Crunchie? what's going on?

bella · **20th July 2005, 01:29 PM**

Hi Folks,

Over the weekend I did some tests with "crunchie" and it worked really well.

Last night and today I tried it again on a very small file (40.6 mb) and suddenly the avi output file became bigger(42.1mb) then the intput dvr-ms file. What's going on? There are no setting I could have fiddled around with, so I do not know what to do next. Was the file to small to work with?

Mike · **20th July 2005, 01:38 PM**

Can't understand why you'd post that question here when we have arkay's forum dedicated to Crunchie

moving . . .

bella · **20th July 2005, 01:39 PM**

O Yeah, I have a digital tuner if that is of ant importance.

arkay · **20th July 2005, 04:00 PM**

It's been known to happen. Particularly on small files. It depends on the content of the encode. My guess is it was probably a cartoon?

At any rate I wouldn't worry about it. If you're that tight for space that you need to compress a 40MB file then you have bigger problems to worry about!

On larger files it should generally achieve a good result.

Cheers,
Arkay.

bella · **20th July 2005, 05:54 PM**

Was only trying out some things. I will try it again with a larger file.

Thanks Arkay

arkay · **20th July 2005, 06:19 PM**

No problems. Let us know how it goes

Cheers,
Arkay.

bella · **21st July 2005, 01:51 PM**

It was the smile file that caused me the trouble. I tried it again with a larger file of 15 minutes duration and everything was ok. 560 mb was reduced to 360mb and no loss of quality. Can sleep again now!

arkay · **21st July 2005, 02:26 PM**

Excellent