Compressing Video

**kazaaliterock** · 07-13-2003, 01:06 AM

i was wondering how to compress a .wma type to a .avi or sometin that will save me some space on my hdd. what do i use to compress the .wma to a divx.avi or sometin like that.

**SiRius128** · 07-13-2003, 01:23 AM

d/l a converter they are easy to find.

heres the name of one that converts other types of video into .mpg's
--- TEMPGEnc Plus 2.5 ---

but that wont save u space........sorry

**kazaaliterock** · 07-13-2003, 01:27 AM

ok i just found out that wmv is about 10x less then avi so forget what i wrote up there any body know where i can find a converter that let me convert avi into wmv?

**SiRius128** · 07-13-2003, 01:36 AM

look up "avi to wmv" in google and see what u find there i found one but its not free..(Easy Video Converter 3.0)...try d/l'ing it off K-lite.

here this web site has a good list of converters--
Converters

**kazaaliterock** · 07-13-2003, 01:43 AM

okay never that one too. i just conver a avi to a wmv which turn out to be 4x the original size so how bout sometin to compress the video file period.

p.s. thank you sirius 128 for the link.

**SiRius128** · 07-13-2003, 01:46 AM

no prblem kazaaliterock

now when u say compress a video do u mean to compress it in a way so that when its compressed you can still watch it or do u mean compress it
to store (like a .zip)