I have made a video.It’s in MPEG Movie format and its 27.0MB bigThis is to big to email.can I make it smaller?

Question by namloco77: I have made a video.It’s in MPEG Movie format and its 27.0MB bigThis is to big to email.can I make it smaller?
want to know if there is a link to a way to make this smaller. I tried to upload it from my pc to photobucket so I could post it on a forum but the quality or the pixels were worse then the video really is when I view it on my pc? what gives? any help would be nice.

Best answer:

Answer by Answering Man
You can encode it with a better video compression codec, like Xvid.

http://www.virtualdub.org will do that for you, though there’s a bit of a learning curve.

You could also upload the movie to a sharing site and link to that site in the email:

http://www.rapidshare.com
http://www.megaupload.com

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