Is there a way to compress MPEG-2?

[Ph33zy]

I have a winTV-Pvr and it has an mpeg2 encoder. Some of the files get real big and i would like to compress them to divx/mp4 but virtual dub doesnt support mpeg2. Is there any other program that can do this..?

 

[arod324]

You could try compressing it into an avi file. They lose some quality, but are about 1/3 the size of the same mpeg file.

 

[zsir]

ewwwww

I'm after the same thing .... I'm surprised that it's as hard to find as it is.....Maybe it's a audio file limitaiton or something.....

I'm trying Flaskmpeg I started a conversion yesterday but I didn't have enough time so I aborted it.....

I'll try it tomorrow and I'll contact you if it works....

It's just out of all the guides I've read I've never seen this question answered....

Mpeg2->mpeg4 ???????




<< You could try compressing it into an avi file >>




Excuse my ignorance.... I've seen avi used in this context before and still don't understand....Isn't a avi file uncompressed ????? If I record in avi format the resulting file is huuuuuuuge

 

[rbV5]

I've used flaskmpg for that purpose with good results, it takes some time.

 

[ERJ]

Check out:

DivX Digest

There is a lot of info there about this kinda stuff.

ERJ

 

[Auric]

This is commonly done to &quot;backup&quot; DVD's (MPEG-2/AC3) to MPEG-4/MP3. Also check out go.to/doom9 and dvd.da.ru and such. AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a transport which may use many codecs.

 

[Fandu]

TMPGenc is widely considered the best MPEG2 encoder. Use Flask for going MPEG2->MPEG4. Use virtual Dub for AVI, DivX, OpenDivX, etc.

AVI is simply a container file, you can place any kind of video/audio stream you want in it. DivX and OpenDivX happen to use AVI as their container file format.