I have this awesome vid of an unreleased Sega CD game, but the video is 42megs. Is there any way I can compress it?
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I have this awesome vid of an unreleased Sega CD game, but the video is 42megs. Is there any way I can compress it?
That's kind of a very broad question. What format is it in now? One of the problems is, if it is already compressed with a pretty high compression rate, doing it again is going to make it an unwatchable mess.
You could also re-encode it as a smaller video size, but 320x240 would be the absolutely smallest I would go, and anymore, anything below 640x480 is damn near worthless IMHO.
It's a Windows media file, 328 x 296.
If I zip it, it drops to 27.5, but that's still too big.
if you make it any smaller than that its a postage stamp and no one will want to watch it.
Broadband connections laugh at 42 meg videos. Whats the problem?
I'm sorry to hear that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
As Josh stated, don't even think about making it smaller, resolution wise, because then it'll be useless.Quote:
328 x 296.
If I zip it, it drops to 27.5, but that's still too big.
There's not much you can do, really. If you had a better original source, you could try to get away with a better codec (Divx, H.264, etc.). But to be totally honest, unless the video clip is super short, that kind of file size is just normal anymore.
The .UMK3 codec is awesome. You should use that.
It's not the DLing I'm worried about; it's the server space it'll take up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Shit. I guess I could zip it and leave it like that. Reducing it any more wouldn't be worth the effort.
Thanks for the info.
If it goes from .wmv 42MB to .zip 27MB something is very very wrong. Either the audio is raw/barely compressed, the video is raw/barely compressed, or both. Check what the audio and video streams are encoded in for starters.
You could try www.winrar.de/
I posted a video compression tool in the freeware thread. It might help you out.