MPEG-4 to Avi

mercurystar999

I have some Mpeg-4 files that i wanted to convert to avi to put on my son and daughters innotabs. Now i have downloaded MPEG steam clip to do the transfer but the files after are massive. For instance an 18MB file has now turned into 136MB. Is there a way of getting a smaller file transfer?

Now i'm sure that most of you tech guys have heard about the innotab having problems with sound not being loud enough on the innotab on some avi files. Now on the mpeg stream clip software there is a audio option that i have increased to +10db and then asked the software to do a file transfer from MPEG-4 to avi and also audio increase. Well the file then increased from 1GB to 7GB!!

I have used a different software; Virtual dub to increase the volume and it did increase the volume but also doubled the file size.

Thanks Neil

bengalknights

Change the resolution settings that should decrease the size a bit

[Deleted User]

Have you tried Freemake you can change or limit the file size.

Download from Filehippo as its a trusted site.

paddyrg

AVI is a container format, inside that container, the video can be stored in several compression formats (different codecs). AVI is pretty old, so only supports older codecs which have lower compression, leaving larger files.

Conversely, MPEG4 encoding is very efficient and makes really small files.

Do you *have* to encode as AVI files? are there no other formats you can use? Can you indeed use an MP4 container?

mercurystar999

I've found a video on youtube on how to use freemake and it did come down to the resolution.

Thanks