Rendering to MPEG-2

Peyison wrote on 3/13/2002, 7:28 PM

Hi,

I have a 2 minute movie that was captured from DV that I rendered to MPEG-2 (VV3a - MainConcept). When I tried to play it on another PC (XP - Media Player 8.0) I get a message that the file is formatted with an unsupported codec. I know that there are several codecs for AVI and that the codec that was used to code the AVI is needed when decoding - is the same true for MPEG-2? Do I need to have the MainConcept codec intstalled to view it? I renderd using MainConcept MPEG-1 and it plays on that PC (and I can't imagine that I have the MainConcept MPEG-1 codec installed on that PC).

Also, does anyone have any good references for learning about all of the rendering options? I could spend all day changing them but I still won't know what each one really does.

Thanks in advance -

Mike

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Peyison wrote on 3/13/2002, 7:43 PM

Well - I see that MPEG-2 playback requires DVD software to be installed on the PC.

The quality of the MPEG-1 files isn't as good as I would like - are there settings I should try changing, or is there another format that I should be using? I am creating videos to be played from a Macromedia Director application on a CD. I've tried some of the AVI codecs but the quality wasn't very good. Again - this could be becuase I don't have the correct settings. I've tried Indeo5 and the result was very choppy.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!