Can I fit a movie or two on a portable usb flash drive? How much space is needed?

I was wondering how much memory I would need to download and store a movie on a portable flash drive? Would it be acceptable to get a 1gb or 2gb flash usb drive? Do I need to compress the movies? I basically would like to download a movie and watch it at work through the usb port. Also, anyone know of any good websites to download movies? How much memory does a movie take up?

Can I fit a movie or two on a portable usb flash drive? How much space is needed?
A typical compress movie which is in .avi format could be put on a 1 gig drive, the typical compressed movie is 700MB and there is 1,000 MB available on a 1 gig drive...





However to and from computers it will take a lot of time to transfer the movie from the drive, probably about 10 minutes.
Reply:There is a website which allows u to watch movies online so why bother with downloading movies and then moving them to a flash drive and then loading it onto ur work PC and then watching it. The website is "www.peekvid.com".





Iam wondering how u get the time to watch a movie at work. Is ur boss not at work and working from home? lol





Just jokin mate.





Hope I was helpful.
Reply:Some software packages will allow you to compress a movie and a player on a small usb drive. However, it is best to get a usb Hard Drive that it usb powered. A 60GB drive cost about 50-80 dollars and you can put 10+ moves on it.
Reply:usually either around 700 and 1.5 gb per movie, uness they r in full dvd quality then its up to round 5gb
Reply:The rough rule of thumb is one hour of video requires 2 Gb of storage.





There are 2Gb flash drives, and there are 52 minute movies, and you can even get 8 or 16Gb usb sticks. But, what's wrong with DVDs?
Reply:On 1 or 2 Gig Flash Drives... you would have to have a small or VERY compressed movie. See about an 8 Gig Flash drive, most the Size of a 1-2 GIG Flash anyways