Compressing MPEG2? Possible?

[chugger93]

My wife and I just got a new JVC camcorder with the built in HD as our wedding gift 3 weeks ago. We used it to shoot our entire wedding day, and were pretty pleased with the results. However now I have tons of .MOD files which I know I can rename to MPG and still have work. I have PowerDirector and produced these files to an MPEG-2 format, but there file size is still 200MB and thats only for 2 MOD files! LOL, I still have 30 more on the camera that need to be joined.

I want to put these on my website for others to view, but not at a whopping 200+ MB each. What are my options here, since Im new to this. I read a few searched posts and Im guessing that in order to do this, I will have to convert to like MPEG-1? Lower format, which sux. Or can I compress this MPEG2, somehow? Its a nice 720x480 where as the MPEG1 is 352x240 ;(

Thanks for any help.

[Cunhambebe]

I want to put these on my website...

You can convert the files to Xvid with VirtualDub or use another Codec such as MP4 (x.264) - this one is also free.
A more simple solution would be to convert it to wmv (windows Media Video) configuring the codec to compress for for web streaming.

[chugger93]

Oh ok. So now I need a conversion program. Something like this? or...?
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Windows_Media_Encoder

[chugger93]

Actually n/m looks like PowerDirector does WMV :P

[jimmalenko]

I read a few searched posts and Im guessing that in order to do this, I will have to convert to like MPEG-1? Lower format, which sux. Or can I compress this MPEG2, somehow? Its a nice 720x480 where as the MPEG1 is 352x240

I assume that PowerDirector is putting these restrictions on ?

Because you can make MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 any frame size you want if it's for PC playback only. You only need to stick to those sizes if you want to remain DVD-compliant.