Movie File Compression?

[Keebler Elf]

Is there a way to compress movie files without losing quality?

 

[Esco!]

I use Super.
Google it

 

[Anynym]

It all depends on how the source video is encoded. If you're starting off with a highly-uncompressed format (e.g. ".dv") you can do a lot of compression without (significant) loss of quality. If you're starting with something highly compressed, you're going to start sacrificing quality to compress it further.

FFMPEG can convert among various codecs, bitrates, etc. For example, if you have a 6Mbps MPEG file which you want to compress to about 1.5Mbps (which would likely not represent a noticable degradation), you could do something like:
ffmpeg -i myinputfile.mpg -b 1500 myoutputfile.mpg

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/

 

[hungry]

without losing any quality no....with pretty good quality.....xvid, divx, mp4

I download movies, tv season etc. playable on my dvd player that plays divx. No complaints with quality. Pretty darn good.