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SonyEPM wrote on 1/11/2001, 9:29 AM
You might try MPEG-1- I believe that is supported in both
the 6x and 7 Windows Media Players.

Chuck Hart wrote:
>>I've had Video Factory for only a few weeks now, and I am
really impressed with it! I captured several
>>camcorder clips using my ATI All-In-Wonder Pro video
card, and it works quite well. I began playing
>>around with which video format to render these clips to,
and was surprised to see that one option was
>>Windows Media Video for Media Player ver.7, bit not Media
Player 6.4. I use Win98 and have tried
>>Media Player 7, and was really unimpressed with it. It
was slow to launch and load clips, was a
>>memory hog, and I went back to Media Player 6.4.
However, this is not an option with Video Factory.
>>There are plenty of users who haven't upgraded to WinMe,
or some like myself who have no intention
>>of doing so. Is there something that can be done so
people like myself can use Media Player 6.4 to
>>render to?
>>
>> In all my 'playing around' it seems like mpg is the way
to go considering rendered quality and file
>>size. But, when choosing "Properties" from the File
menu, there are several choices of "NTSC....". My
>>captured video is done at 320x240 at 29.97fps. For
recording to a CD-ROM (and maybe eventually to
>>a hard disk, what "Property" should I be using, and still
maintain "Good" or "Best" quality??
>>
>>
SonyEPM wrote on 1/11/2001, 3:03 PM
The one file that all 3 players support in all cases
is .avi compressed with Cinepak.

Chuck Hart wrote:
>>I've had Video Factory for only a few weeks now, and I am
really impressed with it! I captured several
>>camcorder clips using my ATI All-In-Wonder Pro video
card, and it works quite well. I began playing
>>around with which video format to render these clips to,
and was surprised to see that one option was
>>Windows Media Video for Media Player ver.7, bit not Media
Player 6.4. I use Win98 and have tried
>>Media Player 7, and was really unimpressed with it. It
was slow to launch and load clips, was a
>>memory hog, and I went back to Media Player 6.4.
However, this is not an option with Video Factory.
>>There are plenty of users who haven't upgraded to WinMe,
or some like myself who have no intention
>>of doing so. Is there something that can be done so
people like myself can use Media Player 6.4 to
>>render to?
>>
>> In all my 'playing around' it seems like mpg is the way
to go considering rendered quality and file
>>size. But, when choosing "Properties" from the File
menu, there are several choices of "NTSC....". My
>>captured video is done at 320x240 at 29.97fps. For
recording to a CD-ROM (and maybe eventually to
>>a hard disk, what "Property" should I be using, and still
maintain "Good" or "Best" quality??
>>
>>
mikkie wrote on 1/11/2001, 4:52 PM
Chuck, you might find it a better route to stick with the
newer and much, MUCH, better codecs in winmedia7; it gives
far better compression and clarity.

True, Media Player 7 can be a dog, but, installing media
player 7 leaves 6.4 on your machine. Only the shortcuts
should have been deleted, & it should work just fine.
Additionally, you can set media player 6.4 as the default
for avi's within the player.

For the folks who only have 6.4 installed, there's a file
named wmpcdcs.exe which is part of the latest media
resource kit at
http://microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/

Made just for this (your) purpose, it installs the media 7
codecs in media player 6.4 , so it'll play version 7 files.

Dave Hill wrote:
>>The one file that all 3 players support in all cases
>>is .avi compressed with Cinepak.
>>
>>Chuck Hart wrote:
>>>>I've had Video Factory for only a few weeks now, and I
am
>>really impressed with it! I captured several
>>>>camcorder clips using my ATI All-In-Wonder Pro video
>>card, and it works quite well. I began playing
>>>>around with which video format to render these clips
to,
>>and was surprised to see that one option was
>>>>Windows Media Video for Media Player ver.7, bit not
Media
>>Player 6.4. I use Win98 and have tried
>>>>Media Player 7, and was really unimpressed with it. It
>>was slow to launch and load clips, was a
>>>>memory hog, and I went back to Media Player 6.4.
>>However, this is not an option with Video Factory.
>>>>There are plenty of users who haven't upgraded to
WinMe,
>>or some like myself who have no intention
>>>>of doing so. Is there something that can be done so
>>people like myself can use Media Player 6.4 to
>>>>render to?
>>>>
>>>> In all my 'playing around' it seems like mpg is the
way
>>to go considering rendered quality and file
>>>>size. But, when choosing "Properties" from the File
>>menu, there are several choices of "NTSC....". My
>>>>captured video is done at 320x240 at 29.97fps. For
>>recording to a CD-ROM (and maybe eventually to
>>>>a hard disk, what "Property" should I be using, and
still
>>maintain "Good" or "Best" quality??
>>>>
>>>>
Disintegrator wrote on 1/15/2001, 5:31 PM
Chuck,

I use Windows2000 and guess what? If I render a WMV file it
plays just fine with Media Player 6.4, because 6.4 will
automatically update it's codecs if you are online! Only
the codecs, *NOT* the UI.

Try either the "Default" template for MPEG or "DVD NTSC -
Better" if you have the HD space. If you look closely in
the description it gives the audio and video data rates -
sum them to get total rate:

(Audio 384 Kbps + video 8300 Kbps) => .848 MB / sec.

Chuck Hart wrote:
>>I've had Video Factory for only a few weeks now, and I am
really impressed with it! I captured several
>>camcorder clips using my ATI All-In-Wonder Pro video
card, and it works quite well. I began playing
>>around with which video format to render these clips to,
and was surprised to see that one option was
>>Windows Media Video for Media Player ver.7, bit not Media
Player 6.4. I use Win98 and have tried
>>Media Player 7, and was really unimpressed with it. It
was slow to launch and load clips, was a
>>memory hog, and I went back to Media Player 6.4.
However, this is not an option with Video Factory.
>>There are plenty of users who haven't upgraded to WinMe,
or some like myself who have no intention
>>of doing so. Is there something that can be done so
people like myself can use Media Player 6.4 to
>>render to?
>>
>> In all my 'playing around' it seems like mpg is the way
to go considering rendered quality and file
>>size. But, when choosing "Properties" from the File
menu, there are several choices of "NTSC....". My
>>captured video is done at 320x240 at 29.97fps. For
recording to a CD-ROM (and maybe eventually to
>>a hard disk, what "Property" should I be using, and still
maintain "Good" or "Best" quality??
>>
>>