Compressing avi files

[Bruce79]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for that.  I think i'll probably just get hold of an external hard drive and try writing the uncompressed .avi files to that.  I think i might be looking at nearly 60GB per hour though!

I just hope that a USB connection will be fast enough to write to the hard drive at that speed!

Also, i tried a couple of the other compressors, just on the off chance that they might not demand so much processing power.  It seems that 'Microsoft Video ' and 'Microsoft RLE' work fine at 15fps.  the image quality is copromised quite a bit though.

Thanks again for all your help.  I'll no doubt be in touch again with other problems.

Cheers

Bruce

[Bruce79]

Hi Adam,

I've tried constructing the code that you sent me to compress the files once they've been written and it doesn't seem to work.  My first question is:

What are the 2 different file paths?  I take it the first is the .avi file in it's uncomressed state, so what is the 2nd?

I've just replaced your 'Get filters' bit with a constant string, as i know which type of compressor i want.  I assume that it's OK to do this?

Thanks again

Bruce

[aman_bajra]

Do you think you can use codec in the same way to compress audio files.

Aman

[Bruce79]

Hi Aman,

I've no idea if this approach would work for audio files too.

It might be worth starting a new thread on the topic as this one's a year or 2 old now.

Good luck.

Bruce