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.

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