mp4 or avi?

by jolly • 13 Aug 2008, 16:18 • Journals
why all recent fragmovies are in .mp4 instead of .avi?
With the same codec (x264) which are the technic's advantages?

thx
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Panda 13 Aug 2008, 17:20
Do you have any Megadeth?
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smu 13 Aug 2008, 17:24
because noone wants me to watch this movies, doesnt work wth 1300mhz :(
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 17:26
i know.. you are right. So i ask why moviemaker prefer mp4.
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fredd 13 Aug 2008, 17:54
its not like you can watch avi x264 better than mp4 x264, x264 needs a decent cpu, not the container.
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 18:09
nope, the decodication of mp4 need more cpu power, i am pretty sure
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HellHammer 13 Aug 2008, 17:27
i cant watch x264 or HD movies, if i really wanna see a movie, i convert it too divx or xvid with lower (half) resolution
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Yoy0 13 Aug 2008, 17:29
higher quality for lower size "normally"
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 17:37
not really, with the same codec size is very very close, and quality is the same.
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fredd 13 Aug 2008, 17:53
so why does it matter to you if they use avi or mp4?
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 18:05
cause mp4 need good hardware, and some community players cant watch mp4 movie with the quality of x264 codec, but they can watch xvid "realease" only.
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bliss 13 Aug 2008, 18:25
What media player are you using?
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 18:32
i use media player classic, but i havent troubles cause mi hardware supports all format/codec.
I mean the people with "old HW" who say me that mp4 is too hard for their HW.
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suA 13 Aug 2008, 19:38
the people saying that, just don't know the fact that it's the decoding of certain compression-standards that overtaxes their hardware... and don't know that an avi or any other container format can hold a various range of encoding-formats. to them mp4 = H.264 and avi = xvid/divx...
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-Max- 13 Aug 2008, 17:44
mkv for the win
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 17:57
why mkv if you dont need subtitles and you are decoding in x264?
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-Max- 13 Aug 2008, 18:00
mkv is the standard container for high definition video
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 18:15
k, i think mkv is the future.
But for the fragmovie purpose mkv,avi,mp4 with the same codec (x264) give us the same quality result
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cuttyP 13 Aug 2008, 17:46
avi, mkv and mp4 are just container formats. Should make no difference to the consumer. MeGUI, which is favoured by many movie makers, exports into mp4 by default.
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-Max- 13 Aug 2008, 18:00
I export in .264
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westi 13 Aug 2008, 18:06
smartass
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-Max- 13 Aug 2008, 18:07
Aren't I just?
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jolly 13 Aug 2008, 18:05
Yep i think it, all recents movie are in mp4 for movie tutorial that suggest megui.
[reply to jin too]
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Jin 13 Aug 2008, 17:49
Popular progs like MeGui will tend to give you less problems with a mp4-format. Both avi and mp4 are just containers and are very similar. The choice of the format just depends on what software you use.

edit: I was too slow :(
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