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  1. 14th Aug 2005 18:51 #1
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    I have quite a few movies on my computer and just don't have time to burn them all right now. I want to compress them with something so the files don't take up so much room on my hard drive. I thought (I guess thought wrong) that WinZip or WinRar would do that but the archives ended up being pretty much the same size as the original.

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    I just downloaded and tried ratDVD but it won't support avi formats (that's what most of my movies are in).

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    avi isn't a format it's a container. Are your files xvid, mpeg4, DV-AVI, or something else?
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    use gspot or avicodec to find out what types of files you have
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    Just looking at a few of them I have XVID, MPEG4, and DVCodec. (At least that's what it says.) Most of them are MPEG4.
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    mpeg4 is already a compressed format so you will gain nothing trying to compress them futher. Same with XVID.
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    Ok, thanks. I guess I'll just have to get on the ball burning these things!

    I appreciate the help y'all.
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