Gail wrote:

> It may not come with it, but that doesn't stop people who have wored 
> things out to write tutorials for all the people who can't or who don't 
> want to fiddle for days to get a good result.
> If you're wondering how to do something, ask google. Chances are, 
> someone has done it before and will have written up something explainig 
> how.

I guess I just assumed that if something doesn't come with any 
instructions, it's supposed to be "obvious" enough that you don't need them.

At the time, I was only really trying out various codecs. The general 
conclusion I reached is that every codec known to man produces some 
degree of visible distortion, so it's best to store everything fully 
uncompressed, only encoding it when writing to DVD. Basically I only 
ever play video on my PC or on a DVD; I've never tried to put video onto 
the Internet before.

I decided that for lossy encoding, MPEG1 is good enough. (And has the 
advantage that absolutely everything can play it, and there's a nice, 
free, fairly usable encoder available.)

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