MPEG2 or DivX?

OzzieArcane · Post by **OzzieArcane** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:56 am

Which is more... viewer friendly? I have no problem running either on my computer, but I wanna try to make my videos viewable by as many people as possible. I'm mainly asking this cause my old computer had problems with MPEG2s.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:57 am

DivX, definitely.
Or, even better, XviD encoded with the DX50 FourCC.

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:40 pm

DivX/XviD for distro, MPEG-2 for conventions

gamer3100 · Post by **gamer3100** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:34 pm

I dunno man. If i were you i would actually go with DV - AVI (NTSC) .... YES ITS HUGE but its a really good quality and works on like every player
So i would say it is very user friendly

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon May 02, 2005 6:04 pm

gamer3100 wrote:I dunno man. If i were you i would actually go with DV - AVI (NTSC) .... YES ITS HUGE but its a really good quality and works on like every player
So i would say it is very user friendly

It's also far too large to effectively distribute. XviD's the way to go for distribution.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:20 am

Mpeg-1 is actually the most viewer friendly. Every Windows OS since at least Windows 3.1 comes pre-installed with what you need to playback Mpeg-1.

With DivX you STILL have the risk of people not having the right codecs installed and the typical complaint of 'I hear the music but the screen is black'. You'd think that in this age of online bittorrent movie/anime piracy everyone would have the right codecs installed but nope, there's plenty of people going 'Durrr... DivX?'[/b]

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:53 am

If they cant figure out what they need to get a divx avi working then they're too imature to appreciate my vids. Ergo, It makes no difference to me, and it shouldnt to any other serios editor iether.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:15 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:Mpeg-1 is actually the most viewer friendly. Every Windows OS since at least Windows 3.1 comes pre-installed with what you need to playback Mpeg-1.

With DivX you STILL have the risk of people not having the right codecs installed and the typical complaint of 'I hear the music but the screen is black'. You'd think that in this age of online bittorrent movie/anime piracy everyone would have the right codecs installed but nope, there's plenty of people going 'Durrr... DivX?'[/b]

That's always going to happen, there's no way around it. Some of us are really past caring beyond a link too ffdshow.

shirohamada · Post by **shirohamada** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:10 pm

if you really want it small, x264.

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