DVD video to . . . something smaller?

[XMan]

I've got about ~166MB on the DVD of our ultrasound my wife and I got. I'd like to shrink it down to e-mail to my brother in Iraq. It's only about seven minutes of video.

Any freeware programs that will do this? His laptop has DivX installed . . . if that helps.

 

[ForumMaster]

what format is it in? is it still an MPEG-2 file (.ts) or did you rip it to avi already? if it's still in MPEG-2 then you need a program to encode the video with divx or xvid. if it's already in avi format, you could use a tool like virtual dub to reencode the video to a higher compression.

 

[XMan]

MPEG-2, yup.

 

[Seekermeister]

DVD Shrink will compress it some, but I do not know how much. Might be worth taking a look at:

http://www.dvdshrink-hq.com/

 

[andy04]

Try this

Fairuse

I was reading somehwere earlier on this forum that this is a good one...

But you might want to use an older version of Divx as your brother may not have the latest one...

 

[Seekermeister]

Instead of emailing, why not burn a disk and send it to him?

 

[andy04]

In the book "Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tannenbaum" he says... The fastest mode of data transfer is trailer filled with Media tapes...
Does it still hold true...

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: andy04
In the book "Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tannenbaum" he says... The fastest mode of data transfer is trailer filled with Media tapes...
Does it still hold true...

Yes, indead it does.

How Viable is sending over a copy of the DVD. He is in Iraq, but does snail mail get through? (Not much bigger then a normal letter) Ive done this with a Picture cd and it worked fine.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

One email and one through snail mail would be easy enough. What is the attachment size limit on the email?

I just tried FairUse2 on a movie - it seems to do a good job, very easy, not so tweakable. Also worth mentioning is the classic AutoGK.


Edit: not hardware btw

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Cogman

Originally posted by: andy04
In the book "Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tannenbaum" he says... The fastest mode of data transfer is trailer filled with Media tapes...
Does it still hold true...

Yes, indead it does.

How Viable is sending over a copy of the DVD. He is in Iraq, but does snail mail get through? (Not much bigger then a normal letter) Ive done this with a Picture cd and it worked fine.

Priority Mail gets stuff there surprisingly quickly, but I thought it might be easier to just E-mail it. I may just copy and mail it.

 

[andy04]

You have every right to do so, after all its the digital age!

you can even send it through http://www.yousendit.com/ - if he is allowed to download such a big file...