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Author Topic: mp4 question for Mac geeks Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-23-2007 06:29 PM                     Odd. The copy I know I didn't pay for works fine. Go fig.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-24-2007 04:58 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer Yeah I've had VLC for a long time. Your sample file played perfectly fine. It also played in Quicktime, but was a bit stuttery, but all of the colors looked good. Interesting. It was totally mosaicked when I played it in Quicktime on the PC. In the complete video, longer stretches sometimes work OK at first, but it seems that whenever a shot lasts for a while, the picture gets progressively greenish and then more and moe psychedelic, and then it starts breaking up. When you pause it for a moment or the shot changes, the picture seems to "recover", but then it gets funky again. I guess it must have something to do with progressive frame encoding. I think the brief sample already demonstrates why Nero Digital is a pretty good format for this use. The image quality is slightly mre pixellated than on the original DVD, and the sound quality is fairly good (the original recording isn't all that brilliant either, it's from 1972). I chose the moment with the triangel and glockenspiel because plingy, belly sounds like that often don't work at all with compressed audio codecs - you hear massive artifacting -, but here, you can hear them quite clearly. Yet the overall file (1h15m) is just 680MB, not too bad at all, and much less than the VOB.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-24-2007 05:19 AM                        The resolution is only a wimpy 608 x 464. That's weak. Nero must suck.  |  IP: Logged

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