Redneck, you are a trusted releaser. I count on your judgement. If it's multiple VCD disc then it would be economical to go for smaller avi. But for a 1hr natok, conversion is too much.

The file size in avi can get larger if you are increasing the resolution AND/OR putting more bit/pixel*frame ratio. Once again, if the source video doesn't contain any redundant/un-necessary data in each frame, it can't reduce the size drammatically. It's like the making zip of a file. If you take a regular word or text file and make a .zip file, size will be reduced. But you take an Mp3 file and zip it, file size won't be smaller. As the mp3 file is already compressed.

Let us know if you find a software to convert dat/mpeg to .avi.

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