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Compressing Video

LanthisLanthis Registered User regular
edited March 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I have a 350MB .mpg file. Its only 4:40. Help me compress it to 30MB.

I've tried using MainConcept H.264 Encoder to encode it in h.264, but it errors out or refuses to play every time. Its not my codecs; I have FFDShow and the K-Lite mega codec pack...

Any other software I can try?

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    VirtualDub + XViD codec (all free)

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  • LanthisLanthis Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    You are the bees knees

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  • LoneIgadzraLoneIgadzra Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I never could figure out how to get decent results with XviD. I've seen a lot of really nice encoding jobs, that are even comparable to an AVC codec, but mine (even multipass and so forth) are just not that great. Low res, low quality, same file size as all the nice encoding jobs I've seen. I can get something acceptable using x264, but it seems like overcompensation, and even those don't come out as good as other people's.

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  • ZoolanderZoolander Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Lanthis wrote: »
    I have a 350MB .mpg file. Its only 4:40. Help me compress it to 30MB.

    I've tried using MainConcept H.264 Encoder to encode it in h.264, but it errors out or refuses to play every time. Its not my codecs; I have FFDShow and the K-Lite mega codec pack...

    Any other software I can try?
    Just wanted to point out 99% of the time you don't need a codec pack if you have FFDShow installed - the codec pack could actually cause problems.

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  • LoneIgadzraLoneIgadzra Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Zoolander wrote: »
    Lanthis wrote: »
    I have a 350MB .mpg file. Its only 4:40. Help me compress it to 30MB.

    I've tried using MainConcept H.264 Encoder to encode it in h.264, but it errors out or refuses to play every time. Its not my codecs; I have FFDShow and the K-Lite mega codec pack...

    Any other software I can try?
    Just wanted to point out 99% of the time you don't need a codec pack if you have FFDShow installed - the codec pack could actually cause problems.

    Yeah, I don't recommend K-Lite at all. Installs so much conflicting junk, some of which you can't remove. The CCCP is all you need, for playback at least. Encoding is still kind of a mystery to me.

    Edit: There's also StaxRip, which automates a lot of the process. My only complaint is I could never get it to encode AAC audio, since the included Nero support doesn't support my old Nero version (which is perfectly capable of decent AAC encoding) and I could never figure out how to add my own custom command to encode using an alternate method.

    Edit #2: Hooray, AAC problem seems to be fixed.

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  • Blue Is BeautifulBlue Is Beautiful Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I'd like to add a question. I've worked for web companies, and all we use are Quicktime and On2 codecs, and Sorensen to convert it to whatever else we need. These seems to be what every other company we dealt with used as well.

    Yet anytime I see a conversation come up on a forum or help site, they talk about all these other codecs and programs. Is there a resource you all use to find all these codecs and players? Could you guys provide some links?

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    no, you can't.
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Quicktime isn't really a codec it's a file format. Chances are unless you're telling it otherwise those QT files are encoded with AVC/H.264

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Blue Is Beautiful wrote: »
    I'd like to add a question. I've worked for web companies, and all we use are Quicktime and On2 codecs, and Sorensen to convert it to whatever else we need. These seems to be what every other company we dealt with used as well.

    Yet anytime I see a conversation come up on a forum or help site, they talk about all these other codecs and programs. Is there a resource you all use to find all these codecs and players? Could you guys provide some links?
    Doom9.org has a lot of good codec resources.

    As for players, I just use VLC now. I've got QT if I need it, and WMP too, but VLC does 99% of my video playing and it does it extremely well. No need for any cluttering spyware-ridden codec-packs with it. I can't play RM stuff, but that's ok. Anyone using RM should be shot anyway.

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  • Blue Is BeautifulBlue Is Beautiful Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    thanks!

    and what i meant by using Quicktime is the codecs it brings when you install it.

    Delivery Codecs

    Sorenson Video 3
    MPEG-4 Video
    3ivx
    H.263

    Authoring Codecs

    DV
    Animation
    Blackmagic 10-bit
    Blackmagic 8-bit
    Graphics
    Motion-JPEG
    PNG
    None
    Component Video

    Legacy Codecs

    Sorenson Video
    Video
    H.261
    Cinepak

    pretty good list for whatever you're compressing.

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    no, you can't.
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Sorenson Video 3 is older but damn it delivers great video for the size

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