Dick Balaska wrote in message <397C458F.95F25E70@buckosoft.com>...
>Well, MPEG-1 is hardly bleeding edge.  It's certainly a lot older than
Win95
>and you wouldn't call that bleeding edge.  Are you not going to buy a DVD
player
>because that is certainly bleeding edge.  DVD is even MPEG-2.


MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are *not* simply different versions of the same standard.
They are two *different* formats, designed to solve *different* problems.
MPEG-1 is optimized to compress solid-image video like what you get on a
computer, while MPEG-2 is optimized to compress interlaced-image video such
as is found on television broadcasts.  You could use MPEG-2 to compress your
IRTC entry, or MPEG-1 to compress a videotape, but the compression would be
far from ideal.

Mark

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