How do I shrink a mpg video file?

Question

I have a video file I have made that is a mere 43 seconds long yet it takes up 152 mb of space. How can I shrink this file and still keep it as an mpg or other common file type?

Answer 1

There are a few programs that can edit MPG directly, but your probably gonna have to convert to AVI, shrink, and then reencode in MPG. Zipping or using WinRAR on a video file is very bad idea, because of the way video files are encoded (they're are already compressed), either one of those will likely increase the file size and will take a long time to encode/decode. It's the same reason you can't zip a .zip file and expect huge decreases in filesize, and you'll likely see an increase.

Answer 2

AVI MPG WMV Joiner - X Video Joiner join multiple AVI MPG Video clips of AVI DivX MPEG MPG and WMV ASF together into one large movie file and create slideshows with music from photos and images.



AVI MPG WMV Joiner - X Video Joiner With the Create Photo Slideshow function, you can create slideshows from your favorite photos and pictures. You can easily add any photos from your hard driver and import audio files (all media formats are supported) as background music, then convert them to AVI DivX MPEG VCD DVD SVCD compliant format or WMV ASF files with more than 20 transition effects.

AVI MPG WMV Joiner - X Video Joiner The Merge Video Files function helps you join AVI MPG movie clips together, which could be the hot movie clips you have download or the life clips you have shot

Answer 3

You can zip it. Or you can split it with winrar program. Or, if you have a cd burner, put it in a CD. 152 mb is not a very long file. Besides, you do not say where you want to keep this file: your pc, or where?

Answer 4

encode in DivX format, will still be a mpg file. but needs the codec to view it.

actually DivX is similar to the mp4 standard.

Answer 5

You can use Livid Batch Export Utility it is free, haven´t used it yet though but heard it is good.

Answer 6

divx converter. download at their page