On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:16 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Is there some program to compress AVI files? > > > > Compress? Video and graphics files tend not to compress well at all. Are we > > talking ZIP compression? Or encoding to a smaller file size? > > Thanks to both. I am talking about encoding to a smaller file size. Any ideas? Once again: AVI files are almost as compressed as they can be already. The only way to make them noticeably smaller is to extract the multimedia content and re-encode it at a lower resolution, with corresponding loss of quality. You might want to look at mencoder or ffmpeg to get an idea, but a great deal depends on how much lossage you are willing to accept and what the original media format is. Note that "AVI" is simply a container format, the actual content will be MP3 or WAV or MPEG or ... poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
