AVI 2 MKV, and then back 2 AVI gives bigger file ! Why ? [Archive]

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25th July 2004, 19:17

I've been testing demuxing and muxing in GraphEdit to convert AVIs to MKV...

Then, I tried reconverting the MKV to AVI: I noticed the AVI was bigger than the source AVI.

AVI 1 --> MKV --> AVI 2

Why is AVI 2 bigger than AVI 1 ?

Thanks.

bond

25th July 2004, 21:13

because the avi dshow muxer is crap

remux the .avi in virtualdubmod

alexnoe

26th July 2004, 05:20

If the source avi was made with avi-mux gui, then the output avi will still be larger ;)