exporting to avi for PC...

[Tolly]

i know its not a great idea but thats what i need, dont ask why lol. but i was wondering which (if not all) compressor of the avi format in QT Pro on mac are readable on a pc in WMP. like for example cinepac and all them. please help me out if you know. thanks.

[BJ_M]

avi able to be read on a windows machine , some may require additional codecs (don't use Sorenson !!)

- Full Frames (Uncompressed)
- Color Formats
- Intel Real Time Video 2.1 (Indeo 2.1?) (RT21)
- Indeo 3.2/3.1
- Microsoft Run Length Encoding
- Microsoft Video 1
- Cinepak
- Motion JPEG
- Editable MPEG
- The New Wave
- VDOWave (VDOLive)
- Indeo Video Interactive (Indeo 4.1)
- Indeo Video Interactive (Indeo 5.x)
- ClearVideo (aka RealVideo)
- SFM (Surface Fitting Method)
- QPEG
- H.261
- H.263
- Microsoft H.263 (M263)
- Vivo Software H.263
- Intel I263 H.263 (I263)
- Shannon Communication Systems (SCS) H.263+
- Telenor R&D H.263
- Xirlink H.263 Video Codec (X263)
- MPEG-4
- Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 3 (MP43)
- Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 2 (MP42)
- Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 1 (MPG4)
- DivX MPEG-4 (DIV3)
- DivX MPEG-4 (DIV4)
- AngelPotion MPEG-4 (AP41)
- Lightning Strike (Infinop)
- Aware Motion Wavelets Video Codec
- VxTreme


Cinepak is the most widely used AVI video codec. Cinepak reportedly
provides the fastest playback of video. While Indeo 3.2 provides
similar or slightly superior image quality for same compression, Indeo
decompression is much more CPU intensive than Cinepak. Cinepak was
originally developed for the Mac and licensed to Apple by SuperMac.
It is now free with Video for Windows. It is also free with Apple's
QuickTime.

There are at least three Cinepak codecs in existence:

Cinepak by SuperMac (the original, 16 bit)
Cinepak by Radius (newer, better?, 16 bit)
Cinepak by Radius[32] (32 bit version of Radius Cinepak, shipped with Windows 95)

Peter Plantec's Caligari TrueSpace2 Bible strongly recommends using the Radius
codec for superior results when generating AVI files from TrueSpace.

Cinepak is the best codec to use to insure ease of playback. Few people
will have problems or need to install special codecs or software
to play an AVI compressed with Cinepak.

Codecs that beat Cinepak

H.263 (probably H.261) Block DCT/Motion Compensation
MPEG-4 Video Verification Model Block DCT/Motion Compensation
Indeo Video Interactive (Indeo 4.x) "hybrid wavelet"
VDONet's VDOWave Discrete Wavelet Transform/Motion Compensation

Iterated System's RealVideo or ClearVideo Fractal Compression

Although not integrated into AVI, the MPEG-1 digital video standard
with IPB frames outperforms Cinepak.