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

[Paul Simpson]

Hmmm - I'm pretty sure that the PC people will have quicktime 
installed.  Does that make it easier?  Is there a way to author a MPEG4 
quicktime movie on linux?

(In hope)

Paul


D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:06:46PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
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>>On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 14:09, Paul Simpson wrote:
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>>>Thanks for the suggestion.  Anyone else care to comment on the highest 
>>>quality format that can be played on vanilla PC's and Macs?
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>>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.
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>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...
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>Rich
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