On Mar 21, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Sandhitsu R Das wrote:
Thanks for the information. I guess then what I am looking for is a
better
codec than what's available in Quicktime Pro for exporting to
AVI(cinepack/BMP/several DV, DVPro), like the Sorenson Windows Media
codec
- as somebody said that will produce smaller files.
Let me be clear - the tools I linked to will export to WMV files
containing Windows Media 9 content. No AVIs at all.
I wasn't aware Sorenson Squeeze could export to AVI files containing WM
9 content, but if so that's definitely not an officially recommended
format. AVI is deprecated and WMV/ASF has replaced it.
Are there freely available add-on codecs for use with quicktime for
this
purpose ?
To my knowledge there are NO additional codecs available for AVI export
from Quicktime other than what comes built in. AVI support is only
there as part of Quicktime's legacy.
As for free WMV exporters, not per se; the two products I linked to are
the only tools for exporting from Quicktime apps to WMV.
However, there are various free tools for converting from Quicktime
source to either AVI or WMV using more efficient codecs than you
mentioned. For instance, any tool that creates "DiVX" (see
Versiontracker).
The WMV codecs you mentioned below could do the job as well (if avi is
not
essential, which I don't know at this point) - are there free
alternatives
to those ?
Perhaps you can define what you're trying to do, and who you're trying
to serve. I can't imagine many cases where AVI is preferred, unless
you're trading movies on P2P; otherwise, I'd highly recommend getting a
decent WMV converter, or sticking with .mov.
