Go to Martin Reddy's graphic file formats page at
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/3d-hi.html
It's got just about everything you need, or can point you in the right
direction for 2-D, 3-D, and animation formats.

Andy

Adrian Pederson wrote:

> Can anyone give my a reference or link explaining the
> differences between and maybe giving specs for the
> various video file formats: avi, mpeg, mov, fli, flc.
> I'm trying to figure out what's the best in terms of
> both quality and size. The first 3 are obviously better
> in terms of compatibility for distribution.
>
> I'd like something along the lines of jpegs are good
> for photo type images while gifs are better for cgi
> with solid color areas. I've tried numerous searches,
> but can't find a good comparative description like the
> many that exist for static image formats.
>
> So far I only created a few avi test files, trying
> different codecs, they all looked like crap except
> for the uncompressed one which was huge. There doesn't
> seem to be a good mid-level with this format.
>
> Adrian Pederson



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