I regularly compress .AVI files to the .ASF format. An AVI that starts out
as a multi gigabyte file can regularly be compressed down to just a few
megabytes. Of course this compression is a "lossy" type so that the picture
quality is not as good as the original (you have a lot of choices on how it
is done, however). See more at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/ (all
the tools are free).
Robert Scoble
http://www.netmeeting-zone.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 6:22 AM
Subject: RE: [NetMeeting] Compression Software
>
> I am looking for some software that will compress "AVI" files.
> Does anybody have any experience in this and could recommend some software
> to me ?
> Thanks
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> It depends what you mean by "avi" files -- an avi file could contain
> audio/video material that is anywhere from 'raw' to already highly
> compressed. Usually a distributed avi file is in some already compressed
> format.
>
> Using a digital video production program ( Adobe Premiere, Asymetrix DVP)
> and applying available codecs (or using MPeg encoding) to a raw file can
> compress the file a lot -- often the playback is degraded visually and
> aurally very little if at all.
>
> If the avi file contains audio/video to which compressing encoding has
> already been applied any further attempt to compress will generally
produce
> degraded or unusable video and/or audio.
>
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