Ixus 40 Video Compression

[greath]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help. I have an Ixus 40 that can take 640 x 480 video at 30 fps. It's saved as an AVI file to the flash and I believe that it is encoded as MJPEG. As you may be able to guess, the files are not small. A minute or so of video is 40MB.

My question is, what can I use to turn a MJPEG AVI into something that is more compressed ( i.e. MPEG 2 or DIVX or some other more memory efficient codec ).

Thanks for any help.

Philip

[communist]

Hmm.. just open it in VirtualDub and reencode to XviD / DivX. Or open it in QuEnc (...) and reencode it MPEG1/2.
You may need to install a MJPEG decoder - ffdshow has one (and works?). Just load the VfW configuration and set MJPEG from disabled to libavcodec.

[greath]

Thank you. I will give it a go this evening.