Posted by bmcswain on 11/21/05 23:00

Richard, Thanks for responding. I guess I was not being very clear.

Let me try again: Future video displays and televisions are a moving
target right now. I am sure (almost 100%) that there will be new media
forms and encoding standards that will address the best ways to store
and present data (i.e. video stream) to the new TV devices (HDTV, etc.)

Until the industry decides what the format will be (for example
MPEG5???), I'd like to use a versitile file format with very little or
no loss in the captured video / audio. The file format should be one
that can be easily converted in 2010-14 to whatever is coming.

It's my understanding that AVI is such a format. But that's the reason
for my question: Is my understanding on target. What might be better?
What else should I consider?

The codec I have used is PICVideo M-JPEG; frame size is 740-480; 29.97
fps; and 100% quality. The capture software is Pinnacle Studio Version
9.

This is actually an archieving project for a real, not rich, client.
They are concerned that the tape and laserdisc media is beginning to
"corrrode" and they want to protect their projects.


Bob

Oh, I wish this was for a wealthy client. What fun that would be!

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