gregjohn wrote:
> "scott" <sco### [at] spamcom> wrote:
>> Some people here prefer MPEG1 though, TMPGEnc is recommened by some
>> people, and is the only one I found that can make the old MPEG1
>> standard files (it was used for old VideoCDs ???, I don't know).
>> Seeing as we are up to, what, MPEG4 now, it seems a bit weird for
>> some people to still be using MPEG1? Anyway, there's probably a
>> reason I don't understand hehe.
>
>
> One reason is that some folks might use four or five different PC's
> during the course of the week, and several of them being shared ones
> which aren't dedicated to animation, PC's one might not even have
> permission or capability to load up software onto.  In addition,
> I've seen actual computer animation professionals in other fora
> complain about not being able to see work made with the latest
> bleeding edge codec-- so I would not go with the idea that serious cg
> people should be able to see **all**  the codecs.   Furthermore, I've
> been trying to get povray'ers into csound and csound'ers into povray,
> been touting povray in other fora visited by other cg or merely
> artistically-minded folks,  and thus I've been linking to p.b.a.
> The person who might be state of the art, leading their field with
> computer music or with Photoshop might not be expected to have the
> latest movie codecs either.
>
> #declare rant=off;

I agree completely, but MPEG2 (or DivX for that matter) is hardly cutting
edge technology.  MPEG2 has been around for ages, and DivX has been around
for a few years now, and is used for virtually all *big* video files on the
net.

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