Compress an avi file?

[Nik]

In article <b43bf2080605122109x7bc29981y625366758d131fde at mail.gmail.com>,
   Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a big avi file (2.8Gb) I'd like to upload to Google Video. I
> have memcoder and a lot of video player programs installed in Ubuntu,
> but I dont know how to encode it to make it smallers, like 600 or 700
> Mb. It is a 1 hour 45 minutes video.

I think you could probably re-encode using mencoder.  DVDRip uses this (I
think) to make vcds - ie a whole film on one or more cds, exactly what you
want.

Nik