Question:
compressing media files?
Hi all, from your long lost mac newbie (i've been busy playing with Mac, my new BF) ... so question... is there a way to compress (not sure this is the right word) files, particularly large music / media files so I can still play them on itunes etc. but they won't eat up sooo much space.
I'm not anywhere close to being at my hd limit but just wondered...
thanks
Answer:
Re: compressing media files?
Well, you can certainly convert video files and audio files to a different codec or lower quality settings to save some space, although there will sometimes be a loss in quality when you do so.
It will depend on your own personal tastes, but for example you could re-encode a 192kbps MP3 as a 128kbps AAC file, and probably realize some space savings.
Any sort of straight compression of a media file is usually difficult though, because they are often already in a fairly compressed format (same with image files for that matter).
Answer:
Re: compressing media files?
I'd like to know how to change RM files to AVI files... I've found rograms that will do the rest...
Answer:
Re: compressing media files?
I've seen utilities that are supposed to be able to convert .rm and .rmvb files to AVI, but I've never used them, so I can't really say for sure how well they actually work.