Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 
>     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.
> 

On that target (have-to-play for relatives etc) I'd shoot for MPEG-2 and 
a "real" playable DVD-Video -disc (as I guess Andrew will finally be 
doing). It would seem the easiest and nicest way to watch such a video.

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