13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
11:14 a.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
As a slightly more helpful remark, if you don't
mind I'll download these
and recode as a couple of different formats. Personally I recommend Ogg
Theora, because it's an entirely free as in (beer|speech) format, with
picture quality and compression roughly equivalent to MPEG4.
It is nowhere near equivalent to MPEG4 (disclaimer: I am a video
compression author/nerd). But yes, it is free. But hardly anything
will play it.
If you want cross-platform, there really is no choice other than MPEG
(MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4). I have yet to see convincing arguments for
formats other than those for simple media distribution.
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