Choosing a file format for video (VHS to Mac to PC)

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I am doing a project which involves extracting clips of video from VHS
tapes and putting them into a digital format that will playback on a
PC.

The problem is, the machine I am using to extract the clips is a Mac
(with Imovie) and there are so many different file formats to choose
from.

So my question is:

- what is the best compressed video format to choose so the final
product plays on Windows Media Player?

Ideally I'd like to have windows that are no smaller than 320 x 240.
The quality of the video is not overly important (mostly talking
heads) but the quality of the sound should be good. The files will be
streaming from a dedicated server to approx 50 machines within a LAN
(2 student labs).

Many thanks.

Mike

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In comp.multimedia Richard Ragon <bsema04NOSPAM@hanaho.com> wrote:
> Why not use Mpeg-4? mpeg-4 can be written from the Mac using Quicktime
> Pro, and it plays on WMV, Quicktime, and Real.
>
> I believe that the frame sizes are about 320 x 240, and it looks pretty
> darn good. This combined with AAC audio can make some pretty good small
> sizes too.

What is WMV? Windows Media Player?


H.

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Richard Ragon <bsema04NOSPAM@hanaho.com> wrote in message news:<yTFzc.6663884$iA2.755659@news.easynews.com>...

> Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
> > What is WMV? Windows Media Player?
>
> WMV stands for Window Media Video. This is the picture that you see.
> Current version is version 9 I believe. WMA stands for Windows Media
> Audio, this is the audio portion. WMV doesn't necessarily have to have
> WVA along with it.. sometimes videos can be encoded with WMV for the
> video, and MP3 for the audio part.

I think Heiko's point was that WMV isn't the player, it's the file
format. To be perfectly frank, I think it's about time you stopped
trying to give advice -- you've got two strikes against you already.