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shmendrapolk · 1st December 2008, 15:57

Hi,

Sorry if this should be in a sub-forum but it didn't seem to fit the categories.
I have tons of home movies, some in DV avi (from a mini-dv camcorder) and some in Mpeg shot with my canon elph. I use a fairly small percentage in making my "produced" home movies, but I want to archive the rest for possible future use.

But I'm running out of external hard drive space. Windows NTFS native compression option doesn't actually save space with video files.

Is there any way to compress DV and/or mpeg files for archiving to save hard drive space in a lossless manner? I don't care if they are unplayable while archived, but it's important that they can be uncompressed and returned to their original state at a later time.

Thanks!

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shmendrapolk Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 61	Lossless video compression for archiving? Hi, Sorry if this should be in a sub-forum but it didn't seem to fit the categories. I have tons of home movies, some in DV avi (from a mini-dv camcorder) and some in Mpeg shot with my canon elph. I use a fairly small percentage in making my "produced" home movies, but I want to archive the rest for possible future use. But I'm running out of external hard drive space. Windows NTFS native compression option doesn't actually save space with video files. Is there any way to compress DV and/or mpeg files for archiving to save hard drive space in a lossless manner? I don't care if they are unplayable while archived, but it's important that they can be uncompressed and returned to their original state at a later time. Thanks!