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Red Ezra · 07-11-2007, 12:03 AM

I am re-designing my video section and author my site using MAC - since I am not a pC user I need to know what surfers, and users are wanting when they visit a site - Quicktime, Windows Media Player WMV, DiVX/AVI, MPEG/MP4, or FLASH/SWF video feeds? I put them all thru the paces and AVI wins everytime, Quicktime is second, MPEG third, everything else after that about the same...

AVI is smooth and detailed visually with no stutters, file size is excellent for the quality. I know the bad end of this is the fact that all the torrent sites use AVI files.

Windows Media Player is used a lot I see out there but more than half the time i try to download something WMV is stalls or strobes, choppy, etc - same with Flash.

Feedback appreciated as it will most certainly be considered while going thru these growing pains of site re-design.

07-11-2007, 12:03 AM
Red Ezra redezra.com Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vegas Baby! Posts: 4,680	AVI vs. WMV vs MOV vs. SWF vs MP4 vs. MPEG I am re-designing my video section and author my site using MAC - since I am not a pC user I need to know what surfers, and users are wanting when they visit a site - Quicktime, Windows Media Player WMV, DiVX/AVI, MPEG/MP4, or FLASH/SWF video feeds? I put them all thru the paces and AVI wins everytime, Quicktime is second, MPEG third, everything else after that about the same... AVI is smooth and detailed visually with no stutters, file size is excellent for the quality. I know the bad end of this is the fact that all the torrent sites use AVI files. Windows Media Player is used a lot I see out there but more than half the time i try to download something WMV is stalls or strobes, choppy, etc - same with Flash. Feedback appreciated as it will most certainly be considered while going thru these growing pains of site re-design.