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Compress video files or convert them

May 14th, 2009 by admin

There are many ways for video compression, some are very good and some are not so good, lets take a look at different formats of compressed videos, some are very common like .AVI, MPEG or DIVX some play on Home DVD players, but all will play on a PC computer with the right software installed.

There is a few different ways to compress a video or movie, if you don’t want any loss of quality in your videos i would just compress it with WinRAR file
compression software, WinRAR is a powerful archive manager, if you don’t have WinRAR you can download load it here here http://www.rarlab.com once you have it installed, get it going and locate your video, mine is here

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Now right mouse click on the video file and select the second choice

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and leave all the settings default for now this will make a compressed file of your video thus making it a bit smaller it does does some time though, my file was 357MB after it was compressed it is now 353MB only 4MB reduced its not really worth it! it also did take a very long time.

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With WinRar you can set a password encryption for your video file, you can make self extracting and multi volume archives etc.

Another way you can compress the video is to convert it to a different file format this will reduce the audio video quality and file size, i am using Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate http://www.Xilisoft.com/trialware

I have reduced the file using .FLV format, this is a great format if you want to add video to your website as now its only 74mb in size, here is a video of how i did it