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Originally Posted by borked
Im no good on encoding presets, but if you encode in .mov you can still stream as h.264 mp4 by using wowza as your streaming server... If the number of vids is important you will get a massive reduction in drive space by using mov
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Thanks for the input...btw, your name comes up often when I ask people who is a guru on techie issues.
Several people have told me to stick with .mp4:
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Since both formats record the same lossy compression methods, they are almost interchangeable in an Apple environment. You can even convert a file from MOV to MP4 and vice versa without having to re-encode the video. But outside of the Apple operating system, you might run into some problems.
As MP4 is an industry standard, it has greater support in operating systems other than Apple?s. Most, if not all media players, that are available in various operating systems support this file format. Even in hand held devices like video players and gaming devices, you are more likely to find MP4 capabilities than MOV.
To sum it up, MOV and MP4 are just containers and they do not present any real effect on the quality of the encoded videos. That is up to the codec like H.264 and the others.
Choosing between MOV and MP4 should be based solely on where you want to play the resulting videos. If it is only meant to circulate around the Mac community, then you are pretty safe with MOV but if you want to put it in your PSP or any other non Apple portable device, then you are better off with MP4
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I have nothing against .mov - when I was only offering progressive downloads, I used .mov most of the time (since I am a Mac-head myself). In fact, I export all of my videos as self-contained Quicktime (.mov) movies, for import into Compressor for encoding, and also for archival purposes for when the next new big thing comes along (which is about every 2-4 years these days).
There was some other big reason why I opted awhile back to go with .mp4, but I can't recall what it is at the moment (been up working all night so I'm kind of fuzzy around the edges right now).
Here are a few examples of what I have come up with so far:
http://beta.asiandivagirls.com
Don't worry too much about the quality of the videos - these samples were deliberately chosen because one is lowlight (underexposed), and the other has blown out backlighting (overexposed), plus there are lots of transitions, to test how well the video comes back together after being disrupted by transitions (which cause the video encoder to have to re-draw every pixel in every single frame over the transition).
If I can come up with a decent set of codecs for adaptive bitrate streaming on both PC's and the most popular mobile devices with that type of content, then content that was shot under better conditions should look pristine (or at least pretty damn good).
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