Originally Posted by
Professor-Alex
The only way you're gonna get it to a reasonable size is to lower the settings when you convert it. Try making the audio bitrate lower (I usually use 112kbps) and changing the channels to mono because doing that generally doesn't have too much of a detramental effect on the sound and reduces file size by a fair bit. Also, if its super high res, take it down to somewhere around 640*480 (somewhere around there, it'll be different for widescreen) and take the framerate down to to around 24fps (I believe that's what TV channels anyway so it should be fine).
I find wmv produces the smallest files, idk if that's true though.
Good luck :)