# Flv videos

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-videos/272141>\
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**Created:** [October 2, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-videos/272141 "2008-10-02T12:38:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flv-videos/272141/1 "2008-10-02T12:38:37Z")

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what’s peoples thoughts on encoding videos regarding file size and quality?  
im doing a showreel site for a friend and he sent me a 2 Gig uncompressed quicktime movie :fight:. its only a couple of minutes long - he obviously wants it the best quality, but i want to balance quality with file size. does anyone have a good ratio for video file size/quality? should i get him to compress it first before i encode it to .flv? is compressing things twice worse than once?