Hi all
Another nube question from me. What is this mpeg-4. My wife and I have our own little video site - www.lanaslingerietease.com . The vids are about 10 minutes long and about 50 megs when compressed to .wmv.
Is mpeg-4 another compression option with ulead. How is it different from .wmv and will it produce better results? We offer on our site "real player" and ".wmv" but i'm not sure how this differs from mpeg-4 because I thought these formats were mpeg-4 anyway and the above were just players.
Sorry for the dumb questions but between, learning the camera, editing with Ulead, figuring out dreamweaver and photoshop, web protocol and marketing, Visa, Mastercard and Amex processing and keeping hackers out and just finding the time. Will mpeg-4 make our product better?
Thanks
Grant
ps: I know it's off topic and not even relevant to this board, buuut, since I've got the pros. The real player on our site always wants to download. How do I get it to stream? Sorry, I'm not plugging the site but in my limited computer experiance, I've found some pretty savvy info on this site. and I do love ulead
mpeg-4, is it better?
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Grant,
Actually MPEG-4 has been around for a while. It uses a compression scheme that offers very good video quality with relatively small file size. DivX and Xvid are among the most popular versions. For the most part, videos encoded with either can be viewed with WMP and other popular players. If necessary, a .divx file extension (assuming the file does not contain menus, etc.) can be manually renamed to .avi for wider compatibility.
Some video editing programs will allow users to encode in DivX or Xvid assuming the codecs have been installed on one's computer. Ulead apparently uses a proprietary MPEG-4 codec which (based on my experiences so far) does not seem to be quite as "universal".
One reaason you're hearing so much about MPEG-4 these days is because certain varients of the codec are compatible with personal video devices such as Sony PSP and various PDA's, music/media players, cell phones and the like. It's also a good format for storing near-DVD quality, full screen movies at a fraction of the traditional file size. There's a lot more that could be said but that covers some of the basics. Hope it helped
BTW, you might find the DivX web board helpful. Check out:
http://www.divx.com/divx/
and
http://forums.divx.com/eve?src=toptab_f ... /index.php
-Mike
Actually MPEG-4 has been around for a while. It uses a compression scheme that offers very good video quality with relatively small file size. DivX and Xvid are among the most popular versions. For the most part, videos encoded with either can be viewed with WMP and other popular players. If necessary, a .divx file extension (assuming the file does not contain menus, etc.) can be manually renamed to .avi for wider compatibility.
Some video editing programs will allow users to encode in DivX or Xvid assuming the codecs have been installed on one's computer. Ulead apparently uses a proprietary MPEG-4 codec which (based on my experiences so far) does not seem to be quite as "universal".
One reaason you're hearing so much about MPEG-4 these days is because certain varients of the codec are compatible with personal video devices such as Sony PSP and various PDA's, music/media players, cell phones and the like. It's also a good format for storing near-DVD quality, full screen movies at a fraction of the traditional file size. There's a lot more that could be said but that covers some of the basics. Hope it helped
BTW, you might find the DivX web board helpful. Check out:
http://www.divx.com/divx/
and
http://forums.divx.com/eve?src=toptab_f ... /index.php
-Mike