Posted by Neck & Red on 02/04/07 16:31

"Laphan" <info@PleaseDontSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi All
>
> Could somebody please advise me as to which is the best file format for
> video.
>
> I've saved some DVD content as AVI and it created a huge file and the file
> wouldn't play unless the right codec was installed in my friend's laptop.
> All very messy.
>
> I've tried WMV, which did create a smaller file size, but I thought AVI
> was
> the standard? If WMV makes smaller files and no codec issues then why
> doesn't everybody simply use WMV?
>
> Is AVI really MPEG-4?
>
> I've seen that I can save a file as MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 and I didn't know if
> these would be better formats, ie compatibility and file size wise.

DVD is Mpeg2

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