Quicktime is good because most people have it, but a DivX avi makes smaller, better looking files but you'll probably run into more compatibility issues.

Wed, 08/25/2004 - 5:29am

(Reply to #3) #4

Muppet2004

yes, i do use Divx and xvid but i was just going for the most used players,
to see what the best was.

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Wed, 08/25/2004 - 6:02am

(Reply to #4) #5

ender

Everyone has quicktime and most people have Windows Media Player. The DIVX codec has to be downloaded, but has great compression, as does the mpeg 4 codec for Quicktime, which gives better compression and smaller file sizes than sorenson for quicktime format.

Real is a joke, don't bother.

Wed, 08/25/2004 - 9:22am

(Reply to #5) #6

Daniel Poeira

QuickTime + mpeg4 = :D

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Wed, 08/25/2004 - 6:00pm

(Reply to #6) #7

Geoff P Edwards

I believe if you encode for Windows Media Player you cover everyone with a PC. Quicktime covers the Mac World.

Cheers.

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Thu, 08/26/2004 - 7:19am

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Daniel Poeira

But, as far as I know, it's much easier to play a MOV file on a PC than playing an AVI on a Mac. If you install Quicktime on a Windows system, it will play all MOVs in the world. But try opening a DIV-X AVI on a Mac's Quicktime... ~:|

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Thu, 08/26/2004 - 12:38pm

(Reply to #8) #9

Geoff P Edwards

Hi Daniel,

The only thing is Windows Media Player comes with the Windows OS. So we (www.streamworks.ca) think it is a must to encode for this format. We encode for Quiicktime when requested to by clients and sometimes out of respect for Apple users who may make up a large part of a particular projects target group.

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