File compression

[seperot]

ok im looking on google for this as i type.... and i dont normaly do this shtick...

anyways i need help finding a good file commpression thingy for movies so i can fit them onto my phone and also a quicker way to shrink music files. moogie once showed me a way with winamp but a faster way would be handy

yea thats all

[Foresteer]

for regular files try compresssing then into .ACE then compresing the. ACE into a .ZIP file.. thats like double compression

[Enter_the_Xero]

WinRAR compresses files into a .RAR format which is more powerfull then .ZIP format and is perfect for compressing big files...

[seperot]

no you missread im no n00b to comps

i want something that shrinks the file but is still useable without and folders stuff like winzip winrar and all that is no help since my phone has no way of opening the kind of files to get whats inside...

[steuben]

though i doubt you\'d gain too much maybe just a couple of fractional percents.

but to fit it ona phione... drop the resolution and the bit rate and you should be good.

[Efflixi Aduro]

If you could compress a file and still make it useable then we\'d all be using that file type sep

[seperot]

well yes if it was perfect quality..

im not bothered if some quility is sacrifeced the phones speaker likes that better anyways

[Efflixi Aduro]

Hmm, what about the standard windows file compression thingy then. You know where all your files turn blue.. Im guessing you could do that to only 1 file. TYry that and see how much it reduces the size.

[Moogie]

Sep isn\'t a computer n00b, but he won\'t understand unless he gets walked through it step-by-step.

Sep- You\'re still my bestest friend evar so I\'ve taken the time to find you a program and figure out how to work it so I can show you.


First of all, download this: http://www.blazemp.com/movie_editor_software.htm

And if you don\'t have this codec (xvid), get it too:
http://download.divxmovies.com/XviD-1.0.3-20122004.exe

You want to do what steuben says; lower resolution, and bitrate.

So, first of all, open up your movie file in this program. You can preview it with the buttons at the bottom of the window, if you want. Ok, go to the Video menu and select Full Processing Mode. And, go to the Audio menu and select the same thing.

In the Audio menu, choose the Compression option. Select \"MPEG Layer 3\" from the list to the left, and on the right, choose the item that says \"16kBits/s, 11,025 Hz, Mono\". Click OK.

In the Video menu, choose the Compression option. Scroll down the list to the left and find the Xvid codec. Select it and then click Configure.

Ensure that the Encoding Type says \"Single Pass\". Drag the slider to the middle or right, depending on how low quality you want to make the file. Now click OK, and then OK the last window. You should be back at the main window thingy now.

Go to Video menu and choose Filters. Click Add, and scroll down to find the Resize option and double click it. There should be a new little window asking you for new Width and new Height. Choose something small, but a power of 2... meaning, choose from 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, etc. Try to keep the ratio the same as the original video or you\'ll resize it weirdly. But I guess that\'s not so important so don\'t worry about it. Click OK, and then click OK again.

Now you should be ready. Go to File and select Save as AVI. Choose a name to save your new file as, and then wait for the process to finish.


I hope this works. If not, sorry... but I tried my hardest. You should thank Orogor and GeorgeD who helped me find all this out.

[Tharizdun]

It sounds like you want a lossy encoder/transcoder rather than a lossless compression method. Most movie files are already encoded in a format such that lossless compression ( zip, bzip2, gzip, rar, arj, lha, zoo, etc ) cant really shrink the file size any more. There are specialised lossless compressors like flac that work only with special media types ( flac needs 16 bit, dual-channel/stereo \".WAV\" audio IIRC ), these will give you better compression ratios than generic algorithms... though I\'m not aware of any that work with generic video formats.

Compressing with 2 different algorithms like with .zip then with .rar is a waste of time usually, you certainly wont get a huge reduction in file size the second time around, as the file structure has become unsuitable for further compression after the first step.

Mplayer can transcode ( convert from one format to another, or re-encode the existing format at lower quality / smaller filesize ) video on Linux, and I believe it has a windows version available

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html