Compress an avi file?

[Sebastian Bassi]

I have a big avi file (2.8Gb) I'd like to upload to Google Video. I
have memcoder and a lot of video player programs installed in Ubuntu,
but I dont know how to encode it to make it smallers, like 600 or 700
Mb. It is a 1 hour 45 minutes video.

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