[MPlayer-users] Best quality universal format?...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:06:46PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 14:09, Paul Simpson wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  Anyone else care to comment on the highest 
> > quality format that can be played on vanilla PC's and Macs?
> 
> Played? MPEG4 in QuickTime container can be played on Mac. On PC you need
> MPlayer or QuickTime Player, but AFAIK there are no free tools to produce
> such videos. I may be wrong about the tools, though.

AFAIK QuickTime player is not on a "vanilla" doze box. MPEG1 really is
the best thing they both support. If you want higher quality use
higher bitrate. MPEG1 with proper VBR will look much better than the
horrible CBR MPEG1 used on VCDs anyway...

Rich