Compression depression

[bigshotprof]

Does anyone know a way to severely compress video? I just tried to zip a 370 meg file, and it compressed to about 357.

[tokenuser]

Does anyone know a way to severely compress video? I just tried to zip a 370 meg file, and it compressed to about 357.Unless it is raw video, it is already compressed. The best you might be able to do is re-encode it at a lower bitrate or framesize. This is not optimal and will result in loss of quality.

Suggest that if you need to get it out in specific sized chunks to someone you create a multipart RAR file.

[bigshotprof]

Thanks.

[slonkak]

As Token said, video is already compressed. An alternative to multiple RARs or ZIPs is to split the file.

If you're on a *nix host, you can split the file into 10MB chunks (google "10 megabytes in bytes" to get the number needed for this command):
split -b 10485760 file.avi

Then to put it back together on a *nix host:
cat xaa >> newfile.avi
cat xab >> newfile.avi
cat xac >> newfile.avi
etc.
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Or on a Windows host:
type xaa >> newfile.avi
type xab >> newfile.avi
type xac >> newfile.avi
etc.
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