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  Re: What codecs to use?  
From: Rene
Date: 29 Jun 2001 06:16:43
Message: <3B3C558A.EFA1E15B@hotmail.com>
Compatability and animation quality are more important than file size to me.

What utility should I use to convert avi to mpg.... these are 800x600 pixels so
the old dos tool avi2mpg1 doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Rene




Warp schrieb:

> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> : Use MPEG-1.  There are codecs for every platform, including several free
> : ones.
>
>   Although MPEG-1 is the best in the sense that you will get the widest
> audience and the widest variety of (free) tools, it's not, however, the best
> codec.
>   An MPEG-4 codec is far better (in both file size and image quality), but
> it's a rather new standard and not well supported yet. Some codecs which
> use the MPEG-4 standard (well, part of it at least) are ASF and DivX.
>   I really don't know what's the situation of DivX. AFAIK is a kind of
> "hacked" version of ASF, but I have never heard of it being illegal or
> anything. If anyone has more info, I'll be interested.
>
> --
> #macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
> rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
> ],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
> 7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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