Re: [Hampshire] Video compression

The best compression codec I found is realplayer. For good quality 1 and half
hours of Xvid will occupy about 700 MB. The same quality and same amount of
time in realplayer will occupy about 350 MB. The realplayer can be played in
mplayer.

The next question is where do I find free software to convert to Realplayer.

I use a VMware running XP as the only free software that I know that converts
to realplayer runs under windows. The software in question may run in Wine
but I have not tried this as I have not tried to load codecs in Wine.

Look for the program "ermp194_full.zip".

John Eayrs





On Saturday 13 December 2008 12:09:44 Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Anybody know what the best compression results for video are? I've had a
> very quick play with wmv and it looks about 15Mb a minute but what could I
> expect from DivX, mpg and other codecs etc?
>
> The reason I ask is I still have a load of VHS tapes that I'd like to
> digitise - approximately 400 I reckon and most of them are full up at 4
> hours each. As you can imagine, we're looking at a lot of storage -
> around 1.4Tb in wmv if my maths is right.
>
> Is there anything out there significantly better?
>
> Cheers
> Rob