1,24 GB Avi to x264 Mkv shrink Size Help

[Danilux]

I have a 1,24 GB avi file and i want to convert it to a mkv maybe or other, but i want to shrink it to maybe 700 MB or less without lossing too much quality, The original file has very poor image quality though the size is huge so i pretty much want to shrink the size and mantain as much as posible the quality, so i started looking for an app and i found RipBot264 but since i have CCCP i can't use it and i don't want to install ffdshow, so is there any other program that can convert to x265 or h264 mkv?

Is ffdshow better than CCCP? Thanks for the recommendations.

[Baldrick]

Use avidemux if you don't want to install anything. Under Video choose x264. Under Configure and Encoding mode change to Two pass - Video Size and set the size. Under Audio set an audio codec or leave it as copy to just copy and not compress it. Under Format change to mkv. Convert.

[Danilux]

Hi Baldrick, When i open the avi video with avidemux it says Packed Bitstream Detected, Do you want to unpack?

What is Packed Bitstream? Should i unpack it or leave it Packed?

Thanks.

[patheticcockroach]

Sorry for the bump but I just found this post (3rd Google for "AVI to x264 MKV" ) and thank you so much, finally a new video converter than doesn't require the very buggy Avisynth or the very M$ish .NET Framework (unlike MeGUI...). The only downside is that there is no contextual help in the x264 codec setting and no 3 pass compression... but that's no big deal, awesome software anyway. Thanks again! (very cunning plan, Baldrick )

[guns1inger]

Sounds like spam (although without actually identifying the product, it is a pointless and worthless post). FWIW, I have rarely had issues with Avisynth, and would not describe it as buggy.

[patheticcockroach]

Well, I've always had problems with Avisynth. When used with Gordian Knot, I manage to fix them, but when used with MeGUI it's horrible... so maybe it's mostly a MeGUI problem, but it's still a problem. Sorry for sounding like spam, but after a few hours of being stuck on my tiny Avisynth script, finally finding this AviDemux saved my day, and I even forgot to reply to the question ^^

What is Packed Bitstream? Should i unpack it or leave it Packed?

Didn't what this is, but unpacking it works fine. Some good explanation there.