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Video files clogging hard drive

I have a lot of video files taking up space on my hard drive, what's the best solution for saving space/compressing them, most are FLV and MPEG-4

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Hi,

Your best bet is to back them up to an external drive or a DVD really. You could compress them but the quality of them are reduced so you'd end up un-compressing them again to get a decent watch.

With an external its plug and play. With a DVD you would need to file them in some kind of order and they take up space.


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If they are video files, movies and the like, the best way is to burn them to a disk and then simply delete them from the drive.

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