Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size

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Subject	Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size
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Date	Wed, 3 Jul 2019 07:59:59 +0200
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On 7/3/19 7:29 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> This might not be the right place to post this, but I am in the
> process of converting a friend's laptop from Windows 10 to Linux.
> While copying over her files, I came across a .avi file that is
> 14 gigabytes in size.  That's right, gigabytes - enough data to
> fill three DVDs to bursting.  The file plays fine - it's a home-shot
> video which is 13 minutes long.  Something is very wrong, obviously.
> 
> Is there some way of stripping out what must be a lot of extraneous
> data and reducing the video to a reasonable size (e.g. under 100MB)?
> One suggestion I came across was to use mencoder, although this is
> primarily to clean up errors in the file.  The result came out only
> a few bytes smaller.
> 
> How can I get the file down to a reasonable size?

Have a look at avidemux, and experiment a bit.
>  And how did it get so bloated in the first place?
> 

This is probably the result of using no compression at all.

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Cutting an AVI file down to size Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-03 05:29 +0000
  Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2019-07-03 07:59 +0200
  Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-07-03 02:21 -0400
    Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-03 09:22 +0100
  Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-03 09:18 +0100
  Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-07-03 11:16 +0000
  Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2019-07-03 12:59 +0000
    Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-03 16:16 +0000
      Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-03 15:27 -0400
        Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-03 21:49 +0000
          Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-07-04 00:29 +0000
            Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-04 08:53 +0000
              Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-04 15:41 +0200
          Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size queequeg@trust.no1 (Queequeg) - 2019-07-04 08:08 +0000
  Re: Cutting an AVI file down to size "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-07-06 18:42 +0000

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