I am having difficulty creating AVI's that play properly in VideoLAN (A.K.A. VLC Media Player) or Windows Media Player. They will be jerky, have bizarre audio artifacts, or exhibit horizontal scan lines. My concern is that I'm not creating the most "compatible" type of AVI files.
Here's what I did...
- Recorded VHS onto digital MiniDV tapes in SD.
- Captured those tapes back onto the computer using PD7.
- "Produced" DV-AVI Type 1 files.
I noticed there are also DV-AVI Type 2 and Windows AVI formats. Which should I use for greatest compatibility?
Thinking that I should be using Windows AVI, I produced a short video using DV-AVI Type 1 and compared it to Windows AVI. They both seemed to play OK though I noticed horizontal jaggies on the DV-AVI. Also, the Windows AVI was 829MB where the DV-AVI Type 1 was 160MB. I know storage media is much less expensive today but don't need to "waste" space either. Regardless, I want to retain the highest quality in the most compatible mode.
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I just produced a 30 minute video using Windows AVI with no compression. It was over 30GB! I know that an hour of SD AVI should be around 14-15GB so I'm definitely not doing something right.
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I produced the same 30 minute video using DV-AVI Type 2 and it was 6.5GB and played fine in VLC and Windows media players.
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