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AVI and MPEG files ??
Name: Cindy Date: January 21, 2002 at 23:41:24 Pacific
Comment:
What's the difference between MPEG and AVI files? I've read that AVI's are much bigger. But I've noticed that people have movies that are smaller (in bytes) when they are in AVI format than when they are in MPEG format. For example, 540MB in AVI was about 1hr and 30min...where 730MB in MPEG format was only about 1hr. Can someone explain to me why this is and what the differences are?
Name: A Certain TH Date: January 22, 2002 at 03:16:44 Pacific
Reply:
The answer is either really simple (screen size, length, frame rate, colours etc) or really complex. To get the complex analysis:
http://www4.tomshardware.com/video/index.html
There's loads of info, but scroll down to "Part 3 - Video Formats and Compression Methods" and you get a fairly decent tutorial on the comparitive compression standards.
Hope it helps/is of interest Tom
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Response Number 2
Name: Phill Date: January 26, 2002 at 18:19:00 Pacific
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I'm running "Win98 Se" and I keep get a message that "div3 was not found (video compressor)" and with out that I can't play AVI Files I checked my multimidia and everythinhg is running fine...what else can I do ? do I have to download a AVI reader? and where do I get it? Thank you for your time....looking foward for a response....
I'm running "Win98" and I keep get a message that "div3 was not found (video compressor)" and with out that I can't play AVI Files I checked my multimidia and everythinhg is running fine...what else can I do ? do I have to download a AVI reader? and where do I get it? Thank you for your time....looking foward for a response....
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