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  1. 17th Dec 2002 04:02 #1
    beers
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    Hi Everyone,

    I've been asked by a client to produce a CD of their product demonstration video.

    What they don't want is a VCD but a disk that can be played back on any PC without additional software.

    I have software to create autoruns and use multimedia builder to produce menus.

    But my question is if I encode this video as MPEG1 will this be playable on "out of the box" PC's, or will media player need to install codecs to be able to play this file?

    I'd love to hear everyones opinion on this.

    Cheers!

    Simon.
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  2. 17th Dec 2002 04:16 #2
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    Yes, MPEG1 will be playable "out of the box" as long as its just straight MPEG1, burned as a data CD or something, not a VCD.
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    i haven't come across a new comupter that couln't play MPEG-1.
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  4. 17th Dec 2002 11:43 #4
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    MPEG-1 is definitely the best choice. A codec has been in Windows since Win3.1 I believe. There will be pretty much no modern PC that cannot play MPEG-1 video.

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    Michael Tam
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