I am new in video producing. Please let me know how can i compress an avi file as small as possible so that i can publish it on the internet...unfortunelately, a lot of web host wouldn't allow a single file bigger than approx. 11mb. Is it possible that i can compress a 20min avi file to less than 11mb with ok quality. Or elso, any better quality, smaller file format recommend for publishing video on the web?? Thank you for your advises...

-- maggie cheung (fishie08@hotmail.com), January 26, 2001

Answers

Everything is a trade off. Higher quality = bigger file, larger format = bigger file.

Visit vcdhelp.com and under tools look for TMPEG. There are also some good help forums there. Read this site - the answer to your question is probably already there somewhere !!!

Good luck, Steve

-- Steve (swa11ace@hotmail.com), January 29, 2001.

Get the DivX;) codec.

-- me (snake_mountain@hotmail.com), January 30, 2001.

Now if i was you i would get the bitrate encoder and say how much space you want to work with then divx it. I think 650 looks just fine and you can fit a 2 hour film on one disc. Now heres something i found out if you use tmpg you can change the MPEG movie to 650 bitrate and make a VCD that fits on to one disc!!!!

YOU HEARD IT FROM JASON FIRST!!!!

-- Jason (j.woody@talk21.com), June 30, 2001.

You may use some software like: AVI Constructor (any version). It includes an AVI compressor, that would alloud you to compress a given avi file into another, using certain CODECs. Now If you want to convert, I would suggest to use the XVID codec. It's fast, very good quality, near the INDEO codec, just I was able to convert an 2 gig avi file (no sound) into an 800MB avi file, same quality. So try it.

-- Cip (galc75799@yahoo.com), September 24, 2003.

Suppose you have a avi file of a reasonable size. It will be difficult to publish it onto a web site cause your host won't allow it. However you can link it to a ftp site you can host yourself on your own computer. Blackmoon is a user friendly program you can use to allow ftp from your pc.

-- benjamin (benjamin@hotmail.com), February 03, 2004.