When I convert a file, the app states it will be roughly ***MB big after the conversion, yet it is a massive file.  Am I missing something here?

Example: I am taking a 80MB mkv file and converting it using the TV2 default settings and it will output a 255mb avi file.

I am experiencing this too. Is there any explanation for this? Output size says 43MB but comes out 240MB. Is there anything we can prep better to get those file sizes? Maybe it's the audio?

When I convert a file, the app states it will be roughly ***MB big after the conversion, yet it is a massive file.  Am I missing something here?

Example: I am taking a 80MB mkv file and converting it using the TV2 default settings and it will output a 255mb avi file.

80MB is not big. If you try to reduce the dimension of the file one more time, it also affects the image quality. Not good at all

Have you checked the output resolution and codec settings? You might get a smaller file by adjusting those manually before converting.

It's their converter app.  It's locked at 1500kbps.  So even if your original file is lower than that, it will re-encode the video at that higher bitrate, causing the file size to increase.

I had to find another program to let me choose my own bitrate, to shrink the file size.

It's their converter app.  It's locked at 1500kbps.  So even if your original file is lower than that, it will re-encode the video at that higher bitrate, causing the file size to increase.

I had to find another program to let me choose my own bitrate, to shrink the file size.

What program are you using instead and what settings are you using?

It's their converter app.  It's locked at 1500kbps.  So even if your original file is lower than that, it will re-encode the video at that higher bitrate, causing the file size to increase.

I had to find another program to let me choose my own bitrate, to shrink the file size.

What program are you using instead and what settings are you using?

google search "FFmpeg Batch AV Converter"  You should find a link to soureforge.   A guy named eibol made it.  It's just a GUI interface to use all the features of FFmpeg.

As for my settings,  I'm using....

-r 24 -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter_complex "[0:a]compand=attacks=0:points=-80/-900|-45/-15|-27/-9|0/-7|20/-7:gain=2,speechnorm=e=25:r=0.0001:l=1,aresample=10000,aresample=async=1000,aresample=osf=u8,asetnsamples=n=210:p=0[a];[0:v]scale=210:135,hqdn3d[v]" -map "[v]" -b:v 800k -c:v mjpeg -map "[a]" -ac 1 -acodec pcm_u8 -y

Just Add your mp4's, Then in the parameters box, put the commands I posted above.  And to the right of that box, Set the format to avi.   It's literally that simple.

That does the fill / stretch for the video,  Lowers the quality to 800k instead of 1500k.   And all the beginning stuff is for boosting audio.  Can find on page two of these forums, a guy posted those commands.   I did manually change the Gain=0 to Gain=2 to get a bit more of a volume boost.   

But I can now take a 415MB MP4 cartoon, and convert the episode to about 140MB, instead of the 250MB that Tinycircuits app will output.    You can always raise or lower the bitrate or raise it if you want.   Just change the the 800k to 600k or 1000k, or whatever.    On such a small screen, At least with an old 80's cartoon, I don't really notice the quality drop from 1500k to 800k.   When watching the video file on my PC, and making the video full screen, it's noticeable.  But when displayed on a 1" screen at a distance of a few feet away, I honestly can't see the blocking.