i tried right clicking and using "create archive..." to make a zip file, but the reduction in size is too insignificant. is there any way to adjust compression to reduce size of the zip file even further? what other options are available to me? thanks in advance for the help! cheers.
Standard CDRs come in 650 MB and 700 MB sizes. Non standard ones come in larger capacities but may not be supported by all drives. It might help you fit that video if you buy bigger capacity CDRs if your drive supports it. By the way, what's the original size of the mpeg you're trying to copy?
the size is about 785MB. when i use "create archive...", the size goes down to about 773MB, which still won't fit a 700MB cd-r.
You can split the file to smaller chunks then reassemble them using this tip from macosxhints: Use split and cat to make segments and rejoin them
if all else fails burn the mpeg file as a VCD, a VCD can contain about 45 mins of video no matter what the file size is.
Isn't MPEG compressed na? "What is MPEG ? MPEG which stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, is the name of family of standards used for coding audio-visual information (e.g., movies, video, music) in a digital compressed format. The major advantage of MPEG compared to other video and audio coding formats is that MPEG files are much smaller for the same quality. This is because MPEG uses very sophisticated compression techniques."
actually, i'm looking more at compressing the file for storage, much like how Winzip works in the Windows world. i remember being able to compress a file to half its size (or even smaller) with Winzip, but haven't found a comparable program to do this task in the Mac world. it would've been much easier for me if i had a DVD burner or an external drive, but unfortunately, i have neither.
We have stuffit naman for MACs eh. But even in the windoze world, if you are compressing an already compressed file, it would make almost no difference in size (if not only making it larger).
i see. thanks for the clarification! maybe that's the reason why the "create archive..." function doesn't reduce the size any further. cheers.
The "Create Archive" action in Finder works exactly like Winzip as far as compression is concerned. It's just that MPEG files are already highly compressed, just like JPEG files, so compressing them further by zipping them won't help much. The amount of compression depends on the kind of file that you're trying to compress. Text files compress very well, but most modern media files (like mpg, jpg, mp3) compress poorly because they're already highly compressed to begin with. Even Winzip will not be able to compress the MPEG file much. EDIT: Oops, inulit ko lang pala sinabi ni Sabonis
Hi guys, I want to compress a 6gig file, do you guys know any app that makes compressed segmented files? so that I can burn it into 2 DVDs
