wat cud be smallest size of 600mb video after compression?

[work786]

can any one tell me compression software that can be applied to a video to make its size smaller....as we make mp3s ...divx format how much it support smaller size video....

i want to burn 5 hour movie as vcd on 700 mb disc???i it possible through compression ....
vcd is smaller than dvd format is there any format that is smaller than wmv ????if u knw any software capable of doing this plz mention

[mats.hogberg]

5 hrs on 700 MB?!? I think that's streatching it a little... With 64 kbps audio, you'd get 240 kbps video. Possibly mutipass DivX/XviD at a really low resolution (like 176*132) could look "ok" - But certainly not as VCD - VCD is 80 min on a 700 MB CD, period.

/Mats

[sanjayk]

Why in the world do you want to put a 5 hr movie on a single VCD It seems you want to save on CDs and compromise on video quality.

Do the logical thing. Encode the movie to VCD or SVCD specs using TMPGEnc or any other encoder of your liking and burn as many disks as required. Believe me the movie will be more enjoyable.

[jimmalenko]

I'm sure there's some KVCD zealot out there just itching to answer this


... and I think you should check out the video encoders subsection in the Tools section to your left. if looking for software to do this.

[aldaco12]

I personally tested KVCD 352x288 (PAL) and found them inferior with respect standard VCDs.

I dealt with this topic because I was very interested in the 'out-of-standard VCDs', I downloaded and used CQMatic and CalcuMatic from http://www.kvcd.net site), I managed to squeeze a 2h movie on a 700 MV discs playing with the CQ valur until I found perfect fit, after a little overburn at 70,5.

Result: Quality only approximately decent, and a little inferior than VCDs (e.g. in fast motion images tha figurs go 'step by step', not fluently.
I think the same should happens for KDVDs as well.

Conclusion: I prefere to spend few cents to buy an extra CD-R , to make in few hours a standard VCD than losing a day to find the optimal CQ value at the decimal point precision, to have an 'approximately good' movie

[work786]

actually i don want to write 2 or more films to cd ..but my problem is that ....in pakistan its now allowed to start home channel for all cable networks....
we play movies for our home chanel by computer
i got 120 gb hd buttt in a month we need to play at least 150 movies....so its very difficult too manage it ...compression is the only solution...probablyyy....100 gb or 200 gb is not enough....at small business cable operators

[jimmalenko]

Hang on ...

Do I understand this correctly ?

You're a small-time cable channel operator, and you want to use a PC with a 120GB hard drive to hold approximately 150 movies, and the "distribution" or broadcast will be fed straight off this PC ?

[sanjayk]

Okay ....

As a cable operator do you want your customers to watch crappy video or good quality video ??? It would advisable and logical to stick to high quality video on your cable network. Play your disks on a standalone DVD player and feed it to the network.

If you are still bent on compression then DivX or XVid would be the choice.

... and dont forget to buy that disk array with hot swapable HDDs !!