# Video compression

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-compression/106314>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 4, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-compression/106314 "2004-04-04T16:22:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/video-compression/106314/1 "2004-04-04T16:22:58Z")

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I don’t know if this really falls under the art/design forum, but i couldn’t really think of a better category for it…

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good resources pertaining to video compression, i frequently come across 30 second video clips, at a decent web quality that are about 5-7mb. When i capture video it’s in .avi form, and a 10 second cip could easily be 40mb, so i convert them to .mpeg  
so i can put them on my site, and a 10 second clip is about 2-3mb…

What i was wondering is how can people get 30 seconds of footage into a 5mb clip, at a size of about 320 x 240…