Reduce bitrate w/o rendering

Hello dis737,

Thank you for your questions.

1.) Can Video Splitter reduce the bitrate without having to re-encode the files with minimal quality loss?

Unfotunately Video Splitter has not such a feature to change the bitrate. It operates without using any encoding/decoding process.

2.) I have heard of problems caused by loading multiple codecs.  Are Video splitter's codecs self-contained in the program, or does it register new codecs in Win7.?

Video Splitter doesn't register the codecs that could effect on the other programs operating, it could be said that Video Splitter's codecs are self-contained.

I have some large .m2t and .avi files (13gb) created by video capture from a Sony HDR-HC1 using Vegas Pro10.

They will not playback properly on some of my devices (xbox360s) because the bitrate is too high.

1.) Can Video Splitter reduce the bitrate without having to re-encode the files with minimal quality loss?
2.) I have heard of problems caused by loading multiple codecs.  Are Video splitter's codecs self-contained in the program, or does it register new codecs in Win7.?

thx.