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.MPG or .AVI

  • 15-03-2007 6:57am
    #1
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭


    Hi all

    I am looking to keep some films and film clips on my hard drive (and possible recovnert them to DVDs at a later stage). Which is the best format to save them in .MPG or .AVI? Is there any major difference - they both seem to create a similar sized file

    Cheers


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  • #2
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    That's because .MPG and .AVI are just containers and whatever you are using for the conversion is encoding the same type of video into each container.


  • #3
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭TheBazman


    Cheers - so essentially it doesnt matter then


  • #4
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    The settings you choose will affect the quality of a resulting DVD in the future.

    AVI can contain Lossless quality but then the file is huge. Look at compression to MPEG2 which will be DVD quality in a smaller file. Bitrates, dimensions and ratio are important factors too.

    Cheerio
    Howard


  • #5
    TheBazman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭TheBazman


    Thanks - I am using DVDSanta to convert the files back to DVD format. Unfortunately it seems that DVD Santa has problems reconverting MPEG2. It only seems to like MPEG and AVI


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