What anime are you currently watching? (OT!)

**mrwiseman** · January 9th, 2003, 12:01 AM

The quality of the videos depends on the amount of KB used in every second to compress images and sound (spending more KB on it you get more faithful to the original compressed version of data, therefore higher quality). Depending on the video type, size, compression system and bitrate (Kb per second), you'll have higher or lower quality. MPG files use MPEG compression, which is good, but AVI files may use many different kinds of compression, including MPEG, as well as Windows Media Video 8/MPEG 4/DivX, which are better than MPEG (better quality for the same bitrate, or lower bitrate for the same quality).

Anyways, if you convert a file into another format, all you're doing is transforming information, not adding to it, so quality can't be higher, I'm afraid. (*)

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(*): Quality might be improved if your system DLLs for playing some specific formats are corrupt for some reason and video isn't shown correctly.

**Shiinigami** · January 9th, 2003, 01:06 AM

When that happens, try using different programs.

**Cavalier** · January 9th, 2003, 02:26 AM

[img]confused.gif[/img] i hate technicalitites

**Xellos** · January 9th, 2003, 03:40 AM

I get around em

**Cavalier** · January 9th, 2003, 03:48 AM

i avoid them when i can XP

**Mitsuki** · January 9th, 2003, 04:37 AM

IRT to Mel-kun: X/1999! X/1999! X/1999! X/1999! XD

...Full moon wo sagashite...

**melfice** · January 9th, 2003, 08:18 AM

Well, i try to find some, Clamp drawing is really nice.

Cav, if so, you can avoid this post from this point [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

Mpeg was designed to have an only bit rate, 1 Mbit per second, and only two possible resolution: 352 x 288 pixels (equivalent to Pal television) or 352 x 240 pixels (equivalent to NTSC television) And the quality is equivalent to a VHS video, on most of the cases.

On the other hand, DIV-X codecs were designed to support multiple resolutions, up to 720 x 480 pixels (equivalent to MPEG2, or what is the same, a DVD) and Multiple Bitrates (from very little, such as 64 Kbps up to what you want to give them, 3072 Kbps or even more)

The point is. Most of the anime in Fansubbers, now a days, uses DIV-X, changing the videos into MPEG format only decreases the quality of the video. And also, the codecs can be used by any program to reproduce them. MPEG, not obstant, uses less resources than DIV-X or any other so called "MPEG4" codec

How is that you cannot see Div-x, and you can convert them into MPEG?