Converting avi file?

[jbr12]

I have a Canon A70 Digital Camera that is capable of taking movies as well. The most I can do at once is a 30 second clip at 800x600 resolution, that turns out to be roughly 25mb. Now for the purpose of my website, I would like to make these video clips more compressed if possible, turning them into DivX or any other smaller format. I tried using TMPGEnc and GKnot, but neither one will open the avi file. Here is a link to the file as it sits on my webpage

http://www.jason-rostar.com/images/MVI_0959.avi

Just looking for how to make these movies smaller. Thanks

[jggimi]

Hello, jbr12, and welcome to Doom9's forum!

If your AVIs are in DV format, then I think you should spend time in the DV Forum (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=59). Your question about why these AVIs don't open may be answered by the DV FAQ (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30495), and there is also a DV to DivX Guide (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32197) there that may help.

[Manngo]

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