compressing

[nirbhayn]

how do i compress a dat file from vcds to any other format
because its usualy around 600mb to 700 mb
how can i compress it to around 300mb to 500mb without lossing quality

[banjazzer]

You can't.

[mickle]

Short and to the point..... :P

[banjazzer]

But true. 8) The dat can be converted to mpg of approximately the same size, and then encoded to DivX which would probably half the size.

[banjazzer]

I just ran a test and converted a dat of 738MB to DivX 5 at the same resolution and of comparable quality. It came to 472MB. I reckon I could get it quite a lot smaller without sacrificing quality if I used the extra features of DivX 5 Pro.

[banjazzer]

OK. I finally got it down to 368MB without a noticeable loss of quality using DivX 5.02 Pro with GMC, b-frames and quarter pixel settings.