MP4

[magikthrill]

first of all i must say how wonderful i have found this section to be. much more useful then debating in circles :)

so im d/l an MP4 file and its said to be a video. just wondering if i iwll need a special player to watch the file. also the file is only about 200MB (as opposed to the equivalent 800MB of the non MP4 files). Does this mean its incomplete or are MP4s supposed to be smaller (like MP3 and WAVs)

thanks again!

[thebrix]

[magikthrill]

thanks alastair!

so far quicktime works fine great.

thanks again m8. people should start using MP4s much more often. so much space is saved!

[Crash Test Dummy]

[erolz]

I am not entirely sure about this and am always cautious about not agreeing with Alistair ;)

but I think mp4 is more like a standard 'container' for video files which can be encoded using a range of codec's (coder / decoder) and not actually a codec itself.

DivX and Xvid are a couple of the most common and newer codecs (both of which can be used in the mp4 container) - giving excellent quality and compression.

PS Giorgio - I have over 1/2 a tetrabyte of hard drive storage in my main machine here

[Crash Test Dummy]

[erolz]

[Yiannis]

[magikthrill]