A Question on Digtial Video.

[DivXtacy]

Righti m a bit confused here so i needd someone to know what im on about and explain it properly.
If i watch a film on the computer (DivX VOB XviD MPG) whatever, if i watch it over and over will it degrade in quality i mean degrade by the pixels show up more.
Basically to explain more what i mean if say a film is 3 hours long and is 650 MB the quality of theo utput will be totally crap wont it?
Can the quality end up like that if i kept watching a crystal clear film or does it just not happen?
Now corruption:
If the video gets corrupted it will obviously get pixelated but not in the same way a 3 hour film riped at 650 mb would look pixelated would it?
It would be pixelated with bits of the picture everywhere?

Am i right here people?
Thanks very much.

[gadgetguy]

Simply playing a video, regardless of how many times, does not alter the video. So barring a hardware failure, the video you watch today will look exactly like you watched a year ago, even if you watched it every day..

[ZippyP.]

If i watch a film on the computer (DivX VOB XviD MPG) whatever, if i watch it over and over will it degrade in quality i mean degrade by the pixels show up more.

Nope, answered above.

...if say a film is 3 hours long and is 650 MB the quality of theo utput will be totally crap wont it?

IMO, yes.

Can the quality end up like that if i kept watching a crystal clear film or does it just not happen?

Not 3 hrs in 650 MB.

If the video gets corrupted it will obviously get pixelated but not in the same way a 3 hour film riped at 650 mb would look pixelated would it?

No, it's not the same. Cramming too much video into a small file size causes macroblocks due to the bitrate being too low. I don't call that pixelation which to me is random bad pixels or noise.

It would be pixelated with bits of the picture everywhere?

I've never seen that. I have seen corruption which causes random green squares, freezing and audio distortion. Like you get when your disks are of poor quality

[DivXtacy]

So corruption cannot cause the film to look like a film thats been ripped at 650MB?
But it will cause it to look blocky, so much so i cant see the picture properly?
And thats the sort of freezes programsl ike divfix would pick up isnt it?

Gladi m on these forums get a lot of technical from u lott.
Cheers.