The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pfftwhy on 2024-05-17 21:05:25.
Hey guys, as stated in the title I want to compress a lot of old avi files to a more space efficient format.
I would like to keep as much quality as possible since the files itself are shot around 2005, my main concern is if i further reduce the quality the videos will be barely watchable.
What would be the best way of doing this?
EDIT
Rephrased to make my question clearer
EDIT 2:
Video is interlaced
EDIT 3:
ran mediainfo on one of the files as an example:
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Commercial name : DVCAM
Format profile : OpenDML
Format settings : WaveFormatEx
File size : 19.1 GiB
Duration : 1 h 31 min
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 29.8 Mb/s
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Recorded date : 2004-05-05 12:45:54.000
IsTruncated : Yes
Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Commercial name : DVCAM
Codec ID : dvsd
Codec ID/Hint : Sony
Duration : 1 h 31 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Bottom Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Time code of first frame : 00:00:18:20
Time code source : Subcode time code
Stream size : 18.4 GiB (97%)
Encoding settings : ae mode=full automatic / wb mode=automatic / white balance= / fcm=manual focus
Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings : Little / Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 1 h 31 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 024 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 670 MiB (3%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 240 ms (6.00 video frames)