I've got some music videos I've made that I would like to upload onto a website. They are all in avi format, any help would me much appreciated, thanks.
2006-10-11 05:22:15 · 3 answers · asked by Spike 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
"Best" is a hard term to define.
Best quality would be the original format you recorded in. Not best for downloading, since the size of the file will be tremendous.
Best for download would be a low bit rate compression at low resolution. That would be the fastest download, less bandwidth you are using (assuming you have to pay for downstream BW), but worst quality.
Best overall quality/size would be xvid , divx, or some other mpeg-4 compression.
Since you are asking the question, I am going to assume you have not had much experience in compressing video. I would advise you to start with Divx, since they have a nice easy to use compression tool.
Xvid can give you slightly better results, however if this is all completely new to you, then it may be a bit frustrating for you to get started.
In both cases, excellent quality video's can be made with file sizes a tenth the size of your original .avi.
For example, ~43 minutes of TV shows (no commercials) are out on the 'net and they are 350MB in size. 700MB at high resolution with 5.1 AC3 sound.
Finally, one option would be to upload it to Youtube. They can pretty much take anything and scale it so a flash movie. Good quality uploads to them make for decent enough videos online.
2006-10-11 05:32:35 · answer #1 · answered by wyntre_2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Video compression (MPEG, DivX, XviD... etc) not same as file compression (Zip, RAR, CAB... etc)
Just don't ever think about file compression and you are OK. Website and streaming may require specific type of video compression, WMV for most Windows or even Flash to be universally playable.
2006-10-11 05:48:17 · answer #2 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Divx or Xvid would be my choice
2006-10-11 05:24:43 · answer #3 · answered by eorox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋