Posted by Biz on 05/16/06 00:44

"Barry McCockiner" <abc@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:150520061407374646%abc@nowhere.com...
> In article <4crriiF1772g6U6@individual.net>, Mike O'Sullivan
> <mike@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> > avi is basically a lossy format anyway. It will never be up to dvd
quality.
>
> AVI is a container format for a variety of CODECs, some of which are
> *better* than DVD quality.

He may not have worded it correctly, but you will lose quality everytime you
convert an avi(just about no matter what codec is used) to DVD
spec....especially if its a DivX/XviD avi downloaded from the internet,
which is most likely the source this person and literally billions of others
use everyday to pirate video with....

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