Posted by phil-news-nospam on 10/01/05 20:29

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:45:47 -0700 PTravel <ptravel88-usenet@yahoo.com> wrote:

| MiniDV video (technically DV-25) is usually stored on a computer as
| DV-codec-encoded AVI. You'll need 13.7 gigabytes per hour of video.
| Remember, too, that you need far more if you're doing any editing.

If all your software can handle DV directly, there's no need to store as AVI.
AVI encapsulates audio and video separately, but DV already contains both
video and audio in a single codec classified as a video codec. The result
is an AVI file with duplicated audio (unless the program did it wrong and
left the audio out of the AVI layer). By storing DV directly, you have both
video and audio, and no redundancy, saving a GB or so of space.

Just be sure all your software know how to handle .dv files, including your
DVD authoring software. If not, you'll just have to use the AVI format with
DV codec.

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