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!
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
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?
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/lame_mp3_encoder.cfm 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.
Remuxing to mkv would save you some space. Perhaps not enough, but at least there is no quality loss.
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.
