avi or mpeg?

Discussion in 'Video capturing from analog sources' started by yanksfan, Jul 29, 2006.

  1. yanksfan

    yanksfan Member

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    When I am capturing analog video to convert to digital, is it better to do this as an AVI or an MPEG?

    Will I get better quality DVD's with one or the other?

    Thanks
    John
     
    yanksfan, Jul 29, 2006
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  2. jozza321

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    Hey John,

    Personally i think mpeg's have better quality than avi but you should try for ya self to see what you think
     
    jozza321, Jul 29, 2006
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    AVI isn't a video format like MPEG, it is just a container. If you are going to do any editing AVI is the best choice because re-encoding has a negligible effect on the original quality while with MPEG each re-encode will have a perceivable degradation.
     
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