Can you compess avi movies using WinRAR or ZIP ?

[maark25]

Can you RAR or ZIP avi movies on your HDD to save space ?

 

[MDE]

Try it out and see. I personally wouldn't bother though. I'd either burn everything to DVD or get another hard drive.

 

[Mojoed]

Not worth it to ZIP or RAR (or any other compression format) AVI's. They're already pretty much as compressed as they're gonna get. You'd be lucky to get 1% compression.

 

[maark25]

I mean to make a backup of all my moves .

Like compress them all and burn the RARs to DVD's .

I have over 600 Movies on HDD's and to burn them all to individual DVD's would take ages and i cant afford to use RAID to to mirror them .

So if a harddrive failed i could get a new 1 and uncompress the backups onto it .

I wasnt sure if it would work with video files .

Ahh right so it would really compress anymore , ok thanks

 

[Tegeril]

You can definitely add them to archives without concern, but they wont actually save disc space of any significance.

 

[nismotigerwvu]

you can use winrar and tell it to split the files into dvd-r sized chunks and then burn each one...then when you go to decompress them you just go stepwise through the discs...pretty effective backup plan, you can add parity files as well to help battle scratches and other means of losing/corrupting data