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Most Popular International Internet video format - MPEG4 - ASF VS. AVI ???

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10 Feb 2006 3:24 AM
jason
Good evening.

I own one of these handheld MPEG4 digital video recorders that produces
640x240 11FPS ASF (MPEG4) type files. The extension on the files is
ASF.

I have found that mpeg4 is a great compression of internet and email
video that can still be viewed at full screen and looks pretty good.

I'm looking to now combine my that cheap camcorder feature into a
digital camera.

Many new cameras now support MPEG4. In a sample video for the samsung
digimax a55w it produced an .AVI file stating it's in MPEG4 encoding.
Problem was, my windows client (an old 2000 with windows media 9.0)
could not view the downloaded video. I would get sound but no video.

I was able to locate a codec to install on my client, and now I can see
the video.

Wondering, will most internet users run into problems reading MPEG4 AVI
files? My ASF seem to be viewable on every client I tried.

Is MPEG4 a growing accepted standard? why was ASF okay when AVI was
not?

Just concerned that my upgrade cost and attempt to combine my digital
camcorder and will actually result in more work to make my video easily
available.

Thanks for any help or information.

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