Which is a good format to store videos ..?

[estrangeredgenius]

Hi guys ,

I am having large collection of videos nearly 300 GB. My
hard disk is almost full .Now i am planning to covert these
video files to a suitable format and thus reduce the size .

Can anyone suggest me a good format for doing this .
I have considered many formats and wishing to do so by
without much quality loss . Which is the best format guys

Also suggest me your video converter also .

Thanks ...

[hellnoire]

Easy one... MKV.

It has half the size of AVI and all the same quality.

Also, to open it, VLC does the job really well.

[estrangeredgenius]

Easy one... MKV.

It has half the size of AVI and all the same quality.

Also, to open it, VLC does the job really well.

Thanks hellnoire ,

Which is a good mkv converter ...?
Any stand alone tool ...

I have used mkv conversion module in Format Factory and it does a decent job .

[hellnoire]

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but Format Factory was going to be my recommendation as well. I don't know any others that could do it for free. Handbrake, maybe.

[jcgo16]

mp4 for the high quality compressed video

[blackrose]

I believe Avi is fine.. its playable in almost all the players and many of the conversion tools support avi.

[safeguy]

MP4, FLV or AVI....I'll choose among these 3.

[kv777]

mkv is best choice if you have HD videos.

[LizardMan]

mkv is the best format to reduce video size with the same quality as the original

[hellnoire]

AVI doesn't compress very well without quality loss, and while FLV does, it looses a LOT of quality.]

MP4 is iffy at best, I never recommend it though because it requires ties to Apple.

I've used all three, and I'll always go back to MKV. Because simply, it's the smallest size with the least amount of compression loss in the actual video.