Warp wrote:
>   Nowadays you might want to use mpeg4 instead of mpeg1. The former can
> compress to less than one fourth the size of the latter, while retaining
> the same image quality (or even better).

	Many DVD players can't handle it. However, if that's not his target, 
I'll agree that mpeg1 is a bad idea. But then again, I get occasional 
requests from friends to encode stuff from one format to another because 
they want to send it to relatives, and they want to make sure it'll 
work. The assumptions are that they won't have special software like 
Quicktime Player or VLC, nor will they have any codecs that don't come 
with Windows. The only real option is MPEG1 or 2.

-- 
In an Astronomy class (toward an Astronomy major, not that gen-ed crap) 
the professor did not tell us we would have to remember constants, and 
he asked them as questions. They were short questions, and weren't worth 
a lot.

One of them was: What is the orbital period of Saturn? (2 pts/100)

I started thinking about Bode's law and the posibility I could calculate 
it from an approximate radius I would get from that law... if I could 
remember it. But when you expect a 72% to be an A on a test, you have 
bigger fish to fry.

Then I got it. It was right, it should work, and no one would have to be 
nailed to anything.

I wrote: One Saturn-Year

I didn't get credit for it. A couple years later a sophomore was telling 
me about this funny question he had in the same class. He showed it to 
me. It read:

What is the orbital period of Saturn? (Do not put one Saturn-Year)

I was so right that it had to be guarded against. Yet those were 2 
points I would never have.

(as told by SetupWeasel on Slashdot)


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