faber3 opened this issue on Sep 17, 2004 ยท 10 posts
svdl posted Sat, 18 September 2004 at 1:24 AM
I prefer the MS MPEG4-v3 codec. Much better quality than DivX at the same bitrate. And if it really has to be light and compact, I convert it to .wmv using Media Encoder, gives you also the possibility to stream from your site. WMV is not very good at higher bitrates, but it's unbeatable at low bitrates. Unfortunately it can only be played with Windows Media player, Mac or Linux users are out of luck. If you also want to have those files accessible for Mac or Linux users, go for Quicktime. Do not use DivX. The free encoder shows a DivX watermark in your movie, you'll have to pay $20 to render movies without watermark that are still inferior to the free MPEG emcoders by Microsoft.
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