Media Player has problems playing my .avi recorded on a Canon 800IS camera

[antonree]

I have several video clips recorded on my camera that are very large file sizes even though the clips aren't more than a few minutes long. When I try to play them on media player a new window called AVI Chink Viewer pops up and says
"The AVI file was not prepared for sequential reading, the alternative 'Avi Splitter' will now let the default one handle it. The complete reinterleaving of this file is strongly recommended..."

If i close the window and play the clip it seems like my computer is to slow to handle all that file info and the clip stutters forward. If I play it with VLC it runs a bit smoother but still not perfect.

How can I convert my video clips without loosing the quality? Since they are recorded on a still shot camera the quality is nowhere perfect which is why I don't want to loose even more quality.

A 1 minute 40 seconds long clip is 177 MB large. It is 640x480 with 30 fps and 1811 kbit/s video and the sound i 88 kbit/s 8 bit with PCM format.

I hope someone out there is willing to help me.

Thanks!

[Baldrick]

What is the video codec? identify it with latest gspot. Probably some kind of mpeg4 or mjpeg.

You will lose quality if you reconvert to another compressed format like wmv, divx, xvid.

[antonree]

It is mjpg. So there is no option for smaller file with the quality intact?

[Baldrick]

You can get almost same quality. Convert to divx or xvid avi using AutoGK, open the avi, set the desired output file size, higher file size means that you keep better quality. Or try with WMV using Windows Media Encoder.