i had a flv that was 17MB after converting it into a MPEG4 it turned into 42MB. would a AVI be less mB? it sounds stupid but i wanna know
2007-02-13 01:45:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
no, AVI is an old format, no compression at all,
there can be .avi videos with low space consumption, but the extension means nothing at all.
We are talking about formats, mpeg4 is a high quality high compression video format, so, on the common, useful, and full codec supported formats one of the best choices (maybe the best one) is to put your videos on mpeg4
Next step could be divx or something like that
2007-02-13 01:51:44 · answer #1 · answered by mr_cake_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVI = container, Audio Video Interleave
MPEG4 = compression type, typically associated with DivX, XviD which are both MPEG4 codecs
The "difference" is that AVI is a container. It's not a coder/decoder. AVI contains only information that describes how the data is included in file and how to decompress video and audio (which codec to use). MPEG4 - is a compressor. Video data can be compressed with MPEG-4. AVI can be created using any type of codec (or no codec even) for compression, CinePak, Indeo, Huffyuv, etc.
For ex.:
AVI may have MPEG-4 as Video, and MP3 as Audio.
AVI may have Cinepak as Video, and WAV PCM as Audio.
hope this helps u understand a lil better.....
2007-02-13 01:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, an AVI is bigger cause it does not use any commpression its just raw video....MPeg is a format is smaller due to it;s compression.
2007-02-13 02:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by newton3010 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋