File Compression Program?

[UNLTuba]

I have a bunch of large files (movies) that I would like to compress down to make them easier to transfer. Is there anything that you guys would recommend? Thanks in advance...

 

[TallBill]

winzip, winace, winrar..

 

[UNLTuba]

WinZip only shrunk it by 4MB. When it's a 650MB file, 4MB doesn't help much. Is there a setting that I can use to make it smaller? I used maximum compression and that's all the smaller it got... Haven't tried the other two though - I'll have to look in to those.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

compressing "movies" (I assume divx or similar:Q) don't compress well with any prog since they are so compressed as it is.

Good luck though.

 

[imported_CyberWire]

1. encode in divx
2. winrar best compression

both steps can be very time consuming...

 

[Confused]

I'm guessing that as they are 650MB movies, they will be DivX, which is quite well compressed as they are.

But i agree that WinRaring them on maximum will bring them down a little, but i doubt anything too substantial. Each will fit onto a CD, or will only take a couple of minutes to transfer, even over a 10mbps network! (i know, i've done it with about 15 movies, took about an hour to copy them all across a 10mbps hub! :Q)

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