wmv vs avi

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wmv vs avi

Postby Abbadonos » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:26 pm

which is better quality when it come to video? wmv or avi? (asumeing they use the divx codec) :?:
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Postby FirestormXIII » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:35 pm

Just for the record, DivX is AVI. Well, the codec encodes an AVI file. WMV is it's own codec as well, and it encodes in AVI too.

WMV stinks, that is all you need know. If the only choices you have are between DivX AVI and WMV, go with DivX. WMV does all kinds of crappy things with videos like messing with picture quality, and it does god-awful things to audio that's run through it. It hurts my ears :( DivX can be just as bad sometimes, but not if it's encoded correctly. At least DivX gives the opportunity for the person encoding it to put in settings that will produce a good file. WMV really only offers crap, crappier, and crappiest (if you're working in WMM).
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Postby jbone » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:35 pm

WMV can't use DivX.

Properly-encoded high-quality DivX videos will always have greater quality potential than WMV because of restrictions imposed upon the format.
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Postby FirestormXIII » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:36 pm

Or what jbone said. It's a lot faster to read :wink:
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Sep 08, 2002 11:04 pm

Plain and simple, go for AVI, it's just better.
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