what is the best movie format to burn?

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  1. foren

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    I know there is diffrent movie format's like avi,mpeg,divx.Which one has the best picture quality?i been using avi,very poor quality.
     
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    Praetor Moderator Staff Member

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    1. Wrong forum.... *teleported*

    2. AVI has the best quality if you set everything up properly. The downside is you are limited to special standlones or computer playback. MPEG2 comes in second followed by MPEG1
     
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    Praetor,

    You're quite correct. AVI is a "Lossless" format. The others are compressed formats, so therefore "lossy" formats.

    I would suggest that your source AVI file is perhaps of poor quality to begin with.

    HomerJ
     
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    Clarification: AVI is lossless only if it is PURE AVI or is encoded using a Losslesss codec (huffyuv). Note that "common" AVI files that are downloaded etc, are lossy (using the MPEG4 codecs in most cases).
     
    Praetor, Jan 17, 2004
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