AVI vs. WMV vs MOV vs. SWF vs MP4 vs. MPEG - Page 2 - GoFuckYourself.com

Red Ezra · 07-17-2007, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by inthecrack

We also conducted a poll on our site. Customers had a choice between wmv or mov. Results were as follows.

wmv 74.8%
mov 18.4%
Undecided 7.5%

Personally I think mov is better but these results were pretty decisive in the opposite direction. 32% even said they would stop buying our videos if we switched to mov. We're forced to go with wmv. Considering our videos are as much as 1 GB per file multiple formats is not an option.

Their reasons for chosing wmv over mov:

17.1% I already have the Windows Media Player and I'm too lazy to get the free Quicktime player.
16.3% I believe it will not play well on my computer.
34.1% I think Windows Media has better quality.
12.4% I hate Apple products.
16.3% Irrelevant question because I prefer Quicktime.

good info - thanks for posting - i got flip4mac pro btw :/

stfan · 07-17-2007, 12:10 PM

When flvs are encoded professionally, the quality is just as good as wmvs. The tricks are the codec, the process and right softwares. Following is a side-by-side comparison of flv using On2 VP6 Pro Codec against wmv using Microsoft's latest Silverlight VC-1 codec. Both have great qualities:

w w w.encoding.tv/demo/compare.htm

Sorry for the weird looking URL. Had to do that because of the 30-post limitation.

07-17-2007, 12:10 PM	#52
stfan Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Los Angeles, USA Posts: 25	When flvs are encoded professionally, the quality is just as good as wmvs. The tricks are the codec, the process and right softwares. Following is a side-by-side comparison of flv using On2 VP6 Pro Codec against wmv using Microsoft's latest Silverlight VC-1 codec. Both have great qualities: w w w.encoding.tv/demo/compare.htm Sorry for the weird looking URL. Had to do that because of the 30-post limitation. __________________ Wil ICQ: 607-452 [email protected]