Compress AVI File

I am trying to compress an AVI file using Visual Basic 6.0 but having trouble finding out informati开发者_运维百科on on how I can do this.

I am aware that I may be able to use direct show and use the File Source, AVI Compressor and File Writer filters but in quick tests I have not been able to get the Pins of the Filters to Connect.

Is there any other simple mmethod of achieving this such as a DLL?

Thanks/

If you have an AVI file, you can go

AVI File -> AVI SPlitter -> (compressor/encoder like ffdshow video encoder) -> AVI Mux -> File writer

turned a 2.16gb avi into a 5.56mb avi

Are you sure you mean compress? Your question lack information but I think you want to convert the file using ffmpeg/libav to another format.