Warp wrote:

> MontanaSteve <swh### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> 
>>I am into web site design and would like to know which is best on a web
>>page. would it be AVI or MPEG?  I have installed AVI Creator and TMPGEnc2.
>>Thank you for your opinions.
> 
> 
>   AVI is not a video compression format. It's a multimedia container
> format which basically doesn't care what is stored inside it. In fact,
> you can perfectly put a MPEG-1 video stream inside an AVI.
> 
>   From video compressing formats, MPEG is probably the only choice
> (regardless of whether you put it inside an AVI or not). Whether
> it's MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 is your choice.
>   The first one is the most widely supported and can be distributed
> in its own file format, but has the worst quality/size ratio.
> MPEG-4 is nowadays the most popular format because of its quality/size
> ratio. Its problem is that there are many different subformats based
> on MPEG-4, such as divx, xvid, asf, etc etc.
>   Going for xvid or divx should be a rather safe choice.
> 
>   If you want to encode eg xvid avis, you just have to install the
> xvid codec in your system and then use a program like VirtualDub
> to create the avi.
> 
I've been away from making POV animations for several years, and this 
leads to a few questions:

Does the IIRC take divx movies?  or is it all MPG1?

What (free) encoders are available?  I'm sure there's new ones I haven't 
heard of.

Thanks!

Tom A.

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