best compression of avi files in Windows

[df1995]

I need to copy avi files to DVDs in Windows. What's the best compression format to use, zip or rar?

Or, are avi files already compressed so much that any further compression would be largely redundant?

Thanks!

[J_L]

Archiving video files barely makes any difference, the best you can do is to encode and/or split them.

[df1995]

Originally Posted by J_L

Archiving video files barely makes any difference, the best you can do is to encode and/or split them.

I never even heard of encoding. I'll take a look at that.

Thanks for your kind help.

[Sope]

Originally Posted by df1995

I never even heard of encoding. I'll take a look at that.

Worth bearing in mind that encoding an AVI to a more compressed format will inevitably result in some loss of quality which can not be recovered by converting back to AVI.
If your intention is to archive precious movies this needs to be considered.