file to our hardrive, but it seems does not support to add other vob file(s) to an existing DVD folder. Anyway, we can select multi-files to convert to one DVD.
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