TwinhanDTV recorded file too big help in resizing

[DownunderWench]

Hi, I'm a new member to these forums but have learnt quite a lot here in recent months and I'm hoping you can help me.

I recorded a 5-6min file on TwinhanDTV from television that I would like to compress and send to a friend or burn to a cd.

The problem is that its a 615,000kb MPEG file and the only program that even plays it properly is TwinhanDTV.

Everything else distorts sound, picture or both. I have tried 3 or 4 programs to compress it and whilst some will work and some won't, none have given complete success - there is either no sound, the sound is out of time and warped, or the picture is distorted or all of the above.

Please help! I have tried so many programs. Its footage of some sharks for a shark nut friend of mine in the USA.

Thanks in advance.

Chelle

[Baldrick]

what tools have you tried?
try fix it with projectx or pvastrumento or videoredo
then convert to divx,xvid,etc with virtualdubmpeg2 or tell us what format you would like.

[DownunderWench]

Unfortunately it was about a month or so ago and when these trial programs I dloaded didnt do the job I uninstalled them. In many cases the program would just stall I guess because of the file size


I know I tried the MS option, Windows Media Encoder, but I'm sorry I can't tell you what I DID try. I am sure I didnt try any of the ones you listed, so thank you, i'll try look into those.

I dont mind what format, but I'm just hoping to reduce it to something around 60 megs or better.