File reduction

[NavyDave]

Is there a program that can allow me to change a 60 to 220 meg avi or mpg file size to a 15 to 60 meg vid file?

I heard that there is one program compresses the larger files into real video? rm?

I'm asking because for now my hard drive is under 10 gig

[snowmoon]

If the video is already compressed you shold fight the urge to make them smaller since you will loose signifigant quality by re-compression. What these people are refering to is probably Divx or othermpeg-4 based compression, but those will just screw up video and possibly make the file bigger if it's already compressed.

Basicly if your video is smaller than 10mb/minute already you have no hope of making it smaller. If it's bigger than 20mb/minute then yes, mpeg-4(divx) will help reduce the size.

Cm'on with drives running 1$/GB it's a cheap investment.