Re: Best codec to use for reliability



Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio, version 9 most likely. As far
as I know there is no option to use anything else to encode with in WMM
except output to DV-AVI which also uses specific non-selectable codecs.

Every time you re-encode your video (ie. Raw->DivX, DivX->WMV) you degrade
the quality of the video. If you still want to work in other formats XviD is
a suitable alternative to DivX. There is also h264 which is reputed to be
better quality than either of them.


"downphoenix" <downphoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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and which codec(s) are those, exactly?

Im wanting to import into movie maker, rather than capture w/ movie maker,
so that's why Im asking.

"RalfG" wrote:

Why not just use the Windows Media codecs that WMM uses anyway?

"downphoenix" <downphoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Im just wondering what the best format to encode into is.

I plan on doing low compression formats or maybe raw data, for the
actual
recording sessions, but for editing, I want to cut it down to a high
compression format.

I've tried DivX, but for some reason, Movie Maker seems to have a LOT
of
problems with that. Is there a way to either get DivX to co-operate, or
is
there a similarly size-reduced codec that could allow me to make a
pretty
decent length movie, that could say, fit Youtube's 10minute 100MB rule.

Thanks.





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