Compressing files

[KitKat]

Thanks for all the suggestions! Ripbot didn't quite work, I must not have had it on the right settings, but virtualdubmod worked like a charm. The filesize is down to 31MB which is way better. The playback is very smooth now. There's still one place in the video where it's discontinuous, and things seem to suddenly jump forward, but I can live with that. Probably a glitch due to the computer doing the recording needing so much processing power to store such a volume of information.

David, I tried the playback in mpc as well as regular Windows Media Player to begin with and both had trouble with the file when it was huge. Ordinarily, I'd love to supply you guys with the file to play around with, but at the moment this is unpublished research data, so I can't really circulate it in case my supervisor wants to publish it in a journal. Maybe I can take another video with the microscope camera and see if it has any discontinuous points in the recording. I'll let you know if I have a file for you to look at.

[David75]

Mediainfo is just a tool providing with data and stats regarding the file, and nothing about its contents at all provided the name of the file doesn't give too much information of course
It gives the codecs used, formats and all kinds of information that is precious to help someone with their file.

mpc-hc can sometimes help if the video card is compatible with DXVA and you're lucky with the file.


regarding the glitch, it probably is coming from the time it was recorded as you pointed out, so there's probably nothing to do about it. VirtualDubMod can repair the index of files, so if it didn"t do it, the problem is elsewhere. There are some repair tools, but its more like hit and miss... and sometimes be very lucky.
Best choice would be to cut the part, probably